Caribbean Times 90th issue - Friday 15th April 2016
Caribbean Times 90th issue - Friday 15th April 2016
Caribbean Times 90th issue - Friday 15th April 2016
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<strong>Friday</strong> <strong>15th</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>2016</strong> c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 17<br />
North Korea poised to make unprecedented missile test<br />
PYONGYANG - Pentagon officials<br />
are expecting North Korea to test fire<br />
an intermediate-range missile <strong>Friday</strong><br />
morning, CBS News national security<br />
correspondent David Martin reports.<br />
The missile in question is a Musadan,<br />
which is road mobile and has<br />
enough range to reach the Aleutians<br />
and Guam.<br />
It’s never been tested before, so this<br />
is another step toward being able to<br />
threaten the United States with a nuclear<br />
weapon.<br />
<strong>Friday</strong>, <strong>April</strong> 15 marks the birthday<br />
of Kim Il-sung, the “Great Leader”<br />
who rule North Korea from 1948 until<br />
his death in 1994.<br />
On Saturday, North Korea said it<br />
ABUJA - A video released<br />
Wednesday appears<br />
to show some of the Nigerian<br />
schoolgirls who were kidnapped<br />
by the Boko Haram<br />
militant group two years ago<br />
alive.<br />
The Islamist militants<br />
sent the video, obtained by<br />
CNN, to negotiators as proof<br />
that the girls were alive, according<br />
to the broadcaster.<br />
CNN showed the video,<br />
which is believed to have<br />
been made in December,<br />
to Rifkatu Ayuba, whose<br />
17-year-old daughter Saratu<br />
was among those taken. “My<br />
had successfully tested a new intercontinental<br />
ballistic rocket engine that<br />
will give it the ability to stage nuclear<br />
strikes on the U.S.<br />
The engine’s ground test, if true,<br />
would be a big step forward for the<br />
North’s nuclear weapons program,<br />
which saw its fourth atomic test earlier<br />
this year. But the North may still need a<br />
good deal of work before it can hit the<br />
U.S. mainland with nuclear missiles.<br />
South Korean officials say North<br />
Korea doesn’t yet have a reliable intercontinental<br />
ballistic missile, let alone<br />
the ability to arm it with a nuclear warhead.<br />
The test, announced by the North’s<br />
official Korean Central News Agency,<br />
Saratu!” she cried.<br />
“I felt like removing her<br />
from the screen,” she added.<br />
“If I could, I would have removed<br />
her from the screen.”<br />
Nigerian Information Minister<br />
Lai Mohammed told<br />
CNN the government was<br />
reviewing the video.<br />
Boko Haram kidnapped<br />
276 girls from their school<br />
in Chibok, northeastern Nigeria,<br />
on the night of <strong>April</strong><br />
14, 2014.<br />
A number later escaped<br />
the militants, but 219 remain<br />
missing, prompting the<br />
launch of the “Bring Back<br />
is only the latest in a string of what<br />
Washington and its allies consider<br />
North Korean provocations, including<br />
last month’s launch of a medium-range<br />
ballistic missile that violated U.N. Security<br />
Council resolutions that prohibit<br />
any ballistic activities by North Korea.<br />
It was the North’s first medium-range<br />
missile launch since early 2014. (CBS<br />
News).<br />
Video shows some of Nigeria’s kidnapped girls alive<br />
Flash floods in Iran kill two<br />
TEHRAN - Iran’s state TV is reporting<br />
that heavy rains in Iran’s western and southwestern<br />
provinces has resulted in flash floods<br />
that killed two people.<br />
The Thursday television report says that<br />
the country’s crisis management committee<br />
held an emergency meeting to study the situation<br />
in affected areas. Iran’s railway authority<br />
canceled all trains scheduled for today to<br />
and from the southern part of the country.<br />
Flash floods have washed away cars and<br />
blocked roads between several cities and villages<br />
in Lorestan and Khuzestan provinces,<br />
the TV report said. (Fox News).<br />
Our Girls” campaign, which<br />
captured the world’s attention.<br />
Amnesty International<br />
said its activists were joining<br />
demonstrations in the<br />
Nigerian capital of Abuja<br />
on Thursday to call for<br />
the return of the girls, and<br />
thousands of other people<br />
abducted by Boko Haram.<br />
Last week, the Nigerian<br />
military said its soldiers rescued<br />
11,595 civilians from<br />
the militants since Feb. 26.<br />
(USA TODAY).