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by Alexis Huguet Agence France-Presse RUTSHURU, DR Congo (AFP) — Dozens of bandaged patients lounge on beds in a hushed hospital ward in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, groans of pain occasionally breaking the silence. Rebels, soldiers and civilians make up the wounded — all victims of the latest flare-up in violence in eastern DRC’s North Kivu province. After lying mostly dormant for years, the M23 rebel group resumed fighting late last year and has […]
by Susan NJANJI Agence France-Presse ORANIA, South Africa (AFP) — From a distance, Orania looks like any other small town in rural South Africa. But once inside, the visitor is struck by an obvious difference. Everyone here is white. And in a country where menial work in wealthy areas is typically done by blacks, whites here mop supermarket floors, wield leaf blowers and harvest the nuts on pecan farms. Orania is a whites-only town in […]
by Claire Lee Agence France-Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea’s Kim Jong Un declared a “shining victory” over Covid-19 as his sister revealed he had fallen ill during the outbreak, which she blamed on Seoul, state media said Thursday. Addressing a meeting of health workers and scientists, Kim announced a “victory… in the war against the malignant pandemic disease”, according to the official Korean Central News Agency. The isolated country, which has […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippines logged over 3000 more COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, Aug. 10. According to the Department of Health, the 3181 additional cases pushed the total cases to 3813952. Of these, 36035 were active. Of the regions, Metro Manila logged the highest number of new COVID-19 cases in the last 14 days, with 15804. It was followed by Calabarzon with 10049, Central Luzon with 5102, Western Visayas with 2760 and Central Visayas with 2147. Of […]
(Eagle News)–Guests are not allowed to enter the Senate in the next three weeks as part of the body’s precautions amid the rising COVID-19 cases there that saw three senators contracting the virus in one week. According to Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri, only resource persons will be allowed to physically enter the Senate, with two limited per organization. These resource persons, he said, will have to present a negative RT-PCR COVID-19 test taken 24 […]
by Jing Xuan Teng Agence France-Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — China on Wednesday vowed zero tolerance for “separatist activities” in Taiwan and reaffirmed that it would take the self-ruled island by force if necessary. The warning from Beijing, which considers Taiwan its territory, came after days of unprecedented Chinese military drills around the island sparked by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip. Pelosi last week became the highest-ranking US official to visit Taiwan in decades […]
by Maria DANILOVA Agence France Presse Makayla Cox, a high school student in the US state of Virginia, thought she was taking medication that her friend had procured to treat pain and anxiety. Instead, the pill she took two weeks after her sixteenth birthday was fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin. It killed her almost instantly. After watching a movie — a prequel to “Harry Potter” — with her mother Shannon […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – The Pogues bass player Darryl Hunt has died at the age of 72, the Celtic folk-punk band announced. “We are saddened beyond words. Our Darryl passed away yesterday afternoon in London,” The Pogues said on Twitter Tuesday. The band posted a black and white photo of Hunt holding a guitar case and quoted lyrics to their song “Love You ‘Till The End”, which was written by Hunt. “‘I know you […]
Tropical Storm “Mulan” outside PAR located west of Northern Luzon (Eagle News) — The southwest monsoon is affecting the western section of Luzon. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, Tropical Storm “Mulan” which is still outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility is so far located 880 kilometers west of Northern Luzon. Ilocos Region, Zambales, Bataan and Kalayaan Islands, PAGASA said, will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms as […]
by Chris Lefkow and Camille Camdessus Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Top Republican leaders flung their support behind former US president Donald Trump on Tuesday after an extraordinary FBI raid on his palatial Florida residence sparked a political firestorm in an already bitterly divided country. The FBI move marked a stunning escalation of legal probes into the 45th president and comes as he is weighing another White House run. Several former advisors to […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Nuclear weapons present a “tangible and present crisis” after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the mayor of Nagasaki said Tuesday, the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing that destroyed the Japanese city. On August 9, 1945, Nagasaki was flattened in an inferno that killed 74,000 people, three days after the world’s first nuclear bomb attack in Hiroshima. The twin strikes by the United States led to the end of World War II, […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) –Russia on Friday accused Kyiv’s forces of striking Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, and charged that the government of Volodymyr Zelensky was committing acts of “nuclear terrorism.” Earlier Friday authorities in Kyiv accused the Russian army of striking the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant which is located in southeastern Ukraine. “Ukrainian armed units carried out three artillery strikes on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and the city of […]
