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(Reuters) – Michael Phelps captured his 23rd and final Olympic gold medal on Saturday as the United States sealed a week of dominance in the pool by winning the men’s and women’s medley relays. Denmark’s Pernille Blume beat a field of world and Olympic champions to take gold in the women’s 50 freestyle and Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri won the men’s 1,500 freestyle after dominating almost from the start. But it was Phelps who […]
(Reuters) Volkswagen has won German regulatory approval for technical fixes on another 460,000 diesel cars with illicit emissions control software, it said on Sunday, raising the number of vehicles cleared for repair to over 5 million. Approval by Germany’s motor vehicle authority KBA is valid for countries throughout Europe where 8.5 million diesel cars are affected by Volkswagen’s emissions test-rigging scandal. About 11 million autos are implicated globally. In the United States, where VW’s manipulations […]
(Reuters) Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has published a video apparently showing recent footage of dozens of school girls kidnapped two years ago, and saying some of them have been killed in air strikes. Boko Haram seized more than 270 girls from their school in Chibok, northeast Nigeria, in April 2014, part of a seven-year-old insurgency to set up an Islamic state in the north that has killed some 15,000 people and displaced more […]
(Reuters) Protesters in a poor, predominantly black neighborhood of the U.S. midwestern city of Milwaukee fired gunshots, hurled bricks and set a gas station on fire on Saturday night after a patrol officer shot dead an armed suspect there, authorities said. Police did not disclose the race of the suspect or the officer involved in the shooting, which occurred on Saturday afternoon in Sherman Park. The violence comes as anger over police killings of […]
(Eagle News) — More rains are expected Sunday (Aug. 14) in Metro Manila, and the rest of Luzon as residents in low lying areas and near waterways in the Philippine capital were ordered to evacuate Saturday. The Office of Civil Defense has recorded 3.5 millimeters of moderate rains in the last hour (from 6:45 a.m. to 7:45 a.m.). Enforced evacuation is ordered for residents along Tullahan River in Quezon City, Malabon, Navotas and Valenzuela. […]
by Sarah Nacman Eagle News Service Washington Bureau Washington, DC (Eagle News) – Hillary Clinton released her 2015 tax return showing hers and husband Bill Clinton’s joint gross income of $10.6 million. According to the Democratic presidential candidate’s website, the Clintons’ Effective Federal/State/Local Combined Tax Rate is 43.2%. Clinton’s running mate, vice-presidential bet Tim Kaine, and his wife also released 10 years’ worth of tax return hoping to put a pressure on the Republican […]
by Alastair Himmer Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (AFP) — Michael Phelps emphatically ruled out a U-turn on his decision to quit swimming after the Rio Olympics following a shock defeat Friday in his final individual race. After being denied a fifth gold of the Games by Singapore’s Joseph Schooling in the 100m butterfly, and dead-heating with Chad le Clos and Laszlo Cseh Phelps for silver, Phelps was inevitably asked the six million dollar question. […]
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (AFP) — Joseph Schooling pulled off a stunning Olympic upset on Friday by beating US legend Michael Phelps in the 100m butterfly to win Singapore’s first ever gold medal. Asian champion Schooling, 21, completed a wire-to-wire victory to deny Phelps a fourth successive title in the event, winning in a Games record 50.39sec. Phelps, amazingly, tied with both Chad le Clos and Laszlo Cseh for the silver. “I don’t know […]
CHINA has welcomed former Philippine President Fidel Ramos as a special envoy of the Philippine President for talks in Beijing, said Rafael Alunan III, former interior and local government secretary of the Philippines on Friday. Alunan made the statement at a press conference after accompanying Ramos in having dinner with senior Chinese official Fu Ying in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Ramos also attended the press conference. Commenting on the meeting between Fidel Ramos and Fu […]
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services on Friday declared a state of emergency in Puerto Rico because of the widespread transmission of the Zika virus, which poses a “significant threat” to public health. The statement came at the request of Alejandro García Padilla, governor of the U.S. commonwealth, where the Zika virus is spreading rapidly, threatening hundreds of pregnant women and their unborn babies and women of childbearing age. […]
DAVAO City, Philipines (Eagle News) – Nagbigay ng karagdagang P2 milyon si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte kay Olympic Silver Medalist Hidilyn Diaz sa kanyang pagkapanalo sa 2016 Rio Olympics. Ito ay naganap sa loob ng Malacanang of the South, DPWH Depot, Panacan, Davao City nitong Huwebes ng gabi, August 11, 2016. Dumating si Diaz Huwebes ng gabi at agad nakipagkita kay Pangulong Duterte dito sa Davao. Inaasahan naman ni Diaz na makakauwi na sa kanyang bayan ngayong […]
(REUTERS) The Philippines military said on Friday it was taking seriously what it believed was a call by Islamic State (IS) militants for an attack on the Miss Universe contest being held in the country next year. The military said a recent bomb-making video posted on social media, apparently by Islamic State militants in the Middle East, carried a message in Arabic script reading: “create bomb for Miss Universe”. The pageant is due to […]
