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(Reuters) Turkey’s military said on Friday it had seized power but President Tayyip Erdogan vowed that the attempted coup would be put down. If successful, the overthrow of Erdogan, who has ruled Turkey since 2003, would be one of the biggest shifts in the Middle East in years, transforming one of the most important U.S. allies while war rages on its border. Even if it fails, the coup attempt could destabilize a pivotal country […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP)–Two American citizens were killed in the truck attack in Nice, which has left at least 84 people dead, the US State Department spokesman said Friday. “At this time, we are aware of and can confirm two US citizens were killed in the attack in Nice on July 14, 2016,” spokesman John Kirby said. “We express our sincere condolences to the family and friends of those killed.” The statement was issued as US Secretary […]
MANILa, Philippines (Eagle News) — A pair of newborn Bengali tigers and a thirsty orangutan charmed Filipino zoo visitors, as the captive-bred cubs playfully competed with the poney-tailed ape for a milk bottle. The two-month old tigers, named Duterte and Leni after the country’s top two officials, were joined by the orangutan during snack time at a private zoo in Manila. The ape, with a chute of hair jutting up from the top of its […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Weeks after Tourism Secretary Wanda Corazon Teo announced her proposal to host the forthcoming Miss Universe pageant in the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte has given her the go signal to carry it out. Teo said Miss Universe Pia Wurtzbach is due to return to the country and call on Duterte even as she assured that commercial sponsors have offered to put up part of the franchise money. Teo earlier said […]
Vietnam Ambassador to the Philippines Truong Trieu Duong said trade and investment between the Philippines and Vietnam are developing in a very positive way noting the increasing number of investors investing in Vietnam.
Eagle News — President Rodrigo Duterte is open to holding bilateral talks with China after the historic decision by an arbitral tribunal in The Hague that the disputed West Philippine Sea (WPS) belongs to the Philippines. Budget secretary Benjamin Diokno said the issue was discussed during a cabinet meeting in Malacanang on Tuesday night after the Netherlands-based tribunal released its decision on the West Philippine Sea. He noted that enforcing the decision will be the […]
Eagle News — Bloomberg reports that Indonesia has overtaken Malaysia and Thailand as the biggest emerging market in Southeast Asia. The combined value of companies traded in Indonesia reached $416 billion this week and has exceeded its neighbors for more than a month, the longest stretch since early 2013. Although Thailand held the top slot briefly, Malaysia was the leader most of the past three years, but stocks in Asia’s only net oil exporting nation […]
CAIRO, Egypt (AFP)–Leading Muslim clerics joined Gulf Arab leaders on Friday in condemning a truck attack that killed at least 84 revellers in the Mediterranean resort of Nice on France’s national holiday. Egypt’s top Muslim cleric Shawki Allam condemned the assailant as an “extremist” who “follows in the footsteps of the devil.” “Islam never called for the spilling of blood,” Allam said in a statement. “People who commit such ugly crimes are corrupt of the earth, […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Imumungkahi ng Department of Budget and Management (DBM) na isulong ang non-stop o 24-hour construction sa mga urban projects. Pahayag ito ni Budget Sec. Benjamin Diokno kasunod na rin ng mga inilatag na programa ng administrasyong Duterte. Sinabi ni Diokno na base sa pag-aaral ng Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), umaabot sa 2.4 billion pesos ang nawawala sa ekonomiya ng bansa kada araw dahil sa trapiko. Kabilang sa sanhi ng […]
EUROPEAN and Asian leaders who are gathering at the Asia-Europe meeting summit in Mongolia on Friday (July 15) condemned the attack in French Riviera city of Nice, as they expressed disbelief about the latest attack in France. “Everyone who is here at the ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) summit is united in the disbelief about the attack of mass murder in Nice,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of the major summit between Asian […]
https://youtu.be/1x2ctYFy5GA President Francois Hollande says the truck which ploughed into a crowd in the French Riviera resort of Nice, killing more than 80 people, was a “terrorist” attack on revellers watching a Bastille Day fireworks display. (Courtesy AFP TV)
by Catherine Marciano with Fran Blandy in Paris NICE, France (AFP) — A gunman smashed a truck into a crowd of revellers celebrating Bastille Day in the French resort of Nice, killing at least 84 people in what President Francois Hollande on Friday declared a “terrorist” attack. Police shot the driver dead after he barrelled the truck two kilometres (1.3 miles) through a crowd that had been enjoying a fireworks display for France’s national […]
