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BEIJING, China (AFP) — China may build mobile nuclear power plants in the South China Sea, state media reported on Friday, days after an international tribunal dismissed Beijing’s vast claims in the strategically vital waters. “Marine nuclear power platform construction will be used to support China’s effective control in the South China Sea,” the website of the state-run Global Times cited the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) as saying on a social media account. The […]
PARIS, France (AFP)–Transforming a vehicle into a simple but deadly weapon of terror — as happened to such bloody effect in Nice on Thursday — is a tactic well known to intelligence agencies. A truck smashed into revellers celebrating France’s Bastille Day, killing at least 80 and injuring scores as its ploughed two kilometres through the crowd. In Israel and the Palestinian territories, car-ramming attacks have featured heavily in a wave of violence that has killed […]
by Ben Dooley ULAN BATOR, Mongolia (AFP) — Sympathy and condemnation for the Nice attack dominated the opening of an Asia Europe summit in Mongolia Friday, drawing attention away from Beijing’s rejection of a tribunal ruling dismissing its extensive South China Sea claims. The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), held every two years and which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, is supposed to be a venue for increasing cooperation across the Eurasian region and exploring ways to […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The commanders of the US and Chinese navies will meet amid mounting tensions over China’s claims to much of the South China Sea, the US Navy said Thursday. Admiral John Richardson, chief of US naval operations, will conduct a three-day visit beginning Sunday, stopping in Beijing and the coastal city of Qingdao, and will meet with his Chinese counterpart Wu Shengli. Beijing was incensed by the ruling of an international […]
MANILa, Philippines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte will skip the 11th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit in Mongolia to be held from July 15 to 16. Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Secretary Martin Andanar said, “the president wishes to stay close to his countrymen in the first few months of his presidency.” President Duterte is just on his second week in office. The ASEM is an exclusively Asian–European forum addressing political, economic and cultural issues with […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa said that it’s the drug dealers who are killing each other, telling sectors that the PNP should not be blamed for the dead bodies. The government and the police are being criticized for the killings of suspected drug dealers. Dela Rosa said it’s the syndicates who are behind all these. Citing information from those who’ve surrendered, Dela Rosa explained that […]
by Vincent-Xavier MORVAN with Fran BLANDY in Paris NICE, France (AFP) — A truck ploughed into a crowd in the French resort of Nice, killing at least 80 in what President Francois Hollande on Friday called a “terrorist attack on revellers watching a Bastille Day fireworks display. The driver was shot dead after barrelling the truck two kilometers (1.3 miles) through the festive crowd on the palm-lined Promenade des Anglais, sending hundreds fleeing in terror […]
TRECE Martires, Cavite (Eagle News) — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) destroyed 1.77 billion pesos worth of dangerous drugs at the Integrated Waste Management, Inc. — Barangay Aguado, Trece Martires City, Cavite. A total of 400,356.25 grams of assorted pieces of drug paraphernalia composed of methamphetamine hydrochloride, or shabu, cocaine, ketamine, marijuana, ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and expired medicines; and liquid shabu weighing 66,250 ml were destroyed through thermal decomposition. […]
PARIS, France (AFP)–French President Francois Hollande said Friday that an attack which saw a truck plough into a crowd in Nice, killing 80 people, was clearly a “terrorist” act. There was a sense of deja vu in France as the visibly moved president took to the airwaves to address a nation once again in mourning. If confirmed as an act of terror, the incident will be the third major attack on French soil in 18 months […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP)– Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday pledged his support to France after the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice that left at least 77 people dead. “Canadians are shocked by tonight’s attack in Nice. Our sympathy is with the victims and our solidarity with the French people,” Trudeau said on Twitter. A large crowd had gathered in the southern resort city to watch the fireworks show for France’s national day. A truck barreled […]
NICE, France (AFP)-At least 84 people have been killed after a truck slammed into a crowd of people celebrating Bastille Day in the southern French city of Nice. Here is what we know about what French President Francois Hollande has declared an “undeniable” terrorist attack. How did the attack unfold? The large white truck plunged into the crowd at around 11:00pm (2100 GMT) Thursday night as hundreds of people were on Nice’s beachfront Promenade des […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Barack Obama on Thursday strongly condemned what he said appeared to be a “horrific terrorist attack” in Nice. Obama offered assistance to France to help investigate the attack, which left at least 75 people dead, and “bring those responsible to justice.” “On behalf of the American people, I condemn in the strongest terms what appears to be a horrific terrorist attack in Nice, France, which killed and wounded dozens […]
