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UPDATED: Trump wins three primaries, Clinton takes Maryland

WASHINGTON,United States (AFP) — Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Tuesday scored major wins in the Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticut primaries, US networks projected, while Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton drew first blood in Maryland. Trump and Clinton were expected to do well in the night’s five contests, which also include votes in Delaware and Rhode Island. The two are looking to move even closer to locking up the nominations of their respective parties. Should Clinton […]

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Oil prices jump on report Saudi plans to reduce drilling

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) —  Oil prices rose sharply Tuesday, gaining a lift from speculation that Saudi Arabia is planning to cut back drilling as the market worries about excessive global supplies. The market, already heading higher from the start of trade, “seems to have got an extra boost from a report out of Nabor Industries’s earnings call,” said Bob Yawger of Mizuho Securities. Yawger said the drilling company “claimed the Saudis have plans […]

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Snakes, weather add to misery for Idomeni migrants

(Reuters) Weather conditions took a turn for the worse in Idomeni on Tuesday (April 26) with deteriorating living conditions for thousands of migrants stuck at Greece’s makeshift border camp. Following two days of heavy rainfall, gale force winds swept through the overcrowded camp, tearing and toppling tents. Temperatures dropped to 15 degrees celsius overnight. Aid organisations have repeatedly said that living conditions at the sprawling tent city are appalling. A lack of hygiene facilities, shortages […]

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First drop in iPhone sales, Apple revenue streak ends

by Glenn CHAPMAN SAN FRANCISCO,United States (AFP) — Apple on Tuesday reported its first-ever drop in iPhone sales since launching the smartphone in 2007 as the tech giant’s long streak of rising revenue ended. Apple said iPhone sales dropped year-over-year for the first time, slipping to 51.19 million in the recently ended quarter compared with 61.17 million in the same period a year ago. Profits fell as well: Apple reported net income of $10.5 billion […]

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England’s junior doctors stage first ever all-out strike

Junior doctors in England’s National Health Service staged their first ever all-out strike on Tuesday (April 26), walking out on both emergency and routine care. They are locked in an increasingly bitter dispute with the government and Health Minister Jeremy Hunt’s threat to impose a new contract on them. Talks have broken down in the row over working hours and pay, with the main sticking point payment for weekend work. A government source told the […]

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Protesters break into Finnish-Russian nuclear site

  Anti-nuclear protesters on Tuesday (April 26) broke into a construction site for a nuclear reactor to be supplied by Russia’s state-owned nuclear firm Rosatom, choosing the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster for their demonstration. Police estimated that close to 50 protesters gathered near the Fennovoima site in northern Finland and around 40 were detained. One group broke into the site while others lay down on the road leading to the site’s entrance, police […]

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Tension in Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa, West Bank checkpoint

Israeli security forces scuffled with Muslim worshippers outside Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque on Tuesday (April 26), after removing Jewish worshippers who violated visitation rules from the volatile site. In a video obtained by Reuters, Israeli security could be seen pushing a small crowd of Muslim worshippers who were angry at the violation and by the presence of the Jewish visitors at the site. Israeli media reported that the tension began when Jewish visitors laid on the […]

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Big Ben to fall silent for months during repairs

London (AFP) – Big Ben will fall silent for several months while the iconic London clock tower next to the Houses of Parliament undergoes “desperately” needed repairs next year, officials said on Tuesday. The bell, whose chimes feature on British radio broadcasts, will be silenced as part of the £29 million (37 million euros, $42 million) repairs. The work will repair the clock faces and mechanism, cracks in the tower’s masonry and corrosion in the […]

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Eagle Broadcasting Corp. joins NAB show 2016 in Las Vegas

Eagle Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), the media company that pioneered all-digital broadcasting in the Philippines, is joining delegates from more than 180 countries from every continent at the NAB Show, the world’s largest annual conference and expo for professionals who create, manage and distribute entertainment content across all platforms held from April 16 to 21 in Las Vegas. Julie Docena reports from Las Vegas!

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Hong Kong’s Filipino domestic workers vote to clean up back home

  by Kate BARTLETT HONGKONG, China (AFP) — Twerking, selfie-taking, picnicking and performing impromptu dance routines — Hong Kong’s 180,000-strong community of Filipino workers fill the city’s public spaces on Sundays, their day off, to relax and party. But for the past few weeks the colourful gatherings have turned political, as the Philippines heads towards an election in which its migrant workers could swing a tight race. Bands thrash out rock ballads backing their favourite […]

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Japan warship visits Philippines as China sea row festers

SUBIC Bay, Philippines (AFP) — A Japanese warship sailed into a Philippine port near disputed South China Sea waters on Tuesday in another sign of deepening security ties between the World War II foes to counter Beijing. Tensions in the South China Sea — through which one-third of the world’s oil passes — have mounted in recent years since China transformed contested reefs into artificial islands capable of supporting military facilities. The Japanese destroyer Ise […]

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Senator Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. pays courtesy call to Bro. Eduardo V. Manalo

QUEZON City, Philippines – Vice-Presidential candidate Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr., paid an early courtesy call to the Iglesia Ni Cristo’s Executive Minister Bro. Eduardo V. Manalo at the Iglesia Ni Cristo Central Office in Diliman, Quezon City. Marcos said that he always learns a lot every time he meets Bro. Eduardo V. Manalo and expressed his happiness and gratitude at the continued support of the Church to his family. Other than Senator Bongbong Marcos, other […]

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