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by Hugues JEANNEAUD BLAGNAC, France (AFP) — Four women were freed “safe and sound” Tuesday after being held hostage for five hours by an armed teenager at a bar on the outskirts of the southern French city of Toulouse, officials said. The 17-year-old hostage-taker remained holed up alone in the establishment in the northwest Blagnac suburb of the city for a couple of hours afterward before finally being arrested following protracted negotiations, Interior Minister Christophe […]
by Joe JACKSON Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has given birth to a boy, her “over the moon” husband Prince Harry revealed to the world on Monday in a low-key announcement intended to protect their privacy. Prince Harry said that both mother and baby were “doing incredibly well” as he gave a short statement to British television news outlets, without either in sight, in front of Windsor […]
by Charlie Charalambous Agence France Presse NICOSIA , Cyprus (AFP) — Cyprus Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou said he resigned on Thursday after a public outcry over the botched response to the serial killing of seven foreign women and girls, including two Filipina domestic workers and a child. Nicolaou said he tendered his resignation to President Nicos Anastasiades for reasons of “principle and conscience”, while adding he had no personal involvement in the case that […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — A hit documentary about how some Catholic priests allegedly abused nuns in different parts of the world has been pulled from the Franco-German television channel Arte after a priest complained to a German court. The big-budget media investigation, “Sex Slaves in the Catholic Church”, was broadcast in March and has been sold widely internationally since. Its broadcast came weeks after Pope Francis admitted that some rogue priests had used nuns as […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday sacked Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson following a probe into the leak of news that Britain had conditionally allowed China’s Huawei to develop its 5G network. “The Prime Minister has this evening asked Gavin Williamson to leave the government, having lost confidence in his ability to serve in the role of Defence Secretary and as a member of her Cabinet,” said a spokeswoman from […]
By Lyndon Harvey EBC Europe Bureau The Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ) is now the official owner of a 200-year old church edifice in Glasgow, Scotland, which was previously owned by the New Jerusalem Church. The handover ceremony was held on April 26 at 17 George Street in Paisley, Scotland where the church edifice has stood since it was built by the Methodists in 1810 and then owned by the New Jerusalem Church […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British police opened an investigation on Tuesday into a hospital where hundreds of patients are believed to have died prematurely after being given powerful painkillers. Police are examining the care provided to patients who died at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in southern England between 1987 and 2001, police said in a statement. A review last year found that more than 450 people had their lives shortened at the hospital […]
Bodies of 3 Filipina domestic workers killed by Greek Cypriot officer already found A general view shows the Red Lake, a suspected dump site for a suspected serial killer, in Mitsero village, southwest of the capital Nicosia on April 26, 2019. – Cypriot authorities were combing lakes for the remains of three women and a girl, all Filipinos, dumped by a suspected serial killer, in a hunt for bodies that has shocked the island. (Photo […]
by Oleksandr SAVOCHENKO Agence France Presse KIEV, Ukraine (AFP) — Ukraine’s election has catapulted Volodymyr Zelensky, a 41-year-old standup comedian and television star with no political experience, into the nation’s top job. As leader of a country dependent on international aid and battling separatists, Zelensky will have to deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin, deep economic problems and possibly rebellious elites. Here is a look at the main challenges facing Ukraine’s sixth president: – War […]
by Saska CVETKOVSKA and Nicolas GAUDICHET Agence France-Presse SKOPJE, Republic of North Macedonia (AFP) – North Macedonia holds the first round of its presidential election on Sunday, the country’s first vote under a new name as it struggles with enduring economic problems, cronyism and corruption. The vote for the largely ceremonial post comes less than three months after a deal with Athens on Skopje’s name change came into force, ending a decades-long identity dispute between the […]
CANICO, Portugal (AFP) — Twenty-nine German tourists were killed when their bus spun off the road and tumbled down a slope before crashing into a house on the Portuguese island of Madeira. Drone footage of the aftermath of the accident showed the badly mangled wreckage of the bus resting precariously on its side against a building on a hillside, the vehicle’s roof partially crushed and front window smashed. Rescue workers attended to injured passengers […]
by Vee Manuel-Sison, London-UK EBC Europe Bureau LONDON, UK (Eagle News) — After its successful release across Asia, Middle East, US, Canada and Europe, the independently produced Filipino movie “Guerrero” by EBC films premiered at London, Kensington Academy on April 6 and 7, with five sold out screenings in London. This film directed by Carlos Ortega Cuevas, already won multiple awards in the Philippines and overseas, including “Best Editing of a Foreign Language Film” at […]
