North America

Heaviest for a May snowfall: Spring snowstorm hits Cheyenne, Wyoming USA

  https://youtu.be/nsiGaD_D1NI by Zane Dizon Eagle News Service Denver WYOMING, USA (Eagle News) — Residents of Cheyenne, Wyoming woke up to thick snow covering their cars and pathways on Friday morning, May 19. This kind of unusual weather is actually more common than you might think. Arvin Ruadil, a resident of 10 years of Cheyenne, said, “This is mostly normal for us where we get snowfall even in June. However this is the heaviest we […]

University students walk out of Pence speech

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Dozens of students at Indiana’s Notre Dame University protested White House policies on Sunday by walking out of a commencement speech by Vice President Mike Pence, who criticized political correctness at American colleges. The members of the graduating class — dressed in cap and gowns together with some two thousand classmates — stood up and quietly left the school’s football stadium when Pence began delivering his speech, videos posted online […]

Iglesia Ni Cristo acquires its first chapel in Alabama state

ALABAMA – (Eagle News Service) The Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) or Church of Christ reached another milestone in its impressive history by purchasing a house of worship in the town of Huntsville, Alabama. This marks the first-ever chapel of the INC in this southeastern state of the United States. The INC continues to grow rapidly in this region of the U.S. and it is no different in Alabama. Although there is already a congregation in […]

One dead as car hits crowd in Times Square; police say accident

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A car plowed into a crowd of pedestrians in New York’s bustling Times Square on Thursday, leaving one person dead and at least 19 others injured in what officials said was an accident. The incident sparked instant jitters after recent deadly car-ramming attacks in London, Berlin and the French city of Nice, but officials said early evidence did not point to a terror link. “It is believed to be […]

Tornados hit Texas, Oklahoma and Wisconsin: reports

TEXAS, United States (Reuters) — Tornados touched down in Texas, Oklahoma and Wisconsin on Tuesday (May 16), leaving a trail of destruction in their path, local media reported. At least one person died when a twister tore through a mobile home in Barron, Wisconsin, local authorities said. Elk City, Oklahoma bore the brunt of the damage, with dozens of homes visibly destroyed after a tornado ripped through the small city, an NBC affiliate station reported. Another […]

Trump, Erdogan vow friendship despite anger at US arming Kurds

by Dave Clark Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Presidents Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan stood side by side at the White House on Tuesday and promised to strengthen strained ties despite the Turkish leader’s stern warning about Washington’s arming of a Kurdish militia. Fresh from securing his grip on Turkey with a referendum to enhance his powers, Erdogan came to the Oval Office with complaints about US support for Kurdish fighters […]

Iglesia Ni Cristo holds first-ever baptism in Liberia

By Dexter T. Manglicmot WASHINGTON D.C. (Eagle News Service) — Minister of the Iglesia Ni Cristo, Matt Talens, would have never guessed that answering his phone one Saturday morning in October 2015 in his chapel office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, would eventually lead to the first-ever baptism of the Iglesia Ni Cristo in Monrovia, Liberia, Africa. On the other end of the line was Joseph Crusoe who picked up a magazine of the Church at […]

Top US Democrat rebuffs calls to impeach Trump

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi has pushed back against isolated calls from within her party to impeach United States President Donald Trump following allegations he disclosed top secret information to top Russian officials. The minority leader in the House of Representatives was responding to calls by at least two congressional Democrats for Trump to be impeached in the wake of Monday’s explosive Washington Post report. “I don’t subscribe to that,” […]

Who’s to blame for ransomware outbreak?

by Rob Lever Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Questions are swirling over who is responsible for the security flaws exploited by hackers in the world’s biggest ransomware attack to date, which crippled thousands of businesses and public organizations around the world. Here are some answers: Who bears the blame? Because hackers exploited a security hole in some Windows versions discovered by the National Security Agency, Microsoft says the intelligence agency bears some […]

US says Trump did not discuss intel ‘sources, methods’ with Russians

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — United States President Donald Trump discussed specific terror threats with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Moscow’s envoy to the US in the Oval Office last week, but not “sources or methods,” senior officials said Monday. The statements from National Security Advisor HR McMaster and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson came after The Washington Post reported that Trump had revealed classified information to the Russians about a threat posed by […]

Microsoft says cyberattack should be wake up call for governments

Washington, UNITED STATES (AFP) — Microsoft warned governments Sunday against storing computer vulnerabilities like the leaked one at the heart of the cyberattack that has crippled computers in more than 150 countries. “The governments of the world should treat this attack as a wake up call,” Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer, Brad Smith, wrote in a blog post about what is being called the largest ransomware attack ever. He warned of the danger of exploits […]

World’s reportedly heaviest man recovering from bypass surgery in Mexico

GUADALAJARA, Mexico (Reuters) — The man believed to be the world’s heaviest is recovering from biliopancreatic bypass surgery in Mexico, after doctors recommended the procedure amidst fears for the patient’s health. According to local media, thirty-three-year-old Juan Pedro Franco – who has weighed up to 595 kilos (1,311 pounds) – has been largely bed-ridden for the last seven years due to his large size. He was recently put on a diet to help shed some […]