A wildfire raged for a third day through high chaparral and timber in the Santa Cruz mountains southeast of San Francisco on Wednesday (September 28), threatening hundreds of structures after destroying at least one home and several outbuildings. The blaze, dubbed the Loma fire, has scorched more than 2,200 acres since erupting on Monday in rugged, drought-parched terrain in Santa Clara County, forcing an unspecified number of mandatory evacuations in the area, fire officials said. […]
North America
Quake jolts Nicaragua, one dead
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AFP) — A 5.4-magnitude earthquake jolted Nicaragua on Wednesday, killing a woman and damaging homes close the epicenter in the country’s north, officials said. The quake struck at 1048 am (1648 GMT) in the area between the El Hoyo and Momotombo volcanoes, at a shallow depth of 2.9 kilometers (1.8 miles). The woman, Higinia Margarita Cruz, suffered a heart attack from the shock of the shaking, said First Lady Rosario Murillo, who is also […]
Obama urges Americans to vote for Clinton
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Barack Obama urged US voters to put Hillary Clinton in the White House, warning that sitting out the November 8 election would support Donald Trump, who is “unqualified” for the job. “If you don’t vote, that’s a vote for Trump,” he said of the Republican nominee during a radio interview on the Steve Harvey Morning Show that aired Wednesday. “If you vote for a third-party candidate who’s got no […]
British royals learn about the history of the Yukon in Canada
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge continued their tour of Canada on Wednesday (September 28) with a visit to the MacBride Museum of Yukon History in Whitehorse. The Queen and Duke of Duke of Edinburgh visited the same museum back in 1959 when it was a telegraph office. After visiting the Museum, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge watched children sing songs. The royal couple were cheered by big crowds as they made their way […]
US Senate votes to override Obama’s 9/11 bill veto
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – by Andrew BEATTY The US Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to override Barack Obama’s veto of a bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia, the first such rebuke of his eight-year presidency. In a landmark 97-1 vote backing the override, only outgoing Obama ally, Nevada Democrat Harry Reid, voted against it, teeing up a similar vote in the House of Representatives later Wednesday. The rare act of bipartisanship is a severe […]
Las Vegas youth hold “interactive watch party” of 1st televised US presidential debate
NEVADA, Las Vegas, USA (Eagle News) — A unique “interactive watch party” of the first televised presidential debate in the United States was held at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. The students from local middle schools, high schools and colleges participated in the interactive watch party where the viewers from the local schools and the community not only heard what US presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had to say, but […]
U.S. firefighters battle multiple wildfires across California
A fast-growing brush fire prompted mandatory evacuations on Tuesday (September 27) from an area of the Santa Cruz mountains in Northern California, according to the California government website. The blaze charred about 2200 acres of drought-parched vegetation, burned two homes and threatened at least 300 structures, according to the website. Air tankers and helicopters assisted the firefighters to battle the so-called ‘Loma’ fire, officials said. In Tuolumne County, in Northern California, a fire that broke […]
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attend events and volleyball game at British Columbia university
KELOWNA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada (Reuters) — The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge continued their tour of Canada on Tuesday (September 27) with a stop at University of British Columbia Okanagan campus. The Royals attended a dedication at the ten-year-old campus in Kelowna which is home to 8,000 students and 600 research projects. Following the ceremony Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, attended a volleyball demonstration by the universities’ national ranked volleyball team.
EVM Awards North America Debuts in San Francisco
By Dexter T. Manglicmot Eagle News Service SAN FRANCISCO, CA (Eagle News) — The Iglesia Ni Cristo recently held its Excellence in Visual Media Awards for the first time in the United States at the Samuel Johnson Junior Performing Arts Center in the San Francisco Bay Area. The regional competition for the Excellence in Visual Media or EVM Awards came to a close here in its North America stop as people from all over […]
Sparks, insults fly at Clinton-Trump first TV debate
by Jennie Matthew HEMPSTEAD, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump strode out cloaked in icy politeness. Yet within minutes their debate degenerated into bickering, insults and diatribes — a gladiatorial contest of modern times. It was a 90-minute battle of endurance between two of the most famous people in America: Clinton, cool, calm and collected, almost serene as she smiled through the insults — and landed jabs of her own — […]
Trump claims Clinton does not have ‘stamina’ to be president
HEMPSTEAD, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump claimed Monday his rival Hillary Clinton does not have the “stamina” to be president, hitting at the Democrat after a recent bout of pneumonia. “I said she doesn’t have the stamina. And I don’t believe she does have the stamina. To be president of this country, you need tremendous stamina,” Trump said. Clinton fired right back: “Well, as soon as he travels to 112 countries and negotiates a […]
Clinton, Trump clash in fiery first debate
by Jennie MATTHEW with Andrew Beatty in Washington HEMPSTEAD, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump bickered and traded insults in a fiery US presidential debate Monday, as they aggressively pitched their case to tens of millions of American voters. With the White House rivals in a dead heat six weeks before election day, Clinton from the get-go painted her Republican rival as out of touch and having a tenuous relationship with the truth, […]
