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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US military’s top general said Wednesday that Chinese President Xi Jinping reneged on promises not to militarize the South China Sea and called for “collective action” to hold Beijing responsible. General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he was not calling for military action, but stressed that there was a need to enforce international laws. “The fall of 2016, President Xi Jinping promised President […]
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AFP) — Three people died and 16 were missing Wednesday after a river cruise boat capsized in Budapest and sank in the Danube, Hungarian public television said, quoting the interior ministry. The M1 channel said 15 people had been safely rescued following the accident near the iconic parliament building in the heart of the Hungarian capital after a collision with another boat. The accident happened at around 10:00 pm (2000 GMT). Divers were […]
by Mike Smith JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) — Israel’s parliament voted early Thursday to hold new elections only months after April polls in an unprecedented move provoked by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempts to remain in power despite failing to form a coalition. Parliament voted 74-45 in favour of dissolving itself and setting elections for September 17. It came as the deadline for Netanyahu to form a coalition expired and followed raucous moments in parliament that […]
COATZACOALCOS, Mexico (AFP) — A semi truck and a bus carrying passengers back from a religious pilgrimage to a Catholic shrine crashed and burst into flames Wednesday in eastern Mexico, killing 21 people and injuring 30, officials said. “The forensics experts at the scene report 17 bodies of passengers who were traveling in the bus, plus two people who died in the semi truck,” said the head of the Civil Protection service for the state […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — More than half of New Zealand’s public schools closed their doors on Wednesday amid a mass walkout by teachers over pay and conditions. The ministry of education estimated that almost 60 percent of schools were closed as some 50,000 teachers staged a “mega-strike”. “We didn’t want to be on strike, but we did it for the future of education in Aotearoa (New Zealand),” the country’s largest education union, NZEI Te […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A United States marine has died in Australia after succumbing to injuries received during a training accident, the force’s commanding officer said Wednesday. Lance Corporal Hans Sandoval-Pereyra was injured during a vehicle accident during the drill on Saturday near the northern Australia regional hub of Darwin. He was airlifted to hospital but was unable to be saved. Thousands of marines have passed through the rotation in Darwin since 2012, in an […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese police on Wednesday searched the home of the man behind a stabbing rampage in the town of Kawasaki a day earlier that killed two people, including a child. The 51-year-old attacker, identified by police as Ryuichi Iwasaki, died after stabbing himself during the rampage, and his motives for the horrifying assault remain unclear. On Wednesday morning, police searched his home, not far from the scene of the morning attack, seizing […]
SHENZHEN, China (AFP) –Huawei said Wednesday the tech giant will ask a US court to throw out US legislation that bars federal agencies from buying its products. The company was due to file the motion for summary judgment on Tuesday (Wednesday in China), said Song Liuping, the firm’s legal officer, in a statement carried by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. “The bill directly determines that Huawei is guilty and imposed a large number of restrictions on […]
by Paavan MATHEMA KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) — Former Gurkha soldier Nirmal Purja remains on target to conquer the world’s 14 highest mountains in a record-breaking seven months despite death-defying queues on the biggest peak of them all. Waiting for more than seven hours last week to get to the top of Everest and then back to the safety of his camp — in a pile-up that he documented in a photo that has gone viral […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Ohio residents inspected destroyed homes and debris-strewn streets Tuesday after powerful tornadoes ripped through the US state overnight, killing at least one person and causing widespread damage and power outages. One twister that barreled through the city of Dayton left 80,000 people without power as day broke, the city’s assistant fire chief Nicholas Hosford told ABC News. “We have homes flattened, entire apartment complexes destroyed, businesses throughout our community where […]
by Ryland JAMES BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s favored successor was swept into a new storm Tuesday, with her apparent call for limits to free speech around elections stoking further anger rather than putting down a raging youth-led YouTube revolt. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer’s call for “rules” for online media around election-time came after her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its center-left coalition partner SPD suffered their worst scores in Sunday’s European parliamentary vote. […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs-Overseas Voting Secretariat (DFA-OVS) announced through a press release that the 2019 Philippine Midterm Elections recorded the highest number of overseas voter turnout since the Overseas Voting Act was signed into law in 2003. It has to be noted that the 2019 elections can be seen as the culminating activity belonging to a three-year cycle, beginning with the voter registration in 2016, six months after the Presidential elections. […]
