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MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Vatican diplomat Luigi Ventura — who is already under investigation in France over alleged sexual assault — is now facing a similar complaint in Canada, the Vatican embassy in Ottawa said Thursday. Luigi Ventura, currently the Vatican’s envoy to France, has been accused of molesting an official at the Paris mayor’s office. The 74-year-old Italian archbishop served as the envoy to Canada from 2001 to 2009. He now faces a “single” […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Bangladesh told the UN Security Council on Thursday that it will no longer be able to take in refugees from Myanmar. Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque told a council meeting that the crisis over the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya sheltering in his country had gone from “bad to worse” and urged the council to take “decisive” action. Around 740,000 Muslim Rohingya are living in camps in Bangladesh […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia suffered its hottest summer on record from December through February and forecasts show the southern autumn will continue to be drier and warmer than average, the government said Thursday. “After a record hot December and January, it won’t come as a surprise that this summer will be our warmest on record,” said Andrew Watkins, manager of long-range forecasting at the Bureau of Meteorology. Although the final figures won’t be available […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump have agreed to continue “productive” discussions on denuclearization, Pyongyang’s state media said Friday, hours after a summit between the two leaders in Hanoi ended abruptly with no agreement. The highly anticipated meeting in Vietnam was supposed to build on the leaders’ historic first summit in Singapore last year, but the latest talks ended in deadlock with Washington and Pyongyang […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US Navy’s version of the F-35 stealth fighter jet is “ready for combat,” officials said Thursday, marking another milestone in the development of the most expensive weapons program ever. “The F-35C is ready for operations, ready for combat and ready to win,” Vice Admiral DeWolfe Miller, who commands Naval Air Forces, said in a statement. “We are adding an incredible weapon system into the arsenal of our Carrier Strike […]
by Nasir JAFFRY Agence France Presse ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AFP) — Pakistan promised to free a captured Indian pilot on Friday as a “peace gesture” aimed at its nuclear arch-rival, but New Delhi insisted it would remain on “heightened” military alert for attacks. Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, who was shot down in an aerial engagement over the disputed region of Kashmir on Wednesday, had become the centrepiece of the latest conflict between the neighbours. “As a […]
(Eagle News)—The Department of Foreign Affairs warned Filipinos in India and Pakistan to take the necessary precautions amid the rising tension between the two countries. In a statement, the DFA also urged Filipinos to avoid any travel to Kashmir region, where a confrontation between Indian and Pakistani jets ensued. There are no Filipinos living in Kashmir but there are seven Filipino military observers serving with the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Thursday offered a $1 million reward for information on a son of late Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, seeing him as an emerging face of extremism. The location of Hamza bin Laden, sometimes dubbed the “crown prince of jihad,” has been the subject of speculation for years with reports of him living in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria or under house arrest in Iran. “Hamza bin Laden is […]
by Jenny VAUGHAN / Richard CARTER / with Jerome Cartillier Aboard Air Force One Agence France Presse HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — The United States and North Korea on Friday put forward starkly different accounts over the breakdown of a high-stakes summit in Hanoi, with Pyongyang warning it would not put more on the table. After weeks of building expectations and with a signing ceremony ready to go, President Donald Trump abruptly ended his second-ever meeting […]
By Cassandra Gamboa EBC New York Bureau CONNECTICUT (Eagle News) — Just months after Democrats gained control of both legislative chambers and Connecticut govern ship, special elections took place in five districts to replace legislators pulled into the executive branch as part of Governor Ned Lamont’s (D-CT) transition team. Three state Senate seats and two House of Representative seats were in need of new representation after lawmakers resigned to work in the newly elected governor’s […]
(Eagle News) – Parents are advised to be vigilant of their children’s online activity in light of the “Momo challenge,” a sinister form of cyberbullying that entices kids and young adults to do harm on themselves and on their peers, up to the extreme of committing suicide. The “Momo challenge” — which uses a creepy image of a long haired woman with bulging eyes and a devilish grin, and having bird-like thin legs – […]
(Eagle News) – US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended a second summit that started warmly in Vietnam without a signed deal on denuclearization, with Trump saying he’d “much rather do it right than do it fast.” Trump said that the deal could have been done that day, as all the papers were ready for signing. But he said that the agreement would not be “right” and “appropriate.” Kim […]
