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Ethiopians were holding funerals Sunday for friends and relatives who perished in last week’s Ethiopian Airlines crash, which killed all onboard and saw the worldwide grounding of the Boeing aircraft involved. Families in 35 nations were left bereaved when the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft plummeted from the sky just minutes into its flight to Nairobi last Sunday, killing all 157 passengers and crew on board. One week after the crash, relatives of the 17 […]
Glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto’s weedkiller Roundup, is the subject of fierce controversy across the globe and is classified by the World Health Organization as “probably” being carcinogenic. After the second US cancer victim in a year won a surprise court victory against Monsanto over the weedkiller on Tuesday, here is the state of play regarding lawsuits and restrictions on the use of glyphosate around the world: […]
The EU on Wednesday warned Britain it would have to hold elections to the European Parliament if it wants to delay Brexit until June 30, as Prime Minister Theresa May has requested. Before May put in the request, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker urged her in a phone call not to set a date that was beyond the May 23 to 26 European elections. An internal commission briefing note prepared ahead of this week’s EU […]
by Glenda KWEK / Daniel DE CARTERET Agence France Presse CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AFP) — A Syrian refugee and his son who fled the chaos of their homeland only to meet tragedy in New Zealand were buried on Wednesday in the first funerals of those killed in the mosque massacres. Hundreds of mostly Muslim mourners gathered at a cemetery in the southern city of Christchurch to lay to rest Khalid Mustafa and his 15-year-old […]
By Henry Nery EBC Las Vegas Bureau LAS VEGAS (Eagle News) – Jonathan Marchessault scored two goals and goalie Malcolm Subban saved 16 of 19 shots as the Vegas Golden Knights defeat the Edmonton Oilers 6-3 on Sunday. The Golden Knights displayed their offense by scoring six goals and their defense by only allowing 19 shots the whole game. Head Coach, Gerard Gallant took notice of the team’s momentum on the Oilers. “I thought […]
SENTANI, Indonesia (AFP) — The death toll from flash floods and landslides that tore through Indonesia’s Papua region has topped 100 with dozens more still missing, the disaster agency said Wednesday. Nearly 10,000 people have moved to shelters while at least 104 victims are confirmed to have died and 79 are unaccounted for in the aftermath of the disaster, triggered by heavy rain on Saturday. Scores have suffered injuries, including cuts and broken bones, […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australian police said on Wednesday they had charged a Catholic priest with indecent assault of a 15-year-old boy more than two decades ago, the latest member of the clergy caught in the church’s global sex-abuse scandal. The announcement comes a week after disgraced Australian Cardinal George Pell was sentenced in Melbourne to six years in prison for the sexual abuse of two choirboys. Police said the 61-year-old man, whose identity was […]
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AFP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Wednesday called for a global response to the dangers of social media as the Muslim community began burying their dead five days after the twin-mosques massacre. A white supremacist gunman streamed his 17 minutes of carnage in which he is accused of killing 50 Muslim worshippers during their Friday prayers. Facebook said the livestream from Christchurch was viewed fewer than 200 times […]
by Michel COMTE OTTAWA, United States (AFP) — Canada’s government doled out goodies for almost everyone in an election year budget Tuesday that looks to brace a slowing economy and sagging support for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals. The spending binge appeared calculated to appeal to the broadest number of voters. But pundits said it likely won’t be enough to turn the page on a political scandal dogging Trudeau, and lamented a lack of signature initiatives and […]
by Charlotte VAN OUWERKERK with Danny KEMP in The Hague UTRECHT, New Zealand (AFP) — Dutch police said they were investigating a terrorist motive for the Utrecht tram attack, as they arrested a new suspect on Tuesday over the deadly shooting. Authorities said they had found a suspicious letter in a getaway car used by Turkish-born main suspect Gokmen Tanis, 37, which made them “seriously” consider terrorism might have been involved in Monday’s rampage in […]
BEIRA, Mozambique (AFP) — The death toll in Mozambique after Tropical Cyclone Idai struck the southern African nation last week has climbed to more than 200, President Filipe Nyusi said Tuesday. “According to the information given to us here… we already have more than 200 dead, and nearly 350,000 people are at risk,” the president said after attending a cabinet meeting in the storm-stricken central city of Beira. The confirmed death toll stood at 202, […]
by Sebastian Smith WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump heaped praise Tuesday on right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro — and received plenty back — in announcing a special relationship that he said could even see the Latin American country join NATO. At a joint news conference on the sun-soaked Rose Garden lawn, Trump and the man dubbed “Trump of the Tropics” let the mutual compliments flow. “I have always admired the United States […]
