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by Harry Pearl Agence France Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — All 189 passengers and crew aboard a crashed Indonesian Lion Air jet were “likely” killed in the accident, the search and rescue agency said Monday, as it announced it had found human remains. The Boeing-737 MAX, which went into service just months ago, vanished from radar 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta, plunging into the Java Sea moments after it had asked to […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — French urban freeclimber Alain Robert was arrested Thursday after bringing parts of London’s financial district to a standstill by scaling the 46-storey Heron Tower — the area’s tallest building. The 56-year-old so-called “French Spiderman” took around an hour to climb the 230-metre high tower without ropes or safety equipment, while traffic came to a halt as bemused crowds packed the streets below. Police in the City of London, the capital’s […]
by Gokan GUNES Agence France Presse ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was on Monday due to inaugurate Istanbul’s new international airport, which his government claims will become the world’s largest. The airport, one of a number of mega-projects under Erdogan’s rule, was initially scheduled to fully open on Monday but construction has been marred by delays and a workers’ strike over poor conditions. Erdogan has championed the 10.5 billion euro ($12 […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump called Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday to congratulate the far-right candidate on winning Brazil’s presidency, the White House said. “President Trump called President-elect Bolsonaro of Brazil this evening to congratulate him and the Brazilian people on today’s elections,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement. “Both expressed a strong commitment to work side-by-side to improve the lives of the people of the United States and […]
by Jorge SVARTZMAN Agence France Presse RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro promised in his victory speech Sunday to “change Brazil’s destiny,” after campaigning on a hardline law-and-order platform. The former army captain, 63, campaigned under the slogan “Brazil above all, God above everyone.” Here is a glance at his key policy proposals: Economy – Reduce public debt by 20 percent through a raft of privatizations and the sale of state […]
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AFP) — Saudi Arabia has promised a “full” investigation into the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said Sunday following talks with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir in Bahrain. “We discussed it… the need of transparency, full and complete investigation. Full agreement from FM Jubeir, no reservations at all,” Mattis told reporters following the talks, during which he warned the Saudi kingdom that the murder attributed to the […]
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AFP) — More than a thousand Honduran migrants broke through a Guatemalan police cordon on the border with Mexico Sunday as they attempted to join a larger caravan of compatriots heading towards the United States, police and rights groups said. A group of around 1,500 Hondurans were being held back by police from the international bridge that separates the Guatemalan town of Tecun Uman from the Mexican city of Ciudad Hidalgo. Weight […]
by Jerome CARTILLIER Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — As he stepped off Air Force One headed to the latest of his raucous, near-daily election rallies, Donald Trump vowed he would “absolutely” strike a different tone following the bloodshed in Pittsburgh. Eleven members of the Pennsylvania city’s Jewish community had just been killed during morning Sabbath services, in the worst anti-Semitic attack in recent American history. But in the same breath, the president […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Far-right former army captain Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil’s presidential election Sunday, according to official results that gave him 55.7 percent of the vote with more than 88 percent of the ballots counted. His victory over leftist candidate Fernando Haddad marks a lunge to the right for Latin America’s largest country, after a divisive campaign marked by widespread outrage at the political class — but also fears over Bolsonaro’s denigrating […]
by Jennie MATTHEW Agence France Presse PITTSBURGH, United States (AFP) — A 97-year-old woman, an octogenarian couple, two brothers. Americans on Sunday learned the identities of the 11 victims of the bloody assault on a Pittsburgh synagogue — a mostly elderly group and easy targets for a shooter who said he “wanted all Jews to die.” Nine of the 11 were 65 or older, several old enough to have been children during the rise of […]
by Tom BARFIELD Agence France Presse FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government on Sunday suffered a beating in a second key regional election in as many weeks, multiplying questions over the future of the veteran leader’s fragile alliance. Weakened by a strong backlash against immigration after allowing over a million people into Germany since 2015, Merkel’s fourth government has staggered from one crisis to the next since being formed […]
The Iglesia Ni Cristo conducted an Aid to Humanity program in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, giving food packs to hundreds of residents there as part of its global efforts to fight poverty. The event on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018 was done in various parts of the world. INC members moved as one in helping their fellowmen as part of their commitment to help those in need.
