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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)–China hopes the historic summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will take place June 12 as planned, its top diplomat said Wednesday. “If you want to solve the moment now is the time, if you want peace now is the time, if you want to make history now is the time,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Wednesday in Washington, alongside his counterpart Mike Pompeo. […]
(Eagle News) – A Catholic archbishop in Australia decided to step down on Wednesday, May 23, after a New South Wales court found him guilty of covering up child sex abuse in the 1970s. This was announced by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) a day after the verdict of Magistrate Robert Stone of the Newcastle Local Court on Adelaide archbishop Philip Wilson, one of the highest-ranked church officials globally to be successfully prosecuted […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — The hunt for missing flight MH370 is being reviewed and may be scrapped, Malaysia’s prime minister said Wednesday, as the country’s new government seeks cuts in public spending. The Malaysia Airlines jet disappeared in March 2014 with 239 mostly Chinese people onboard while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. No sign of the plane was found in a 120,000 square kilometers (46,000 square mile) sea search zone and […]
by Sunghee Hwang Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Invited foreign journalists gathered in North Korea Wednesday to witness the slated destruction of the reclusive regime’s nuclear test site, a high profile gesture on the road to a summit with the US that Donald Trump now says might not happen. In a surprise announcement Pyongyang said earlier this month that it planned to “completely” destroy the Punggye-ri facility in the country’s northeast, […]
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AFP) — At least six Americans were injured Tuesday when a plane crashed while landing at the Honduran capital’s international airport and split in two. The commercial jet from Austin, Texas left the runway and veered into a ditch, Carlos Cordero, deputy head of Honduras’s disaster relief agency Copeco told local media. Firefighters arrived at Toncontin airport in Tegucigalpa and used foam to extinguish flames coming from the wreckage. Local businessman Pedro Atala […]
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Cuba now has identified the remains of 50 of the 111 people killed in the country’s worst air disaster in decades. A Boeing 737 leased to national carrier Cubana de Aviacion crashed shortly after taking off from Havana’s Jose Marti airport on Friday, with 113 passengers and crew aboard. Just two survivors remain — both Cuban woman who are fighting for their lives at Havana’s Calixto Garcia hospital. “I can […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Pyongyang has given South Korean reporters a last-minute green-light to witness the slated demolition of North Korea’s nuclear test site, Seoul said Wednesday. Pyongyang announced earlier this month that it planned to “completely” destroy the Punggye-ri facility in the country’s mountainous northeast. The demolition is due to take place sometime between Wednesday and Friday, depending on the weather, according to the North. A handful of foreign journalists, including from South […]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — Fourteen priests involved in a sex abuse scandal in Chile — which has rocked Catholic Pope Francis’ papacy — were stripped of their priestly duties Tuesday. “Fourteen priests no longer are allowed to carry out their duties… These priests have taken part in actions that may be civilian crimes as well as within the church,” the bishop’s office in the city of Rancagua said. Just Friday, 34 Chilean bishops announced their […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — Texas Governor Greg Abbott met Tuesday with experts and politicians to discuss how to prevent school shootings, five days after a teenage gunman killed 10 people at a high school in the southern US state. Abbott, a Republican, focused the first of three “roundtable sessions” on school safety. Over the next two days, gun regulation, mental health issues, and victims’ needs are also on the agenda. The talks came in […]
by Andrew Beatty Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump warned Tuesday his landmark summit with Kim Jong Un may be delayed but insisted the North Korean leader is “serious” about denuclearization. Hosting South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the White House, Trump did little to quell speculation about the wavering prospects of a historic first summit between US and North Korean leaders. “It may not work out for June […]
by Lachlan Carmichael Agence France Presse BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg apologized to the European Parliament on Tuesday for the “harm” caused by a huge breach of users’ data and by a failure to crack down on fake news. But Zuckerberg’s appearance failed to satisfy MEPs who accused him of dodging questions and criticised a format that gave the parliament’s political leaders far more time to give long-winded speeches. His livestreamed […]
KINSHASA, DR Congo (AFP) — The death toll from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has risen to 27, the health ministry said on Tuesday, after a fatality was recorded in a city on the front line of the outbreak. The death, which involved a person confirmed by lab tests as having the viral disease, occurred in Wangata, a district of Mbandaka, the ministry said in a press release. So far, there […]
