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(Eagle News) — Two teenagers were killed in flash floods in separate incidents in Negev, a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel, and in the desert hills east of Bethlehem, on Wednesday, April 25, as Israel experienced a rare hail, as well as thunderstorms. The bodies of the two teenagers — a teenage Bedouin boy who was swept away in the Negev desert, and another young Palestinian girl who was swept away by […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — At least 13 children were killed and five critically injured Thursday after a train smashed into a small school bus in northern India, an official said. The students, all aged below 10, were being driven to class in Uttar Pradesh state when a passenger train collided with their vehicle at an unmanned railway crossing. The impact of the crash lifted the bus several meter into the air, killing 10 […]
By Camille Bas-Wohlert and Annabella Pultz Agence France Presse A Copenhagen court on Wednesday found Danish inventor Peter Madsen guilty of the premeditated murder and sexual assault of Swedish journalist Kim Wall on his homemade submarine last year, handing him a life sentence. Madsen, 47, had admitted chopping up the 30-year-old’s body and throwing her remains overboard in waters off Copenhagen on the night of August 10, 2017, but claimed her death was accidental. […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in and the North’s leader Kim Jong Un will meet at the Military Demarcation Line that divides the peninsula for their summit Friday, Seoul said, in an occasion laden with symbolism. Moon will greet his visitor at the concrete blocks that mark the border between the two Koreas in the Demilitarized Zone, the chief of the South’s presidential secretariat Im Jong-seok said.
In this report, Eagle Broadcasting Hawaii correspondent Alfred Acenas takes a closer look at the office of the Philippine Consulate General in Honolulu. Philippine Consul General Joselito Jimeno was assigned to Hawaii only in February this year (2018). He is the 19th Consul General of the Philippine Consulate General since it formally opened to the public on 16 November 1948. Prior to coming to Honolulu, Mr. Jimeno, who holds the rank of Chief of Mission, […]
Nations and governments all over the world are building infrastructures that define their progress and further signify their ability to attract more investments. Just in time for the 4th Yalta International Economic Forum, one of the most important investment conferences in Russia, the Republic of Crimea opened the brand new terminal complex of the international airport of Simferopol last April 16. Simferopol Airport is Crimea’s biggest investment project with private financing worth 32 billion RUB […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea has custom-made furniture for Friday’s summit between President Moon Jae-in and the North’s leader Kim Jong Un — with chairs featuring disputed islands controlled by Seoul but claimed by Tokyo. One thing the rival Koreas share is a resentment of Japan, which imposed a brutal colonial rule on the peninsula from 1910 to 1945, and the gesture is likely to irritate Tokyo. Japan has already lodged a strong […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese police have seized 1.3 tons of cocaine from South America in the country’s biggest ever haul of the drug, authorities said. Police in the southern city of Shenzhen have detained 10 suspects, mostly from Hong Kong, following an investigation that began in July 2017, the Guangdong province public security department said. The statement, released Tuesday, called it the “biggest amount of cocaine seized in the country.” The official Xinhua news […]
by Sunghee Hwang Agence France Presse GOSEONG, South Korea (AFP) — When Kim Jong Un steps over the Military Demarcation Line to attend a summit on Friday he will be the first member of Pyongyang’s ruling dynasty to set foot in the South since the Korean War. But his grandfather Kim Il Sung used to have a holiday home there. Nestled on a cliff overlooking the white sands of Hwajinpo Beach in Goseong, just a […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — The 29-year-old man who confronted and stopped a gunman during a rampage at a Tennessee restaurant was hailed Tuesday as a hero by the US state’s legislature. James Shaw Jr singlehandedly wrestled away the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle from the hands of Travis Reinking — a fellow 29-year-old with a history of mental illness — as he was allegedly reloading in the middle of a shooting rampage in the early morning […]
by Olivia Hampton Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Former US president George H.W. Bush was being treated for a blood infection on Tuesday after being admitted to a Texas hospital shortly after the funeral of his wife, Barbara. President Donald Trump wished the 93-year-old former president a “very speedy recovery” as he welcomed French leader Emmanuel Macron to the White House. Bush’s office said he was “responding to treatments and appears to […]
by Robin Millard Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Prince Charles voiced his joy Tuesday at the arrival of his third grandchild, as Britain waited to discover what Prince William and his wife Kate will call their new baby son. Cannons were fired in London to mark the arrival of the little prince, who is fifth in line to the throne, and the bells of Westminster Abbey rang out in celebration. The boy, […]
