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By Chay Masagca EBC Washington DC bureau (Eagle News) – The members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ) , Waldorf Congregation, trooped to Waldorf Volunteer Fire Department (WVFD) at Old Washington Road, and to Charles County Sheriff Department in Leonardtown Road, both in Waldorf, Maryland to take part in the community service being conducted by the Iglesia Ni Cristo all over the world. This event was in connection with the Church’s INC Giving […]
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Gulf states Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates called on Damascus on Thursday to “stop the violence” in its deadly assault on the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta. “We stress the need for the Syrian regime to stop the violence, to allow in humanitarian aid, and to take seriously the path of a political solution to the crisis,” the Saudi foreign ministry said on Twitter. “We are concerned over […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday called for an end to the “massacre” in Syria after fresh air strikes on a rebel-held enclave in the war-torn country killed another 13 people. Condemning the Syrian regime for targeting “its own people”, Merkel said: “The killing of children, the destruction of hospitals — all that amounts to a massacre that must be condemned and which must be countered with a clear no.” At […]
PODGORICA, Montenegro (AFP) — An unknown person blew themself up after throwing a suspected grenade into the US embassy compound in Podgorica, the Montenegrin government said Thursday. “In front of the @USEmbassyMNE building in #Podgorica, #Montenegro an unknown person committed suicide with an explosive device. Immediately before, that person threw an explosive device,” the official government account tweeted, adding that the device was “most probably” a hand grenade. An AFP correspondent could not see any […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — A top North Korean general will be at the closing ceremony of the South’s Winter Olympics this weekend, Seoul said Thursday — an event that US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka will also attend. Kim Yong Chol, who oversees inter-Korean relations for the ruling Workers’ Party, will lead an eight-member delegation that will visit the South from Friday to Sunday, the unification ministry said in a statement. It will go […]
(Eagle News) — Members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) or Church of Christ held a large blood donation drive in six areas in Hong Kong where at least 465 bags of blood were collected for the Red Cross on Monday, February 19. At least 163,000 cubic centimeters (cc) of blood were donated by the INC volunteers in the blood donation activity held in Mong Kok, Causeway Bay, Tsuen Wan, Kwun Tong, Yuen Long, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump floated the idea of arming teachers and promised more stringent background checks on gun owners as he hosted an emotional meeting Wednesday with students who survived last week’s mass shooting at a Florida school. “I just want to say before we begin, because I want to hear you, but we’ll be very strong on background checks, very strong emphasis on the mental health of somebody,” Trump told […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia on Wednesday jailed three men and a woman for up to 8 years for embezzling state funding worth millions of dollars while working as contractors on the construction of the country’s showpiece Vostochny cosmodrome. The four, who controlled or worked for construction companies, were together found guilty of embezzling 1.3 billion rubles ($23 million) from the national prestige project, in the latest blow to Russia’s troubled space industry. Moscow’s Simonovsky […]
by Jean-Luc Renaudie © Agence France-Presse JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) — One of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s closest confidants has agreed to testify against him in a graft probe, Israeli police said Wednesday, in a fresh threat to his long tenure. Two new corruption investigations announced this week, hot on the heels of a police recommendation that Netanyahu face charges in two other cases, have fuelled growing speculation he could be forced to step down or call […]
by Aminu Abubakar with Phil Hazlewood in Lagos © Agence France-Presse DAMATURU, Nigeria (AFP) — More than 100 girls were missing on Wednesday, two days after a Boko Haram attack on their school in northeast Nigeria that has raised fears of a repeat of the 2014 Chibok kidnapping that shocked the world. Islamist militants stormed the Government Girls Science Secondary School in Dapchi, Yobe state, on Monday evening. Locals initially said the girls and their teachers fled. […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — A double-decker bus veered off a mountain road and plunged into a ravine in southern Peru Wednesday, killing at least 44 people. The bus tumbled 80 meters (260 feet) down a jagged slope from the Pan-American highway — Peru’s main motorway — in the southern region of Arequipa. Arequipa police chief General Walter Ortiz “confirms 44 deaths,” the interior ministry said on its Twitter account, updating an earlier toll of 35. Ortiz said 45 […]
by Gilles Clarenne with Chris Lefkow in Washington © Agence France-Presse TALLAHASSEE, United States (AFP) — Angered by a shooting rampage that left 17 people dead at a Florida high school, students staged protests in several US cities on Wednesday to turn up the heat on President Donald Trump and lawmakers to take action on gun control. Holding signs reading “Never Again” and “Be The Adults, Do Something,” teenagers who survived last week’s mass shooting at Marjory […]
