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SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) – Australian police were Wednesday deciding whether to charge Vatican finance chief George Pell over historic sex abuse allegations after receiving final advice from prosecutors. Cardinal Pell, Australia’s most senior Catholic cleric, was interviewed in Rome by Australian detectives last October over the assault claims, which he has strenuously denied. The allegations came from two men, now in their 40s, who said he groped them in summer 1978-79 at the Eureka pool […]
by Sylvain Estibal Agence France-Presse MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) – Media and rights groups protested Tuesday to demand the Mexican government catch the killers of the fifth and most high-profile journalist murdered this year in the country’s drug-trafficking ganglands. The front pages of major newspapers and journalists demonstrating in the center of the capital carried pictures of Javier Valdez, 50, who was shot dead in broad daylight on Monday in northwestern Sinaloa state. The award-winning Valdez […]
by Dave Clark Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Presidents Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan stood side by side at the White House on Tuesday and promised to strengthen strained ties despite the Turkish leader’s stern warning about Washington’s arming of a Kurdish militia. Fresh from securing his grip on Turkey with a referendum to enhance his powers, Erdogan came to the Oval Office with complaints about US support for Kurdish fighters […]
By Dexter T. Manglicmot WASHINGTON D.C. (Eagle News Service) — Minister of the Iglesia Ni Cristo, Matt Talens, would have never guessed that answering his phone one Saturday morning in October 2015 in his chapel office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, would eventually lead to the first-ever baptism of the Iglesia Ni Cristo in Monrovia, Liberia, Africa. On the other end of the line was Joseph Crusoe who picked up a magazine of the Church at […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi has pushed back against isolated calls from within her party to impeach United States President Donald Trump following allegations he disclosed top secret information to top Russian officials. The minority leader in the House of Representatives was responding to calls by at least two congressional Democrats for Trump to be impeached in the wake of Monday’s explosive Washington Post report. “I don’t subscribe to that,” […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Accident and emergency units in England were nearly back to normal on Tuesday, the National Health Service (NHS) said, after the last restrictions put in place following the global cyber attack were lifted. “Patients are no longer being diverted away from hospital accident and emergency units,” Anne Rainsberry, NHS England’s national incident director, said in a statement. “While there is still some disruption in a small number of areas, most […]
by Carole Landry Agence France Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The United Nations Security Council met behind closed doors on Tuesday to discuss tightening sanctions on North Korea after it fired its latest ballistic missile. United States Ambassador Nikki Haley said the US was working with China, Pyongyang’s main ally, on a new sanctions resolution and warned that all countries must step up action against North Korea or face measures themselves. “We all […]
by Gokan GUNES Agence France-Presse ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) – Brandishing their javelins and letting out a bloodcurdling war cry, the Ottoman horsemen charge at a thunderous gallop. Suddenly one is hit and thrown from his horse — making dozens of children gasp as they film the scene on their smartphones. It may be 2017, but Istanbul rolled back the years last weekend with the Ethnic Sports Cultural Festival (EKF), which aims to promote the sports […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Russia has shown off President Vladimir Putin as action man — bare-chested horse rider, black-belt judoka and ice hockey player. Now meet Putin the piano man. The Russian leader played a couple of Soviet-era tunes on a grand piano while waiting to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Sunday. His impromptu performance was filmed and went viral on social media, earning mixed reviews. “It’s too bad that the piano […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – South Korea’s left-leaning new leader Moon Jae-In will travel to the United States for a summit with President Donald Trump next month, Moon’s spokesperson said Tuesday, amid high tensions over the North’s nuclear ambitions. The summit will be held in Washington in late June, Yoon Young-Chan said, adding that details of the precise date and agenda would be decided later. Moon backs engagement with nuclear-armed North Korea to try to […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in visited a primary school in Seoul on Monday (May 15) where he announced a new government air pollution policy that includes shutting down coal-fired power plants that are over 30 years old in June to mitigate air pollution. The measure comes as coal-fired power plants are being criticized for contributing to deteriorating air quality in South Korea, Asia’s fourth-largest economy. Amid these concerns, new President […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) – Disney chief Bob Iger said Monday hackers claiming to have access to one of the company’s unreleased movies were demanding a “huge” ransom, according to United States media reports. He did not reveal which film had been stolen but said the company would not be giving in to the blackmail attempt, according to The Hollywood Reporter, quoting Iger from a meeting in New York with employees of the Disney-owned […]
