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LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) – Britain’s Theresa May won a stay of execution from her Conservative Party on Monday (June 12) , winning support from disillusioned lawmakers after losing a parliamentary majority at last week’s national election. The prime minister was described as “contrite” at a meeting of Conservative members called the 1922 Committee, apologising to those politicians who lost their seats in an election she did not need to hold and promising to clear […]
CHINA (Reuters) – Downpours swept across much of central and east China on Monday causing flash floods and leading to subsequent disasters such as landslides across many parts. The rain-triggered floods on Monday washed away the road base and caused a collapse of several sections of a local main road in the county of Yongjia of east China’s Zhejiang Province. A bridge section was closed to motorists after its piers were severely damaged in the […]
WASHINGTON DC, United States (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump hosted the Clemson Tigers college football team at the White House on Monday (June 12) to celebrate the team’s national championship victory earlier this year. The president offered congratulations and spoke about what it takes to win. “You never ever gave up, you can never give up in life,” Trump said. Clemson won the championship in January, defeating Alabama 35-31 after a touchdown was scored […]
BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday (June 12) hosted talks in the chancellery with a group of African leaders in the framework of the G20 Africa Partnership. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi were among the leaders taking part in the talks, which came at the end of the first day of a two-day G20 conference on Africa. The discussion was set to focus on private […]
LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) – One woman was killed on the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday (June 12) after a powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the western coast of Turkey, rattling buildings from the Aegean Turkish province of Izmir to the Greek capital Athens. The epicenter of the quake was about 84 kilometers (52 miles) northwest of the Turkish coastal city of Izmir, in the sea south of Lesbos. The National Observatory of Athens put […]
by Ali Khalil Agence France Presse DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — Qatar Airways has made Doha a global hub in just a few years, but barring it from Gulf states’ airspace threatens its position as a major transcontinental carrier, experts say. Along with its Gulf peers — Dubai’s Emirates Airlines and Abu Dhabi’s Etihad — Qatar’s national carrier has captured a sizable portion of transit travel, capitalising on the Gulf’s central geographic location. But […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — New Zealand’s main opposition party Monday announced plans to almost halve immigration numbers if it wins a September election, with the clampdown focused on international students. Labor Party leader Andrew Little said it was “time for a breather on immigration” in the nation, which has experienced record annual net arrivals of about 70,000 in recent years. Little said his center-left party would cut that by up to 30,000 a year, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Officials in Maryland and the United States capital Washington will sue President Donald Trump for accepting payments and benefits from foreign governments through his business empire, news reports said Sunday night. The suit to be unveiled Monday centers on the so-called emoluments clause, which bans US officials from taking gifts or other benefits from foreign governments. A nongovernment organization that centers on ethics issues filed a similar suit in January. […]
(Reuters) – United States First Lady Melania Trump and her son Barron Trump will now officially call the White House ‘home.’ They arrived with President Donald Trump in Washington on Sunday (June 11), in what the media said was their official moving day at the presidential residence. Melania Trump and Barron remained in New York after Trump’s inauguration in order to allow Barron to finish out the school year. Ahead of their arrival on Sunday, […]
By Ace Ramirez Washington D.C. Bureau Freedom is something everyone longs to achieve, even puppets. “Strings”, a short film by Rafael Daniel Evangelista, is about a puppet’s struggle to be free from the strings of its master and achieves it in an unexpected way. This and three other Philippine short films made it to the 2017 EuroAsia Short Film Festival held in Washington DC from 5-9 June 2017. The films were: Strings by […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A China Eastern passenger plane suffered a serious fault that tore a huge hole in one of its engine casings and forced the aircraft to make an emergency landing in Sydney, the carrier said Monday. Terrified passengers described a massive din soon after flight MU736 took off from Sydney Airport at 8.30pm (1030 GMT) on Sunday, as crew cleared seats near the affected engine and turned the flight back. No one […]
by David Harding Agence France Presse DOHA, Qatar (AFP) — Qatar moved Sunday to avoid an escalation of its feud with Gulf neighbors by telling their citizens they are welcome to stay, while boasting of “business as usual” for vital gas exports. Iran also announced it had sent tons of vegetables to Qatar, which has seen food imports threatened after its neighbors cut air, sea and land links with the country. Nearly a week after […]
