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YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Aung San Suu Kyi’s government will face its first test at the ballot box on Saturday in by-elections around Myanmar seen as a barometer for growing disillusionment with her party a year after it took office. The euphoria that surrounded the democracy icon’s landslide electoral win in 2015 has ebbed as her party struggles to push through promised reforms. Discontent is particularly acute in ethnic minority areas where many see Suu Kyi […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Never-seen photographs from the September 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation this week show the massive devastation that faced first responders. Twenty-seven pictures from that day depict the crushed walls, blazing fires and eviscerated interiors of the seat of the United States Department of Defense. The American Airlines jet that struck the Pentagon was one of four airliners hijacked by Al-Qaeda teams and […]
DIGITAL NEST | Guggenheim Museum By: Joy Anne Andres, Eagle News Service US, New York Bureau One of the best things you can find doing on a rainy day in New York City is spending an hour or two in a museum. Although there are so many museums that can be found in the five boroughs, the Guggenheim Museum’s unique architectural structure proudly stands out in front of Central Park along 5th Avenue’s Museum […]
by Margaret Donaldson Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Ousted United States national security adviser Michael Flynn has “a story to tell,” his lawyer said Thursday amid reports that in exchange for immunity, Flynn has offered to testify about potential ties between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia. Flynn proposed his deal to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the House and Senate intelligence committees, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday night. Flynn, […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — China does not have any policy to devalue its currency to promote exports, Vice Foreign Minister Zheng Zeguang said on Friday (March 31), ahead of President Xi Jinping’s first meeting with United States President Donald Trump amid tensions over trade. In a briefing, Zheng said China does not seek a trade surplus with the US and that it was willing to work to promote more balanced trade, although he said Washington should […]
By Vee Sison EBC London Bureau LONDON, United Kingdom (Eagle News Service) – Ambassador Antonio Lagdameo and Consul General Senen Mangalile of the Philippine Embassy’ met representatives of Eagle Broadcasting Corporation’s in London on Thursday March 2nd 2017 for a courtesy call with the new Philippine Ambassador. The aim of the meeting is to reach out to the wider Filipino community in the United Kingdom and to foster collaborative relationships with the Philippine Embassy […]
ARKHANGELSK, Russia (Reuters) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday (March 30) denied that Russia had interfered in last year’s U.S. presidential election. Attempting to quote a U.S. president, Putin said: “At one time (Ronald) Reagan debating, I think about taxes and addressing the Americans, said ‘Read my lips! No!” U.S. media were quick to point out the original quote was actually said by George H.W. Bush in 1988. Putin was speaking at an Arctic […]
by Dave Clark Agence France Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The United States admitted Thursday that it is no longer focused on ousting Bashar al-Assad as it seeks a new strategy to end Syria’s civil war. American officials have been shifting away from their former insistence that he must go for some time, but now they have made it explicit. In New York, the US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley condemned […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Thursday said climate change was not caused by human activity, as the White House announced that United States President Donald Trump would decide by May on continued US participation in the landmark Paris Agreement limiting global carbon emissions. One day after visiting the Franz Josef Land archipelago in the Arctic, Putin claimed that icebergs had been melting for decades and suggested that global warming was not […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — United States President Donald Trump predicted an upcoming meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping would be “very difficult” Thursday, laying out an adversarial tone ahead of a high-profile summit. “The meeting next week with China will be a very difficult one,” Trump tweeted, in apparent reference to the Mar-a-Lago meeting “We can no longer have massive trade deficits… and job losses. American companies must be prepared to look at other […]
by Hwang SUNGHEE Agence France-Presse SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea’s ousted president Park Geun-Hye was arrested early Friday over the corruption and abuse of power scandal that brought her down. The Seoul Central District Court issued a warrant to arrest Park on charges of bribery, abuse of authority, coercion, and leaking government secrets, after a marathon court hearing the previous day. “It is justifiable and necessary to arrest (Park) as key charges were justified […]
by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France-Presse MIAMI, United States – American astronaut Peggy Whitson made history when she floated outside the International Space Station on Thursday, breaking the record for the most spacewalks by a woman. Whitson, 57, is making her eighth career spacewalk, surpassing the record of seven previously held by American Suni Williams. The spacewalk formally began at 7:29 am (1129 GMT) when Whitson and her NASA colleague Shane Kimbrough switched their spacesuits to […]
