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MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — A United Nations rights rapporteur told AFP Monday she intended to visit the Philippines to investigate President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly war on crime, but was seeking security guarantees for people she planned to speak with. Duterte last week said he would allow UN and EU experts to look into the thousands of killings since he took office on June 30, however he also challenged them to face him in public debates. […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — A massive fire that burned for more than 24 hours aboard a fuel tanker ship loaded with thousands of barrels of oil on board was put out Sunday without having caused spills, a Mexican state-owned oil company said. The 31 crew members of the oil firm Pemex’s Burgos tanker were safely evacuated. The vessel, which burned just off the eastern port city of Veracruz, was carrying more than 160,000 barrels […]
Residents were told to evacuate certain parts of Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Sunday (September 25) evening due to the risk of flooding from the rising Cedar River. “We really need you to evacuate later today. It’s important for your safety and also important for the safety of the emergency personnel. We do not want to put them in harm’s way,” said Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett. Residents helped each other fill sandbags around the area, […]
GOTHENBURG, Sweden (AFP) — Four men were injured, one critically, late Sunday in the centre of Sweden’s southern city of Malmo, in what police said appeared to be a targeted attack by gunmen riding scooters. The shooting broke out shortly before 7pm (1700 GMT) in a street in the southern city’s Fosie district. Police in the area evacuated one of the wounded to the city hospital. “The three other injured were able to make their […]
On September 24 to October 1, 2016, their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge will be visiting the Province of British Columbia and the Yukon Territory, both in Canada. The Duke and Duchess, Prince William and Kate, will be meeting British Columbians highlighting Great Bear Rainforest conservation, upgrading methods to addressing mental illness and attending an event celebrating young leaders in Canadian arts and culture, to name a few out of their […]
(Reuters) By David Brunnstrom | UNITED NATIONS Philippines Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay told the United Nations on Saturday his country’s new president, Rodrigo Duterte, had an “unprecedented” mandate and the world should not interfere in his crackdown on crime. Addressing the annual U.N. General Assembly, Yasay said the Duterte government was “determined to free the Philippines from corrupt and other stagnating practices, including the manufacture, distribution and use of illicit drugs. “Our actions, however, […]
(REUTERS) By Matt Mills McKnight BURLINGTON, Wash. The gunman believed to have opened fire with a rifle at a Washington state mall, killing five people, was captured on Saturday one day after the attack, authorities said. Authorities identified the shooter as Arcan Cetin, 20, a resident of Oak Harbor, Washington. Police said he was taken into custody without incident in Oak Harbor, some 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Burlington where the shooting occurred […]
(REUTERS) Nearly a week of protests over the police killing of a black man in Charlotte, North Carolina showed no signs of abating on Sunday, after police released videos showing the victim being shot but did not answer the question of whether he had a gun. Hundreds marched through the center of Charlotte on a fifth night of demonstrations that stretched into Sunday morning, including white and black families protesting police violence. One […]
New Delhi, India (AFP) by Alexandre MARCHAND The less-than-supersonic sale of French Rafale fighter jets to India has highlighted the obstacles facing foreign arms firms seeking to do business with the world’s biggest weapons importer. India has signed a series of key defence deals under Prime Minister Narendra Modi as part of a $100 billion upgrade of its Soviet-era military hardware, making it an attractive proposition for arms exporters. But a series of corruption scandals […]
An artistic-functional system comprised of metro stops which house approximately 200 works of art created by more than 90 internationally acclaimed artists. Designed by the Spanish Firm Oscar Tusquets Blanca, at 50 meters deep, the station extends below the ground water and is the deepest metro station built on Line 1 to date. One of Metro Napoli’s Metro Art Stations, it was designed around the themes of water and light. Robby Malabanan reports EBC Italy […]
(REUTERS) Four people have been shot dead at a mall in northwest Washington state and the gunman has fled the scene, police said on social media. The shooting occurred at about 7:30 p.m. local time Friday at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington, about 65 miles north of Seattle, Washington State Patrol spokesman Mark Francis said in a Twitter post. A local hospital told a CBS affiliate that it has received one causality from […]
(REUTERS) A gun recovered at the scene of the fatal shooting of a black man by police in Charlotte, North Carolina, was loaded and had fingerprints matching those of the victim, CNN reported on Friday as the man’s family released its own video of the encounter. The family of shooting victim Keith Scott, whose death has sparked three days of protests, continued to urge officials to release their own recordings of the slaying. […]
