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QUEZON City, Philippines – President Barack Obama of the United States of America will not apologize to Japan for the US bombing of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Obama is set to visit Japan this month for a Group of Seven meeting and part of his itinerary is a visit to Hiroshima. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
QUEZON City, Philippines – Freed American prisoner, Kenneth Bae, related his experiences as a prisoner of North Korea for two years. Bae was sentenced with fifteen years of hard labor last 2013. He said that he was forced to work in a mine from eight in the morning to 6 in the evening and was also subjected to verbal abuse by North Korean officials. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by […]
TORONTO, Canada (Reuters) — Britain’s Prince Harry and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dropped the puck for sledge hockey athletes during the 2017 Invictus Games media launch in Toronto, Ontario, on Monday (May 2). Prince Harry began the countdown to the 2017 Invictus games, meeting athletes and trying out some of the events himself during his visit to Toronto. The Invictus Games are the only international adaptive sporting event for injured active and veteran service […]
by Sophie ESTIENNE SAN FRANCISCO ,United States (AFP) — The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art reopens in mid-May after an ambitious $305 million expansion and facelift that aims to rival the world-class art spaces of New York, Paris or London. The revamped museum will be unveiled May 14 following a three-year upgrade entrusted to the Norwegian architecture firm Snohetta — best known for the dramatic new Alexandria Library in Egypt — that included more […]
(Reuters) Hundreds of tourists and a handful of emotional Cuban-Americans arrived on the first U.S. cruise ship to sail to Havana in more than 50 years on Monday (April 4), spilling onto the cobbled streets of the old city where they were warmly greeted by residents. It was another first for the two countries since U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro announced a historic rapprochement in December 2014, and comes weeks […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — The head of Chinese search giant Baidu has been summoned by the country’s authorities, reports said Tuesday, as the firm faced a barrage of criticism over the death of a student who used it to search for a cancer treatment. Wei Zexi, a 21-year-old college student, had already been diagnosed as having a terminal soft tissue disease when his family found an experimental immunotherapy treatment via a Baidu search. He spent […]
by Damian WROCLAVSKY BRASILIA , Brazil (AFP) — Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff greets the Olympic flame on Tuesday in what could be her last big public appearance as president if she is impeached. The arrival of the flame in Brasilia from an ancient Greek temple via Switzerland will start a three-month countdown to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Brazil’s big chance to shine on the global stage. The flame will be met with indigenous rituals, dangled […]
TOKYO , Japan (AFP) — Japan will lease military aircraft to the Philippines in another sign of deepening security ties between the two former foes to counter Beijing’s increasing regional influence. The agreement was made Monday afternoon during telephone talks between Japan’s Defence Minister Gen Nakatani and his Philippine counterpart Voltaire Gazmin, the ministry said. Tensions in the South China Sea — through which one third of the world’s oil passes — have mounted in […]
The United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR, announced the appointment of Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett as a global Goodwill Ambassador on Monday (May 2). The announcement comes as Blanchett returns from a mission to Jordan to witness the ongoing humanitarian operation for people displaced by the conflict in Syria. She met Syrian refugee families to hear first-hand about the perilous journeys they had undertaken and the daily challenges they face. “I am deeply proud to […]
by Michael Mathes WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — Donald Trump is aiming for a thumping victory Tuesday in Indiana to squelch lingering doubts about his viability as the Republican presidential nominee and pivot toward presumptive Democratic standard-bearer Hillary Clinton. The “stop Trump” movement faces a moment of truth in the Midwestern state, as the campaign of chief challenger Ted Cruz struggles to win over voters ahead of its potentially decisive primary. Polls open at […]
GUATEMALA CITY ,Guatemala (AFP) — Security forces on Monday launched raids on one of the biggest gangs in Guatemala, arresting 72 suspected members of a cell specializing in extortion, officials said. More than 120 raids were carried out by nearly 300 law enforcement officers and prosecutors in the south, center and northeast of the country. “The operation is focused on fighting the scourge of extortion,” the chief state prosecutor, Thelma Aldana, told a news conference. […]
PARIS , France (AFP) — Anti-Muslim acts in France tripled in 2015, with peaks in activity coming after two sets of deadly terror attacks, a government advisory commission said Monday. A total of 429 anti-Muslim threats or hate crimes were reported last year, up from 133 in 2014, according to a report from France’s National Human Rights Commission (CNCDH). Two “peaks” in abuse came after jihadists attacked satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in January 2015 and […]
