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A severe heat wave hit the southern portion of India, with the death toll now at 220. Temperatures reach 47 degrees Celsius and many Indian states are already suffering from water shortage despite the fact that the dry season just started in the said country. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/PQkflixQkl8
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took aim at Republican rivals saying she is looking forward to debating with them about the economy if she becomes the Democratic nominee. “Pay close attention,” to what Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz are saying, she told supporters in Pennsylvania. “They want to go back to trickle-down economics on steroids,” she said.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says his rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich should get out of the race because they “have no path to victory.”
British astronaut Tim Peake to join runners for the weekend London Marathon, completing the grueling race on a treadmill on board the International Space Station.
BEIJING, Chia (AFP) — Beijing will start construction on a South China Sea islet within the Philippines’ claimed exclusive economic zone this year, as it seeks to project its power in the disputed waters, Hong Kong media reported Monday. China will establish an outpost on Scarborough Shoal, 230 kilometres (143 miles) off the Philippine coast, the South China Morning Post newspaper cited an unnamed source close to the People’s Liberation Army as saying. Beijing claims […]
GAMBELA,Ethiopia (AFP) — Clashes between different ethnic groups in west Ethiopia have left 14 dead, while UN and MSF offices were targeted by angry protesters, local security service sources said. The violence was sparked after an NGO car with an Ethiopian driver ran over and killed two children from the Nuer ethnic group in a camp for South Sudanese refugees on Friday, the sources told AFP. In response, a group of refugees attacked Ethiopians living […]
(Reuters) WASHINGTON Republican White House rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich announced a deal on Sunday to stay out of each other’s way in some upcoming state primaries in hopes of blocking front-runner Donald Trump from winning the party’s presidential nomination. Cruz’s campaign said in a statement he would focus on the Indiana and give Kasich a clearer shot in Oregon and New Mexico, states where the Ohio governor expects to do well. Kasich, […]
by Michael Mathes BRIDEPORT,United States (AFP) — Donald Trump and his presidential campaign pushed back Sunday against accusations by rivals in both parties that the celebrity billionaire is a political fraud who has been misleading American voters. The Republican frontrunner’s new senior advisor Paul Manafort raised eyebrows when he told Republican heavyweights at a closed-door meeting that Trump has been playing a “part” in front of rally audiences and that the role was “evolving” into […]
by André VIOLLAZ The UN Security Council echoed international condemnation Sunday of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test by North Korea, while US President Barack Obama dismissed Pyongyang’s offer of a nuclear moratorium. Saturday’s test, personally monitored by supreme leader Kim Jong-Un, was the latest in a series of provocative moves by Pyongyang that have further fuelled tensions on the divided Korean peninsula following the North’s fourth nuclear test back in January. There are growing […]
RIYADH,Saudi Arabia (AFP) — More than 800 members of Al-Qaeda were killed in a military offensive against the group in the south of Yemen, the Saudi-led Arab coalition operating in the country said Monday. “The operation resulted… in the death of more than 800 Al-Qaeda members and some of their leaders, while some others fled,” coalition commanders said in a statement published by SPA, the official Saudi news agency. © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
by Jim Mannion WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) –Bernie Sanders fended off pressure Sunday to bow out of the race for the White House, as his rival, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, weighs potential runningmates. The New York Times reported that Clinton’s advisers and allies have begun extensive discussions on a potential vice presidential candidate, and are putting together a list of 15 to 20 prospects. Clinton has described what sort of person would fit the bill, […]
https://youtu.be/t5qqc0TSDBU by Simon Sturdee VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — Austria’s government was licking its wounds Monday after a historic debacle that saw the opposition anti-immigrant far-right triumph in a presidential ballot two years before the next scheduled general election. According to preliminary results, Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party (FPOe) came a clear first with 36 percent of the vote, while candidates from the two governing parties failed to even make it into a runoff on […]
