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Australia on Thursday (January 14) said that it had denied a request from the United States for a greater military commitment against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq made in the wake of the November attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. Australia, a staunch ally of the United States and its battle against Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria, has been one of the largest contributors to the U.S.-led bombing campaign against the […]
The saga of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who was captured on Friday (January 8) in Mexico, is a good fit for one Los Angeles clothing company. Guzman was photographed in a shirt from apparel firm Barabas shaking hands with Sean Penn in an image accompanying the actor’s recent Rolling Stone article about the fugitive. Barabas quickly capitalized on the drug kingpin’s taste for the abstract-design shirt that features bright blue stripes, posting on […]
The northeastern French ski resort of Les Deux Alpes was on Wednesday night (January 13) in shock after three people died in an avalanche late in the afternoon, and after the judicial authority announced an investigation was being opened to determine responsibilities, as the killed and injured skiers were on a closed slope. The avalanche hit a school group of 19 teenagers and one of their teachers from a high school in Lyon, and other […]
The Place de la Republique, a square in Paris, was lit up in the colors of the French flag on Sunday night (January 10) to commemorate victims of Islamist militant attacks last year. Hundreds of people, including Parisians and sympathizers from around France and other countries trooped to the square for the event. It capped a week of commemoration events, one year after two brothers shot editorial staff members of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. France […]
A few dozen relatives attended the funeral for Nashat Melhem on Tuesday (January 12), wanted for a January 1 gun rampage in Tel Aviv, who was killed in a shootout with police last week, ending a week-long manhunt. Israel returned Melhem’s body to his family who buried him immediately afterwards in a small funeral in his northern Israeli hometown of Arara. His father who condemned the Tel Aviv attack and called on the fugitive to […]
South Korea fired warning shots on Wednesday (January 13) near an “unidentified flying object” over its border with North Korea, the South Korean defence ministry said, while a news agency said it was a suspected North Korean drone. The object’s appearance follows North Korea’s claimed hydrogen nuclear bomb test last week, which angered Beijing, Pyongyang’s sole major ally, as well as Seoul and Washington. “This afternoon around 14:10 (0510GMT) an unidentified flying object intruded the […]
Turks on Wednesday (January 13) were worried by the economic repercussions of a suicide bomb attack that killed at least 10 people, most of them German tourists, in Istanbul’s historic heart on Tuesday (January 13). All of those killed in Sultanahmet square, near the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia – major tourist sites in the centre of one of the world’s most visited cities – were foreigners, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, blaming the […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for an expansion of the size and power of his country’s nuclear arsenal, state media said on Wednesday (January 13), a week after a nuclear test that drew condemnation from its neighbours and the United States. Last week’s nuclear test was North Korea’s fourth, although the United States and experts doubt the North’s claim that it was of a more powerful hydrogen bomb, as the blast was of […]
Afghan security forces exchanged fire with gunmen barricaded in a house near the Pakistan consulate in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Wednesday (January 13) after a suicide bomber blew himself up, officials said. At least six people were killed and 11 wounded in the suicide attack and subsequent fighting, they said. The attack on the consulate, which comes amid efforts to restart the stalled peace process with the Taliban and ease diplomatic tensions between […]
Vice President Jejomar Binay went to the United Arab Emirates to meet with officials of said country as well as with the overseas Filipino workers in the said country to check on their condition. Binay served as Presidential Adviser on OFWs before resigning from the cabinet June of last year. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
Fire crews were called in to tackle a fire on Monday (January 11) at a tyre yard that saw 150,000 up in flames, creating a smoke plume visible from Melbourne’s central business district kilometers away. Staff from the yard and the nearby industrial area were evacuated as the Metropolitan Fire Brigade deployed dozens of trucks with more than 100 firefighters tackling the blaze from the ground, local media reported. Firefighters on the ground struggled struggled […]
China said on Wednesday (January 13) its exports for 2015 dropped 1.8 percent while imports dropped 13.2 percent in yuan-denominated terms, both much less than economists had expected but still likely consigning the economy to its weakest annual growth in 25 years. “Exports decreased by 1.8 percent to 14.14 trillion yuan ($2.2 trillion). Imports dropped by 13.2 percent to 10.45 trillion yuan ($1.6 trillion). Trade surplus increased by 56.7 percent to 3.69 trillion yuan ($561 […]
