Breaking News, Latest Philippines Headlines, World, Entertainment, Politics, Weather & Video News
PARIS, May 12, 2023 (AFP) – Iran on Friday released two French citizens, including one also holding Irish nationality, as Paris urged Tehran to free other foreigners jailed by the Islamic republic. French-Irish citizen Bernard Phelan, held since October, and Frenchman Benjamin Briere, whose ordeal in Iran lasted two years, were freed from their prison in the northeastern city of Mashhad, the French foreign ministry said. They rapidly boarded a special flight to Paris and […]
EL PASO, United States, May 12, 2023 (AFP) – The United States bolted tough new immigration policies into place Friday, setting up an uncertain future for desperate migrants reaching its southern border, as a top official expressed confidence the system will hold. Thousands of people remained in Mexico hoping to enter the United States, as it was not yet clear how the stringent new rules for people crossing the border illegally would be enforced. In […]
ISTANBUL, May 12, 2023 (AFP) – President Recept Tayyip Erdogan on Friday defended Russia’s Vladimir Putin from allegations of meddling in Turkey’s crucial weekend election. Erdogan’s secular rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu on Thursday accused unnamed Russian actors of spreading “deep fakes” and other disinformation aimed at swaying the outcome of Sunday’s vote. The Kremlin “strongly” denied the allegation and Erdogan stood up for Putin at a televised campaign appearance on Friday. “Mr. Kemal is attacking Russia, […]
NEW YORK, May 12, 2023 (AFP) – Named Friday as Elon Musk’s successor as Twitter CEO, Linda Yaccarino is a respected media and advertising executive considered a visionary by some. Yaccarino left her job as head of advertising at NBCUniversal, where she worked for 12 years. Born into a family with Italian roots, Yaccarino has spent her career in television, 20 years of it with the Time Warner group that has since become known as […]
BUENOS AIRES, May 12, 2023 (AFP) – Inflation in Argentina reached 108.8 percent in the 12 months to April, a more than three decade high, the Indec national statistics institute said Friday. Month-on-month, inflation in April was 8.4 percent in Latin America’s third largest economy. Argentina has one of the highest inflation rates in the world. In 2022, it reached 94.8 percent, the country’s highest annual figure since 1991, when it exceeded 171 percent. The […]
BAMAKO (AFP) – The scene is replicated in towns across Mali almost every evening. Plunged into darkness by power cuts, people like Mamadou Haidara and his wife while away the hours sitting and talking, stuck in their sweltering homes. There is no electricity for a fan to freshen the torpid air, for a refrigerator to keep food and drinks cool or even for a charger to power up a dead phone. “I’ve bought quite a […]
PARIS, May 12, 2023 (AFP) – Astronomers said on Friday they have identified the “largest” cosmic explosion ever observed, a fireball 100 times the size of our Solar System that suddenly began blazing in the distant universe more than three years ago. While the astronomers offered what they think is the most likely explanation for the explosion, they emphasised that more research was needed to understand the puzzling phenomenon. The explosion, called AT2021lwx, is not […]
WASHINGTON, May 11, 2023 (AFP) – Crunch talks between US President Joe Biden and senior Republicans have been postponed until early next week to allow staff to continue working, the White House said in a statement Thursday. A source familiar with the meetings between Democratic and Republican leaders said this was a positive development and that talks between the two sides were progressing, making Friday not the right moment for the leaders to meet. But […]
MOSCOW, May 11, 2023 (AFP) – Russia late Thursday denied claims by pro-Moscow bloggers and the head of the Wagner mercenary group that Ukrainian troops had made a breakthrough in the flashpoint city of Bakhmut. A senior Ukrainian military official said earlier this week that Russian forces had dropped back from some areas near Bakhmut after limited counter-attacks by Kyiv’s forces around the eastern city. The head of Russia’s Wagner private military company Yevgeny Prigozhin, […]
JOHANNESBURG, May 11, 2023 (AFP) – The US envoy to South Africa on Thursday accused the country of having covertly provided arms to Russia, a charge that drew an angry rebuke from Pretoria. Ambassador Reuben Brigety told a media briefing the US believed weapons and ammunition had been laden onto a Russian freighter that docked at a Cape Town naval base in December. “We are confident that weapons were loaded onto that vessel and I […]
SAN FRANCISCO, May 11, 2023 (AFP) – Elon Musk on Thursday said that he has hired someone to replace him as boss of Twitter and its newly named X Corporation parent. “Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO for X/Twitter,” Musk said in a tweet, adding that she would start in the job in about six weeks. Twitter users in December voted to oust owner Musk as chief executive in an unscientific […]
WASHINGTON, May 11, 2023 (AFP) – US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi met in Vienna this week, Washington and Beijing announced Thursday, as the two powers seek to maintain communication amid soaring tensions, especially over Taiwan. The two held eight hours of talks stretching over Wednesday and Thursday in the Austrian capital, ending an unofficial pause in high-level contacts since the United States shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon […]
