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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korean authorities are failing to properly tackle the country’s widespread digital sex crimes against women, which have a devastating impact on victims, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report said Wednesday. South Korea is the world’s 12th largest economy and a leading technological power, but remains a male-dominated society with a poor record on women’s rights. Digital sex crimes, or the sharing of intimate pictures or video without permission, […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1XUG6_Q3eo Los Angeles County is in celebratory mode as California State fully reopens. In North Hills, Maricar Borja shares with us county’s health officials’ reminders for Angelenos and how residents feel about this milestone in this Eagle News America episode on June 15. (Eagle News Service)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LcnLWp-BAo It’s official, the Golden State has fully reopened. What does this mean? In Sacramento, bureau chief Angel Membrere has this report in this Eagle News America episode. There’s no need anymore for social distancing, and those fully vaccinated are no longer required to wear masks in California. “Today is the day to celebrate. Today is the day to reconnect,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said. He also said that people still have to […]
https://youtu.be/FnPFoIXH1NI In Canada, the various waiting lists for those awaiting priority surgery have grown long because of the pandemic’s impact. In Alberta, Canada bureau chief Thomas Likness reports in the Eagle News America episode on Wednesday, June 16, 2021. He also talks about the latest vaccination updates in Canada as the country leads the world in the percentage of the population having their first dose of the vaccine. Latest data showed that close to […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s remote Maluku islands on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said, but there was no tsunami warning. The shallow quake hit at 1:43 pm local time (0443 GMT) in the Banda Sea about 70 kilometres (44 miles) southeast of Amahai on the island of Seram. Shallow quakes tend to do more damage than deep ones, but there were no immediate reports […]
by Julie CAPELLE THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Britain’s Karim Khan starts Wednesday as prosecutor of the International Criminal Court with a daunting caseload including a probe into Israel and the Palestinians, the most politically fraught file in the tribunal’s history. Khan replaces Gambia’s Fatou Bensouda, who dramatically extended the ICC’s reach during her nine-year tenure but suffered a series of high-profile failures, including the acquittal of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo. The 51-year-old […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Kim Jong Un has admitted that North Korea’s food situation is “tense”, state media reported Wednesday, sounding the alarm in a country that suffered a devastating famine in the 1990s in which hundreds of thousands died. The impoverished country, which is under multiple sets of international sanctions over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes, has long struggled to feed itself, suffering chronic food shortages. And last year the coronavirus […]
CUCUTA, Colombia (AFP) — A car bomb blast inside an army base in the Colombian city of Cucuta wounded 36 people Tuesday, officials said, blaming the attack to ELN guerillas. The initial theory is that members of the National Liberation Army (ELN), the country’s last recognized guerrilla group, were behind the attack, Defense minister Diego Molano said, as he condemned the “terrorist act.” Involvement of FARC guerrillas that refused to sign a 2016 peace agreement […]
by Andrew LEESON DUBBO, Australia (AFP) — After surviving years of crippling drought, farmers in eastern Australia are locked in a months-long battle with hordes of mice that are pouring through fields and devouring hard-earned crops. Farmer Col Tink uses a broom to skittle hundreds of roving mice toward a makeshift industrial trap — essentially a large tub of water where they drown. It is a brutally simple attempt to slow the plague that has […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan said a record 28 Chinese military aircraft including fighter jets and nuclear-capable bombers flew into its defence zone on Tuesday, as Beijing hit out at international criticism of its military posturing. The incursion came a day after NATO said China’s increasingly aggressive military goals threatened international order — and after G7 leaders issued a landmark statement urging peace in the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan’s defense ministry said it scrambled its own […]
by Françoise KADRI / Clare BYRNE PARIS, France (AFP) — France on Tuesday expanded its Covid-19 inoculation drive to children aged 12 and over in a bid to achieve herd immunity and slow the spread of variants, including the Delta strain behind a surge of cases in the United Kingdom. The jabs are not compulsory for children and have no bearing on whether they can attend school or go on holiday in France. But as […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca on Tuesday revealed it had hit a setback in trials of a treatment for Covid-19 symptoms. The drug, made from a combination of two antibodies, failed its main goal to treat symptoms in exposed patients, the company said in a statement. The treatment has been undergoing phase 3 or final-stage clinical trials to assess its safety and efficacy. AstraZeneca said that 1,121 unvaccinated adults had been exposed […]
