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By Danny KEMP WASHINGTON, Nov 13, 2023 (AFP) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo pressed US President Joe Biden during a visit to the White House on Monday to do more to end “atrocities” in Gaza and help bring about a ceasefire. The Israel-Hamas war overshadowed the talks, which had been meant to showcase an upgrade in ties between Indonesia and the United States ahead of Biden’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week. “Indonesia […]
NEW YORK, Nov 14, 2023 (AFP) – Jayson Tatum and Kristaps Porzingis led a second-half fightback as the Boston Celtics overpowered the New York Knicks 114-98 in the NBA on Monday. Tatum finished with 35 points – including 17 in the fourth quarter – while Porzingis added 21 to fire the Celtics to their eighth win of the season. “First half, they were scoring at will, but second half we started making stops,” Tatum said […]
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 14, 2023 (AFP) – President Joe Biden’s administration signaled Monday it would postpone a draft of an Asia trade pact that had been set to be unveiled at a summit in San Francisco, after facing domestic criticism. Biden, welcoming 20 other members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum to San Francisco where he will meet on the sidelines with Chinese President Xi Jinping, had been expected to announce substantial progress on […]
By Helen ROWE LONDON, Nov 14, 2023 (AFP) – Charles III turns 75 on Tuesday, showing no sign of a let-up in activity just over a year since he became king after the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II. Halfway through his eighth decade, the British head of state is due to spend the day carrying out public engagements followed by a private dinner at his London residence. The lifelong environmentalist will use the […]
(Eagle News)–A 4.7-magnitude earthquake struck off Sarangani on Tuesday, Nov. 14. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake hit at 8:10 a.m. The epicenter was 19 kilometers southwest of Maitum. The depth of focus was 26 kilometers. The following intensities and instrumental intensities were reported: Intensity Intensity III – City of General Santos Instrumental Intensities: Intensity V – Kiamba, Sarangani Intensity IV – City of General Santos Intensity III – Pikit, Cotabato; […]
(Eagle News)–The weather disturbance off Palau outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility has weakened into a low pressure area. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said the former tropical depression was now located 1620 km east of southeastern Mindanao and may meander around its present position in the next 24 hours. Should the weather disturbance redevelop within or enter PAR as a tropical depression, PAGASA said the domestic name “Kabayan” will be assigned […]
Images of faces generated by artificial intelligence (AI) can now appear more real than pictures of real people — as long as they are white, a study said on Monday. AI is now so good at depicting white people that the images are “hyper-real”, said the report in the journal Psychological Science. But AI tends to depict people of other ethnicities with white features because the data used to train the algorithms is biased, said […]
By Luján Scarpinelli SAO PAULO, Nov 14, 2023 (AFP) – The year was 1987, Brazil was just exiting a long military dictatorship, and Indigenous writer Ailton Krenak stood before the country’s constitutional assembly in a pristine white suit, smearing black paint across his face. “Indigenous peoples have watered every scrap of Brazil’s eight million square kilometers with their blood,” the handsome young activist defiantly told the assembly, using a traditional mourning ritual to protest centuries […]
By Adel Zaanoun with Sarah Benhaida in Jerusalem Hundreds of people stranded in Gaza’s biggest hospital were enduring “inhuman” conditions on Monday while heavy fighting raged around them, a doctor inside said, as US President Joe Biden urged Israel to “protect” the facility. Witnesses reported intense air strikes, with tanks and armoured vehicles just meters from the gate of Al-Shifa hospital, under which Israel argues Hamas has buried its military headquarters — a charge denied […]
A 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO sports car sold for $51.7 million in New York on Monday, making it the second most expensive car ever sold at auction, Sotheby’s said. The bright red roadster had been the property of an American collector for the past 38 years, and its auction price was surpassed only by that of a Mercedes 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe that went for 135 million euros in 2022, the auction house said. That […]
WASHINGTON, Nov 13, 2023 (AFP) – The United States Secret Service said Monday that an agent — reportedly assigned to President Joe Biden’s granddaughter — opened fire during an attempted break-in of one of its unmarked vehicles on a Washington street. It was not immediately clear whether Naomi Biden, 29, was in the vicinity during the incident in the wealthy Georgetown area. “On Nov. 12 around 11:58 pm…, Secret Service agents encountered possibly three individuals […]
SYDNEY, Nov 13, 2023 (AFP) – Major ports handling 40 percent of Australia’s freight trade have reopened, operator DP World said Monday, three days after they were crippled by a cyberattack. DP World cut its systems from the internet when the attack was detected Friday, preventing trucks from unloading or picking up cargo at ports in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Fremantle. “DP World Australia is pleased to announce that operations resumed at the company’s ports […]
