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MANILA, Oct 25, 2023 (AFP) – Five Myanmar nationals asked the Philippines on Wednesday to investigate alleged war crimes committed by 10 serving or former members of Myanmar’s military against the mainly Chin minority. Filipino lawyers representing the Myanmar nationals told reporters they lodged the “landmark” criminal complaint against junta chief Min Aung Hlaing and nine others at the Department of Justice in Manila. They asked prosecutors to open an investigation into alleged war crimes […]
MOSCOW, Oct 25, 2023 (AFP) – Russia claimed Wednesday it was exhausting Ukraine’s army, 20 months into a conflict in which neither side has made recent significant gains. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu made the comments during a visit to east Ukraine, the defence ministry said Wednesday. “The situation today suggests the enemy has fewer and fewer opportunities. And they will continue to be reduced, thanks exclusively to your combat work,” Shoigu told Russian soldiers. […]
By Xinqi SU and Holmes CHAN HONG KONG, Oct 25, 2023 (AFP) – Hong Kong leader John Lee used his policy address on Wednesday to sound the alarm on the threat of “soft resistance” — a vague term used by Chinese politicians to signal a new chapter in their crackdown against dissent. The phrase has no clear definition nor is it included in the city’s laws, but this week it appeared in a guilty verdict […]
ACAPULCO, Mexico, Oct 25, 2023 (AFP) – A major Category 5 hurricane made landfall near Mexico’s Pacific beach resort of Acapulco early Wednesday, threatening to wreak “catastrophic” damage, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. Hurricane Otis was packing maximum sustained winds of 165 miles (265 kilometers) per hour when it came ashore, the NHC said. The storm had rapidly strengthened to the most powerful category of the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale as it neared land. […]
GENEVA, Oct 25, 2023 (AFP) – The number of people worldwide living in forced displacement from their homes is estimated to have exceeded 114 million, the United Nations said Wednesday — a record figure. “The number of people displaced by war, persecution, violence and human rights violations globally is likely to have exceeded 114 million at the end of September,” UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said in a statement. The main drivers in the first […]
Says volcano has entered period of “low-level unrest” (Eagle News)–The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology has raised the alert level of Bulusan volcano. In an advisory, PHIVOLCS said the alert level was raised to 1 after it entered a period of “low-level unrest” with its sustained volcanic earthquakes that began on Oct. 14. Since then, PHIVOLCS said a total of 121 volcanic earthquakes have been detected. Of these, it said 37 were volcano-tectonic quakes […]
(Eagle News)–President Bongbong Marcos on Wednesday, Oct. 25, vowed to revive the agri-fishery sector, which the government said has been left behind for decades. He said a budget of P85.88 billion has been allotted for the modernization of sector in 2023, while there was a proposed budget of P92.4 billion pesos for 2024. To ensure the sector’s growth, the President said the government has to begin by assessing the needs of Filipino farmers and fisherfolk. […]
By Glenda KWEK JIUQUAN, China, Oct 25, 2023 (AFP) – China will send its youngest-ever crew of astronauts to the Tiangong space station this week, officials said Wednesday, as Beijing pursues plans for a manned mission to the Moon by the end of the decade. Tiangong is the crown jewel of Beijing’s space programme, which has also landed robotic rovers on Mars and the Moon and made China the third country to put humans in […]
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Oct 25, 2023 (AFP) – Nearly 275,000 people in Bangladesh fled to shelters on Wednesday as Cyclone Hamoon barrelled into the southeastern coast, killing at least two people, officials said. Hamoon is the latest major storm to batter Bangladesh’s coast, with the low-lying South Asian nation witnessing an increasing number of severe weather events as climate change fuels bigger and deadlier storms. Power lines were cut and intense rainfall lashed coastal villages […]
Nikola Jokic delivered a dominant triple-double performance as the Denver Nuggets launched the defense of their NBA championship crown with a season-opening 119-107 victory over LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday. On a night which saw Nuggets players receive their championship rings as the team raised its first banner in franchise history, Denver tipped off the 2023-2024 season with a display which suggested they will once again be one of the teams […]
By Hayder Indhar with Laure Al-Khoury in Baghdad AL-AYYACH, Iraq, Oct 25, 2023 (AFP) – A worried Iraqi father points at a blister on the face of his one-year-old daughter, the result of a parasitic infection carried by sandflies in her remote village. “It’s a skin disease, the ‘Baghdad boil’,” Najeh Farhan said of the pustule on Tiba’s mouth as the toddler played with a pacifier at their home in the drought-hit province of Al-Diwaniyah. […]
