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By Agence France Presse VATICAN CITY (AFP) — Survivors of clerical paedophilia related their traumatic experiences to the world’s top bishops on Thursday at a landmark summit at the Vatican on the protection of minors. Here are some extracts from their video testimonies, the transcripts of which were provided by the Vatican, without identifying the speakers. – Victim from South America – “The first thing they did was to treat me as a liar, […]
(Eagle News) — Three earthquakes struck Davao Oriental on Friday, Feb. 22, in a span of 18 minutes. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the first earthquake struck 72 kilometers southeast of Governor Generoso at 5 a.m. It had a depth of focus of 41 kilometers. Six minutes later, a quake, with a depth of focus of 28 kilometers, hit 8 kilometers northeast of Baganga. This was followed by another earthquake 23 kilometers […]
by Ivan Couronne Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A rocket will take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday night carrying Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft, which aims to make history twice: as the first private-sector landing on the Moon, and the first from the Jewish state. The 585-kilogram (1,290-pound) Beresheet, which means “Genesis” in Hebrew, is to lift off at 8:45 pm (0145 GMT Friday) atop a Falcon 9 rocket from the […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is still monitoring a weather disturbance outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility as it intensified into a typhoon on Friday, Feb. 22. PAGASA said “Wutip” intensified from a severe tropical storm as of 3 a.m., and was located 2400 kilometers east of Mindanao. It is packing maximum sustained winds of up to 130 kilometers per hour near the center, and gustiness of up to […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — North Korea has asked UN aid agencies for help to address a looming food crisis after figures forecast a sharp drop in crop production for this year, a UN spokesman said Thursday. Pyongyang has told the United Nations that it is facing a shortfall of 1.4 million tons in food production this year, including crops of rice, wheat, potato and soybean. “The government has requested assistance from international humanitarian […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The world’s largest bee — a giant insect roughly the size of a human thumb — has been rediscovered in a remote part of Indonesia in its first sighting in nearly 40 years, researchers said Thursday. Despite its conspicuous size, no one had observed Wallace’s giant bee — discovered in the 19th century by British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and nicknamed the “flying bulldog” — in the wild since 1981, the […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A 5.5-magnitude earthquake jolted Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido Thursday but there was no tsunami warning and no reports of injuries or damage to property, authorities said. The quake struck at 9:22 pm local time (1222 GMT) at a depth of 41kilometers (25 miles), according to the US Geological Survey. The epicenter was around 55 km (35 miles) southeast of the city of Sapporo, the USGS added. The Japanese meteorological agency confirmed […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Global stocks were mixed Thursday following lackluster economic data as high-stakes trade talks between the US and China resumed in Washington. Frankfurt was a touch higher at the close and Paris ended flat, while London lost nearly one percent, and US stocks fell. Fresh economic data showed manufacturing in the eurozone and Japan shrank in February, which was seen as evidence of global economic sluggishness amid the US-China trade […]
by Kyoko HASEGAWA Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A Japanese probe is expected to land on a distant asteroid Friday, aiming to blast a “bullet” into the surface to collect clues about the origins of Earth and the solar system. The Hayabusa2 probe is scheduled to touch down at 8:25 am local time (2325 GMT Thursday) on the Ryugu asteroid, some 300 million kilometers from the Earth, according to officials at the Japan […]
by Maria Isabel Sanchez Agence France Presse CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — President Nicolas Maduro ordered the closure of Venezuela’s border with Brazil on Thursday in an increasingly fraught power struggle with Juan Guaido, the opposition leader spearheading efforts to bring humanitarian aid into the country despite a military blockade. Guaido set out in a convoy of vehicles to personally pick up US aid being stockpiled on the other side of the Colombian border, defying Maduro’s […]
WILLEMSTAD, CuracaoA plane carrying food and medical aid from the United States landed on the Caribbean island of Curacao Thursday en route for Venezuela, whose government has vowed to block it. AFP reporters saw the jet land at the airport in Curacao, one of the focal points of a volatile standoff between Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and self-declared head of state Juan Guaido. A dozen Venezuelan opposition supporters cheered and sang their national anthem as the […]
by Luc Olinga with Chris Lefkow in Washington Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Nike was in damage control mode on Thursday after US college basketball star Zion Williamson suffered a knee injury when his shoe shredded during a marquee game attended among others by Barack Obama and Spike Lee. The Duke University forward, expected to be the top player taken in June’s NBA draft, was injured just 36 seconds into Wednesday […]
