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HONG KONG, China (AFP) — A teenage racing driver who fractured her spine in a horrifying crash at the Macau Grand Prix said Monday she was flying home to Germany for further treatment. Seventeen-year-old Sophia Floersch’s car flew off the track in the Formula Three race earlier this month, catapulting spectacularly over safety barriers before hurtling backwards into a hut housing media and officials. She underwent marathon surgery when doctors battled for more than nine […]
(Eagle News) — Tropical Depression “Tomas” has weakened into a low pressure area. But the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said sea travel remains risky over the northern seaboard of Northern Luzon. “Tomas” said this was due to “rough to very rough seas associated with the ongoing surge of the northeast monsoon.” As of 2 a.m., the center of “Tomas” was located 1,050 kilometers east of Basco, Batanes.
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump said Monday he expected to raise the punitive tariff rates on hundreds of billions in Chinese imports as scheduled next year. Just days ahead of a planned meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump also vowed to put tariffs on all remaining imports from China if the two sides failed to reach a deal, according to The Wall Street Journal. Trump already has imposed tariffs on […]
by Said Betanzos / Yemeli Ortega Agence France Presse TIJUANA, Mexico (AFP) — Mexico deported scores of Central American migrants arrested after hundreds forced their way through a Mexican police blockade and headed for the United States but were met with tear gas and rubber bullets. Around 500 men, women and children, part of a caravan of roughly 5,000 mainly Hondurans who have been trekking toward the US for weeks, scrambled over a rusted metal […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump said on Monday he is “not happy” with General Motors’ decision to cut thousands of jobs and is putting pressure on the auto giant. Trump said at the White House that he wants GM, which announced plans to shut down seven plants, to “get back in there soon. We have a lot of pressure on them.” GM’s announcement came as a shock to the Trump administration, which […]
by Lars Hagberg Agence France Presse OSHAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canadian auto workers walked off the job in protest Monday as General Motors said it would shutter a plant that has been a fixture of Oshawa, Ontario since 1953 — drawing protests from union bosses and the country’s prime minister. News of the pending shutdown came as part of a massive restructuring announced earlier by the US auto giant that includes cutting thousands of jobs […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — General Motors is to announce on Monday the closure of a factory in Canada, putting almost 3,000 jobs at risk, Canadian news media reported. The decision is part of the US automaker’s plans for a comprehensive global restructuring, channel CTV reported Sunday, citing several anonymous sources. Other media, including Radio-Canada/CBC, had similar reports. The plant in Oshawa, about 60 kilometers (40 miles) northeast of Toronto, was built in 1953, according to […]
by Laurent Banguet / with Kerry SHERIDAN in Tampa Agence France Presse PASADENA, United States (AFP) — Cheers and applause erupted at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday as a $993 million unmanned lander, called InSight, touched down on the Red Planet and managed to send back its first picture. The high-drama landing of the waist-high spacecraft capped a nearly seven year journey, from spacecraft design, to launch to eventual touchdown, marking the eighth successful […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, Nov. 26, said a probe of the dealings of Senator Antonio Trillanes’ parents with the government was now underway. “We are investigating quietly ‘yung mga deals sa panahon ng tatay pati ‘yung involved ‘yung nanay. And he [Trillanes] can be very sure na lalabas lahat ‘yan,” the President said in a speech in Davao. He, however, did not elaborate. In previous speeches, the President accused Trillanes’ mother of having […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, Nov. 26, said he would fire another undersecretary or corruption. In a speech in Davao, Duterte said he would do this as soon as he gets back in Manila. He did not say whom, however, he was going to dismiss. The President’s pronouncement came after he fired Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council secretary general Falconi Millar. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said a company had lodged an affidavit before […]
(Eagle News)—The Palace on Monday, Nov. 26, defended Memorandum Order No. 32 from critics, saying it was not a prelude to martial law. “We repeatedly said, if there is any intention, then it should have been declared. But there is none,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said. According to Panelo, the memorandum was issued in the first place to ensure transparency. In response to Senator Panfilo Lacson’s question about why the President had to issue the […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine National Police will deploy its elite Special Action Force squad to Samar and Bicol, based on Memorandum Order No. 32. In a statement, PNP Chief Oscar Albayalde said two companies or almost 300 SAF members will be deployed to those provinces, with four to six officers including the company commander. “Ang isang company, more or less mga nasa 127…12 yun ang size kapag sinabi natin one company. It’s more or less 127 to […]
