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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday warned that soldiers deployed to the Mexican border could shoot Central American migrants who throw stones at them while attempting to cross illegally. Trump told journalists at the White House that a group of several thousand migrants walking through Mexico towards the US border had thrown rocks “viciously and violently” at Mexican police. “We’re not going to put up with that. They want to […]
by Catherine TRIOMPHE Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Thousands of Google employees joined a coordinated worldwide walkout Thursday to protest the US tech giant’s handling of sexual harassment, staging protests from Singapore to London to New York to the company’s California campus. The “Google Walkout For Real Change” account that sprang up on Twitter on Wednesday called for employees and contractors to leave their workplaces at 11:10 am local time […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte urged his officials to provide water and food to those areas severely affected by typhoon Rosita (international name Yutu) as he directed the “return to normalcy as soon as possible” of the affected areas. Duterte surveyed the areas damaged by the typhoon’s onslaught, and conducted an aerial surveillance along with his officials. In a situation briefing in Isabela on Thursday, Nov. 1, the President noted the “extensive” damage in Northern […]
MARYLAND (Eagle News) — As midterm elections draw near, Prince George’s County Board of Elections in Maryland is in its extensive preparations for the 2018 gubernatorial elections. Tasked with the supervision of all county, state and federal elections in Prince George’s County, the board aims for an orderly electoral process. This finds support from more than 3,500 election judges who will fulfill duties in the polling places to ensure fair and accessible elections. Election judges […]
EDMONTON, Alberta (Eagle News) — A car collision on the corner of 94th street and 137th avenue involving two cars has caused roadblocks. According to sources, the collision was caused by cars trying to beat the red light. There were no fatalities and everyone involved has been taken to the hospital. (Jonah Lopez, EBC Edmonton Correspondent, Eagle News Service)
(Eagle News) –Typhoon Rosita (international name Yutu) has left at least 15 persons dead, even as officials expect this number to rise as more bodies are found in Northern Luzon which was badly hit by the tropical cyclone. The fatalities were from Region 3 or Central Luzon, Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and Southern Tagalog or CALABARZON. The number of injured at three are also expected to rise. The number of missing was also listed […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — One black box from a crashed Lion Air jet has been recovered, the head of Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee said Thursday, which could be critical to establishing why the brand new plane fell out of the sky. “We found one of the black boxes,” Soerjanto Tjahjono told AFP. “We don’t know yet whether it’s the FDR (flight data recorder) or CVR (cockpit voice recorder).” The devices record information about […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Google parent Alphabet on Wednesday confirmed that an executive accused of sexual harassment left the company without an exit package as tension over its handling of such matters heightened. Word that Rich DeVaul, a director at X lab devoted to “moonshots” such as internet service from balloons, was out came with reports that women employees were organizing a walk-out on Thursday to protest lenient handling of sexual misconduct […]
by Sara HUSSEIN Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A breakthrough treatment involving electrical stimulation of the spine has enabled paralyzed patients to walk again, apparently reactivating nerve connections and providing hope for people even years after accidents. A team including neurosurgeons and engineers used targeted electrical pulses to achieve the results, triggering individual muscles in a sequence, the way the brain would. The pulses are produced by an implant placed over the spine […]
(Eagle News) – Twenty-two people are still believed to be missing in the landslide that buried the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) second engineering district office in Mountain Province as full search and rescue operations entered its second day. Four bodies have been recovered in the rubble, according to the Philippine Information Agency – Cordillera Administrative Region, different from its earlier statement that five bodies had been recovered. “PIA MOUNTAIN PROVINCE: As […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Most Asian markets posted healthy gains Thursday, tracking another rally on Wall Street, with Hong Kong and Shanghai leading the way following a Chinese pledge to support the world’s number two economy The healthy gains to kick off November come as dealers look to put behind them one of the worst months in recent years, which saw billions wiped from valuations and confidence battered. While markets still face myriad problems, […]
by Francisco JARA Agence France Presse LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru’s powerful opposition leader Keiko Fujimori was taken into custody on Wednesday after a court ordered her held in preventive detention for three years pending the outcome of a corruption probe. The 43-year-old daughter of disgraced and jailed former president Alberto Fujimori is accused of accepting $1.2 million in illicit party funding from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, for her 2011 presidential campaign. In ordering […]
