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by Hui Min NEO Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday she does not expect her global influence to be diminished in the run-up to her planned exit from politics in 2021, even as the race to succeed her gathers pace. Merkel said Monday she would not stand for re-election in December as leader of her center-right CDU party, but that she planned to see out her fourth term […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Argentina’s Manu Ginobili will have his number 20 jersey retired by the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs in a ceremony at a March 28 home game against Cleveland, the team announced Tuesday. Ginobili won four NBA titles in 16 NBA seasons with the Spurs with a career .721 win percentage, his 762-295 record the best in NBA history among players with at least 1,000 league appearances. The 41-year-old South American star, […]
(Eagle News) – Thirty-one people, including 20 contractors of the Department of Public Works and Highways, were trapped and feared dead in a landslide that buried in mud and rubble the DPWH second district engineering office in Natonin, Mt. Province on Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 30. The landslide happened between 4 pm and 5 p.m., as rains and winds from typhoon Rosita (Yutu) still continued to be felt as it moved westward out of the […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Superstar LeBron James warned his young Los Angeles Lakers teammates that his patience was wearing thin after a third narrow loss less than two weeks into the new regular season. “You probably don’t want to be around when my patience runs out. I’m serious,” James said after the Lakers lost 124-120 at Minnesota on Monday night, leaving them with five defeats from their opening seven games. “We talk about […]
TUNIS, Tunisia (AFP) — A suicide attack by an unemployed graduate woman on a busy street in the Tunisian capital this week was an “isolated act”, a government minister said Tuesday. Mna Guebla detonated explosives Monday near a gathering of police cars in the upmarket Avenue Habib Bourguiba in central Tunis, wounding 15 officers and two teenagers in the first such attack in the city since 2015. Interior Minister Hichem Fourati, whose ministry is on […]
by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France Presse TAMPA, United States (AFP) — The US space agency’s Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel and is being retired after nine and a half years, having helped discover more than 2,600 planets, some of which may hold life, officials said Tuesday. The unmanned space telescope, which launched in 2009, revealed that billions of hidden planets are in space and revolutionized humanity’s understanding of the universe, experts said. […]
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil’s far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said Tuesday he would give more than $400,000 in leftover campaign funds to the hospital that treated him after he was stabbed in the abdomen at a rally. The former army captain, who won Sunday’s election with 55 percent of the vote, said his campaign had cost about 1.5 million reals, or $400,000. But that was “less than half the funds that were raised through […]
by Glenn CHAPMAN Agence France Presse SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Facebook reported Tuesday that its quarterly profit climbed in the recently ended quarter, but the world’s leading social network — mired in a spate of controversies — gained fewer users than analysts had expected. The company said profit had climbed nine percent to $5.14 billion on revenue that leaped 33 percent to $13.7 billion in the quarter that ended September 30. The number […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — The death toll from fierce storms battering Italy has risen to 11, civil protection authorities said Tuesday, as wild weather swept parts of Europe, leaving motorists and tourists stranded. Road were blocked and thousands of people were left without power in southern and central Europe, as rains and violent winds sparked flooding and tore trees from their roots. Thick snow has also cloaked French and Italian mountain regions, trapping hundreds of […]
by Jennie MATTHEW Agence France Presse PITTSBURGH, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump on Tuesday visited the Pittsburgh synagogue where 11 people were gunned down at the weekend in an anti-Semitic attack, as more than 1,000 protesters gathered nearby to make it clear the US president was unwelcome. Carrying signs that read “President Hate, Leave Our State!” and “Trump, Renounce White Nationalism Now,” the protesters gathered near the Tree of Life synagogue where the carnage […]
(Eagle News) – Typhoon Rosita, with international name Yutu, pummeled Luzon, with the northern part, at the receiving end of most of its wrath as the typhoon made landfall in Isabela and exited La Union Tuesday, leaving a trail of destruction. Entire roofs were ripped off. Trees were felled like matchsticks. Steel structures were bent and warped Signboards were blown over. And even gasoline stations were no match to the strong winds with gusts […]
by Dessy Sagita Agence France Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia ordered the inspection of all Boeing 737-MAX airliners on Tuesday as rescue teams recovered more human remains from a brand new Lion Air jet that plunged into the sea with 189 people on board. On a Jakarta dockside, officials took up the grim task of separating human remains from plane debris and recovered personal effects, sending the body parts — including from an […]
