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(Eagle News) – The Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ) said it would continue its worship services and would not be deterred in spreading love to its fellowmen, as it thanked police officers who immediately responded to an arson attempt at the Church’s local congregation in Seattle Thursday night, Oct. 18. In a statement, Barrington Thompson, the INC District minister for the Pacific Northwest region covering Seattle, noted and expressed appreciation for the Seattle police […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian equities fell again Wednesday extending the previous day’s geopolitics-fuelled sell-off, with energy firms taking another battering in response to an oil market rout. Investors around the world are fleeing riskier assets such as stocks and high-yielding currencies in search of safety as wave of negative issues dominate the news. Stephen Innes, head of Asia-Pacific trading at OANDA, pointed to “a toxic geopolitical cocktail of nagging concerns” from Chinese growth, […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Blake Griffin scored a career-high 50 points as the Detroit Pistons extended their unbeaten start to the season with an overtime victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday. Griffin weighed in with a driving layup to tie the score with just under two seconds left on the clock and drew a foul from Robert Covington before making a free throw to seal a 133-132 victory at Detroit’s Little Caesars […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte honored security forces killed in separate clashes with the New People’s Army (NPA) in Camarines Sur and Camarines Norte last week, as he conferred the order of Lapu-Lapu with the rank of Kalasag to the three policemen killed in the ambush. The President arrived on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at the Camarines Sur Police Provincial Office to visit the wake of PO1 Ralph Jason Vida, one of the three policemen […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — A Canadian rapper died after falling from the wing of a flying plane he was walking on during a music video shoot, his management team said. Jon James, 33, died instantly in the “wing-walking” accident in Vernon, British Columbia, on Saturday, according to a statement. “He had trained intensely for this stunt but as Jon got further out onto the wing of the plane, it caused the small Cessna to go […]
MAZATLAN, Mexico (AFP) — Hurricane Willa made landfall in Mexico Tuesday, lashing the Pacific coast with powerful wind, heavy rain and what forecasters warned was “extremely dangerous” storm surge. “The eye of Hurricane Willa is now over the coastline near the town of Escuinapa, Sinaloa,” Mexico’s National Meteorological Service said on Twitter. The powerful storm, which was a maximum Category 5 hurricane on Monday, had weakened to Category 3 as it moved toward land. But forecasters […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Bits of plastic have been detected in the faeces of people in Europe, Russia and Japan, according to research claiming to show for the first time the widespread presence of plastics in the human food chain. All eight volunteers in a small pilot study were found to have passed several types of plastic, with an average of 20 micro-particles per 10 grams of stool, researchers […]
by Shaun TANDON / with Raziye Akkoc in Ankara and Stuart Williams in Istanbul Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States said Tuesday it was revoking visas of Saudi officials involved in the “brutal murder” of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in its first major action against the longtime ally as global outrage escalated. The visa curbs came as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Khashoggi’s killing inside the Saudis’ Istanbul consulate had […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Families crossing the US-Mexico border illegally surged to a “crisis” level in September as Trump administration policies failed to deter the inflow of migrants from Central America, officials said Tuesday. The US Border Patrol apprehended 16,658 people who arrived in the country as families last month, some 900 more than August and nearly 12,000 more than September one year ago. The surge was reported as President Donald Trump has called […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Around 20 people were injured Tuesday when an escalator leading to a metro station in central Rome collapsed in an accident believed to have been caused by Russian football fans, Italian media said. The AGI news agency said that “a large group of CSKA fans, probably under the influence of alcohol, began to jump together, provoking the collapse” of one part of the escalator. CSKA Moscow was playing Roma in a […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — A senior UN official warned Tuesday that recent rapprochement on the Korean peninsula, as well as between North Korea and the United States had not been accompanied by an improvement in human rights in the reclusive country. Tomas Ojea Quintana, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the North, urged Pyongyang to show willingness to start addressing the issue following key summits with both South Korea and the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Rebecca Witzofsky, a 20-year-old deaf student at Gallaudet University in Washington, and her hearing friend Nikolas Carapellatti wanted to get a coffee. But on Tuesday, Witzofsky finally didn’t have to struggle to make her order understood. US coffee giant Starbucks opened its first “signing store” in the United States in northeast Washington near the campus of Gallaudet, the world’s only university with an entire curriculum designed to accommodate the deaf […]
