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SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Netflix reported Tuesday a strong jump in profits and better-than-expected growth in users in the past quarter, sparking a rally in shares of the streaming television market leader. Netflix said it gained almost seven million new users worldwide, to bring its total membership to more than 137 million. Profit in the quarter more than tripled from a year ago to $403 million while revenues grew 34 percent to $4 […]
by Delphine TOUITOU Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US officials announced Tuesday negotiations for separate trade agreements with Britain, the European Union and Japan as part of efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to rebalance global commerce. US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said the administration notified Congress of its intent to negotiate the three separate trade agreements. “We are committed to concluding these negotiations with timely and substantive results for American workers, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — An influential US Senate ally of President Donald Trump pledged Tuesday that Congress would take decisive action against Saudi Arabia over a missing writer, calling for the ouster of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. “This guy is a wrecking ball. He had this guy murdered in a consulate in Turkey,” Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told “Fox and Friends,” one of the president’s favorite news broadcasts. Graham, discussing the feared killing […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Not that there was much doubt, but President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is sure to seek a second term in 2020. “Yes, 100 percent,” Trump told Fox Business television in an interview due to air later in the day. Trump upended politics as usual in the United States with his shock 2016 victory over Democratic favorite Hillary Clinton. Even before upsetting predictions of an easy Clinton win, Trump […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The two Koreas and the US-led United Nations Command held talks Tuesday on demilitarizing a section of the heavily fortified border dividing the peninsula, as a diplomatic thaw gathers pace. “The three parties examined the progress in removing landmines at the Joint Security Area (JSA)…and discussed other practical matters regarding steps toward disarming the area,” Seoul’s defense ministry said in a statement. The JSA, also known as the truce […]
by Shaun Tandon Agence France Presse RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — US top diplomat Mike Pompeo was in Saudi Arabia for urgent talks with King Salman Tuesday seeking answers about the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, amid US media reports the kingdom may be mulling an admission he died during a botched interrogation. “Rogue killers” could be to blame for the disappearance of Khashoggi, who has not been seen since he walked into the […]
(Eagle News) — Commission on Higher commissioner Prospero “Popoy” E. de Vera III has been appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte as the new CHED chairman. De Vera will serve as CHED chairman until July 2022, according to Commission’s OIC-Executive Director Cinderella Filipina S. Benitez-Jaro in a press release posted on the Facebook page of De Vera. For his part, De Vera thanked the President for the appointment, saying he was “humbled” and “challenged” by the […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Despite an exceptionally snow-filled winter, Swiss glaciers have lost 2.5 percent of their volume this year, according to a report Tuesday which dubbed 2018 “a year of extremes”. This year’s record-breaking temperatures have greatly contributed to the loss of “a fifth of (the glaciers’) volume over the past decade”, according to the annual study on the state of the glaciers, published by the Swiss Academies of Science. And this despite the […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde welcomed the election of the Philippines into the United Nations human Rights Council (UNHRC), even as he called on critics to help the government address human rights violations. “First of all, the Philippine National Police shares with the entire Filipino nation the honor of being elected anew to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to serve another three-year term until 2020. The Philippines’ election to the […]
Ni Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Kinumpirma ng Armed Forces of the Philippines at Philippine National Police na tuluyan nang nalusaw ang “Red October ouster plot” ng rebeldeng grupong New People’s Army. Ayon kay AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Carlito Galvez, wala nang kakayanan ang rebeldeng grupo na maglunsad ng malawakang pag-atake dahil sa maramihang pagsuko ng mga miyembro nito. Naaresto rin umano ng AFP sa operasyon ang limang matataas na lider […]
(Eagle News) — The government on Monday, October 15 started its 10-day dry run for the reopening of Boracay Island on October 26. The island was closed for tourists for six months due to clean-up and rehabilitation work. (Photos by Eagle News Aklan Bureau Ray Rafael Ramos, Grace Ann Reyes)
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the nation’s security forces to be non-partisan during the election season as he asked them to make a “commitment to the Filipino people” to stay “neutral. “Let us make a deal here, promise, we make a commitment to the Filipino people. This election, strictly neutral tayong lahat,” he said in a speech on Monday, Oct. 15, during the Philippine Army’s change of command rites. Duterte also asked […]
