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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump denied Wednesday having discussed wanting to kill Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, a key claim in a new book by Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward. “That was never even contemplated,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office as he met with the emir of Kuwait. Trump’s comments came as he warned Damascus that “the world is watching” Syrian troops massing on the edges of the rebel-held province […]
JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the closure of Israel’s embassy in Paraguay, his office said, after the South American country announced Wednesday it was moving its mission back to Tel Aviv from Jerusalem. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the Foreign Ministry to close the Israeli Embassy in Paraguay,” Netanyahu’s office said in a tweet. “Israel views with utmost gravity the extraordinary decision by Paraguay which will cloud bilateral relations.” Paraguay’s announcement […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump left the door open Wednesday to meeting with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly — even as the United States ramps up the pressure on a regime it accuses of destabilizing the Middle East. “It’s possible, anything is possible,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked about the possibility of a face-to-face with Rouhani during the gathering later […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Ten people on board a 14-hour Emirates flight from Dubai were taken to hospital in New York on Wednesday after US health authorities mobilized to meet the jet ferrying sick passengers. Images of the double-decker A380 aircraft isolated on the tarmac at John F. Kennedy International Airport were broadcast by US media, which reported that the plane had been quarantined. Pictures posted on social media showed ambulances lined up […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Kei Nishikori and Naomi Osaka made history at the US Open on Wednesday when they became the first Japanese man and woman to reach the semi-finals of the same Grand Slam. Nishikori reached the last four of the men’s singles with a 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/5), 4-6, 6-4 victory over Marin Cilic — the man who beat him in the 2014 final. Earlier, Osaka defeated Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko 6-1, […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan has announced for the first time that a worker at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has died after being exposed to radiation, Japanese media reported. The man aged in his 50s developed lung cancer after he was involved in emergency work at the plant between March and December 2011, following the devastating tsunami. The Japanese government has paid out compensation in four previous cases where workers contracted cancer following the disaster, […]
by Paul HANDLEY / Jerome CARTILLIER Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Top members of Donald Trump’s administration are so alarmed by the president’s “erratic” and “amoral” behavior that they are actively working to undermine him, an anonymous senior official wrote in The New York Times Wednesday. Trump immediately slammed as “gutless” the unsigned op-ed — published a day after excerpts from bombshell book claiming that White House staff were constantly battling to […]
by Kyoko HASEGAWA Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan scrambled Wednesday to evacuate passengers trapped at a major airport when a tanker slammed into its only access bridge during the most powerful typhoon to hit the country for 25 years. Typhoon Jebi left a trail of destruction Tuesday, killing 11 people and injuring hundreds more as it battered western Japan with ferocious winds and lashing rain. As Japan was still picking up the […]
(Eagle News)–The “most problematic” are Filipinos themselves. President Rodrigo Duterte had this to say on Tuesday, Sept. 4, as he lamented how fellow Filipinos themselves criticized him for the way he governed the country. He said this was despite the progress in the war on drugs and in dealing with the communist and Moro rebel insurgencies. “It’s always wrong. And so we will just have to navigate where democracy allows us a space to work […]
By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service The Senate on Wednesday, Sept. 5, approved on third and final reading the proposed additional P1.16 billion budget for those who were administered the controversial Dengvaxia vaccine. Eighteen senators voted for the passage of the supplemental budget, which would be derived from the amount paid by Sanofi Pasteur, the drug manufacturer, for the vaccine left unused by the government. Sanofi caused public uproar after it admitted the vaccine could cause […]
(Eagle News) — The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board has allowed Transport Network Companies to impose a P2 per minute of travel time charge on their passengers as part of the TNCs’ fare structure. In lifting the suspension on the imposition of the charge, the LTFRB, through Memorandum 2018-019, said there was a “need to rationalize and adjust the fare structure for (Transport Network Vehicle Services) in order to maintain its viability.” The LTFRB said […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Wednesday, Sept. 5, said the Department of National Defense has no jurisdiction over him. In a press conference, Trillanes said this was because as of 2007, he was already considered a civilian. Defense officials, however, already said that even if this was the case, Trillanes could still be court-martialled as he violated the Articles of War as a soldier. “Pursuant to Section 66 of the Omnibus Election […]
