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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Top K-pop girl band Red Velvet will be the star turn at a historic concert in Pyongyang this weekend, in a country where entertainment is usually state-sponsored and served with a big dollop of propaganda. With performances on Sunday and Tuesday, the outfit sashay onto territory more normally occupied by North Korean’s own mega girl group, the Moranbong band. In the peninsula’s own Battle of the Bands, here’s how the […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) –The two Koreas on Thursday set a date for a rare inter-Korean summit, following a high-level meeting that was held days after the nuclear-armed North’s leader Kim Jong Un made his international debut with a surprise trip to China. “According to the will of both leaders, the South and North agreed to hold the ‘2018 South-North summit’ on April 27 at the South’s Peace House in Panmunjom,” said a joint press […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Disgraced Australian opener David Warner Thursday apologized to fans and said he took responsibility for his part in a ball-tampering scandal that has shocked the cricketing world. “Mistakes have been made which have damaged cricket,” he said on Instagram in breaking his silence over the incident in the third Test against South Africa last weekend. “I apologize for my part and take responsibility for it.” Vice-captain Warner, along with skipper Steve […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Karl-Anthony Towns scored a career-high 56 points on Wednesday to lead the Minnesota Timberwolves to a 126-114 victory over the Atlanta Hawks and closer to an NBA playoff berth. The Timberwolves, seeking their first postseason appearance since 2004, bounced back from a humbling 101-93 defeat by the lowly Memphis Grizzlies. Towns’ 56 points eclipsed the club scoring record of 52 held by Mo Williams. He added 15 rebounds as […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Pinayuhan ng National Capital Region Police Office ang mga bakasyonista na huwag mag-post ng impormasyon ukol sa kanilang biyahe sa social media sites. Kailangang bantayan ng mga magulang ang mga anak na gumagamit ng social media at iwasan ang mag-post ng hashtag (#) o “at the moment” (ATM) na mga post. Hindi rin dapat i-upload ang mga litrato ng ticket, passport at flight itinerary. Ito ay para hindi malaman ng […]
By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service The Inter-Parliamentary Union has reiterated what it said was its deep concern over the continued pre-trial detention of Senator Leila de Lima. The organization of parliaments made known its stand anew through a resolution it adopted as it closed its 138th Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland on March 28. The IPU also put to task the Senate, which it said has the “special responsibility to help ensure that its colleagues […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — A fire allegedly set during an attempted jailbreak from Venezuelan police holding cells killed 68 people on Wednesday, the country’s top prosecutor and an inmates’ rights group said. The blaze at the detention facility in Carabobo state is the latest in a series of deadly incidents in Venezuela’s overcrowded jails. “In light of the terrible events that took place in the Carabobo state police headquarters, where 68 people died in a presumed […]
The Philippines football team’s captain has said he hoped their historic first-ever qualification for the Asian Cup could be a catalyst for growth of the sport in the basketball-mad nation. Nicknamed the Azkals — slang for mongrel dogs — the Philippines qualified for the Asian Cup with a 2-1 come-from-behind win over Tajikistan in Manila in an emotional game on Tuesday night. “When there’s success in any sport people would talk about it and the […]
(Eagle News)—The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology has lowered the alert status of Mayon volcano, following what it said was a “general decline in unrest.” In its 8 a.m. bulletin, PHIVOLCS said the alert status was now at 2 instead of 3, considering that seismic activity has “waned,” and no new lava has been detected on the volcano’s summit crater. PHIVOLCS said Mayon’s summit glow has also diminished “from intense to faint,” and […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) –Los Angeles Lakers guard Isaiah Thomas will undergo arthroscopic right hip surgery on Thursday, the NBA club announced Wednesday, ending a difficult season because of the nagging injury. No timetable for recovery is expected until after the procedure, but Thomas will become a free agent with major questions surrounding him after being sent from Boston to Cleveland to the Lakers since August. Thomas has averaged 15.2 points, 2.1 rebounds and […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James matched one of NBA icon Michael Jordan’s more impressive feats Wednesday as he scored in double figures for the 866th consecutive game. James finished with 41 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists in the Cavs’ 118-105 victory over the Jordan-owned Hornets in Charlotte. He hit double digits in the second quarter with an alley-oop dunk off a pass from JR Smith. “Anytime I’m in […]
by Marlowe Hood Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Stupefied astronomers on Wednesday unveiled the first and only known galaxy without dark matter, the invisible and poorly-understood substance thought to make up a quarter of the Universe. The discovery could revise or even upend theories of how galaxies are formed, they reported in the journal Nature. “This is really bizarre,” said co-author Roberto Abraham, an astronomer at the University of Toronto. “For a galaxy […]
