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MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — Prosecutors Friday withdrew one of multiple historical sexual offence charges against Vatican finance chief Cardinal George Pell ahead of his committal hearing next week. The 76-year-old, a top adviser to Pope Francis, has taken leave to fight the allegations which relate to incidents that allegedly occurred long ago. The exact details and nature of the accusations have not been made public, other than they involve “multiple complainants”. A preliminary hearing […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Geneva’s busy airport said it had to suspend all flights for a second consecutive day Friday, as snowstorms continued to lash the Swiss city. “Owing to weather conditions, Geneva airport is currently closed to air traffic, and will remain so until further notice,” the airport said on its website, urging passengers to contact airlines for information about their flights. Following days of blizzards, fresh snowfall began in Geneva on Friday morning […]
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany (AFP) — German computer chip maker Infineon said Friday it is teaming up with China’s biggest carmaker, SAIC Motor Corporation, to produce power modules for the Chinese electric car market, the world’s biggest. Infineon said in a statement it will hold a 49-percent stake in the new Shanghai-based company, SAIC Infineon Automotive Power Modules (SIAPM), which will make inverters — vital parts that convert power from the battery to a form […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Steel and aluminum producers across Asia sank Friday on news of Donald Trump’s controversial tariffs, though some analysts said the long-term effects on the sector might not be as bad as thought. The president said Thursday he would slap levies of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum imports, delivering an election campaign promise to put “America First” and protect US jobs from what he claims are […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A state of emergency has been declared in Papua New Guinea’s remote highlands after a major earthquake shook the region in what Prime Minister Peter O’Neill said was an “unprecedented disaster” for local communities. O’Neill said his government was working to restore services and provide aid to the affected Hela, Southern Highlands, Western and Enga provinces in the Pacific nation’s mountainous interior. “This is an unprecedented disaster in the Highlands region […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Over 3,000 individuals have surrendered under the Philippine National Police’s “improved” Oplan Tokhang so far. Based on data provided by the police, 3173 drug personalities have turned themselves in in 5,543 operations done from January 29 to March 1. So far, the PNP said that 12287 individuals were now on its validated watch list. Supt. Chai Madrid, PNP deputy spokesperson, said that if these individuals could not be subjected […]
LIBUGAN, Maguindanao (Eagle News) — Isinasagawa ngayon (Biernes, Marso 2) ang isang blood donation activity ng Iglesia Ni Cristo sa Maguindanao sa Libungan municipal gym sa pakikipag-ugnayan sa Department of Health. Kabilang rin sa aktibidad na ito ang SCAN International at ang mga kapisanang pansambahayan sa INC. Ang nasabing blood letting activity at isinagawa bilang pagtulong sa kapwa na nangangailangan ng dugo, kaanib man o hindi ng INC. Ang ganitong pagkilos ay alinsunod sa […]
(Eagle News) — Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Laban (PDP-Laban) Secretary General and House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez on Thursday urged Surigaonons not to vote for senators who oppose the federalism campaign of the government. Alvarez told a crowd of some 6,000 local officials who took their oaths as new members of the ruling party to start listing the names of these individuals. “And when the election comes in 2019, don’t vote for them,” Alvarez said. He said that […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Sea ice cover in Antarctica has dropped to its second-lowest on record, Australian authorities said Friday, adding that it was not yet clear what was driving the reduction after several years of record-highs. The report came as scientists said earlier this week that the Arctic region was seeing record high temperatures, with sea ice covering the smallest area in winter since records began more than half-a-century ago. The Australian Antarctic […]
Mt. Carmel agency ceased operations in November 2014, he says (Eagle News) — The lawyer of a high-ranking official of the agency that recruited Joanna Demafelis said on Friday that the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration should have assumed the responsibility of monitoring the Overseas Filipino Worker in Kuwait. In a press conference in the National Bureau of Investigation headquarters, Jude Marfil said the license to operate of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Global E-Human Resources Inc. […]
A replica of the Hogwarts Express is one of the many attractions at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in the Universal Studios Japan (USJ) in Osaka which is attracting numerous visitors yearly. More than three years after this opened at Universal Studio Japan (USJ) in Osaka on July 15, 2014, USJ has doubled its foreign visitors and reached two million in 2017. According to an expert, the theme park’s original attractions that […]
More than three years after the Wizarding World of Harry Potter opened at Universal Studio Japan (USJ) in Osaka on July 15, 2014, USJ has doubled its foreign visitors and reached two million in 2017. According to an expert, the theme park’s original attractions that are not found elsewhere have met foreign public demand. Two of the main attractions that are not found in its counterparts in Orlando, Florida and Hollywood, California […]
