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MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia on Tuesday launched an unmanned Progress cargo ship to the International Space Station after a glitch led officials to postpone the planned liftoff two days earlier. The Soyuz rocket carrying the Progress ship took off from the snow-covered Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:15 am Moscow time (0815 GMT) and reached its designated orbit several minutes later, the Russian space agency said. “We have liftoff!” the Roscosmos space agency tweeted. […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump threatened retaliatory action against two major Asian trading partners Tuesday, warning of sanctions against China while vowing to revise or scrap a free trade deal with South Korea. Accusing Beijing of decimating American steel and aluminum industries, Trump said he was “considering all options,” including tariffs and quotas. Trump recently received two Commerce Department reports concerning alleged Chinese subsidies for steel and aluminum exports — materials […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — NBA star Kevin Durant has agreed to co-produce a basketball-themed drama television series that will be part of Apple’s original television programming. The scripted series, to be called “Swagger,” will be written by noted screenwriter Reggie Rock Bythewood and produced by Imagine Television and Kevin Durant’s Thirty Five Media, a source familiar with the plan said, confirming earlier media reports. Durant himself tweeted about the new program, saying “So […]
KANO, Nigeria (AFP) — Twenty-two students and their driver were Tuesday killed when their bus collided with a truck in northern Nigeria, a road safety official told AFP. The students from a public secondary school in Bauchi state were on their way to the city of Kano for an excursion when their driver lost control while trying to dodge a pothole, Kabiru Daura, spokesman for the federal road safety corps (FRSC) in Kano said. […]
by Jean-Luc Renaudie and Mike Smith Agence France Presse JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli police recommended Tuesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be indicted for alleged corruption, shaking the country’s politics and raising questions over whether his long tenure in office could be nearing an end. Netanyahu, prime minister for a total of nearly 12 years, addressed the nation as news of the recommendations broke, proclaiming his innocence and making clear he had no intention […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – A New York judge on Tuesday sentenced a US restaurant worker to life in prison following a September 2016 bombing that wounded 31 people in Manhattan’s upscale Chelsea neighborhood. Afghan-born Ahmad Khan Rahimi, 30, was convicted at trial last October on eight counts linked to two bombs he planted in New York, and others found in New Jersey. “There is nothing that could justify anything but a life […]
(Eagle News) — China has “successfully named” five undersea features at the Philippine Rise region. This is according to Jay Batongbacal, an associate professor at the University of the Philippines College of Law and director of the University of the Philippines Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea. According to Batongbacal, the features were the “Jinghao and Tianbao Seamounts located some 70 nautical miles east of Cagayan; the Haidonquing Seamount further east at 190 nautical […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China has started building the world’s largest test site for unmanned ships — a technology with both civilian and military applications — off a port in the disputed South China Sea, state media said Tuesday. The test area is being constructed off the southern port city of Zhuhai bordering Macau, the state Xinhua news agency said. China asserts sovereignty over almost all the South China Sea despite competing partial claims from […]
Four people were killed in the southern part of the country early Tuesday as “Basyang” unleashed heavy rain and triggered deadly landslides, police said. The storm slammed the east coast of Mindanao Tuesday with gusts of 75 kilometers (47 miles) an hour. The heavy rain triggered landslides that hit mountain villages outside the mining town of Carrascal — 760 kilometers south of the capital Manila — killing four people, municipal police chief James Alendogao told […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has asked University of Santo Tomas law dean Nilo Divina and several other lawyers who are members of the Aegis Juris fraternity to comment on the Senate committee report that recommended that they be disbarred. In a notice dated February 6, the SC gave the 21 lawyers 10 days upon notice to comment on the report, which it treated as regular disbarment complaint. The report had made the recommendation […]
Duterte also thanks Gokongwei family for offer to deploy aircraft for distressed Filipino workers (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to have reconciled with Lucio Tan on Tuesday night, after the business tycoon who was once publicly slammed by the chief executive for his airline’s then-unpaid debts offered one of his planes for use by Overseas Filipino Workers being repatriated from Kuwait. “(Tan) called yesterday offering another plane..Nabayaran mo naman na taxes mo, at […]
(Eagle News) – The United States Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim visited Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) Church of Christ Executive Minister Brother Eduardo V. Manalo on Monday, February 12, 2018. The US Ambassador arrived at the INC Central Office before 8 in the morning. Ambassador Kim’s visit to the INC Central Office came about as the Church is preparing celebrations of its 50th anniversary in the West. The first overseas congregation of the […]
