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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The leader of the local authority covering Windsor Castle has called for police action against “aggressive begging” ahead of Prince Harry’s wedding there in May, it emerged on Wednesday. Simon Dudley, the leader of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, wrote to the local police chief to warn that the beggars’ possessions, sometimes left unattended on the streets, presented a security risk. Harry is due to marry American actress […]
(Eagle News) – Bagaman nakalabas na ng Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) ang bagyong “Agaton,” nananatiling suspendido ang klase sa ilang mga lugar bunsod ng naging epekto nito na pagbaha at pagguho ng lupa. Walang klase sa lahat ng antas ngayong araw, Huwebes, January 4, 2018 sa: Albay (public at private) Camarines Sur (public at private) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ija6OnJ-pfo&feature=youtu.be
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Inihahanda na ng justice department ang mga dokumento at testigo na magpapatunay na teroristang grupo ang Communist Party of the Philippine-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) gaya ng inihayag ng Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte. Sabi ni Senior Assistant State Prosecutor Peter Ong na natokahan sa paghahanda ng petisyon laban sa CPP-NPA, nakatutok sila sa mga pagkilos na ginawa ng makakaliwang grupo mula nang magsimula ang Duterte administration. Nasa labinlimang insidente aniya ng pananalakay […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — It’s called snow, something residents of North Florida hadn’t seen in almost three decades until Wednesday, and it is part of a deep-freeze striking the entire US East Coast. The US National Weather Service warned that a major winter storm would bring heavy snow and ice, from Florida in the southeast up to New England and the Northeast on Wednesday and Thursday. New York City was under a winter storm […]
by Roland Jackson and John Biers Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Wall Street stocks streaked to fresh records Wednesday, with petroleum-linked shares rallying as oil prices closed at their highest level since December 2014. All three major US indices jumped to new records. In Europe, bourses also rose but gains were tempered as new investment regulations rolled out across the region. US sentiment got a lift from a strong report by […]
(Eagle News) — A 4.1-magnitude earthquake hit Davao Occidental on Thursday morning. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the earthquake struck 186 kilometers southeast of Sarangani at 6:41 a.m. The quake was tectonic in origin. There were no aftershocks nor property damage reported.
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — At least 23 civilians were killed Wednesday in the Syrian opposition stronghold of Eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, most of them in Russian air raids, a monitor said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP that 18 people were killed by Russian strikes in the town of Misraba, while the remainder died in shelling from government forces. Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said three children and 11 women were among […]
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea (AFP) — Clashes were reported in Equatorial Guinea near the border with Cameroon on Wednesday, shortly after the West African state said it had thwarted a coup against President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Africa’s longest-serving leader. Government troops had shot dead a “mercenary” and “used gunfire to disperse them in the forests along the border,” state television TVGE said, without specifying how many “mercenaries” were involved or how long the clashes lasted. Reports of […]
by Andrew Beatty and Chris Lefkow Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump unleashed a spectacular denunciation of one of his closest political allies Wednesday, describing former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon as insane and irrelevant. After the release of explosive excerpts from a new book in which Bannon reportedly described Trump’s eldest son’s meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer as “treasonous” and “unpatriotic,” Trump wasted no time firing back. […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — The passenger of a Ryanair flight from London to Malaga in southern Spain, apparently tired of waiting inside the plane on arrival, got out and sat on the wing, a witness and the airline said Wednesday. “We had been waiting around half-an-hour to get out of the plane,” Fernando del Valle, another passenger, told AFP of the incident on Monday evening. “The man calmly went to the emergency exit, pulled the […]
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Blockading Cuba is not the solution, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said Wednesday on a trip aimed at strengthening ties with Havana, after Washington tightened restrictions on the island. Much of the half-century-old US economic embargo against Cuba remains entrenched in law, but under former president Barack Obama federal authorities began to loosen some rules — something his successor Donald Trump vowed to reverse. “The blockade (of Cuba) is not the solution. […]
by John Biers Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Automakers were on track Wednesday to report the first annual decline in US sales since the financial crisis, a dip offset by continued strength in the sales of trucks and other large vehicles. The three leaders in the US market — General Motors, Ford and Toyota — all reported modest declines Wednesday in annual sales compared with 2016, a record-setting year for the auto […]
