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NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Kevin Durant scored 25 points, Klay Thompson added 24 and both made crucial plays in the final seconds Monday, lifting the NBA champion Golden State Warriors over Cleveland 99-92. In a rematch of the NBA Finals that marked their third consecutive meeting on the holiday, the host Warriors won for the 12th time in 13 games to reach 27-7 while the Cavaliers fell to 24-10. Golden State grabbed a […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — New archaeological research has shed fresh light on China’s first emperor — creator of the world-famous terracotta army — and his quest for eternal life, state media reported. A set of wooden slips found in the central province of Hunan contain an executive order from Emperor Qin Shihuang for a nationwide search for the elixir of life, along with replies from local governments, according to Xinhua news agency on Sunday. It […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Joel Embiid scored 25 points and grabbed 16 rebounds while J.J. Redick added 24 points to power the Philadelphia 76ers over host New York 105-98 on Monday. Redick sank four 3-pointers while Australian Ben Simmons, who finished with only eight points, made a steal and breakaway slam dunk with 66 seconds remaining to give the 76ers an eight-point cushion. The Sixers’ victory at Madison Square Garden was the opener of five […]
by Luis Jaime Cisneros Agence France Presse LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori remained in intensive care in a Lima hospital on Monday, a day after he was granted a pardon for his 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity. Current President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski ordered the pardon on Sunday on humanitarian grounds for Fujimori and seven other prisoners. He said the decision relied on a medical evaluation that Fujimori suffered a progressive […]
by Edgar Calderon Agence France Presse GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala — Guatemala said Monday it is starting the process of moving its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, after President Jimmy Morales announced he would follow US President Donald Trump’s controversial lead on the city. Morales wrote a message to Guatemalans on his Facebook page Sunday, saying he had spoken with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that “one of the most important topics was the return of […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Four people were killed Monday when a Moscow bus ploughed into a pedestrian underpass in the west of the city, officials said. It was not immediately clear what caused the accident as authorities said they were looking into several possibilities, including a technical malfunction. Authorities did not mention terrorism as a possible cause. “Nine people are currently in the city’s clinics… four people died on the spot,” the Moscow city hall […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia’s Central Election Commission on Monday unanimously rejected top opposition figure Alexei Navalny’s bid to run against President Vladimir Putin next year, leading him to urge a boycott of the polls. The commission voted 12 to zero in barring Navalny from the presidential election, citing a controversial embezzlement conviction for which he received a five year suspended sentence. Navalny’s crime qualifies as “serious” and therefore rids the individual of the right […]
(Eagle News) — Busan Universal Rail Inc. and its joint venture members are not qualified to participate in the bidding for major rail projects of the Department of Transportation, after all. This is according to the DOTr that issued a statement to this effect on Monday. This was after Puwersa ng Bayaning Atleta partylist Rep.Jericho Nograles said that Busan Transportation Corporation and Edison Development and Construction had such a qualification. “(They) are disqualified from participating […]
(Eagle News) — A 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck at sea off Sarangani in Davao Occidental on Monday. The quake struck at 8:47 p.m. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said that it had a depth of focus of 12 kilometers. The epicenter was some 236 kilometers southeast of Sarangani. No damage was reported.
by Ferdinandh Cabrera Agence France Presse Firemen Monday found the bodies of “around” 36 people after a deadly blaze at a shopping mall in Davao, a fire official said as the government launched a criminal investigation. The discovery raised to 37 the confirmed death toll from the NCCC shopping mall fire in the city of Davao on Mindanao island. The Davao region chief of the Bureau of Fire Protection, Wilberto Rico Neil Kwan Tiu, […]
by Chris Wright Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — As the poster child for the growing ranks of computer-generated currencies, bitcoin’s recent stratospheric price rises have propelled it from the chat forum-hosted depths of nerddom into the global consciousness. As it rose from under $1,000 to over $19,500 at one point this year, hordes of tech-savvy punters have rushed in to buy, while any investors can now do the same on the US […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Bruce McCandless, an astronaut who was the first to fly untethered from his spacecraft in a gripping scene watched around the world, has died at the age of 80, NASA announced on its website. The US space agency did not give the cause of death on Thursday for the longtime resident of the western state of Colorado. The son and grandson of decorated war heroes, he graduated near the […]
