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JAKARTA, June 20, 2023 (AFP) – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has moved its first-ever joint drills, Indonesia’s military said Tuesday, edging them away from waters disputed by China. The bloc’s joint exercises were initially slated for the North Natuna Sea, which Indonesia claims as its exclusive economic zone but where Beijing’s ships occasionally patrol. When confronted by Jakarta, China has invoked the so-called nine-dash line, which demarcates an area it claims to have […]
LONDON, June 20, 2023 (AFP) – Asian and European stocks mostly fell Tuesday, as China’s smaller-than-forecast interest rate cut failed to dispel worries over its flagging powerhouse economy. Sentiment was also subdued before the return of Wall Street traders from a long holiday weekend. London stocks firmed on the eve of critical UK inflation data and ahead of Thursday’s expected interest rate increase from the Bank of England. Frankfurt and Paris slid one week after […]
PARIS, June 19, 2023 (AFP) – Europe should brace for more deadly heatwaves driven by climate change, said a sweeping report on Monday, noting the world’s fastest-warming continent was some 2.3 degrees Celsius hotter last year than in pre-industrial times. Crop-withering drought, record sea-surface temperatures and unprecedented glacier melt are among the consequences laid out in a report by the World Meteorological Organization and the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. The continent, which has […]
LE BOURGET, France, June 19, 2023 (AFP) – Indian low-cost carrier IndiGo said Monday it had ordered a 500 A320 airliners from European manufacturer Airbus at the Paris Air Show in the largest ever civil aviation deal. Here is a list of major orders by size: 2023 On the first day of the Paris Air Show IndiGo places a “historic” order of 500 A320 family aircraft. The order is worth $55 billion at list prices […]
BERLIN, June 20, 2023 (AFP) – Chancellor Olaf Scholz hosted Premier Li Qiang for talks on Tuesday, seeking to recalibrate cooperation between Germany and China after Berlin branded Beijing a “systemic rival”. Li is on his first trip abroad since he was named premier in March and tasked with shoring up China’s sputtering post-Covid economy. But unlike previous visits by Chinese dignitaries, when pragmatic German leaders eager to expand business ties with the Asian giant […]
BEIJING, June 20, 2023 (AFP) – Chinese tech giant Alibaba said Tuesday it will replace its top boss, in a surprise move at the e-commerce titan as it looks to recover from years of slow growth caused by weak consumer spending and a regulatory crackdown. The move comes as the market leader prepares to undergo a fundamental reorganisation of its sprawling business operations, which span cloud computing, e-commerce, logistics, media and entertainment, and artificial intelligence. […]
(Eagle News) — The lava flow monitored at Mayon has advanced to “maximum lengths” of 2.5 kilometers, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. One volcanic earthquake, 301 rockfall events, and two pyroclastic density events were also monitored. According to PHIVOLCS, sulfur dioxide flux was pegged at 389 tons per day. A plume 800 meters tall was also detected. PHIVOLCS reminded the public that entry into the six-kilometer radius Permanent Danger Zone should be […]
By John HADOULIS Agence France-Presse ATHENS, June 20, 2023 (AFP) — Wildfires, floods and climate change have failed to budge Greeks towards voting Green for over a decade, but a new coalition hopes to break through deep-rooted skepticism in Sunday’s national elections. While environmental parties surge elsewhere in Europe, Greeks “view the environment as a little bit of a luxury,” says Vasiliki Grammatikogianni, a co-chair of the Green and Purple alliance. A ‘Green wave’ that […]
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, June 20, 2023 (AFP) — Six people were killed and eight wounded Monday in an apparent gang shootout in Guayaquil, a port city in Ecuador terrorized by a wave of violence blamed on a spiraling drug war, authorities said. Police Colonel Marcelo Castillo told AFP that six people had died in Guayaquil’s second mass shooting this month, which appeared to have been a settling of scores between rival gangs. The prosecutor’s office later […]
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, June 20, 2023 (AFP) — Six people were killed and eight wounded Monday in an apparent gang shootout in Guayaquil, a port city in Ecuador terrorized by a wave of violence blamed on a spiraling drug war, authorities said. Police Colonel Marcelo Castillo told AFP that six people had died in Guayaquil’s second mass shooting this month, which appeared to have been a settling of scores between rival gangs. The prosecutor’s office later […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippines has detected its first case of the Omicron subvariant FE. 1. The Department of Health said in its biosurveillance report that covers May 29 to June 12 that also detected out of 2,340 sequenced samples were the following: 374 XBB.1.5 cases 199 XBB.1.16 cases 747 XBB.1.9.1 cases 104 XBB.1.9.2 cases 198 XBB.2.3 cases 206 BA.2.3.20 cases 34 XBC cases four BA.5 cases six BA.2.75 26 other Omicron sublineages The FE.1, a sublineage […]
By Satish Cheney Agence France-Presse SINGAPORE, June 20, 2023 (AFP) — ESports has long been derided as “not a real sport”. But now, an Olympic-organized event is being dismissed by competitive gamers as not real eSports. Many long-time backers of big-money digital contests, which are edging their way towards elite-level recognition, are puzzled by the choice of games at the inaugural Olympics Esports Week that kicks off in Singapore on Thursday. Instead of well-established gaming […]
