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By Vivem Soriano Eagle News Service Switzerland 0-0 Northern Ireland (1-0 agg.) Switzerland advances to next year’s World Cup in Russia with a 1-0 aggregate win over Northern Ireland after a pressure-packed 0-0 draw in the second leg of their World Cup Qualifier in Basel. The Northern Irish were in full attack mode from the onset. They increased the pressure against the home side in the second half and it almost paid off in the […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — Air pollution in New Delhi worsened again Sunday and officials warned of little relief in sight from the smog, which has even caused one airline to cancel flights to the world’s most polluted capital. The US embassy website Sunday showed levels of the smallest and most harmful airborne pollutants reached 676, about 27 times the World Health Organization’s safe maximum, after falling slightly late last week. Delhi authorities have halted […]
by Shwan Mohammad Agence France Presse SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq (AFP) –At least 135 people were killed and hundreds more injured when a 7.3-magnitude earthquake shook the mountainous Iran-Iraq border triggering landslides that were hindering rescue efforts, officials said Monday. Footage posted on Twitter showed panicked people fleeing a building in Sulaimaniyah, northern Iraq, as windows shattered at the moment the quake struck late Sunday, while images from the nearby town of Darbandikhan showed major walls and […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro insisted on Sunday that his cash-strapped country would “never” default, as he prepared to meet with creditors in Caracas to discuss rescheduling part of the country’s massive $150 billion debt. “Never, default will never reach Venezuela,” he declared on his weekly television show. “Our strategy is to renegotiate and refinance all the debt.” Maduro pointed to ongoing negotiations with his allies China and Russia, to which Venezuela […]
SABAH STATE, Malaysia (Reuters) — A Bornean clouded leopard and her two cubs were captured on camera strolling through a Malaysian forest reserve last week, a rare daytime sighting of the elusive animals in the wild. Found only on the Southeast Asian islands of Borneo and Sumatra, the big cat species is known to zoologists as Neofelis diardi, with just 700 estimated to live in a habitat shrunk by poaching and deforestation. The footage filmed […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — An unmanned cargo ship packed with 7,400 pounds (3,350 kilograms) of food and supplies for the astronauts living at the International Space Station blasted off Sunday from Wallops Island, Virginia. Orbital ATK’s barrel-shaped Cygnus cargo ship launched atop an Antares rocket at 7:19 am (1219 GMT), a day after a last-second delay due to an unexpected aircraft in the area. “Five, four, three, two, one and we have ignition,” said […]
BONN, Germany (Reuters) — Former California governor-turned-green activist, Arnold Schwarzenegger, said on Sunday (November 12) he would do everything in his power to make sure the Paris climate agreement is implemented. Speaking at an event event organized by local and regional governments on the sidelines of the Bonn talks on global warming, the former Hollywood star also said it was everyone’s responsibility to act. The Austrian-born actor, who served two terms as California governor, also […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Saad Hariri pledged on Sunday he would return to Lebanon from Saudi Arabia “very soon,” in his first television interview since his shock resignation as prime minister eight days ago. In an exclusive interview from Riyadh with his party’s Future TV, Hariri brushed aside rumours that he was under de facto house arrest in Saudi Arabia. “I am free here. If I want to travel tomorrow, I will,” Hariri told journalist […]
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq (AFP) — A 7.3-magnitude quake which struck the Iran-Iraq border late Sunday has killed 30 people on the Iranian side, a senior official said on state television. “For the moment, we have 30 deaths in different cities,” Mojtaba Nikkerdar, the deputy governor of Kermanshah province said, underscoring that the toll could rise. The earlier count had stated seven fatalities. In Iraq, officials said the quake had killed six people in Sulaimaniyah province and injured […]
(Eagle News) — Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit organizers said charges could be filed against actress Ma. Isabel Lopez after they said she “defied” a plan meant to safeguard world leaders when she removed the cones designating the ASEAN lanes on Edsa and used them herself to escape traffic. In a statement, ASEAN Technical Working Group on Traffic Management chair Emmanuel Miro said the incident that Lopez herself proudly narrated on her Facebook […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday said the South China Sea issue was “better left untouched,” noting that no one could afford to go to war. “We have to be friends. The other hotheads would like us to confront China and the rest of the world on so many issues,” Duterte said the day before the official start of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit. Aside from the Philippines and China, Vietnam, […]
The Philippines is again at the world’s center stage as it hosts the 31st Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit and Related Summits from November 13 to 14, 2017. The ASEAN Member States and Dialogue Partners will come together to discuss regional and global issues. All the leaders of the ASEAN and their dialogue partners are now in the country for the historic summit happening as ASEAN celebrates its 50th year. The list […]
