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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte attended the picturing taking for the so-called family photo of world leaders attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders’ summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on November 11, 2017. He stood beside Russian President Vladimir Putin and behind China’s President Xi. On Duterte’s other side is Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. United States President Donald Trump stood next to Putin. Pictured from left to right […]
By Aidan Jones / Jerome Cartillier Agence France Presse DANANG, Vietnam (AFP) — The leaders of the US and China laid out sharply divergent visions for the future of global trade on Friday, with Donald Trump doubling down on his “America First” rhetoric, leaving counterpart Xi Jinping to defend the “irreversible” tide of globalization. Xi, who has emerged as the most powerful Chinese leader in decades, and Trump, whose woes include dismal approval ratings […]
In this photo courtesy of Special Assistant to the President Bong Go, President Rodrigo Duterte is seen talking to US President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Da Nang, Vietnam.
By Martin Abbugao and Jerome Taylor Agence France Presse DANANG, Vietnam (AFP) — Ministers from 11 Asia-Pacific countries agreed Saturday to press ahead with a major trade deal without the United States, as the world’s largest economy seeks to go it alone under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policy. Trump pulled his country from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) at the start of the year, dismaying allies and casting into doubt an agreement heralded […]
(Eagle News) — Leaders from other countries have begun arriving in the Philippines in time for the 31st Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit and Related Meetings. Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Sen was the first leader to arrive, his plane landing at the Clark International Airport in Pampanga at 1:26 p.m. He was welcomed by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi arrived minutes later. […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) — German automaker Volkswagen on Friday announced a plan to invest $650 million in an Argentina plant where it will manufacture a new sport-utility vehicle, according to a statement released by the government. Business-friendly President Mauricio Macri, who ushered Argentina out of recession in 2016, has encouraged foreign investment especially after his center-right coalition’s wins in last month’s midterm elections. Production of the SUV is anticipated to begin in 2020. In a televised […]
by Robin Millard © Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — On Remembrance Sunday, Prince Charles will lay Queen Elizabeth II’s wreath honouring Britain’s war dead as she watches on — a rare public symbol of the 91-year-old gradually scaling back her duties. It will be a milestone moment in the otherwise imperceptibly slow-motion process, as her eldest son, now 69, increasingly steps up on her behalf. Experts said Britain’s oldest-ever monarch would never consider abdication or […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — A massive security breach that hit Equifax has cost the US credit bureau nearly $90 million so far, a figure that is set to rise further, its chief financial officer said on Thursday. The company, which gathers data on consumers to help lenders determine borrowers’ creditworthiness, revealed in September that hackers had stolen the personal details, including names, dates of birth and social security numbers, of nearly 146 million people. In […]
by Hugues Jeanneaud © Agence France-Presse TOULOUSE, France (AFP) — A man “deliberately” rammed his car into a group of pedestrians, injuring three Chinese students one of them seriously, near the French city of Toulouse on Friday, authorities said, adding that the attack was not linked to terrorism. The 28-year-old driver, who was arrested immediately afterwards in the city’s Blagnac suburb, “purposefully hit three people” on a crosswalk, Toulouse prosecutor Pierre-Yves Couilleau said. The suspect, a […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Global stock markets retreated Friday, extending the previous session’s losses, as uncertainty over US President Donald Trump’s much-vaunted tax cuts and lackluster corporate earnings took their toll on investor confidence. At the close of the trading day in New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average snapped an eight-week winning streak, closing 0.2 percent lower, while the broad S&P 500 and tech-dominated Nasdaq were essentially flat. Senate Republicans on Thursday released a […]
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AFP) — Australia edged closer to a place in the 2018 World Cup finals on Friday after grinding out a hard-fought 0-0 draw with Honduras in their Asia-CONCACAF playoff. Socceroos striker Tomi Juric missed golden chances in each half as the Australians dominated a physical Honduras side without managing to find a precious away goal at the Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano. Nevertheless Ange Postecoglou’s men will return to Australia for Wednesday’s second leg confident […]
