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by Daniel BOSQUE Agence France-Presse DOSRIUS, Spain (AFP) – A month ago, residents of the Catalan village Dosrius were facing off against police in their struggle to break away from Spain. Now independence has been declared — but nothing, they feel, has been gained. Indeed, they have probably lost what they had. Spain’s central government has taken control of the region for the first time since the end of dictatorship in the 1970s. Catalonia’s separatist […]
YANGON ,Myanmar (AFP) – Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived on her first visit to conflict-battered northern Rakhine State on Thursday, an official said, an unannounced trip to an area that has seen most of its Rohingya Muslim population forced out by an army campaign. Suu Kyi, a nobel laureate who leads Myanmar’s pro-democracy party, has been hammered by the international community for failing to use her moral power to speak up in defence […]
(Eagle News) — Malacanang has expressed its condolences to the families of the eight victims of Tuesday’s truck attack on a New York bike path, as the Philippine government advised Filipinos in New York City to remain calm yet vigilant. The eight dead in the IS-inspired attack in New York included a Belgian woman and five Argentinian friends celebrating the 30th anniversary of their graduation from a prestigious polytechnical secondary school in the city of […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) – Sa pagkakaaresto ng mga awtoridad sa isang Indonesian terrorist na nagtangkang tumakas mula sa Marawi City, nakapiga pa sila ng impormasyon mula rito. Ayon kay Joint Task Force Ranao Deputy Commander Col. Romeo Brawner, sinabi ng Indonesian na miyembro ng Maute group na nasa mahigit 30 pa ang mga kasamahan niyang nasa loob pa rin ng main battle area sa Marawi City. Samantala, tumanggi naman si Brawner na pangalanan ang […]
(Eagle News) – Nadagdagan pa ang mga lugar na nagdeklara ng suspensyon ng klase at pasok sa tanggapan ng lokal na gobyerno ngayong araw, November 2, 2017. Kabilang sa nagkansela ng klase at pasok sa trabaho ang mga bayan at lalawigan ng: San Pablo, Laguna (All levels, Public, Private and Government Offices) Angono, Rizal (Gov’t and Private Institutions) Cauayan, Isabela (Special non-working day) Butuan City (Gov’t offices) Tacloban City, Leyte (All levels, Public, Private and […]
by Pierre ROCHICCIOLI and Clare BYRNE Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – A French court will rule on Thursday whether the older brother of a jihadist who shot dead seven people, including three French soldiers and three Jewish children, in 2012 was complicit in the killings. The trial of Abdelkader Merah, brother of Mohamed Merah, is the first arising out of a wave of violence by mostly homegrown radical Islamists that has claimed the lives of more […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Eight people died when an assailant acting in the name of the Islamic State group drove a pickup truck along a New York City bike path Tuesday in the city’s worst terror attacks since September 11, 2001. The following is an outline of what is known so far about the attack. – What happened – Shortly after 3 pm, a man identified as Sayfullo Saipov, 29 and […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British police investigating the deadly concert bombing in Manchester earlier this year said Wednesday they had requested the extradition of the attacker’s brother from Libya. Salman Abedi killed 22 people when he detonated a suicide bomb after a concert by pop star Ariana Grande, Britain’s worst terror attack in more than a decade. Manchester-born to Libyan parents, Abedi is believed to have travelled to Libya in the run-up to the May 22 […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Beyonce is set to voice Simba’s childhood friend turned love interest Nala in the live-action remake of Disney’s “The Lion King,” the singer and studio announced Wednesday. The 36-year-old pop megastar confirmed the long-rumored role in a Facebook post that showed headshots of the voice cast, also revealing that Keegan-Michael Key (“Why Him?”, “Storks”) will be playing a hyena named Kamari. Alongside Beyonce — and mostly previously announced — will be Donald […]
by Paula RAMON Agence France-Presse SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) – Only nine of 194 countries which pledged last year to eradicate hepatitis by 2030 are working towards that goal, according to figures revealed Wednesday at the second World Hepatitis Summit in Brazil. Egypt, Georgia, Germany, Iceland, Japan, The Netherlands, Australia, Qatar and Brazil are the only countries taking steps to overcome the disease, a liver inflammation which kills 1.3 million people every year. The three-day summit […]
by Jed Court © Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Rafael Nadal secured the year-end world number one ranking with a 7-5, 6-3 second-round victory over South Korean Hyeon Chung at the Paris Masters on Wednesday. The 16-time Grand Slam champion is the oldest man to finish a season at the top of the rankings at the age of 31, after a year that saw him win the French and US Opens. It is the fourth time the Spaniard, […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) – Skipper Steve Smith says Australia plan to reopen old English Ashes scars starting with a morale-shattering blow in the series opener at the Gabba this month. Smith has indelible memories of the shattering effect of the opening Brisbane Test from the last 2013-14 Ashes battle in Australia on the remainder of that series. England were battered by the hostility of paceman Mitchell Johnson, backed up by Ryan Harris and Peter Siddle and the […]
