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(Eagle News) — At least 27 passengers were injured after the driver of the bus they were on lost control of the vehicle, causing it to fall from the Alabang flyover. The Cher bus, with plate number TYW-504, was going up the flyover toward Alabang when the incident took place on Sunday evening, the Manila Toll Expressway Systems Incorporated (MATES), operator of the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX), said. The bus landed on the service road, by the […]
by Javier Tovar Agence France Presse Disgraced American football star O.J. Simpson, whose racially charged 1995 murder trial riveted the nation, was released from jail on parole early Sunday after nine years behind bars for armed robbery. Simpson, 70, left the Lovelock Correctional Center in the western state of Nevada just after midnight local time, prison spokesperson Brooke Keast said. “I don’t know where he was headed,” Keast told AFP. Simpson was granted parole at […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy has ordered North Korea’s incoming new ambassador to leave the country in a protest over Kim Jong-Un’s missile launches and nuclear tests. Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano announced the move in an interview with Italian daily La Repubblica, published on Sunday. “We have taken the firm decision to interrupt the accreditation procedure. The ambassador will have to leave the country,” Alfano said. “We want to make Pyongyang understand that isolation is […]
President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday night accused Deputy Ombudsman Melchor Arthur Carandang of “lying to his teeth” and “waving fabricated evidence.” President Duterte made the accusation after the Anti-Money Laundering Council itself denied it had provided the Ombudsman with a report on the Duterte family’s bank transactions, as claimed by Carandang. Carandang said in an interview that the report was used as a basis to launch a probe on the President’s family wealth. “Waving fabricated evidence, […]
by Leila Macor Agence France-Presse Alejandro Araujo whiles away the day doing jigsaw puzzles. At night, he sleeps on a hammock on the patio, machete at his side. Now that some streets have been cleared of branches and rubble Hurricane Maria left behind, middle class residents of Puerto Rico’s capital San Juan’s outskirts are afraid, and straining to keep up hope. Ten days ago, Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico and left the American island of […]
AMIENS, France (AFP) – Twenty-nine fans were hurt, five of them seriously, when a barrier collapsed Saturday at a stadium in the northern French city of Amiens as away supporters celebrated their opening goal. A fence separating Lille fans from the pitch gave way as they surged forward to celebrate the goal against Amiens, a regional rival that has just been promoted to the top flight in French football. Several tumbled about one and a half meters (five […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — At least 28 civilians were killed in air strikes on northwestern Syria where a planned safe zone has been overshadowed by a bombing campaign against jihadists, a monitor said Saturday. Four children were among the dead in the overnight strikes on the town of Amanaz, in Idlib province near the Turkish border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Britain-based watchdog had earlier reported 12 dead in the strikes on […]
CAYENNE, France (AFP) — An Ariane 5 rocket put two commercial satellites into orbit after an initial attempt was aborted earlier this month, operator Arianespace said early Saturday. The rocket launched successfully from the Kourou Space Center in French Guiana on Friday, carrying the Intelsat 37e and the BSAT-4a satellites into space, Arianespace said. The launch had initially been set for September 5 but was aborted in the final countdown as the main engine was […]
The Philippines will receive a loan of $415.2 million from the World Bank and the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to help it solve chronic flooding in Metro Manila. The lenders will put up $207.6 million each for a $500-million project, with the Philippine government footing the balance, the banks said in a joint statement Friday. Over the next seven years, the government plans to rebuild or construct 56 stations to pump floodwaters from the coastal metropolis […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s lead in next month’s election has shrunk as the popular Tokyo governor pushes to unite opposition forces, a survey by Japan’s top-selling daily indicated Saturday. Thirty-four percent of Japanese plan to vote for Abe’s conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) while 19 percent favor a party formed this week by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, according to the poll in the Yomiuri Shimbun. It also showed one quarter of […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Beijing on Saturday to discuss efforts to curb North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and prepare President Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to China. Tillerson was scheduled to meet with President Xi Jinping after talks with top diplomat Yang Jiechi and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, ahead of Trump’s trip in November. The visit comes as relations between the two superpowers appear to be improving after […]
by Wilson Fache with Shwan Mohammad in Sulaimaniyah Agence France Presse ARBIL, Iraq (AFP) — The Iraqi government cut autonomous Kurdistan’s direct air links with the outside world indefinitely on Friday, partially isolating the northern region after it voted a massive “yes” in an independence referendum. The move increases the pressure on the Iraqi Kurds amid soaring regional tensions following Monday’s non-binding but deeply contentious vote. Washington said it did not recognise the “unilateral” referendum […]
