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by Dave Clark Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – No fewer than 16 Americans were hurt in what has previously been dubbed an acoustic attack on the United States mission in Cuba, the State Department said Thursday. Officials are probing a series of incidents dating back to September last year in which diplomats are thought to have been hit with a mystery sonic weapon. The “unprecedented” attacks came to light last month when Washington […]
by Lucio Tavora with Paola Ramon in Sao Paulo Agence France-Presse SALVADOR, Brazil (AFP) – Two Brazilian ferry wrecks in as many days left at least 39 people dead, authorities said Thursday, as rescuers searched for several more who were still missing. “We deeply regret the loss of tens of lives in the boat accidents in Para and Bahia,” two states in the north of the country, President Michel Temer said on Twitter. Regional authorities […]
(Eagle News) — Take a leave of absence or resign. This was the message of the six commissioners of the Commission on Elections to their embattled chief, Andres Bautista. In a statement on Thursday, Commissioners Christian Robert Lim, Rowena Guanzon, Luie Tito Guia, Arthur Lim, Sheriff Abas and Al Parreno urged Bautista to do either or “for the sake of his career, and most importantly, for the sake of his family, particularly his four innocent […]
HANOI, Vietnam (Reuters) – Vietnam’s most powerful leader has called for greater unity among Southeast Asian states at a time the country has appeared increasingly isolated in challenging China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea. Making the first visit by a Vietnamese communist party chief to Indonesia, Nguyen Phu Trong said in a speech televised at home on Wednesday that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) needed to be unified in resolving territorial […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — The death toll from floods sweeping South Asia has climbed above 1,000, officials said Thursday, as rescue teams try to reach millions stranded by the region’s worst monsoon disaster in recent years. Thousands of soldiers and emergency personnel have been deployed across India, Bangladesh and Nepal, where authorities say a total of 1,009 bodies have been recovered since August 10 when intense rainfall started falling. Twenty-six bodies were found Wednesday […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Eight people, including German, Austrian and Swiss citizens, are missing following a landslide that forced the evacuation of several small villages in southeastern Switzerland on Wednesday, police said Thursday. “In the region of Val Bondasca, eight people who were there at the time of the landslide have not been found,” the Graubunden cantonal police said in a statement.
(Eagle News) — Two of the three policemen believed involved in the killing of Kian delos Santos finally broke their silence in public about what supposedly happened the night the boy was killed. P01 Jerwin Cruz insisted on Thursday that the man who was being dragged in circulated footage from the barangay’s closed-circuit television camera was their asset, and not the 17-year-old boy. “Yun po ang asset namin. Isa siya sa nakakakilala sa aming hinahanap na […]
(Eagle News) — The contents of the spot report supposedly detailing what happened on the night Kian Delos Santos was killed do not match what the Internal Affairs Service of the Philippine National Police believed happened, based on testimonies. This was revealed during Senator Bam Aquino’s questioning of PNP-IAS Director General Alfegar Triambulo and Senior Supt. Chito Bersaluna during the hearing held by the Senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs on Thursday. The […]
by Elaine Yu Agence France Presse MACAU, Macau (AFP) — The death toll from Severe Typhoon Hato rose to at least 16 Thursday after the storm left a trail of destruction across southern China, blacking out Macau’s mega-casinos and battering Hong Kong’s skyscrapers. Eight died in the gambling hub of Macau, where local media showed cars underwater and people swimming along what are normally streets. The enclave’s famed mega-casinos were running on backup generators. […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (Reuters) — An unusual new hair treatment is being used in a Lebanon hair salon in an attempt to move away from chemical masks. At the Abed & Samer beauty salon in Beirut, hairdressers are applying chocolate to renew damaged hair. “A woman would come from the beach with her hair damaged, we tried to come up with a treatment with no chemicals and we found out chocolate is very good. It covers […]
OURENSE, Spain (Reuters) — Firefighters on Tuesday (August 22) battled to control a forest fire in northern Spain which forced the closure of a highway. The fire raged in Monterrei close to the town of Verin in the region of Galicia, near the Portuguese border. The fire is still active and has so far burnt 20 hectares and forced electricity to be cut for an hour in Verin and the villages nearby. Nearby Portugal has […]
GUANGDONG Province, China (CCTV) — Powerful typhoon Hato, a maximum category 10 storm, wreaked havoc in the southern coast of south China’s Guangdong Province after it made landfall in the province’s Zhuhai City on Wednesday. Hato, the 13th typhoon this year, brought hurricane-force winds and downpours to the region it swept across. Videos recorded in the worst-hit cities including Zhuhai and Zhongshan show pedestrians being blown off their feet, public facilities such as mail box, […]
