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HONGKONG, China (AFP) — The dollar slumped Thursday in the wake of dovish Federal Reserve minutes highlighting concern over inflation and crumbling corporate support for United States President Donald Trump. The greenback was back below 110 yen as safe haven assets were reinvigorated, with Asian equities treading water to broadly hold gains from a rally earlier in the week on easing tensions over North Korea. New York stocks finished higher despite developments in Washington, with […]
GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) — Seven people including two children were killed and 12 injured in a gang shooting in a hospital in Guatemala on Wednesday, officials said. Police said gunmen burst into the Roosevelt Hospital in Guatemala City to rescue a jailed gang member who had been transferred there for a medical appointment. The shooters were members of the Salvatrucha gang, one of the most notorious bands terrorizing Central America. The attackers arrived in a car and […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) – Curtis Rona will make his debut and Kurtley Beale returns for the Wallabies in the team named Thursday to face the All Blacks in the Rugby Championship opener in Sydney this weekend. Former National Rugby League star Rona, who plays for Western Force, will make his first international appearance on the left wing, while Beale will play at inside-centre. Force team-mate and winger Dane Haylett-Petty was unavailable for selection with a bicep injury. It […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — The Greenland ice sheet is likely to melt faster in the years to come, despite a recent slowdown, researchers said Wednesday after making a new discovery about the way glaciers move. Greenland contains enough ice to make the sea level mount 23 feet (seven meters) if it were to melt completely. The findings in the journal Science Advances show that ice in Greenland moves more quickly over sediment than hard rock. […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A giant tortoise that made a break from a Japanese zoo has been found safe and sound two weeks after it escaped — just 140 meters from the park. The 35-year-old female, named Abuh and measuring around one meter (three feet) in length, steamed out of the Shibukawa Animal Park in Okayama prefecture in early August having been allowed to walk freely around the zoo during opening hours. Zoo keepers, unable to […]
KAENA POINT, Hawaii (Reuters) — Rescue teams searched for a downed Army Black Hawk helicopter with five crew members aboard that was last reported off the west coast of Hawaii, the United States Coast Guard said on Wednesday (August 16). Coast Guard Hercules and Army Black Hawk aircrews spotted debris near Kaena Point, Oahu at 11:28 p.m. local time (0928 GMT) after staff at Wheeler Army Airfield said they had lost contact with one of their […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) – Barca’s season has been thrown into turmoil by Neymar’s world record 222 million euro ($261 million) move to Paris Saint-Germain earlier this month. New Barca coach Ernesto Valverde admitted Neymar’s absence has affected the balance of the side. Meanwhile, the Catalans have struggled to close deals for Coutinho and Dembele with Liverpool and Dortmund holding out for fees in excess of 100 million euros in the knowledge of Barca’s desperation to land a replacement […]
(Eagle News) — Naniniwala ang isang road safety specialist na panahon na upang magkaroon ng totohanan at pormal na pagsasanay ang mga nais maging driver ng mga malalaking sasakyan gaya ng truck. Kasunod na rin ito ng aksidente sa Mindanao Avenue noong Martes, Agosto 14, sa lungsod ng Quezon kung saan isang concrete mixer ang nakadagan sa puting kotse na ikinamatay ng driver nito at ikinasugat ng apat katao. Ayon kay Jason Salvador na dating […]
(Eagle News) — Senators Vicente Sotto III and Panfilo Lacson are seeking a Senate investigation into what they said was a possible violation by some “covered institutions” of the Anti Money and Laundering Act in connection with the supposed “splitting” of Commission on Elections Chair Andres Bautista’s 35 bank accounts in one “small thrift bank.” Lacson and Sotto filed on Thursday Resolution No. 468 “directing” the Senate committee on banks, financial institutions and currencies to look […]
(Reuters) — America’s coast-to-coast total solar eclipse on Aug. 21 is a must-see, “once in a lifetime event,” a National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist said on Wednesday. Michelle Thaller also urged the public to use safety glasses or other homemade devices to avoid looking directly at the sun. “It’s never safe to look at the sun with unprotected eyes. If even a little bit of the sun’s surface is still exposed you can hurt […]
SUNSARI, Nepal (Reuters) — Residents of floo-hit Sunsari District in southern Nepal said on Wednesday (August 16) they have been left with nothing, after the Koshi River overflowed with monsoon rains and swept away their belongings. The death toll from the flash floods and landslides that have hit Nepal have left at least 115 people dead, officials said on Tuesday (August 15), with an additional 38 people still missing. Relief workers said 26 of Nepal’s 75 […]
(Eagle News) — Nakatakdang magpadala ng apat-na-raang (400) sundalo ang Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) sa lalawigan ng Pampanga upang tumulong sa depopulation ng mga manok na apektado ng bird flu. Kasunod na rin ito ng request na ipinadala ng Department of Agriculture (DA) sa AFP kaugnay ng paghingi ng karagdagang tauhan para tumulong sa pag-execute sa mga manok. Ayon kay AFP Public Information Chief Col.Edgard Arevalo, magmumula sa Northern Luzon Command ang mga […]
