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(Reuters) — North Korea’s leader received a report from his army on its plans to fire missiles towards Guam and said he will watch the actions of the United States for a while longer before making a decision, the North’s official news agency said on Tuesday (August 15). North Korea said last week it was finalizing plans to launch four missiles into the waters near the US Pacific territory of Guam, and its army would […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Wall Street stocks finished solidly higher Monday, joining most global equity markets that gained on easing concerns about North Korea. Pentagon chief Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal that the United States favors a diplomatic solution to the stand-off with Pyongyang, especially with help from China, though they stressed diplomacy is “backed by military options.” Investors […]
DENVER, Colorado (Reuters) — Taylor Swift won a federal court trial on Monday (Aug 14), with the jury awarding her the symbolic $1 she had sought from a Colorado DJ she accused of grabbing her bare bottom during a photo shoot. The eight-member US District Court jury found that radio personality David Mueller had assaulted and battered her during the “meet-and-greet” photo session. The same panel, which deliberated for less than a day, rejected Mueller’s […]
GLASGOW, United Kingdom (AFP) — Olivier Ntcham is aiming to emulate Moussa Dembele by becoming the latest French import to make an impact at Celtic. The 21-year-old midfielder followed in the footsteps of his under-21 international team-mate as he made a £4.5 million ($5.8 million) move from Manchester City to the Scottish champions in the summer. The firm friends’ fledgling careers have followed similar paths since the pair from the suburbs of Paris met when they turned out […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has been briefed on a plan to fire missiles near Guam but hinted that he would hold off on the launch, Pyongyang’s state media said Tuesday. Kim “examined the plan for a long time” and “discussed it” with commanding officers on Monday during his inspection of the command of the Strategic Force in charge of the North’s missile units, according to the Korean Central […]
by Saidu Bah Agence France Presse Freetown, Sierra Leone (AFP) — At least 312 people were killed and more than 2,000 left homeless on Monday when heavy flooding hit Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown, leaving excavators to pull bodies from rubble and overwhelming the city’s morgues. An AFP journalist saw several homes submerged in Regent village, a hilltop community, and corpses floating in the water in the Lumley West area of the city, as the […]
(Eagle News) — The Land Transportation Franchise and Regulatory Board on Monday, August 14, suspended for one month the accreditation and operations of Uber as it criticized the ride-sharing company for its alleged “predatory actions.” “In an order dated 14 August 2017, the board meted out the penalty of one month suspension on the accreditation of Uber System, Inc. and was ordered to cease and desist its operation of their online booking application during […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday slammed as “disgusting” the role of white supremacists in a violent protest in Virginia and an “evil attack” against counterdemonstrators that left one woman dead, her spokesman said. In sharply worded remarks, Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert expressed shock at the weekend rally by Ku Klux Klan members and other white nationalists in Charlottesville. “The scenes at the right-wing extremist march were absolutely repulsive — naked racism, anti-Semitism […]
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, who loves to cultivate a virile man-of-action image, was shown on Russian TV Saturday (August 5) spear-fishing in a camouflage wetsuit, piloting a powerboat and catching some rays while on a Siberian holiday. Putin’s affinity for the tough guy pose has been documented with shots of him bare-chested on horseback, diving in a submarine in Lake Baikal — the world’s deepest — and flipping a Judo opponent. These latest images, provided […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — People from different walks of life gathered at the Mall of Asia Arena on Thursday, August 10, with a common goal to help fellow Filipinos affected by the conflict in Marawi City. Dubbed as “Rebuilding Life in Marawi”, the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) in collaboration with the Eagle Broadcasting Corporation, Net25, Pinas FM 95.5, and other media partners spearheaded a fundraising concert for Marawi evacuees. Popular singers and bands […]
The United States deployed its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system – known as THAAD – in South Korea in 2017. The billion dollar system is intended to guard against missile threats from the nuclear-armed North. It’s based in a former golf course 250 kilometers south of Seoul. THAAD is designed to intercept and destroy short and medium-range ballistic missiles during their final phase of flight. -Once radar detects the incoming threat, the target is […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News)- – Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero, chairman of the Senate committee on banks, expressed the need to conduct a probe the undeclared wealth and assets of Commission on Elections Chair Andres Bautista. Escudero said that the Senate and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) have expressed their interest to conduct a probe on the almost P1 billion that allegedly belonged to Bautista which his wife, Patricia, said were not declared his Statement […]
