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JOHNSONVILLE, Connecticut (Eagle News) – The clicking of cameras and the flipping of papers were the only things heard inside the small Centerbrook Meeting House located next to the General Store in the rundown town of Johnsonville, Connecticut. Fifty to sixty people crammed into the building while more than 100 stood outside braving the rain, at times a heavy downpour, other times a light drizzle. As Brother Glicerio B. Santos, Jr., the General Auditor of […]
(Agence France Presse) — Snipers in high-rise buildings are the main problem facing forces battling to crush pro-Islamic State fighters who have occupied Marawi for more than a month, a military spokesman said Saturday. Lieutenant Colonel Jo-ar Herrera said this was the reason the government was using air strikes against the militants. “If we do not use air strikes, we will incur more casualties of our troops,” he told reporters in Marawi, which was overrun […]
(CCTV) — Hong Kong residents Saturday started their tour of China’s first aircraft carrier Liaoning which is in the Special Administrative Region for a visit. The aircraft carrier, anchored in an open sea area outside the Victoria Harbor, is accompanied by destroyers Jinan and Yinchuan and frigate Yantai, and carrying a squadron of J-15 fighter jets and helicopters. Hong Kong residents began boarding the carrier in the morning. They were amazed by the 3,000-plus cabins […]
(Reuters) — Dramatic images from El Salvador on Friday (July 07) of a helicopter rescuing a victim from a deadly fire in the country’s Finance Ministry building that killed at least two people. A major fire broke out in El Salvador’s Finance Ministry killing at least two people, injuring 22 others and prompting some inside to jump from the building before the blaze was extinguished, officials reported. The government sent in helicopters to rescue people […]
(Reuters) — Soldiers in Mexico have seized a military-grade arsenal in the drug-ravaged border state of Tamaulipas, authorities reported on Friday (July 07). According to officials, dozens of high-powered rifles, grenades and grenade launchers were found by the military, including hundreds of bullets and cartridges. The weapons haul was found in a rural area of Nuevo Laredo by soldiers on duty. No arrests have been made in connection with the seizure. According to reports, the […]
(CCTV) — A traditional Chinese lantern show has been gloriously brightening up the night sky at a park in the German city of Hamburg. The show, which is running from July 6 to 16, is co-hosted by China’s State Council Information Office, the government of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, the Chinese Embassy in Germany and the government of Hamburg City. Showcasing distinctive elements of traditional Chinese culture, the show features 23 sets of colored lanterns shaped […]
Pyongyang, North Korea (Reuters) — North Korean developers who contributed to the test-launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) received a celebratory welcome on their arrival in Pyongyang on Friday (July 7). The North’s state-run television KRT broadcast a video on Saturday (July 8) showing residents waving flowers to welcome the missile developers of ICBM that an expert said could allow a weapon to hit the U.S. state of Alaska. The United States plans […]
by Simon Sturdee and Hui Min Neo HAMBURG, Germany (AFP) — US President Donald Trump heads Saturday into the final day of a fractious and violent G20 summit in Germany at odds even with America’s traditional Western allies. Negotiators from the world’s 20 top economies were expected to have worked all night trying to hammer out a final summit statement that at least gives the impression of unity. Hamburg authorities meanwhile braced for another day of demonstrations, after […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US Missile Defense Agency said Friday it would soon test an anti-ballistic missile system, days after North Korea demonstrated its arsenal was capable of striking parts of Alaska. The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to be tested is designed to intercept and destroy short-, medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles during their final phase of flight. The MDA said the test against a ballistic missile target would be […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru’s jailed ex-leader Alberto Fujimori was taken to a hospital Friday after showing signs of hypertension and irregular heartbeat, his doctor said. The hospital trip comes on the same day that Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said a potential pardon for Fujimori would not be immediate, as had been speculated, but depended on a medical report that will likely be issued by the end of the year. Fujimori — who turns […]
MIAMI, Florida (AFP) — New evidence shows Venus Williams was driving “lawfully” when she was involved in a deadly car crash that sparked a lawsuit against the tennis star, police in Florida said Friday. An initial police report on the June 9 crash in Palm Beach Gardens described Williams as being “at fault” in the incident. On Friday, Palm Beach Gardens police issued a statement saying new video obtained of the collision showed that “the […]
(Eagle News) — Another person of interest in the killing of five members of a family in Bulacan has been found dead. A radio report said alias Tony’s body was found in San Miguel, Bulacan. Alias Tony’s death comes days after other persons of interest, Roosevelt Sorima alias Ponga, and Ronaldo Pacinos alias Inggo, were killed. Pacinos’ body was found last Tuesday at Phase 7, North Ridge Subdivision in Barangay Santo Cristo, with a cardboard that read, […]
