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HAMBURG, Germany (AFP) — Russia and the United States have agreed to a ceasefire in southwest Syria starting from midday on Sunday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced Friday. “Today in Amman Russian, American and Jordanian experts… agreed on a memorandum of understanding to create a de-escalation zone” in the regions of Daraa, Quneitra and Sweida, Lavrov said. “There will be a ceasefire in this zone from midday Damascus time on July 9.” Lavrov was […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets mostly headed into the weekend on a negative note Friday following a sell-off on Wall Street, United States jobs data coming in below par and a dive in oil prices fueling losses across the energy sector. Increasing expectations that central banks are about to start winding down their easy money policies are also weighing on buying sentiment and dragging on the dollar. With traders already nervous over North […]
IMUS, Cavite (Eagle News) — Isang bangkay ang natagpuang lumulutang lutang sa isang ilog sa Cavite kamakailan. Agad rumesponde ang kapulisan nang makatanggap ng tawag patungkol sa bangkay sa Julian River, Barangay Bucandala 1, Imus. Ayon sa inisyal na imbestigasyon, isang mangingisda ang nakakita sa katawan na lumulutang bandang 500 metrong layo sa Julian Bridge. Walang agad na masabi ang mga awtoridad na dahilan ng pagkamatay ng biktima. Sa kasalukuyan, ang bangkay ay dinala sa […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) – China opposes the use of freedom of overflight as an excuse to harm its security, the country’s foreign ministry said on Friday (July 7), after two United States bombers flew over the disputed South China Sea. The flight by the B-1B Lancer bombers from Guam on Thursday (July 6) came as US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping prepare for a meeting on the sidelines of a G20 summit […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s chief atomic energy regulator has acknowledged it was inappropriate to say it would be “much better” if North Korea dropped a missile on Tokyo rather than on a nuclear plant. Shunichi Tanaka, head of the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), found himself in hot water on Thursday after he spoke to people living near a recently restarted reactor. “If it were me, I think it would be much better to drop (a missile) on central Tokyo,” said Tanaka. He was speaking about a […]
HAMBURG, Germany (AFP) — United States President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin exchanged a handshake for the first time on Friday as they arrived for the G20 summit in Germany, the Kremlin said. “They shook hands and said they will meet separately and see each other soon,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. The billionaire tycoon and the ex-KGB agent’s meeting later Thursday in the German port city of Hamburg promises to be […]
HAMBURG, Germany (AFP) — Protesters clashed with police, torched patrol cars and blocked roads in the German city of Hamburg on Friday in fresh violence just before the start of the G20 summit, police said. “An operation is under way against violent individuals” who threw petrol bombs and set fire to patrol cars near a police station in the city’s Altona district, federal police said on Twitter. In the west of the city, a “plume of black smoke” was […]
by Andrew Beatty and Hui Min Neo Agence France Presse United States President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin were to meet Friday for the first time in a highly-awaited encounter at a G20 summit marked by divisive issues, a rift between America and its Western allies and violent protests. New clashes erupted outside the fortified venue where leaders of the world’s biggest economies were gathering, after a demonstration late Thursday degenerated into […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Cebu-Pacific cancelled flights going to Cebu and Ormoc due to the damage sustained by local airports after a 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit Leyte Island. In its advisory on its website, Cebu Pacific said that it was cancelling its daily flight between Cebu and Ormoc until Sunday, July 9. “In light of the reported damage of the airport caused by the magnitude 6.5 earthquake in Leyte on July 6, 2017, Cebu […]
(Eagle News) — The islands of Samar and Bohol as well as the southern part and some areas in the northern part of Leyte are suffering from island-wide power outage in the aftermath of the magnitude-6.5 earthquake. The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has not given an estimated time of restoration as it has yet to finish inspecting hundreds of kilometers of power lines in the affected areas. According to NGCP, they are […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The World Boxing Organization (WBO) has said it will review the scoring of the Manny Pacquiao-Jeff Horn welterweight title bout after the Philippine world champion’s shock loss, but the verdict will stand. The WBO announced the move on its website after Pacquiao, backed by the Philippine government’s sports regulatory body, criticised the referee and the judges and demanded a review. The Filipino regulator, the Games and Amusements Board, has also called […]
