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ARIZONA, United States (Reuters) – Facebook Inc. said on Thursday (June 29) it had completed a second test of an unmanned aircraft designed to some day beam internet access to remote parts of the planet, and unlike in the first test, the drone did not crash. Facebook plans to develop a fleet of drones powered by sunlight that will fly for months at a time, communicating with each other through lasers and extending Internet connectivity […]
CRETEIL, France (Reuters) – A man was arrested after he tried to drive a car into a crowd in front of a mosque in the Paris suburb of Creteil on Thursday (June 29), police said, adding that no one was injured. The man’s motives were unclear, and he had not succeeded in reaching the crowd because of barriers in front of the mosque, police said in a statement. An investigation, to be carried out by […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) – A day after an alleged coup attempt in Venezuela, tensions boiled over anew on the streets of Caracas on Thursday (June 29) as youth angry at President Maduro’s upcoming constituent assembly faced off with riot police. Thursday’s heated protest comes just one day after Maduro said the nation that is a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries was the victim of a coup, feeding claims from the government that […]
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday sent a corruption charge against President Michel Temer to Congress for it to decide whether the president should be put on trial. Although just a formality, the handover of the case meant one more step forward in the growing crisis that threatens to bring down Temer just over a year after he took power following his predecessor’s impeachment. The center-right leader this week became the first […]
by Angus Mackinnon Agence France Presse VATICAN CITY (AFP) — Australia’s move to bring sexual assault charges against Cardinal George Pell is the latest chapter in a damaging saga of abuse that the Catholic church has struggled to draw a line under. Pell has been ordered to appear on July 18 before a Melbourne judge to answer unspecified multiple counts arising from his country’s extensive inquiry into decades of abuse in institutions dealing with children. […]
by Aaron Tam, Michelle Yun and Elaine Yu Agence France Presse HONG KONG, China (AFP) — President Xi Jinping arrived in Hong Kong on Thursday to mark 20 years since its return to China by Britain, with activists under arrest as authorities sought to avoid embarrassment during anniversary celebrations. A huge security operation shut down large parts of the normally throbbing city, with thousands of police deployed to keep away demonstrators against what they said […]
“A few more days and we will prevail (there),” he says (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday said an investigation into the source of weapons of local terrorists should be underway soon, as he surmised the crisis in Marawi would end in a “few more days.” “It will be good that after this war, (we) start looking into saan itong mga baril at bala (nanggaling). Kasi may mga cartons doon marka pa (the […]
LEIDEN, Netherlands (Reuters) — Researchers at the Leiden’s Naturalis Biodiversity Center announced on Monday (June 26) the discovery of a 500-gram-meteorite that could help shed light on the origin of our solar system. In a statement, the research center said several people in the Netherlands and Belgium witnessed on January 11 a fireball flying over the Dutch town of Broek in Waterland, making it the sixth meteorite to be found in the Netherlands in two […]
BEIJING, China — China vowed Thursday to continue providing the Philippines with “necessary assistance,” a day after Beijing donated thousands of weapons to the country to help its fight against Islamist gunmen. Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the remarks during a visit by his Philippine counterpart Alan Peter Cayetano and pledged China’s help with reconstruction efforts in the war-torn southern city of Marawi. “Yesterday the first batch of emergency assistance was delivered to the Philippines,” […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine military said that the number of civilians killed by rebel atrocities in Marawi City could be higher than earlier figures after the recovery of 17 dead bodies, five of them decapitated. Task Force Marawi Spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Jo-Ar Herrera said, the discovery of the five victims would be the first evidence that the Islamist militants were beheading some of the civilians trapped in besieged Marawi city, as had been previously reported […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Tourism (DOT) on Wednesday (June 28) denied that it had approved the plans for the construction of the Nickelodeon theme park in Palawan. “We must see first if the project proponents can make good on their assurance to us that their project will not damage the environment, and that this will have a strong positive impact on the people of Palawan,” DOT chief Wanda Teo said in a statement. […]
(Eagle News) — A Filipina is finally Asia’s Next Top Model. Nineteen-year-old Filipina-German Maureen Wroblewitz beat Mihn Tu Nguyen from Vietnam and Shikin Gomez from Malaysia in the finals of the popular modelling competition, making her the very first Filipina to make it to the top. Wroblewitz–probably the shortest of all the contestants—will receive a brand new car, will sign a contract for London-based Storm Model Management, and become a model of Nylon Magazine-Singapore. “The whole […]
