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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — China’s top diplomat told President Donald Trump that Beijing was willing to keep working with Washington to defuse tensions on the Korean peninsula — days after the United States leader implied that Chinese efforts had failed. The meeting between State Councillor Yang Jiechi and Trump at the White House on Thursday also came after US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged China to step up diplomatic and economic pressure on […]
SRIHARIKOTA, India (Reuters) — India fired a rocket carrying 31 small satellites into space on Friday, several of them for European countries looking for high-resolution earth images, underlining its strength as a low-cost provider of services in space. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) launched a 712 kg Cartosat-2 satellite for earth observation and 30 other tiny satellites from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh at 9.29 a.m. (0359GMT). The rocket is carrying satellites from India and […]
PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur (Eagle News) – Iniimbestigahan ngayon ang dalawang babae na hinihinalang supporter ng Maute at dalawang lalaki naman na hinihinalang supporter ng Abu Sayyaf Group matapos maaktuhan ng pulisya na bumibili ng iba’t ibang klaseng gamot sa isang pharmacy sa Pagadian City kamakailan. Kinilala ang mga suspek na sina Reem Sacampong Arimao, 22 taong gulang, clinical instructor sa Mindanao Institute of Health Care Professional na matatagpuan sa Barrio Green, Marawi City, […]
(Eagle News) — Authorities on Friday downplayed the direct threats the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters made against President Rodrigo Duterte, with the military saying they were made out of sheer “desperation.” “The pronouncement of the BIFF was (out of desperation). What happened in Pigcawayan recently was in retaliation for and somehow a diversionary attack resulting from major setbacks they have been experiencing in Mindanao,” Brigadier General Gilbert Gapay, the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ Eastern Mindanao martial […]
QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) — An explosion targeting a police vehicle in Pakistan’s southwestern Quetta city on Friday killed at least five people and injured 14 others, officials said. The explosion occurred in front of the office of the police chief in Quetta city, which is capital of the mineral-rich southern Balochistan province rife with the separatist and Islamist insurgencies. “We have received five dead bodies from the blast site,” doctor Fareed Ahmed, Medical Superintendent at […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The woman at the center of South Korea’s corruption scandal, Choi Soon-Sil, was handed a three-year jail term Friday for bribery in the first of a string of criminal cases against her. A long-time friend of South Korea’s disgraced ex-president, Choi was found guilty of bribing professors to have her daughter admitted to Seoul’s prestigious Ewha Woman’s University and receive good grades, despite a poor attendance record. “The court sentences […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Electric carmaker Tesla said Thursday it was considering ways to enter music streaming amid a report it may launch a unique new service. The high-end carmaker, which already has a tie-up with streaming leader Spotify in some international markets, said it was aiming at ways to please drivers. “We believe it’s important to have an exceptional in-car experience so our customers can listen to the music they want from […]
by Briseida Mema and Rusmir Smajilhodzic Agence France-Presse TIRANA, Albania (AFP) – Albania votes in parliamentary elections on Sunday with hopes that a long tradition of polling fraud, violence and disputed results will come to an end and propel the country toward European Union membership. The Socialist Party of Prime Minister Edi Rama, 52, appears to have just a slight advantage over the center-right Democratic Party of Lulzim Basha, 43, according to opinion polls. After […]
LIMA, Peru (Reuters) – Parents of sick children who live near one of Peru’s oldest mining sites camped out in front of the health ministry in Lima for the eight day on Thursday (June 22) to demand help treating the impacts of mining pollution. Dozens of residents of Simon Bolivar, a district in the city of Cerro de Pasco in Peru’s central Andes, travelled to the capital Lima last week to demand the government declare […]
WYOMING, United States (Reuters) – Grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park will be stripped off Endangered Species Act safeguards this summer, United States Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced on Thursday (June 22), in a move conservation groups vowed to challenge in court. Dropping federal protection of Yellowstone’s grizzlies formally proposed in March 2016 under the Obama administration was based on the agency’s findings that the bears’ numbers have rebounded sufficiently in recent decades. The […]
(Reuters) – The man charged with stabbing an airport police officer in Michigan unsuccessfully attempted to purchase a gun before the attack, which is being investigated as an act of terrorism, federal officials said on Thursday (June 22). The suspect, Amor Ftouhi, 49, of Quebec, Canada, has been charged in federal court with violence at an international airport for stabbing Jeff Neville, an officer at the Bishop International Airport in Flint, in the neck on […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) – The government is urgently conducting safety checks on an estimated 600 high-rise buildings in England which have exterior cladding panels after at least 79 people are believed to have died when fire consumed a London tower block last week, officials said on Thursday (June 22). Workmen were seen removing cladding of a building in north London on Thursday that has been confirmed to have similar material used in Grenfell. Residents […]
