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by Sara Hussein with Maria Antonova in Moscow Agence France Presse BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Russia on Monday warned it would track US-led coalition aircraft in Syria as potential “targets” and halted a military hotline with Washington after US forces downed a Syrian jet. The United States moved quickly to contain an escalation, with a top general saying it would work to relaunch the “deconfliction” hotline established in 2015. The downing of the jet and […]
CARDIFF, United Kingdom (AFP) — A 47-year-old father of four, Darren Osborne, was named in the British press as the man arrested on suspicion of ploughing a van on Monday into a group of Muslims in London. Nine people were hospitalized after a white driver, who witnesses said shouted: “I want to kill all Muslims”, slammed into a crowd near a mosque in the Finsbury Park area of London. One elderly man, who had collapsed […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — NASA revealed Monday 10 new rocky, Earth-sized planets that could potentially have liquid water and support life. The Kepler mission team released a survey of 219 potential exoplanets — planets outside of our solar system — that had been detected by the space observatory launched in 2009 to scan the Milky Way galaxy. Ten of the new discoveries were orbiting their suns at a distance similar to Earth’s orbit around […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — Otto Warmbier, the US student released by North Korea in a coma last week after more than a year in detention, has died, his family said Monday. The 22-year-old, who had suffered severe brain damage, was medically evacuated to the United States on June 13. He died Monday at 2:20 pm (1820 GMT), surrounded by relatives in his home town of Cincinnati, Ohio. “It is our sad duty to report […]
by Gina DOGGETT Agence France-Presse PARIS, France – A car burst into flames after it crashed into a police van on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris on Monday, police and investigators said, adding that the driver was armed and it appeared to be a “deliberate” act. Interior ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said police had pulled the driver out of the flaming vehicle and he was “very likely dead.” Police had said earlier that the driver […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Google is stepping up its efforts to block “extremist and terrorism-related videos” over its platforms, using a combination of technology and human monitors. The measures announced Sunday come on the heels of similar efforts unveiled by Facebook last week, and follow a call by the Group of Seven leaders last month for the online giants to do more to curb online extremist content. “While we and others have worked for […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – A tight-knit Muslim community in the Virginia suburbs of Washington was grieving Monday after a teenager was apparently assaulted and killed as she left a local mosque. Friend and worshippers at the mosque, known as the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, have identified the teen as 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen of Reston, who had disappeared for several hours Sunday. While remains believed to belong to the teen were still being examined, […]
(Eagle News) — Malacañang has condemned Sunday morning’s attack by the New People Army (NPA) on a police station in Maasin town in Iloilo province, saying it was “opportunistic” and “ill-timed. “It’s unfortunate that the NPA raid of a police station in Iloilo happened on the same day the government reciprocated the National Democratic Front’s declaration to refrain from undertaking offensive operations in Mindanao,” Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said in a press conference. “Although the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Department of Tourism asked the public, specifically netizens, students and professionals, to join the contest for the creation of a new tourism video ad for the Philippines after it cancelled its contract with McCann World Group Philippines. McCann was the advertising company behind the tourism ad which was allegedly copied from a South African tourism ad. The minute-long tourism campaign video was unveiled to the public on June […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte alerted authorities to guard several municipalities in Visayas to prevent the entry of members of the Maute Group and the Abu Sayyaf who are escaping Mindanao as government intensifies its clearing operations in Marawi City. But President Duterte said that he does not need to declare martial law in Visayas. He said this was because the Maute Group members fleeing Mindanao can be arrested without warrant since […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Office of the Ombudsman has dismissed the cases of espionage and treason filed against former President Benigno Aquino III and Senator Antonio Trillanes IV for lack of probable cause. The espionages cases were in connection with the back-channel talks conducted by Trillanes with China as former President Aquino’s envoy. “Conspiracy exists when two or more persons come to an agreement concerning the commission of felony and decide to […]
Eagle News – Patay ang isang opisyal ng Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) at kasamahan nito sa operasyon ng pinagsanib na puwersa ng militar, Maguindanao PNP at CIDG-ARMM. Kinilala ang mga napatay na sina Raul Angkay, Medical Officer ng BIFF at Edz Angkay Dalending. Ayon kay 6th Infantry (KAMPILAN) Division Public Affairs Chief, Captain Arvin Encinas, nagsagawa ng operasyon ang mga awtoridad laban sa mga suspek sa kuta ng mga ito sa barangay Labu-Labu sa bayan ng Shariff […]
