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by Fiachra GIBBONS Agence France Presse CANNES, France (AFP) — Arnold Schwarzenegger has four Hummers and likes nothing better than getting up at 5am to ride his Harley Davidson to the beach for breakfast. Yet “The Terminator” star insists that should not stop him being an environmental evangelist. “Saving the planet is also about technology,” the former California governor told AFP, putting his foot on a chair and wagging a skull-ringed finger to make his […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) – Three climbers died on Everest over the weekend and another is missing, officials confirmed Monday, in one of the deadliest episodes on the peak since an avalanche swept through base camp killing 18 two years ago. More than a dozen climbers have also been rescued from the 8,848 metre (29,030 foot) mountain in the last three days after running into difficulties while attempting to summit, helicopter rescue operators told AFP. […]
VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) — Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau photobombed a group of high school students posing for prom photos on Friday (May 19) while jogging along a Vancouver waterfront. The students, sporting their finest formal wear, were taking photos along the Stanley Park Seawall when Trudeau jogged past them. The teens asked him to take a proper group photo and he obliged and provided a big grin for the exited students. Trudeau’s official photographer, Adam […]
by Hwang Sunghee Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea on Monday declared its medium-range Pukguksong-2 missile ready for deployment after a weekend test, the latest step in its quest to defy UN sanctions and develop an intercontinental rocket capable of striking US targets. The state-run Korean Central News Agency said the North’s leader Kim Jong-Un oversaw Sunday’s launch, which sparked a fresh chorus of international condemnation and threats of tougher sanctions. […]
President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, May 19 led the groundbreaking and launching of the Armed Forces of the Philippines-Philippine National Police housing design and modalities of Madayaw Residences at Kadayawan Homes in Bangkal, Barangay Talomo Proper, Davao City. The President was joined by Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco, Jr., National Housing Authority General Manager Marcelino Escalada, Jr., Eastern Mindanao Commander Lt. Gen. Rey Leonardo Guerrero, PNP Chief Police Director General Ronald Dela Rosa, San Miguel Corporation […]
by Mike Smith Agence France-Presse JERUSALEM, Israel (AFP) – US President Donald Trump visits Jerusalem Monday to seek ways to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace, a goal that has eluded his predecessors but which he says could be easier than “people have thought”. Trump’s visit is part of his first trip abroad as president and follows an initial stop in Saudi Arabia, where he urged Islamic leaders to take a stand against violence committed in the name […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo stocks opened higher on Monday, tracking gains on Wall Street last week as higher oil prices lifted energy shares. US stocks rose on Friday, recovering losses sustained earlier in the week on worries about President Donald Trump’s growth agenda in the wake of burgeoning investigations of the White House. The White House has been thrown into turmoil by a succession of stunning allegations against the president. James Comey, the former […]
BAYBAY CITY, Leyte (Eagle News) – Naiwang sinaing ang itinuturong dahilan ng pagkakatupok ng mahigit na tatlumpung kabahayan sa Sto. Nino, Baybay City, Leyte. Nangyari ang nasabing insidente noong Biyernes, Mayo 19 bandang 10:00 ng umaga. Nagsimula ang sunog sa bahay ni G. Eduardo Quillasa. Ayon sa mga kapitbahay, nagsaing umano ang pamilya Quillasa gamit ang panggatong na kahoy at iniwan ito na walang nagbabantay. Ito ang itinuturong dahilan ng pagkatupok ng mahigit sa 30 na […]
by Nina LARSON GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The Swiss voted Sunday in favor of a massive overhaul of the country’s energy system by gradually replacing the power from its ageing nuclear reactors with renewable sources. A full 58.2 percent of Swiss voters supported the shift, according to a final tally after Sunday’s referendum, with only four of the country’s 26 cantons voting “no”. The move has been in the making since shortly after Japan’s Fukushima […]
ASUNCION, Davao del Norte (Eagle News) – Isang endangered barn owl ang ibinigay ng tatlong bata sa Asuncion Municipal Police Station, Asuncion, Davao Del Norte noong Huwebes, Mayo 18. Ayon kay Chief of Police Edmund Montillano ng Asuncion MPS, natagpuan umano ng tatlong bata ang nasabing owl na hinang-hina na at hindi na makakain. Hindi na rin ito makalipad dahil sa natamong sugat sa kanang pakpak nito. Kaya ipinasya ng mga bata na i-turn over ito sa […]
by Johannes MYBURGH / Carola SOLÉ Agence France-Presse BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) – Brazil’s embattled President Michel Temer won a small reprieve Sunday when a key coalition partner delayed a decision on whether to abandon him over an explosive corruption scandal. Nationwide street protests called by leftist groups also had only a modest impact, with no more than a few hundred people in each major city, further easing the sense of intense crisis for the center-right […]
Reuters — ‘Alien: Covenant’ edged out ‘Guardians of the Galaxy 2’ to top the weekend box office charts, with ‘Everything, Everything’ coming in third place, according to Box Office Mojo. ‘Alien’ topped the charts at 36 million dollars, just edging out ‘Guardians.’ ‘Everything, Everything,” came in third, at 12 million dollars.
