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LOS ANGELES, May 2, 2023 (AFP) – Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid was named the NBA’s Most Valuable Player on Tuesday, comfortably winning a ballot ahead of the Denver Nuggets’ two-time award winner Nikola Jokic. Embiid, who finished runner-up behind Jokic the past two seasons, earned the accolade after a dazzling regular season campaign that saw him average 33.1 points, 10.2 rebounds and 4.2 assists in 66 games. Embiid beat out fellow MVP finalists Jokic […]
by Hillary ORINDE Agence France-Presse MALINDI, Kenya (AFP) — Two pastors were appearing before Kenyan courts on Tuesday suspected of being behind the deaths of at least 109 people found buried in what has been dubbed the “Shakahola forest massacre”. The deeply religious Christian-majority country has been stunned by the discovery of mass graves last month in a forest near the Indian Ocean coastal town of Malindi. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, who set up […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — James Harden scored 45 points as the Philadelphia 76ers stunned the Boston Celtics in the NBA playoffs on Monday before Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets took a commanding 2-0 series lead over the Phoenix Suns. In a pulsating Eastern Conference duel in Boston, Harden produced a vintage performance -– including a pivotal go-ahead three-pointer with 8.4 seconds remaining — to leave the TD Garden in stunned silence as […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysian rescuers on Tuesday were searching for three missing crew members from an oil tanker that caught fire off the country’s southern coast. Thick, black smoke engulfed the Gabon-flagged ship when the fire broke out on Monday during its journey from China to Singapore, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) said in a statement. Singaporean authorities identified the ship as the MT Pablo. The fire was extinguished and the vessel […]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) — Gaza militants fired rockets Tuesday after the death in Israeli custody of a leading Palestinian figure in the Islamic Jihad group, who had been on hunger strike for nearly three months. The cross-border fire followed the death of Khader Adnan, who had been on hunger strike since his detention by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in February. Israel’s prison service announced the death of a detainee affiliated […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AFP) — The UN on Monday warned more than 800,000 people could flee fighting and dire conditions in Sudan, where explosions again shook the capital in violation of the latest truce extension agreed by warring generals. The chaos and bloodshed, now in their third week, have already sparked an exodus of tens of thousands of Sudanese to neighboring countries including Egypt, Chad and Central African Republic. But the United Nations’ refugee agency, UNHCR, […]
Washington, United States (AFP) — Canadian singer and performer Gordon Lightfoot, who rose to international fame as a folk music star in the 1960s and ’70s, died on Monday. He was 84. “Gordon Lightfoot passed away this evening in a Toronto hospital at 7:30 pm (2330 GMT),” a post on his official Facebook page read, as obituaries started pouring in from the Canadian press. The immediate cause of death was not made public. “More info […]
New York, United States (AFP) — James Harden scored a career playoff-high 45 points as the Philadelphia 76ers overcame the absence of Joel Embiid to stun the Boston Celtics in game one of their Eastern Conference semi-final series on Monday. Sixers star Harden produced a magical performance -– including a pivotal go-ahead three-pointer with 8.4 seconds remaining — to leave Boston’s TD Garden in stunned silence as the Sixers snatched a 119-115 victory. The battling […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is monitoring a low pressure area off Davao City. PAGASA said it is embedded along the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) affecting Mindanao and Palawan. The easterlies are also affecting the rest of the country. PAGASA said Mindanao, Eastern Visayas, and Central Visayas will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms as a result. Flash floods or landslides due to moderate with at […]
PARIS, May 1, 2023 (AFP) – Scientists said Monday they have found a way to use brain scans and artificial intelligence modelling to transcribe “the gist” of what people are thinking, in what was described as a step towards mind reading. While the main goal of the language decoder is to help people who have the lost the ability to communicate, the US scientists acknowledged that the technology raised questions about “mental privacy”. Aiming to […]
MOSCOW, May 1, 2023 (AFP) – A Russian freight train derailed Monday in the western region of Bryansk bordering Ukraine after an “explosive device” detonated on the tracks but there were no casualties, the local governor said. On the same day, officials said power lines had been blown up in northern Russia, which the FSB security service called an “act of sabotage.” The apparent attacks came a day after a Ukrainian strike killed four […]
Singapore is expected to post slower economic growth this year but it “should avoid an outright contraction”, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Sunday. The Southeast Asian city-state’s economic performance is often seen as a barometer of the global environment because of its reliance on trade with the rest of the world. The financial centre also has one of the busiest ports in the world which serves as a key link between Asia and the […]
