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UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The United States believes the Syrian people do not want President Bashar al-Assad to remain in power and does not accept that he could stand in elections, Ambassador Nikki Haley said Monday. Haley told a news conference that Assad is a “war criminal,” “a hindrance to peace for a long time” and that his treatment of Syrians was “disgusting.” The ambassador was asked about whether US Secretary of State […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — A diver spotted an unusual pink fish swimming in an underwater grotto in Germany, and researchers now say it is the first known cave fish ever discovered in Europe. The fish, known as a loach in the genus Barbatula, was found in the dark, remote, frigid underground caverns at the junction of the Danube River and Aachtopf springs in southern Germany, said the study in Current Biology. Until now, more […]
by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France (AFP) — In fresh evidence about the dangers of coal pollution, a scientist on Monday said a switch to coal-fired power in a southern United States state after a nuclear accident in 1979 led to a sharp fall in birthweight, a benchmark of health. The study looked at the aftermath of the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania, which caused two nuclear plants in Tennessee to be shuttered and their […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — An egg icon that for years marked profiles of new Twitter users was gone Monday, a victim of “trolls” who often hid behind them to launch anonymous online attacks. For seven years, anyone who created a Twitter account automatically got an egg icon as their profile picture, which they were then invited to customize with images of their own. “This was a playful way to reference how eggs hatch […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will make his first visit to the United Nations later this month to chair a UN Security Council meeting on North Korea, the US envoy said Monday. The April 28 meeting on non-proliferation and North Korea will be “timely” following a US-China summit this week, US Ambassador Nikki Haley told reporters. The United States holds the presidency of the Security Council […]
GABORONE, Bostwana (AFP) — A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 struck the southern African nation of Botswana on Monday, United States seismologists said, with the tremor felt in several neighboring countries. The epicenter of the quake, which hit at 7:40 pm (1740 GMT), was in a sparsely populated area 238 kilometers (about 150 miles) northwest of Botswana’s capital Gaborone, the US Geological Survey said. It struck at a depth of 29 kilometers, and […]
by Marina KORENEVA SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) — Eleven people were killed and dozens more injured as an explosion rocked the Saint Petersburg metro Monday, with the Kremlin saying it bore “all the hallmarks of an attack.” Authorities shut down the metro system in Russia’s second city for several hours as security services said they had also defused a bomb at a second metro station. Russia’s Investigative Committee said it was probing an “act of […]
SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin went to lay flowers late Monday at the scene of the deadly blast that hit Saint Petersburg’s metro, an AFP photographer said. Putin, who made no comment, left a bouquet of red flowers at the entrance to the Technological Institute metro station where 11 people were killed and dozens injured on Monday afternoon in what authorities are investigating as a suspected terror attack. The area was […]
By: Cassandra Gallion, Eagle News Service US, New York Bureau Second seeded Mississippi State Bulldogs shocked the nation Friday night by defeating top ranked and defending champion UCONN Huskies 66-64 on a surprised buzzer beating shot by Morgan William in the NCAA Women’s Basketball Semifinals in Dallas. The loss snapped UCONN’s record breaking 111th winning streak and the chance to win their fifth straight national championship. Tied at 60 at the end of regulation, the […]
President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday, April 2, visited the wounded-in-action soldiers (WIA) at the Camp Evangelista Station Hospital (CESH) in the 4th Infantry Division (4ID) of Camp BGen. Edilberto Evangelista, Cagayan de Oro City. He personally awarded the Wounded Personnel Medal to the WIA soldiers confined at the CESH.
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday called out Senator Francis Pangilinan for authoring the Juvenile Justice Welfare Act, and reiterated his support for programs that would instill discipline in the youth amid the prevailing lack of “sense of obedience” among Filipinos. In a speech during the Boy Scouts of the Philippines investiture rites, Duterte, who was wearing a Boy Scouts uniform, said Pangilinan’s law was the reason behind “five to six generations of people who committed crimes.” “I’m […]
(Eagle News) – The fourth round of formal peace talks opened on Monday, April 3, in the Hague, The Netherlands where both panels from the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines spoke positively of having a bilateral ceasefire agreement signed soon. No less than the NDFP chief consultant, Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison thanked President Rodrigo Duterte for “being gracious” in allowing the members […]
