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HERZLIYA, Israel (Reuters) — Orbiting the earth at more than 500 kilometers (300 miles) per hour, a tiny satellite with a laboratory shrunk to the size of a tissue box is helping scientists carry out experiments that take gravity out of the equation. It was launched into orbit last month by India’s national space agency. Dubbed DIDO, the mini-lab was constructed by Swiss-Israeli firm SpacePharma, a Swiss-Israeli company, which on Thursday (March 16) announced that […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Canada’s Justin Trudeau invited United States President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka to attend a Broadway musical celebrating Canadian hospitality toward foreigners following the 9/11 attacks. Ivanka Trump and the US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, were guests of honor of the prime minister for the Wednesday night performance of “Come From Away,” a Trudeau spokesperson told AFP. The Canadian Consulate had booked some 600 seats at Broadway’s […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Ten people were injured by flying rock and lava after Mount Etna, Europe’s biggest active volcano, burst into life on Thursday, according to a BBC journalist and others caught up in a terrifying drama on the upper slopes. The 10 suffered minor burns, cuts and bruises and six were hospitalized. German volcanologist Boris Behncke described on his Facebook page how the explosion was triggered by a build-up of steam after molten […]
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Eagle News) – Bumisita si US Ambassador Sung Kim sa Zamboanga City noong Huwebes, March 16. Buong higpit naman na ipinatupad ang seguridad ng siyudad dalawang araw bago pa ang mismong pagbisita ng Ambassador. Nais lamang ng kapulisan na matiyak ang kaligtasan ng kanilang panauhin sa pangunguna ni City Police Director Sr. Supt Luisito Magnaye. Pinangunahan din ni Magnaye ang isinagawang arrival honor ng Zamboanga PNP sa mismong bulwagan ng lungsod bilang parangal sa mataas […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday (March 16) that it’s open to proposals in dealing with Pyongyang after United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the escalating threat from North Korea’s nuclear program showed a clear need for a “new approach.” Two decades of diplomatic and other efforts, including aid given to North Korea by the US, had failed to achieve the goal of denuclearizing Pyongyang, Tillerson said on Thursday […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — Chicago Bulls star Dwyane Wade will miss the rest of the National Basketball Association season after suffering a fractured elbow, the team confirmed Thursday. Wade damaged the elbow on Wednesday in the fourth quarter of Chicago’s 98-91 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies. A scan on Thursday revealed the extent of the injury, which means the 35-year-old shooting guard will play no further part in the Bulls campaign. “Dwyane Wade’s MRI […]
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (AFP) — The European Union on Thursday encouraged Western Balkan countries to create a common market which it estimated could create over 80,000 jobs in an area of high unemployment. “On a very short and medium-term perspective, this could allow.. more than 80,000 jobs in the region,” EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn told reporters in Sarajevo. He spoke after a meeting of six Western Balkan countries’ prime ministers — Albania, Bosnia, […]
by Fulya OZERKAN / Stuart WILLIAMS Agence France Presse ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday accused the European Union of starting a “crusade” against Islam and said his country was no longer friends with The Netherlands, further souring relations. Turkey and the EU are locked in their most explosive row in years after Germany and The Netherlands blocked Turkish ministers from campaigning for a ‘Yes’ vote in an April referendum on […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — At least 42 people were killed and dozens more wounded on Thursday in air strikes on a village mosque in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “The raids by unidentified warplanes targeted a mosque in Aleppo province during evening prayers, killing 42 people, most of them civilians,” said the head of the Britain-based Observatory Rami Abdel Rahman. “More than 100 people were wounded,” he said, adding that many […]
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AFP) — Banks based in Panama managed a record level of assets last year — $121 billion — despite fallout from the “Panama Papers” scandal, an industry body in the Central American country said Thursday. The International Banking Center, which represents Panamanian and foreign banks, said members’ assets “reached the record level of $121.075 billion” — a jump of 3.3 percent over 2015. Panama has come under intense international tax scrutiny since […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Months after her sister Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in Paris of nearly $10 million in jewels, supermodel Kendall Jenner has reported the theft of jewelry worth $200,000 from her Los Angeles home, celebrity website TMZ reported. Police told AFP that they had received a 911 call at about 1:15 am Thursday about a reported burglary in the area of Jenner’s home in the Hollywood Hills, but would […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Boston Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas, the NBA’s number two scorer, will miss his team’s two-game road trip with a bone bruise in his right knee, the club announced Thursday. Thomas, who scored 27 points in Boston’s 117-104 victory Wednesday over Minnesota, is averaging a career-best 29.2 points, second only to Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook with 31.8 points a game. The 28-year-old playmaker, in his sixth NBA campaign, is also […]
