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Paris, France (AFP) by Alice HACKMAN France’s top constitutional court is to rule Friday on whether to approve President Emmanuel Macron’s deeply unpopular pensions overhaul after months of protests. A green light from the heavily guarded institution would pave the way for the head of state to sign the changes into law and ensure they are implemented by year-end. Experts believe the most likely scenario is that the nine-member body will censure some non-essential parts […]
Beijing, China (AFP) — The new Chinese Super League season kicks off on Saturday after three years of Covid controls with tickets reportedly selling out in just five minutes for the biggest match of the opening weekend. The remodelled Workers’ Stadium in the capital will stage the opening ceremony and a clash between hosts Beijing Guoan and Meizhou Hakka, one of four games on Saturday to get the campaign underway. After restrictions placed on Chinese […]
Rome, Italy (AFP) — Rescuers on Friday recovered the bodies of three Italian skiers killed in an avalanche the day before in the Alps on the French-Italian border. The bodies of three men, all Italian, were found early Friday and taken to the city of Aosta for formal identification, a spokesman for the Valdostano Alpine Rescue, Tiziano Trevisan, told AFP. Their guide, an experienced off-piste skier, managed to free himself after the avalanche hit the […]
Beijing, China (AFP) by Sebastien Ricci, with Sophie Makris in Berlin German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock urged Beijing Friday to ask “the Russian aggressor to stop the war” in Ukraine, saying “no other country has more influence on Russia than China”. Speaking after a meeting with her Chinese counterpart Qin Gang in Beijing, Baerbock said she had also expressed concerns about human rights issues and warned of the dangers of escalating tensions with Taiwan. Her […]
Houston, United States (AFP) — A “horrific” explosion and fire at a dairy farm in the southern US state of Texas killed about 18,000 head of cattle and injured one agricultural worker, authorities said on Thursday. “This was the deadliest barn fire for cattle in Texas history and the investigation and cleanup may take some time,” Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said in a statement. The explosion and fire ripped through the Southfork Dairy Farms […]
(Eagle News) — A total of 3,992 of the 9,183 examinees passed the 2022 bar exams. Associate Justice Alfredo Benjamin Caguioa, the 2022 bar chair, said on Friday, April 14, that the figures translate to a 43.47% passing rate. He also announced the 30 bar passers who obtained the highest ratings. These were: According to the SC, the top five law schools with the highest passing rate were: San Beda University – 97.58% Ateneo de […]
(Eagle News) — Cloudy skies and rain showers are expected in parts of the country. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Metrio Manila, Pangasinan, Tarlac, Pampanga, Zambales, and Bataan, in particular, will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms. PAGASA said these were due to the low pressure area, formerly “Amang,” estimated 40 km southwest of Iba, Zambales. Flash floods or landslides due to moderate with at times heavy rains […]
by Javier Tovar Agence France-Presse SANTA CRUZ DE EL SEIBO, Dominican Republic (AFP) — When Andres was 12, his Dominican Republic citizenship — his only possession of any real value — was snatched from him by a court ruling targeting people with foreign-born parents. Ten years later, Andres is still undocumented in the country where he was born, working a backbreaking, low-paying job in the sugarcane fields with little hope of bettering himself. Andres’s mother […]
by Daniel AVIS Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Countries must do more to avert the costly consequences of growing global trade fragmentation and help avert a “second Cold War,” the International Monetary Fund’s managing director said Thursday. “I am among those who know what are the consequences of a Cold War: it is loss of talent and contribution to the world,” Kristalina Georgieva said during a press conference at the official start of […]
MONTE CARLO, Principality of Monaco (AFP) — Novak Djokovic was knocked out in the last 16 of the Monte Carlo Masters by Lorenzo Musetti in three sets on Thursday after the world number one struggled badly on serve. Djokovic, a two-time winner in the Principality in 2013 and 2015, was broken eight times before going down 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 to the 21st-ranked Musetti on a wet and chilly day on the Cote d’Azur. “(The) feeling […]
by Alex PIGMAN Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US state of Montana on Thursday was on the verge of implementing a total ban on TikTok, after a proposal passed a key hurdle in the state’s legislature. Montana’s Republican-dominated lower house overwhelmingly voted for a complete ban on the popular Chinese owned app, with a final vote set for Friday before it goes to the state’s governor to become law. If signed, the […]
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AFP) — Armed attackers on Thursday killed three women guards outside a jail in southwestern Ecuador, while in a separate attack two people in a small boat were gunned down, authorities said. The massive prison complex in Ecuador’s biggest city, Guayaquil, is notorious for massacres committed by rival gangs vying for power within the penitentiary. Police said on Twitter that reinforcements “have been deployed in order to find those responsible for this criminal […]
