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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — As many as 13,000 people were hanged in five years at a notorious Syrian government prison near Damascus, Amnesty International said Tuesday, accusing the regime of a “policy of extermination.” Titled “Human Slaughterhouse: Mass hanging and extermination at Saydnaya prison,” Amnesty’s damning report is based on interviews with 84 witnesses, including guards, detainees, and judges. It found that at least once a week between 2011 and 2015, groups of up to […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Dapat magpakita ng kagandahang loob ang rebeldeng grupong CPP-NPA at patunayan ang kanilang sinseridad sa kung ano ang napagkasunduan. Ito ang sagot ni Justice Secretary Vitallano Aguirre II sa isyu ng pag-papaaresto sa mga NDF consultant na pansamantalang pinalaya upang dumalo sa peace talks sa pagitan ng rebeldeng grupo at ng gobyerno ng Pilipinas. Pagliliwanag ng kalihim, conditional ang piyansa ng mga nakalayang consultant, at maituturing silang wanted kung tapos […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — China on Monday (February 6) welcomed U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ suggestion that diplomacy should be the priority in the South China Sea, and that major U.S. military action was not being considered to contend with China’s assertive behaviour there. Mattis, speaking in Tokyo on Saturday (February 4), blamed China for “shredding the trust of nations in the region”, but also played down any need for U.S. military manoeuvres in the […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — As the planet warms due to climate change and hot days become more common, the US electrical grid could be unable to meet peak energy needs by century’s end, researchers warned Monday. The cost to upgrade the US electrical grid so it could cope with peak demands may be on the order of $180 billion, said the report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “As the electricity grid […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Long before European settlers arrived in the Americas in 1492, the Amazon rainforest was transformed for thousands of years by indigenous people who carved mysterious circles into the landscape, researchers said Monday. While the purpose of these hundreds of ditched enclosures, or geoglyphs, remains unclear, scientists say they may have served as ritual gathering places. Modern deforestation — coupled with aerial photographs of the landscape — helped reveal some 450 […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States and Japan have conducted the first interception of a ballistic missile target using a jointly built system, amid heightened tensions over North Korea’s missile program. The two nations have been working together since 2006 to develop a variant of the Standard Missile-3, a ship-launched missile that operates as part of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. Friday’s test off Kauai in Hawaii saw the Standard Missile-3 “Block […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump accused the media Monday of disregarding attacks perpetrated by radical jihadists, in a provocative statement for which he provided no evidence. “ISIS is on a campaign of genocide, committing atrocities across the world. Radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland,” the president said, using an acronym for the Islamic State group. Trump, who was speaking during a visit to US Central Command in Tampa, […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A profanity-laced tirade brought Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr a $25,000 (23,300 euros) fine from the NBA on Monday for verbal abuse of referees and delaying leaving the court. Kerr aroused the ire of official Bill Spooner with 3:34 remaining in the third quarter of Golden State’s 109-106 overtime loss at Sacramento on Saturday. Kerr, the 2016 NBA Coach of the Year, was ejected with the Warriors trailing […]
by Clare BYRNE Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) –French rightwing presidential candidate Francois Fillon on Monday apologised for hiring his wife as his parliamentary aide, admitting he made an “error” as he sought to draw a line under a damaging scandal. Fillon’s bid has been in turmoil since it emerged that his British-born spouse was paid handsome sums for a suspected fake job as a parliamentary assistant. Late Monday, the candidate himself corrected a […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — US stocks began a heavy week of earnings reports on a down note Monday, with a drop in oil prices sending leading oil producers lower. Wall Street stocks were in negative territory much of the day, following declines of one percent or more in Paris and Frankfurt and a modest drop in London. Petroleum-linked shares fell on Wall Street, as oil prices declined due to pressure from the stronger […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US government on Monday defended President Donald Trump’s travel ban as a “lawful exercise” of his authority, and claimed that a federal court made a mistake in barring enforcement of the measure. “The executive order is a lawful exercise of the president’s authority over the entry of aliens into the United States and the admission of refugees,” read a brief filed by Justice Department lawyers to the Ninth Circuit […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The Speaker of Britain’s House of Commons said Monday he was “strongly opposed” to allowing Donald Trump to address members of parliament during the US president’s state visit later this year. John Bercow said such a speech was “not an automatic right, it is an earned honour” — and one he would object to following Trump’s ban on refugees and travellers from seven mainly Muslim countries. “Before the imposition of […]
