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By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump will be sworn in on Friday as the 45th president of the United States, taking power over a divided country after a savage campaign and setting the country on a new, uncertain path at home and abroad. In a ceremony likely to draw 900,000 people, including protesters, Trump and his vice president, Mike Pence, will take the oath of office at midday (1700 GMT) outside the domed […]
HELSINKI, Finland (Reuters) — Regular visits to the sauna can help lower the risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer’s disease as well as dying of heart ailments, a Finnish study suggests. Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland found a link between sauna visits and memory diseases after following more than 2,300 middle-aged Finnish men for more than 20 years. In the study, men who went to the sauna four to seven times a week […]
Hours before the inauguration of United States President-elect Donald Trump, hundreds of militants staged a rally in Manila denouncing the incoming US president as a protector of big business and American interests that would affect Filipino immigrants. The militant groups of Bayan and League of Filipino Students marched along Roxas Boulevard and tried to come near the US embassy but were prevented by members of the Manila Police District. Later on, the rallyists were […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain’s Royal Navy has disposed of a suspected World War II bomb discovered in London’s River Thames close to parliament, leading to the closure of two bridges, police said Friday. “Victoria Embankment has now reopened after police and the Royal Navy worked together to remove a suspected WWII ordnance,” London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement. Police were called at 5.15pm (1715 GMT) on Thursday to reports of a suspected […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Give Donald Trump a chance, incoming first daughter Ivanka is asking fellow Americans as her father readies to be sworn in as president of a sharply divided country on Friday. Yet in an interview with ABC News, aired on the eve of the inauguration, the businesswoman and mother of three also admitted to urging her father to cut out some of his more controversial tweets. “My father is an […]
(Reuters) — Donald Trump, who takes office on Friday (January 20), has rattled Beijing with threats to impose tariffs on Chinese imports and by questioning the United States’ commitment to the “one China” policy, under which Washington acknowledges China’s position that Taiwan is part of its territory. The billionaire businessman has also vowed to declare China a currency manipulator. Like the rest of the world China is watching and waiting to see what will […]
(Eagle News) — Policemen have now fetched from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) the main cop suspect in the abduction and killing of a Korean businessman last year. After an Angeles City court issued an arrest warrant for SPO3 Ricky Sta. Isabel and other cops involved in the crime, a team from the Philippine National Police Anti-Kidnapping Group went to the NBI to serve the arrest warrant on Sta. Isabel. Sta. Isabel […]
PALMYRA, Syria (Reuters) — Islamic State militants have destroyed one of the most famous monuments in the ancient city of Palmyra, the Tetrapylon, and the facade of its Roman Theater, Syrian antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim told Reuters on Friday (January 20). The Syrian government lost control of Palmyra to Islamic State in December, the second time the jihadist group had overrun the UNESCO world heritage site in the six-year-long Syrian conflict. The Tetrapylon, marking a […]
