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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Kevin Durant is no fan of the NBA’s late-game officiating reports, even when they confirm his impression of referee errors. The league’s most recent “Last Two Minutes” officiating report said that Durant was fouled on the final play of his Golden State Warriors’ one-point loss to the Cavaliers in Cleveland on Christmas Day. No foul was called when the Cavs’ Richard Jefferson’s foot made contact with Durant, who ended […]
TAIPEI (Reuters) — Taiwan warned on Tuesday (December 27) that “the threat of our enemies is growing day by day”, as Chinese warships led by the country’s sole aircraft carrier sailed towards the island province of Hainan through the South China Sea on a routine drill. The drill comes amid renewed tension over Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, following U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s telephone call with the island’s president that upset Beijing. “I […]
ANKARA, Turkey (AFP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said the West was breaking promises in Syria, accusing Ankara’s partners of backing “terror groups” including IS jihadists in the country. At least 37 Turkish soldiers have died in Turkey’s major incursion inside Syria since it was launched in August to back pro-Ankara Syrian fighters battling IS and Kurdish militia. Casualties have mounted as the military seeks to take the town of Al-Bab from […]
TAGUIG CITY, Dec. 28 – MANILA ELECTRIC Co. (Meralco) has energized 26,321 households as of mid-December, a figure which includes the 2,661 service areas identified by the Energy department where marginalized customers badly needed electricity. Meralco said since July 8, it had brought electricity to 1,246 homes in Gaya-gaya in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan. In Manila, the distribution utility energized seven households in Isla Puting Bato, 443 in Happyland/Aroma, 621 in Parola, and 258 in […]
QUEZON CITY, Dec. 28 (PIA) – About 402 classrooms in 118 schools in the TY Nina-affected Regions 4-A, 4-B and 5 are being used as evacuation centers for 4,050 displaced families or 15, 684 individuals. This was gathered from the report of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council released at 6:00 o’clock in the afternoon of December 26. In Region 4-A or CALABARZON, 25 classrooms in 5 schools in the Division […]
ALBAY (Eagle News) – Agad ng nagsagawa ng lingap ang mga kaanib ng Iglesia Ni Cristo pagkatapos manalasa ng Bagyong Nina. Isinagawa nila ito sa Bayan ng Tabaco, Bacacay, Tiwi, Labnig, Malilipot, at Malinao, Albay. Umaabot sa 2,250 bags na lingap ang naipamahagi noong Martes, December 27. Labis naman ang katuwaan ng mga nakatanggap ng nasabing tulong ng Iglesia Ni Cristo.
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Cheetahs are “sprinting” to extinction due to habitat loss and other forms of human impact, according to a new study out this week which called for urgent action to save the world’s fastest land animals. Cheetah numbers in Zimbabwe have plunged by more than 85 percent in 16 years and fewer than 50 individuals survive in Iran, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) warned. The […]
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AFP) — Panama’s government on Tuesday said it was barring the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht from future public tenders after the US Justice Department accused the company of bribes to secure business in Latin America. In a statement read by the minister of the presidency, Alvaro Aleman, the government said it has decided to “adopt the actions necessary to prohibit the Odebrecht Group being awarded and attributed any future contract from public […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is planning a “prime time” nuclear weapons push in 2017 to take advantage of leadership transitions in South Korea and the United States, a high-ranking defector said Tuesday. In his first press conference since fleeing his post as North Korea’s deputy ambassador to Britain in August, Thae Yong-Ho said Kim had issued a directive at a rare ruling party congress in May to “complete” nuclear […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US Secretary of State John Kerry will offer a “comprehensive vision” of how to revive the Israel-Palestinian peace process in a major speech on Wednesday. President Barack Obama’s administration, including Kerry, is to leave office in four weeks and last week gravely offended Israel by failing to veto a critical UN resolution. But US officials said they plan to keep pushing both Israel and the Palestinian leadership to take concrete […]
PEARL HARBOR, United States (AFP) — US President Barack Obama on Tuesday warned against the “urge to demonize those who are different” as he hosted the leader of foe-turned-ally Japan for a solemn visit to Pearl Harbor. Obama, who will leave office next month, also hailed the alliance between the two nations, saying it had “never been stronger.” In remarks that echoed with history and America’s current hypercharged politics, Obama told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo […]
by Frankie TAGGART Agence France Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Co-stars, friends and fans added their voices on Tuesday to a torrent of tributes from Hollywood for “Star Wars” actress Carrie Fisher, after she died at the age of 60 after suffering a heart attack. The screen icon, who was catapulted to worldwide stardom as rebel warrior Princess Leia in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, was pronounced dead in Los Angeles, four days after collapsing […]
