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CANCUN, Mexico (Courtesy ASEAN Secretariat) – An event that showcased ASEAN’s efforts in biodiversity conservation was held at the sidelines of the 13th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on 16 December in Cancun, Mexico. Called the “ASEAN’s Response to the Challenge of Biodiversity Loss,” it highlighted the achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 and the Convention on Biological Diversity Programme of Work on Protected Areas. It […]
By Kenneth Cruz Eagle News Service, EBC Sports (Eagle News) — It was like deja vu for the Los Angeles Clippers (21-8) who found themselves in the same spot as last season by playing without their All Star Power Forward, Blake Griffin. Griffin missed significant time in the 2015-2016 season with a quad injury and then right (shooting) hand injury he sustained from an off-court incident. In his absence last season, the Clippers went 30-15. […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte has been named by TIME magazine as the “most googled person” in the Philippines this year. In its interactive map, Time described Mr. Duterte as “President of the Philippines known for waging a deadly war on drugs.” Time also named United States President-elect Donald Trump as the “top-trending person in 88 countries in 2016” based on the data that Google had provided to TIME. “People across the globe […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — China said on Friday (December 23) its government was paying attention to President-elect Donald Trump’s Twitter post where he called for an expansion of the United States’ nuclear capabilities. BEIJING, China (Reuters) — On Thursday (December 22) Trump tweeted that “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes,” but gave no further details. It was not […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said Friday that US President-elect Donald Trump accurately read the popular mood in the United States to win the election, although “nobody except us” believed in his success. The US president-elect “precisely felt the mood of the society and worked in that precise paradigm, he went to the end, though nobody believed that he would win except us,” Putin said while answering a state media journalist at […]
VALLETTA, Libya (AFP) — Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said Friday on Twitter he had been alerted to a “potential hijack” of a Libyan plane reported to be headed for the Mediterranean island. “Informed of potential hijack situation of a #Libya internal flight diverted to #Malta. Security and emergency operations standing by -JM,” the premier said in a post from his official account. Maltese government sources told AFP there were 118 people on board the […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (Reuters) — In Taipei’s leafy Tienmu district, nearly half the flagpoles in front of the imposing pink building that houses most foreign embassies are bare, as Taiwan’s dwindling band of diplomatic friends jump ship to its giant neighbor. Another flag was taken down this week when tiny West African state Sao Tome and Principe severed ties with the self-ruled island. Taiwan had as many as 30 diplomatic allies in the mid-1990s, but now […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte called on all members of the Anti- Money Laundering Council to resign, saying that all of them were “corrupt.” Duterte was furious that the central bank’s Anti-Money Laundering Council had failed to provide him an unspecified “assessment report”. “I’ll count one to three and if you don’t resign, I will treat you as a drug addict,” he said. In a speech after signing the 2017 national budget, he […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — The Tunisian man suspected of carrying out the deadly Berlin truck attack at the market was shot dead by police in Milan on Friday, Italy’s interior minister Marco Minniti said. The minister told a press conference in Rome that Anis Amri had been fatally shot after firing at two police officers who had stopped his car for a routine identity check around 3:00 am (0200 GMT). Identity checks had established “without […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said there was “nothing unusual” about US President-elect Donald Trump’s call to boost America’s nuclear capability. “As concerns the new president-elect of the United States Mr Trump, there is nothing new here. During his election campaign he spoke about the necessity of strengthening the nuclear component of the United States, to strengthen the armed forces. There is nothing unusual here,” Putin said at his annual press […]
(Eagle News) — The country’s weather bureau, PAGASA, said tropical storm Nina (international name Nock-Ten) is expected to make landfall on Sunday, at around 5 p.m. or 8 p.m., over the Bicol region, and is going to affect Southern Luzon and Metro Manila. Nock-Ten is expected to be packing winds of up to 194 kilometres (120 miles) an hour and gusts of nearly 241 kilometers by Sunday, according to the US Joint Typhoon Warning […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — The Tunisian man suspected of carrying out the deadly Berlin truck attack was shot dead by police in Milan Friday, Italian media reported, citing security sources. Italy’s interior minister Marco Minniti has announced a press conference for 10.45 am (0945 GMT). According to the reports, the suspect, Anis Amri, was stopped in his car around 3am for what was a routine identity check. He pulled out a pistol and shootout ensued in […]
