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PARIS, France (AFP) — A far-right French mayor will be tried on hate charges over comments that include a claim the number of Muslim students in his city was a “problem”, a judicial source said Wednesday. Robert Menard, who is an ally of France’s anti-immigrant National Front party, will face a charge in a Paris court of incitement to hatred or discrimination, the source said. “In a class in the city centre in my town, […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Cleveland Cavaliers starting guard J.R. Smith will have surgery on the broken right thumb he suffered in Tuesday’s overtime win over the Milwaukee Bucks, the team said Wednesday. A rehabilitation program and timeline for Smith’s return will be established after the operation, the team said. The recovery time from such an injury is usually four to six weeks. Smith left the game in Milwaukee late in the second quarter […]
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Children are being killed and wounded as well as witnessing horrific violence as Iraqi forces battle the Islamic State group in heavily populated Mosul, Amnesty International said on Thursday. Iraqi forces launched a massive operation to retake the country’s last IS-held city more than two months ago, and have pushed the jihadists out of several neighborhoods on Mosul’s eastern side. But the battle to retake the city — where a million […]
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AFP) — Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, is to visit Guatemala next month amid US-China tensions spurred by US president-elect Donald’s Trump speaking by telephone with the Asian leader and threating to snub Beijing’s “One China” policy. Guatemala’s foreign ministry confirmed the visit, to take place January 11-12, just a week before Trump takes office on January 20. The Central American country is among just 21 nations in the world that defy China’s […]
by Frank ZELLER with Kaouther LARBI in Tunisia Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — The Tunisian suspect in the Berlin truck attack, 24-year-old Anis Amri, was long watched as a potentially dangerous jihadist but managed to avoid both arrest and deportation from Germany. Two days after the Holiday market rampage killed 12 people, Amri was named in European arrest warrants that offered a 100,000-euro ($104,000) reward for information and warned he could be “violent […]
by Antoine LAMBROSCHINI Agence France-Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) – A Polish-registered truck, a kidnapped driver, a falsely-accused Pakistani and a manhunt for a Tunisian suspect: here is what we know about the investigation into the truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market that left 12 people dead. The Polish driver On Monday the truck’s driver, a 37-year-old Pole named Lukasz, headed to Berlin to deliver a load of 24 tonnes of steel beams from Italy. […]
by Sofia MISELEM Jennifer GONZALEZ COVARRUBIAS Agence France-Presse TULTEPEC, Mexico (AFP) – Mexico worked Wednesday to identify the charred bodies of dozens of people killed in an explosion at its biggest fireworks market, as authorities investigated what caused the multi-colored salvo of destruction. Thirty one people are known to have died in the Tuesday blast — 26 at the scene and five more in hospital. Forensic experts are working on genetic analyses of […]
(Eagle News) — Lawmakers said it was ignorant and not prudent for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to label President Rodrigo Duterte as a murderer, including his call for the Philippine government to probe its own president. Senator Panfilo Lacson and Kabayan Rep. Harry Roque, in separate statements, criticized the UN High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein saying he does not seem to know the Philippine Constitution because of his conclusion. […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippines said Wednesday that President Rodrigo Duterte’s killing of three people in the 1980s was part of a police operation, after the United Nations rights chief urged Manila to investigate him for murder. In several speeches last week, Duterte recounted how in 1988, early in the first of his several terms as mayor of the southern city of Davao, he and local police ambushed and killed three suspected kidnappers. […]
Hindi umano apektado ng iligal na droga ang dalawamput dalawang barangay sa Mimaropa region. https://youtu.be/6qK2Rasa1nE
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — China has offered the Philippines guns and equipment worth $14 million to wage its war on drugs and combat terrorism, Manila’s defense minister said Tuesday, as ties improve under President Rodrigo Duterte. Beijing has publicly backed the controversial campaign, which has left 5,300 people dead in less than six months and drawn criticism from the United Nations and the United States, Manila’s ally. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said the latest offer […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Persons with disabilities (PWDs) can now avail exemptions on the value-added tax. According to RA 10754, PWDs are exempted from 12% VAT in transportation, doctors’ professional fees, and medicine. Other VAT-exempt services include funeral and burial expenses, hotels and restaurants and concert halls.
