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SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, the third strong tremor off the Pacific nation in less than two weeks. The quake hit at 4.46pm (0546 GMT) at a depth of 39 kilometres (24 miles) about 83 kilometres west-northwest of Kirakira, the USGS added. On December 10 a 6.9-magnitude quake struck off Kirakira. The previous day a 7.7-magnitude tremor triggered severe shaking […]
(Reuters) — Human Rights Watch says they hope to see countries from the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) push towards a resolution of Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis, when they meet in Yangon on Monday (December 19). Myanmar has called an emergency meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers to discuss the Rohingya crisis, just three days after the United Nations said it was getting daily reports of rapes and killings of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A major 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck off Papua New Guinea on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, but no immediate casualties were reported and an initial tsunami threat was later deemed to have passed. The earthquake struck 60 km to the east of Taron, New Ireland, at 8.51 pm local time (1051 GMT) at a depth of some 75 km, the USGS said. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre initially warned hazardous […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President-elect Donald Trump got plenty of attention — but not the kind he was looking for — after a tweet Saturday calling out China for its seizure of an unmanned US naval probe. “China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters — rips it out of water and takes it to China in unpresidented (sic) act,” the real estate magnate wrote on his favorite platform. “Unpresidented” […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China said Saturday it would return a US naval probe seized in international waters, as it slammed the “hyping” of the incident as “inappropriate and unhelpful”. The unmanned underwater vehicle was taken around 50 nautical miles northwest of Subic Bay in the Philippines late on Thursday, according to the Pentagon, which called the capture unlawful and demanded its immediate return. The incident comes amid escalating tensions between China and the […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) –Around 20 containers of smuggled rice worth of P40 million pesos were seized on Friday (December 16) by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) at the Manila International Container Port (MICP). According to the BOC Commissioner, Nicanor Faeldon, the sacks were first declared to contain “glutinous supplies”, but upon checking they found out that it held rice reportedly from Hong Kong which was the place of origin as declared in the documents. “I […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced on Saturday (December 17) that the United States military troops should be “prepared to leave” as previous military deals with the US would soon be abrogated following the US threat to defer millions of dollars in foreign aid to the country. In a speech past midnight Saturday (December 17) shortly after arriving from his four-day state visits in Cambodia and Singapore, a visibly tired but angry […]
(Reuters) — Cheering Filipinos greeted Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte who had an orchid named after him at Singapore’s Botanic Gardens on Friday (December 16). The orchid was named Dendrobium Rodrigo Roa Duterte, as Singapore traditionally names orchids after visiting heads of state. The violet Duterte orchid is a “compact, robust and vigorous hybrid” according to Singapore’s National Parks Board. His supporters, most of them Filipinos, shook hands and took photos with Duterte […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Chinese and Philippine coast guards met for the first time on Friday and agreed to move forward on maritime cooperation, officials said, as relations between Beijing and Manila warm under Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. The two-day meeting in Manila on establishing a Joint Coast Guard Committee (JCGC) came just days after new images showed China had apparently installed defensive weapons on artificial islands in the hotly contested South China […]
by Thomas Watkins Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – China “unlawfully” seized an unmanned US naval probe in international waters in the South China Sea, the Pentagon said Friday, a move sure to heighten tensions around Beijing’s military presence in the disputed area. The underwater probe was taken around 50 nautical miles (90 kilometers) northwest off Subic Bay in the Philippines on Thursday afternoon in a non-violent incident, Pentagon spokesman Navy Captain Jeff […]
Agence France-Presse CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) – Desperate Venezuelans looted delivery trucks and clashed with police Friday as protests broke out in anger at chaotic efforts to change the country’s banknotes, officials and locals said. The authorities took the largest-denomination note out of circulation but failed to release the bigger bills supposed to replace it in time, leaving citizens with no way of buying food. “There is attempted looting in various parts of the country,” tweeted […]
by Rim Haddad and Karam al-Masri Agence France Presse ALEPPO, Syria (AFP) – The Syrian government suspended the evacuation of civilians and fighters from the last rebel-held parts of Aleppo on Friday, leaving thousands of people trapped and uncertain of their fate. Russia, which helped to broker the deal with Turkey, said its operation was now “complete” with all women and children moved from the city. Ankara and a Syrian military source said the evacuation […]
