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By Lesley Wroughton NEW DELHI (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on Wednesday (August 31) on China and the Philippines to abide by an international tribunal’s decision on the disputed South China Sea and said there was no military solution to the problem. Kerry’s remarks, made in a visit to India, came ahead of a G20 summit in China on Sunday and Monday that could be overshadowed by arguments over everything from […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who has railed against the United Nations for criticizing his government, has declined a request to meet UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, officials said Thursday. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that “contacts were had to try to set up a time” for a meeting on the sidelines of the ASEAN forum meeting in Laos next week, but that “no time could be agreed upon.” A foreign […]
MANDAUE City, Cebu (Eagle News) Tatlo, kabilang ang isang mag-ina, ang natagpuang patay sa isang sunog sa Estancia, Mandaue City, Cebu nitong Huebes, Setyembre 1. Ang mga biktima ay nakilalang sina Ma. Lyn Quano King, 50 taong gulang, at ang kanyang anak na si May Crislyn Quano King, 16 taong gulang, na natagpuang magkayakap. Samantalang ang isa pang biktima na si Nestor Quano ay natagpuan naman sa comfort room. Sa kasalukuyan ay dalawa ang posibleng pinagmumulan ng sunog. Una, ang faulty wiring […]
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) — Martial arts expert and actor Jackie Chan will receive a lifetime achievement Oscar. The announcement came from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday (September 1). Chan, 62, the Hong Kong-born star of Hollywood movies such as “Kung Fu Panda,” “The Karate Kid” and the “Rush Hour” franchise, will join documentary maker Frederick Wiseman, British film editor Anne V. Coates and casting director Lynn Stalmaster as recipients […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Miami Heat star Chris Bosh sought to give public proof of his fitness on Thursday, sharing videos of on-court workouts online as he targets the new season. The 11-time All-Star finished the last two seasons sidelined by Miami after undergoing treatment for blood clots. Bosh was at loggerheads with Miami last season, publicly pushing to return to action yet remaining sidelined. Bosh said in a video released via social media […]
ROUNEN, France (AFP) — The death toll from a fire in northern France this month, sparked by birthday cake candles, rose to 14 on Thursday after a young woman died in a Paris hospital, a family lawyer said. The fire quickly killed 13 people, most aged between 18 and 25, after it broke out during a birthday party on August 6 in the Au Cuba Libre bar in Rouen. Six others remain injured as a […]
by Mariëtte Le Roux PARIS, France (AFP) — At least 2.6 billion people, over a third of the global population, live in parts of Africa, Asia and the Pacific where Zika could gain a new foothold, researchers warned Friday, with 1.2 billion at risk in India alone. These are people who reside in as-yet unaffected parts of the world with the right climate and abundant mosquitoes for the virus to settle, spread and propagate an […]
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) – by Damian Wroclavsky and Sebastian Smith Impeached Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff filed a Supreme Court challenge Thursday to her removal from office in an early blow to new President Michel Temer’s bid to stabilize the country. The appeal, filed by Rousseff’s lawyer Jose Eduardo Cardozo and seen by AFP, demands “the immediate suspension of the effects of the Senate decision.” The Senate voted Wednesday to convict Rousseff on charges of having […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – The United States announced a long list of fresh sanctions on Thursday aimed at Russia over its continuing support for Ukraine’s rebels and the 2014 seizure of Crimea. The new list took aim at a key unit of Bank Rossiya, often called the personal bank of Russian president Vladimir Putin, and some of Russia’s largest construction companies. It included 17 Ukrainian separatists, 11 of them officials of the government Russia […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) – by Rana Moussaoui Rebels and jihadists battled pro-government forces in the central Syrian province of Hama Thursday as the country’s UN envoy warned that more people could be forcibly evacuated from towns besieged by the regime. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said at least 25 civilians, including children, were killed in government air strikes as fighting raged in Hama, south of the opposition-held Idlib province. Anti-government groups, which […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — The east coast of New Zealand was hit by a powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake before dawn Friday, generating a small tsunami, but officials said there was no significant damage or injuries. A swarm of aftershocks, several of nearly 6.0 magnitude, rocked the region for many hours after the initial jolt as coastal residents made their way to high ground by torchlight. But less than three hours later they were advised […]
FRANKFURT, Germany (AFP) – The German government has accused Fiat-Chrysler of incorporating emissions cheating technology into some vehicles, in a letter to the European Commission seen by AFP on Thursday. “From our point of view, evidence has been provided of the use of an illegal defeat device” in some diesel-powered Fiat-Chrysler vehicles, the letter from the German transport ministry reads. Germany launched an investigation into emissions cheating earlier this year after Volkswagen’s September 2015 admission […]
