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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The USA, warming up for a run at their third straight Olympic men’s basketball gold, romped to a 106-57 friendly victory over China on Sunday. The game at Staples Center, home of the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers, was a preview of the teams’ scheduled August 6 clash in Rio de Janeiro, in the first-round opener for each. Kevin Durant, the erstwhile Oklahoma City Thunder star […]
Southeast Asian foreign ministers met with their Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on Monday (July 25) in an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-China ministerial meeting in the Laotian capital. The meeting was the first since the U.N.-backed Permanent Court of Arbitration handed an emphatic legal victory to the Philippines in the dispute this month. The ruling by the court in The Hague denied China’s sweeping claims in the strategic seaway, through which more than $5 […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Former Philippine president Gloria Arroyo has declared herself a victim of political persecution, following her release from nearly five years in detention over a corruption case. In her first public comments since being freed from a military hospital on Thursday after the Supreme Court dismissed plunder charges against her, Arroyo insisted her detention was “unjust”. The court found “insufficient evidence” to accuse her of stealing 366 million pesos ($8.8 million) in […]
China’s state councillor Yang Jiechi met U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice in Beijing on Monday (July 25). Yang and Rice shook hands before sitting down for talks at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. Both sides said they would like to deepen cooperation between China and the United States, and looked forward to the G20 summit in Hangzhou this September. Rice is expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping later in the day […]
Ini-anunsyo na ang mga nagwagi sa iba’t ibang kategorya ng kauna-unahang pagtakbo ng TOFARM Film Festival sa bansa. Ginanap ang naturang awarding ceremony sa Makati Shangri-La. Bago magsimula at habang ginaganap na ang mga pagbibigay parangal, nagkaroon ng pagtatanghal muna kina Christine Allado, the Whiplash Dance Company, at ng Aleron Choir. Ang gabi ng parangal ay pinangunahan nina Carla Abellana and Dingdong Dantes bilang mga hosts nito. Ang “Tofarm Film Festival” ay ipinapakita at sentro […]
Asian shares held near nine-month highs on Monday (July 25) as worries over the impact of Britain’s Brexit vote eased, while the dollar was buoyed by a run of solid U.S. economic data. Policymakers from the Group of 20 countries agreed at the weekend to work to support global growth and better share the benefits of trade, in a weekend meeting dominated by the impact of Britain’s exit from Europe and fears of rising protectionism. […]
by Pierre ROCHICCIOLI Bertrand PINON PARIS, France (AFP) — A fresh crisis hit France’s government Sunday when a senior policewoman claimed the interior ministry pressured her to alter a report into security at the Nice fireworks display where 84 were killed when a man rammed a lorry into the crowd. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve — whose account of police deployments on the night of July 14 celebrations has already faced questions — has been the […]
A 27-year-old Syrian man who had been denied asylum in Germany a year ago died on Sunday (July 24) when a bomb he was carrying exploded outside a music festival in Ansbach, Germany, a Bavarian state official told a news conference, according to a website. Bavaria Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said the man had tried to commit suicide twice before. It was unclear if he had planned to commit suicide or “take others with him […]
VIENTIANE, Laos (AFP) — Vietnam has warned that the inability of Southeast Asian nations to forge a unified front against Beijing’s militarization of the South China Sea is a “test” of the regional bloc in the face of its greatest security challenge. The unusually strong comments from a key claimant to the contested waters, comes as diplomats meet in Laos for the first summit since a UN-backed tribunal debunked Beijing’s legal claim to vast stretches […]
North Korea opened a zoo and nature museum in Pyongyang on Sunday (July 24). Video provided to Reuters by the North’s official news agency KCNA, which cannot be independently verified, showed North Korean students and officials, including the state’s premier Pak Pong Ju and vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Choe Thae Bok, attending the opening ceremony of the central zoo and nature museum. In the footage, North Korean visitors […]
Firefighters struggled on Sunday morning (July 24) to contain a fast-spreading wildfire that has killed at least one person, destroyed 18 homes and forced hundreds of evacuations in the drought-stricken canyons north of Los Angeles, officials said. The so-called Sand Fire grew overnight to 22,000 acres (8,900 hectares), or more than 34 square miles, fueled by high winds and parched conditions after years of drought. It is threatening a string of small communities near Santa […]
Telecommunications giant Verizon is expected to announce a $5 billion dollar deal to purchase Yahoo. A source familiar with the matter says the announcement is expected to come before the start of trading in New York on July 25. This brings some clarity following months of uncertainty about Yahoo’s future, after the company in February said it was weighing strategic alternatives. Verizon was reported to be the front runner in the Yahoo auction. Bloomberg earlier […]
