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Beijing faces S.China Sea rebuke at Europe-Asia summit

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia (AFP) — Beijing faces an international dressing down Friday at a gathering of leaders from across Asia and Europe after it vehemently rejected a UN-backed tribunal’s dismissal of its extensive South China Sea claims. The biennial Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, is supposed to be a venue for increasing cooperation across the Eurasian continent and exploring ways to strengthen the global system of agreements that govern everything from […]

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Ilang mangingisdang Pinoy muling itinaboy ng China

Eagle News — Itinaboy ng Chinese Coast Guard ang ilang mangingisdang naglakas ng loob na mangisda sa Scarborough shoal. Kasunod ito ng naging ruling ng International Arbitration Court sa petisyon ng Pilipinas laban sa China sa pinag-aagawang teritoryo sa West Philippine Sea. Matapang na naglayag ang grupo ng mga mangingisda mula sa Masinloc, Zambales ngunit agad silang hinarang ng isang puting Chinese coast guard ship sa bukana pa lamang ng Scarborough shoal. Tatlo pang mga […]

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Lagarde: Brexit could be a ‘catalyst’ for positive change in Europe

International Managing Fund head Christine Lagarde said on Thursday (July 14) the British exit from the European Union could inspire a new “focus” by European leaders. “The positive person inside myself, while regretting of course the decision that was made by the British people, believes that it could be a catalyst for a reawakening, a momentum, a focus on the real issues that will make a difference in people’s lives,” Lagarde said during an event […]

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President Duterte to skip Asia-Europe Summit

MANILa, Philippines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte will skip the 11th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit in Mongolia to be held from July 15 to 16. Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Secretary Martin Andanar said, “the president wishes to stay close to his countrymen in the first few months of his presidency.” President Duterte is just on his second week in office. The ASEM is an exclusively Asian–European forum addressing political, economic and cultural issues with […]

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Dela Rosa says it’s the drug dealers who are killing their distributors

MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa said that it’s the drug dealers who are killing each other, telling sectors that the PNP should not be blamed for the dead bodies. The government and the police are being criticized for the killings of suspected drug dealers. Dela Rosa said it’s the syndicates who are behind all these. Citing information from those who’ve surrendered, Dela Rosa explained that […]

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At least 80 dead in ‘terrorist’ Nice truck attack

by Vincent-Xavier MORVAN with Fran BLANDY in Paris NICE, France (AFP) — A truck ploughed into a crowd in the French resort of Nice, killing at least 80 in what President Francois Hollande on Friday called a “terrorist attack on revellers watching a Bastille Day fireworks display. The driver was shot dead after barrelling the truck two kilometers (1.3 miles) through the festive crowd on the palm-lined Promenade des Anglais, sending hundreds fleeing in terror […]

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Php1.77-b worth of illegal drugs destroyed in Cavite

TRECE Martires, Cavite (Eagle News) — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) destroyed 1.77 billion pesos worth of dangerous drugs at the Integrated Waste Management, Inc. — Barangay Aguado, Trece Martires City, Cavite. A total of 400,356.25 grams of assorted pieces of drug paraphernalia composed of methamphetamine hydrochloride, or shabu, cocaine, ketamine, marijuana, ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and expired medicines; and liquid shabu weighing 66,250 ml were destroyed through thermal decomposition. […]

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For the first time, scientists to sequence genes in space

Given her background in researching some of the deadliest pathogens on Earth, including Ebola, colleagues of newly arrived astronaut Kate Rubins had expected her to want to do “crazy science fiction” on the International Space Station. Instead, Rubins pushed for carefully controlled experiments with a mix of a bacteria, a common virus and mouse cells, all already repeatedly sequenced and safe for testing in the space station’s closed-loop environment. Rubins, a trained microbiologist who arrived […]

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Hollande denounces third ‘terrorist’ act in 18 months

PARIS, France (AFP)–French President Francois Hollande said Friday that an attack which saw a truck plough into a crowd in Nice, killing 80 people, was clearly a “terrorist” act. There was a sense of deja vu in France as the visibly moved president took to the airwaves to address a nation once again in mourning. If confirmed as an act of terror, the incident will be the third major attack on French soil in 18 months […]

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Hillary Clinton campaigns in Virginia with possible running mate Tim Kaine

Hillary Clinton campaigned with potential vice presidential running-mate U.S. Senator Tim Kaine in his home state of Virginia on Thursday (July 14), testing whether the person widely seen as the “safe choice” can propel her to the White House in November. Kaine’s 16-minute introduction of the presumptive Democratic nominee in a community college gymnasium in the Washington suburb of Annandale reflected Clinton’s need to reach out to Hispanic voters with her vice presidential pick. Kaine, […]

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African migrants in limbo in Costa Rica after Nicaragua denies entry

Scores of migrants from Africa have been left stranded in Costa Rica after they were denied entry into Nicaragua on their way overland north to the United States, media reported. According to the Costa Rican Red Cross, some 2,000 migrants largely from Africa, Asia and Haiti have come to Costa Rica. Many use the country as a crossing point north for the American dream. But the overland route to the U.S. is via Nicaragua and […]

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Dozens of tourists on luxury cruise robbed in Peru’s Amazon

A group of eight criminals robbed a luxury cruise ship at dawn on Thursday (July 14) while it was travelling along the Amazon River, near the Peruvian city of Iquitos, local media reported. According to local media, there were 20 Americans, six Austrians, two New Zealanders and two Peruvians on board the cruise ship “Amazon Discovery” at the time of the robbery. “The robbery took place at 3am in the morning on a boat known […]

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