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by Ivan Couronne BILLING, United States (AFP) — White House hopeful Donald Trump claimed victory Thursday in the Republican nomination race, while shrugging off criticism from the man he aims to replace, President Barack Obama, who blasted the billionaire’s ignorance and arrogant attitude. Trump vaulted past the threshold of 1,237 needed to win the party’s primary race when a group of unbound delegates from North Dakota said they would back him. The accomplishment caps an […]
by Shingo Ito HIROSHIMA, United States (AFP) — President Barack Obama is set make history on Friday as he travels to Hiroshima — becoming the first sitting US leader to visit the site that ushered in the destructive power of the nuclear age. The trip comes more than seven decades after the world was first shown the potential keys to its own destruction when an American plane, the Enola Gay, dropped its payload, dubbed “Little […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Member states of the World Health Organization have agreed a long-awaited reform of the agency so that it responds more quickly and effectively to emergency situations. Accused of having wasted months before declaring war on the Ebola virus in west Africa, the WHO have developed a program to better cope with disease outbreaks and health emergencies. “WHO member states today agreed to one of the most profound transformations in the organisation’s […]
INDIANAPOLIS, United States (AFP) 5/27/2016 -Canadian driver James Hinchcliffe, who watched last year’s Indianapolis 500 from a hospital bed after a near-fatal practice crash, starts on the pole for Sunday’s 100th running of the American oval classic. Hinchcliffe’s third-turn crash into the outer wall last May shoved a steel rod from the car’s suspension through his right thigh and into his left leg, causing massive bleeding that required safety workers to pump 14 pints of […]
INCOMING President Rodrigo Duterte maintained that the Philippines would assert its claims over disputed territories in the West Philippine Sea and Sabah. China has been maintaining that the disputed areas fall within the “nine-dotted line” which it asserts as its territory. But the Philippines has challenged this claim in the international tribunal for the law of the sea, and said that China violated the United Nation’s Convention on the Law of the Sea, or UNCLOS, […]
by Guy JACKSON PARIS, France (AFP) — Masked youths clashed with police in Paris and striking workers blocked refineries and disrupted nuclear power stations on Thursday as an escalating wave of industrial action against labor reforms rocked France. Police fired tear gas at around 100 protesters who broke away from a march through the capital to smash windows of shops and parked cars, an AFP reporter said, in the latest outburst of anger at the […]
By Renzo Nidoy at Rusell Failano Eagle News Service, Pangasinan URDANETA City, Pangasinan (Eagle News) – Maayos at mapayapa na naisagawa ang kauna-unahang pagsamba ng mga kaanib sa Iglesia ni Cristo sa Urdaneta City District Jail, sa Brgy. Anonas, Urdaneta City, Pangasinan noong Mayo 26, 2016. Pinangasiwaan ng District Supervising Minister Bro. Nelson H. Mañebog ng Pangasinan East ang pagsambang isinagawa. Kasama rin na dumalo ang iba pang mga ministro at ang kanilang mga maybahay. Ayon kay G. Celestino […]
by Blanca MOREL MASAYA , Nicaragua (AFP) — Centuries ago, a native Central American people terrified of a witch believed to live deep in the earth used to sacrifice children and young women to Nicaragua’s Masaya volcano. Today, the crater southwest of the capital Managua is an international tourist magnet, where photo-snapping visitors scramble among sulfurous fumes to get views of its bubbling lava — a rare sight. The only volcanoes in the world to […]
MONACO,Principality of Monaco (AFP) 5/27/2016 –Mercedes drivers Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton said they were stunned by the unexpected speed of Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo in Thursday’s practice for this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix. The Australian clocked the quickest lap by six-tenths of a second ahead of defending three-time champion Briton Hamilton, with Rosberg third ahead of Dutch teenager Max Verstappen in the second Red Bull. “It is definitely surprising how quick they were,” said […]
ISE-SHIMA, Japan (AFP) — The leaders of the Group of Seven advanced democracies on Friday said they are worried over rising maritime tensions in Asia and called for disputes to be resolved without resort to force. “We are concerned about the situation in the East and South China Seas, and emphasise the fundamental importance of peaceful management and settlement of disputes,” they said in a statement at the end of a two-day summit, though refrained from […]
BOGOTA , Colombia (AFP) — The Red Cross said Thursday it will help search for three journalists missing in Colombia whose disappearance the government blamed on a leftist rebel group. The International Committee of the Red Cross is acting at the request of the Colombian government, spokesman Edgar Alfonso said. Colombian Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas said the government is blaming the National Liberation Army (ELN), a leftist rebel group. Reporter Diego D’Pablos and cameraman […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Police in New York City arrested a rapper charged with attempted murder Thursday after a shooting at a prominent music venue killed one person and injured three, the authorities said. Brooklyn rapper Troy Ave, whose real name is Roland Collins, was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon after the shooting at Irving Plaza late Wednesday during a show to be headlined by T.I., an Atlanta rapper with […]
