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Russian orchestra performs in Syria’s war-scarred Palmyra
https://youtu.be/zSd75s7KIf0 By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber PALMYRA, Syria (AFP) — Leading Russian musicians on Thursday (May 5) staged a classical concert in the ancient theatre of Syria’s ravaged Palmyra in a show by the Kremlin to herald its successes in the war-torn country. Famed conductor Valery Gergiev led Saint Petersburg’s celebrated Mariinsky orchestra through pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Prokofiev and Rodion Shchedrin in front of a crowd of Russian soldiers, government ministers and journalists. Cellist […]
Dalawang VCM pumalya sa Urdaneta City, Pangasinan
URDANETA City, Pangasinan (Eagle News) — Dalawang vote counting machines o VCM ang naiulat na pumalya sa isinagawang final testing and sealing sa Urdaneta City, Pangasinan Ang nasabing mga VCM ay galing sa Barangay San Vicente at Barangay Oltama. Ayun kay Election Assistant II Rosalie Ramos, pinapalitan na ang mga VCM dahil hindi gumagana ang scanner nito, dahilan para hindi tanggapin ng makina ang mga ipinapasok na balota. Dagdag din ni Ramos, aniya ay may tatlo pa […]
Football: FIFA bans two South American scandal officials for life
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — A FIFA tribunal on Friday issued lifetime bans against two South American football officials who had already pleaded guilty to corruption offences in US court. The ethics committee adjudicatory chamber barred Sergio Jadue of Chile and Luis Bedoya of Colombia, both former senior FIFA officials as well as vice presidents of the South American confederation CONMEBOL, “for life from all football-related activities”, said a FIFA statement. FIFA’s in-house court launched a […]
Toshiba hires new chief to steer past accounting scandal
Scandal-hit Toshiba on Friday appointed a new president to steer the vast conglomerate past a huge accounting scandal that has hammered its reputation. Company veteran Satoshi Tsunakawa, 60, a senior vice president who joined Toshiba in 1979, will replace incumbent chief Masashi Muromachi in June, Toshiba said. Muromachi became interim president in July last year after top executives resigned over the scandal. The company on Friday also named a new chairman, saying that new leadership […]
Duterte supporters complain of vote machines that count “automatic Roxas votes”
(EAGLE NEWS) — Supporters of presidential candidate and Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte expressed apprehensions about massive electoral cheating on election day, May 9, as reports about vote-counting machines (VCM) mysteriously counting a vote for administration candidate Manuel “Mar” Roxas II for blank ballots during a machine testing in Lanao del Sur. The group called MRRD-NECC or Mayor Rodrigo Roa Duterte National Executive Coordinating Committee said two of their election watchers tried the […]
Morocco jails brother of presumed Paris attacks ringleader
RABAT , Mor (AFP) — A Moroccan court has sentenced the younger brother of suspected Paris attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud to two years in prison on charges including justifying terrorism, state media reported. According to his lawyer, Yassine Abaaoud was unaware of the activities of his brother, who was killed in a French police raid just days after the November 13 attacks that killed 130 people in Paris. Moroccan intelligence helped put French investigators on the […]
Self-driving cars in a fast lane: Fiat Chrysler chief
DETROIT , United States (AFP) — Self-driving cars could hit roads within five years, the head of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said Friday, days after the company announced an alliance with Google parent Alphabet. Chief executive Sergio Marchionne declined to disclose financial details of the partnership or a timetable for building minivans that will expand the Internet company’s test fleet of autonomous vehicles. “It’s not sort of ‘pie-in-the-sky,’ the thing is real and it’s coming,” Marchionne […]
N. Korea’s Kim defends nuclear arsenal as test fears grow
by Simon MARTIN PYONGYANG , North Korea (AFP) — North Korea’s first ruling party congress since 1980 moved into a second day Saturday, after leader Kim Jong-Un opened with a defiant defense of his nuclear weapons program and amid fresh signs Pyongyang is readying a fifth nuclear test. The once-in-a-generation gathering of the country’s top decision-making body is being scrutinized for signs of any substantive policy change or major reshuffle in the isolated state’s ruling […]
NGCP ready for election; contingency plans in place
ILOILO CITY, May 6(PIA)—The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines said it has put in place measures to ensure that the country’s power supply is geared up for the May polls. In a presentation during a forum facilitated by the PIA recently, Ben Doreza, NGCP operations and maintenance head in Iloilo, said the NGCP has already implemented its contingency plan. Among these contingency measures were the deployment of facilities and resources and the coordination with […]
DPWH improves road access to tourism sites in Pangasinan
DAGUPAN CITY, May 7 (PIA) – Travelling to tourism sites in the western part of Pangasinan is now easy as access roads leading to must-see attractions in the area were given a face lift, thanks to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). Tourists visiting the Tondol beach in Anda town will be surprised not only with the fine and long stretch of wide white sand beach but also with the paved roadway leading […]
Israel targets Hamas sites in Gaza after rocket fire: army
JERUSALEM , Israel (AFP) — Israeli aircraft targeted two Hamas sites in southern Gaza early Saturday in response to a cross-border rocket attack, the army said, as tensions along the Palestinian territory’s border simmered. “Earlier today… a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel,” a military statement read. “In response… aircraft targeted two Hamas terror infrastructures in the southern Gaza Strip.” There were no immediate reports of casualties. The rocket and air […]
