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by Giles HEWITT Seoul,South Korea (AFP) — North Korea on Wednesday formally set May 6 for the opening of a landmark ruling party congress — the first in nearly four decades and an event many fear will be preceded by a fifth nuclear test. Anticipation over the congress, last held in 1980, has been mounting since the North signalled its intentions to hold the gathering way back in October. Kim Jong-Un is expected to use […]
Junior doctors in England’s National Health Service staged their first ever all-out strike, walking out on both emergency and routine care. They are locked in an increasingly bitter dispute with the government and Health Minister Jeremy Hunt’s threat to impose a new contract on them.
YANGON ,Myanmar (AFP) — Two German travellers and their local guide were wounded by shrapnel from a landmine in north Myanmar, close to an area of recent heavy fighting between ethnic minority rebel groups, officials said Wednesday. The pair, both 24, were taken to hospital in Myanmar’s second largest city Mandalay late Tuesday evening after sustaining injuries earlier in the day when they triggered the mine near rural Kyaukme township in war-torn northern Shan State. […]
Algorithms that can make a collaborative robot arm react to moving objects within milliseconds could mean a future where robots and humans work closer together on production lines.
MIAMI,United States (AFP) — The Atlanta Hawks scored a crushing 110-83 victory over the Boston Celtics on Tuesday to seize the initiative in their Eastern Conference first-round playoff series. Atlanta’s Mike Scott top scored after weighing in with 17 points off the bench as the Hawks hassled the Celtics into 19 turnovers in what rapidly became a rout. The victory means Atlanta lead 3-2 in the best-of-seven series heading into Game Six in Boston on […]
The U.S. may be leading the race to design driverless cars. But China’s in hot pursuit, with a top-down plan to make them a common sight on the roads, long before drivers in the West start letting go of the wheel. Reuters’ Jake Spring reports from the Beijing auto show, where self-driving tech is getting a lot of attention.
The Iglesia ni Cristo members in Eastern Canada are giving back to the community by conducting a clean up drive. The “Clean Toronto Together” activity is an annual city-wide initiative of keeping Toronto clean and green. The city holds the event every April. Camille Enriquez and Monica de Jesus reports.
https://youtu.be/II_X8QUeUEs Vidoegraphics explaining the origins of the IS organisation, videographics by AFP TV Islamic State took control of Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, before declaring a caliphate across Iraq and Syria. The Jihadist organisation and its leader, Abu Bakr alBaghdadi, took the world by surprise. But the group has existed under various names for more than a decade, born during the USled invasion of Iraq which ousted Saddam Hussein in 2003. Jordanian Abu Musab […]
WASHINGTON,United States (AFP) — Here is a list of the US states and territories won by each of the five remaining Republican and Democratic presidential candidates in the 2016 White House nominating contests held since February 1: DEMOCRATIC PARTY Forty-three contests have been held to date, including in Pennsylvania and the four other primaries on Tuesday. A total of 2,383 delegates are needed to secure the party’s presidential nomination, including the so-called “super-delegates,” who have […]
AFP — Nigeria’s largest nature reserve is under threat, with poachers posing the greatest danger to the park’s last remaining elephants. https://youtu.be/GBFUujhW5zI
by Patrice NOVOTNY Shortlisted as a potential buyer of US Internet giant Yahoo, the Daily Mail has made an online empire out of the kind of content readers can’t resist clicking on. The parent company of the tabloid founded in 1896, Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), confirmed this month that it is in talks with interested parties regarding a bid for the struggling Yahoo. Though DMGT boasts revenue of some £1.8 billion ($2.6 billion, […]
ALEPPO, Syria (AFP) — Air strikes and shelling on Syria’s second city Aleppo and a town to its west left 25 civilians reported dead Tuesday, as a surge in violence tests a troubled ceasefire. UN chief Ban Ki-moon said he was “deeply concerned” by the fighting and urged both sides to stick to the two-month-old truce and troubled peace talks in Geneva. “The cessation of hostilities should go on, otherwise it will be very difficult […]
