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HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA (Reuters) – Large parts of Texas were under a flash flood warning on Monday (April 18) after a storm system dumped as much as 18 inches (45 cm) of rain in areas near Houston, causing hundreds of canceled flights, closed roads and massive power outages. One fatality has been reported, Channel 13 in Houston said, from storms that have caused nearly 900 water rescues in the country’s fourth-largest city. The National Weather Service […]
https://youtu.be/1YC4u8skQxA SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce on Tuesday mocked Johnny Depp’s acting skills in a video recorded with his wife as an apology for breaking the country’s strict quarantine laws. Joyce, who is also agriculture minister, sparked global headlines last year when he threatened to have the couple’s pet dogs put down unless they “buggered off back to the United States”. The Hollywood star and actress-model Amber Heard on Monday […]
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders accused front-runner Hillary Clinton of apparent campaign finance violations on Monday, ratcheting up the rhetoric against his rival one day before New York state’s crucial primary elections. Sanders questioned whether Clinton’s campaign violated legal limits on donations by paying her staffers with funds from a joint fundraising effort by Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, or DNC. Sanders has long maintained that the DNC has favored Clinton over Sanders. […]
(REUTERS) — Bill Gates said on Monday (April 18) that no one was an “absolutist” on either side of the digital privacy debate, but the co-founder of Microsoft Corp said he supports his company’s lawsuit against the U.S. government seeking the freedom to tell customers when federal agencies have sought their data. “There probably are some cases where (the government) should be able to go in covertly and get information about a company’s email,” […]
The United States will send more troops to Iraq and will put them closer to the front lines of battle there to advise Iraqi forces in the war against Islamic State militants. U.S. defense officials said on Monday that Washington will deploy about 200 additional troops, mostly as advisers for Iraqi troops as they advance towards Mosul, the largest Iraqi city still under Islamic State control. “As we see the Iraqis willing to fight and […]
(REUTERS) — Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff vowed on Monday to fight impeachment tooth-and-nail in the Senate after a heavy defeat in the lower house of Congress raised the likelihood of an end to 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America’s largest economy. In a raucous vote late on Sunday that sparked jubilation among Rousseff’s foes, the opposition comfortably surpassed the two-thirds majority needed to send Brazil’s first female president for trial in the Senate […]
https://youtu.be/68DYa_2sSzY QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) — The death toll from the powerful earthquake that struck Ecuador over the weekend has risen to at least 413, government officials reported Monday. “We are counting 413 people dead at present,” the country’s security ministry said. The new toll from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Ecuador on Saturday evening updates an earlier count of 350. pld/bfm/acb © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
(REUTERS) — Philippine presidential hopeful Rodrigo Duterte stuck to his guns on Sunday (April 17) amid outrage over a remark he made about a murdered rape victim, saying he regretted his “gutter language” but said he would not apologise for being misinterpreted. A YouTube video appeared over the weekend showing Duterte speaking at a recent rally where he recalled his experience of being a local mayor during a 1989 prison riot in which an […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) – The Meralco Bolts proved that they truly deserve their seeding in the PBA Commissioner’s Cup Quarter Finals after a 4th quarter comeback to eliminate the NLEX Road Warriors, 104-97, and clinch a semi-finals berth. The Road Warriors were leading most of game and at one point in the 2nd quarter had led as much as 12 points. The Bolts patiently waited for their turn to bounce back but NLEX […]
(REUTERS) — Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is throwing a concert in a park with a dramatic view of Manhattan’s skyscrapers. At the northern end of New York state, Republican front-runner Donald Trump will hold a rally in Buffalo, a Rust Belt city recovering from economic decline. The Democratic front-runner, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who represented New York for eight years in the U.S. Senate and whose main home is in a […]
(Reuters) — A member of Islamic State’s war council and two aides were killed in northern Iraq on Monday by U.S. and Kurdish commandos in the second helicopter raid in two days in the area by a U.S.-led coalition, Kurdish security sources said. A statement by the Kurdish regional security council said Monday’s raid south of the Iraqi city of Mosul killed Suleiman Abd Shabib al-Jabouri, also known as Abu Saif. As a member of the […]
(REUTERS) — An explosion aboard a bus in Jerusalem caused around 20 casualties on Monday, Israeli media said, and police said it may have been a militant attack or the result of a fire from other causes. Television images showed smoke billowing from two burned-out buses, one of which apparently set fire to the other, on Derech Hebron, an area in southwest Jerusalem close to the boundary with the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Smoke billowed over the […]
