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Cambodian authorities rescued more than half a ton of live tortoises and pythons stolen by smugglers, a forestry official said Tuesday, the latest haul in a country with a thriving illegal wildlife trade. The animals — 102 elongated tortoises and 17 pythons — weighed a total of 570 kilos. Forestry official Y Sophy said, they were confiscated Monday afternoon from a cargo truck in Cambodia’s Kandal province. No arrests were made as the truck’s driver […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico – Mexican Senators hung an anti-Trump banner outside Mexico City’s Senate on Tuesday (March 29) as part of a campaign to stir pride in Mexicans amidst fears that criticism of the country and its people by U.S. Republican front runner Donald Trump is creating an atmosphere of anti-Mexican rhetoric. Troubled by Trump’s successes in U.S. primaries, the campaign using #mxcontratrump (#mxagainsttrump) was launched by Senate leader Miguel Barbosa of the leftist Party […]
Senator Bongbong Marcos has attributed to politics the staging of an online exhibition of the Marcos jewelry collection that was seized by the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) in the aftermath of the people power revolution that toppled the government of his father, the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos. The PCGG’s online exhibit titled “virtual jewelry exhibit, a story of excesses: what could have fueled a nation’s development” began on March 16. The PCGG said […]
TOKYO,Japan (Reuters) — Thousands of people protested in front of the Japanese parliament on Tuesday evening (March 29), on the day laws loosening the limits of Japan’s pacifist constitution on its military took effect. Surveys showed the public remained divided over a change that allows Japanese troops to fight overseas for the first time since World War Two. The protesters held placards that read “Protect the constitution” and “Protect the lives of self-defense force personnel.” […]
by Philippe SIUBERSKI / Michelle Fitzpatrick RUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Brussels airport said it would not reopen on Wednesday despite drills to test resuming partial services after the suicide bombings that struck its departure hall and a metro train, as Belgium lowered the death toll to 32. Zaventem airport has been closed since twin bombings wrecked the departure hall on March 22, in coordinated suicide attacks that were claimed by the Islamic State group and […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump on Tuesday refused to back any nominee but himself, another flip-flop in his position since the start of the race. In an interview on CNN, the party frontrunner was asked if he would support the Republican candidate for the White House, no matter who it ends up being. “No, I don’t anymore,” Trump said. “No, we’ll see who it is.” Trump added: “I have been […]
LAHORE,Pakistan (Reuters) — Residents in the Pakistan city of Lahore, concerned about their safety, demanded more security on Tuesday (March 29) after an Easter Day bombing on Sunday (March 27) that killed at least 70 people in the provincial capital of country’s richest and most populous province. Pakistan has decided to launch a paramilitary crackdown on Islamist militants in Punjab, officials said on Monday (March 28). Security and government officials told Reuters the decision had […]
CAIRO, Egypt (Reuters) — Passengers from the hijacked Egypt Air plane returned home on Tuesday night (March 29) after their plane was forced to divert to Cyprus following a threat from a hijacker who was later arrested. The plane flying from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked and forced to land in Cyprus by a man with what authorities said was a fake suicide belt. Neither the passengers or crew were harmed during the incident. Eighty-one […]
by Kiki Siregar JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Ten Indonesian sailors have been kidnapped in waters of the conflict-wracked southern Philippines by Islamic militants who have demanded a ransom for their release, authorities said Tuesday. The crew were travelling on a tugboat pulling a barge from Borneo island to thePhilippines when they were hijacked, Indonesian and Philippine officials said. Hijackers on a wooden motor boat are thought to have abducted the sailors Saturday. The vessels’ owners […]
ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT -Egypt’s interior ministry released footage on Tuesday (March 29) of a man they described as the hijacker of an Egypt air plane, passing through airport security before boarding the flight. The footage was posted on the interior ministry’s social media accounts. It shows a screen showing people by a luggage x-ray machine before a person circled in red passes through. He appears to place his bag on the machine and pass through an […]
MANILA, Mar. 30 — Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz recently said that the increased number of Filipino candidate nurses and caregivers who could be deployed under the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) shows there is a continuing demand in Japan for health workers from the Philippines. “The high number of Filipino candidate caregivers and nurses for the eighth batch under the JPEPA program is the biggest batch since its beginning in 2009,” Baldoz said. “This […]
(Reuters) — Former Canadian Cabinet minister Jean Lapierre died on Tuesday (March 29) in a plane crash that also killed his wife and three of his siblings on the way to his father’s funeral in eastern Quebec. The TVA network, for which Lapierre worked as a political commentator, said all seven people on board Lapierre’s twin-engined chartered aircraft were killed when it crashed in bad weather as it was coming in to land on […]
