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German prosecutors said Thursday there was no indication of a terrorist motive in a knife attack on a train that killed two teenagers and wounded several other passengers. A 33-year-old suspect named only as Ibrahim A., a stateless man of Palestinian origin, has been detained over Wednesday’s stabbing spree on the route between the northern cities of Hamburg and Kiel. “There are no indications of a terrorist background,” Peter Mueller-Rakow, a spokesman for the local […]
Amsterdam, Netherlands (AFP)– Plagued by ever-shrinking space to park its hundreds of thousands of bicycles, Amsterdam opened Wednesday the first of its largest-ever bicycle parking complexes, built underwater in a pioneering engineering project. The shelter is constructed beneath the Open Haven Front, an access tributary to the city’s IJ river, and will be followed by another next to the IJ itself that will open in February. They will have a combined capacity for 11,000 bikes […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippines’ economic growth beat expectations last year, fuelled by strong consumer spending despite rising consumer prices, officials said Thursday. Gross domestic product expanded 7.6 percent in 2022, the state statistics agency said in a briefing, faster than the pandemic-blighted 5.7 percent output in 2021. The reading topped the government’s target of 6.5-7.5 percent growth. “There was so much pent-up demand… and that significantly improved economic activities,” Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Arsenio […]
by Kaouthar Oudrhiri Agence France-Presse CASABLANCA, Morocco (AFP) — Oumar left home in Guinea five years ago in search of a better life in Europe, but today he inhabits a daily purgatory of hunger, cold and police violence in Morocco. “Just surviving every day is a battle,” said the 25-year-old. “It’s exhausting not eating enough, not sleeping under a roof, not feeling safe, experiencing racism.” He spends his nights camped out on the pavement outside […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – Tesla reported another round of record quarterly profits Wednesday while confirming its long-term growth outlook in spite of concerns about rising competition and macroeconomic headwinds. Elon Musk’s electric vehicle (EV) company reported fourth-quarter profits of $3.7 billion, up 59 percent from the year-ago period as revenues jumped 37 percent to $24.3 billion. The results were fueled by a 31 percent rise in vehicle deliveries compared with the year-ago period. The EV […]
by Ryland JAMES Agence France-Presse WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — Hundreds gathered to applaud Jacinda Ardern as she left New Zealand’s parliament to resign as prime minister on Wednesday, before Chris Hipkins was swiftly sworn in as her replacement. Ardern said last week she no longer had “enough in the tank” after steering the country through natural disasters, its worst-ever terror attack and the Covid-19 pandemic. Hipkins was sworn in by Governor-General Cindy Kiro during […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The man accused of killing seven fellow farmworkers and wounding another in California could face the death penalty if convicted of multiple murder charges, a prosecutor said Wednesday, as the suspect appeared in court for the first time. Zhao Chunli, 66, was arrested Monday in Half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco, shortly after twin attacks at farms that left five men and two women dead. Zhao appeared in […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) – Social networking giant Meta announced Tuesday it would soon reinstate former president Donald Trump’s accounts on Facebook and Instagram with “new guardrails,” two years after he was banned over the 2021 US Capitol insurrection. “We will be reinstating Mr. Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks,” Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, said in a statement, adding that the move would come with “new guardrails in place […]
(Eagle News) — A 4.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Quezon early Thursday, Jan. 26. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake hit at 12:27 a.m. The epicenter was 43 kilometers northeast of Patnanungan, Quezon. The depth of focus was 32 kilometers. The following instrumental intensities were reported: Instrumental Intensities: Intensity II – Pasacao, Camarines Sur; Polillo, Quezon No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A European country has proposed sending cluster munitions to Ukraine, believing the controversial weapons — whose use by Russia has been condemned — could help on the battlefield, an official said Wednesday. An official from a European nation, who did not want to be identified by name or country, said his government approved the shipment and was seeking permission from Germany, which is involved in the production of the munitions […]
(Eagle News) — President Bongbong Marcos paid tribute to the 44 Philippine National Police’s Special Action Force members who were killed in a mission to arrest Malaysian bomber Zulkifli Bin Hir alias Marwan in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in 2015. In a statement, the President said their heroism “will always inspire us as we continue to protect and serve our people.” “We honor the 44 brave Special Action Force officers who made the ultimate sacrifice in the […]
ALGECIRAS, Spain (AFP) — A church official was killed and a priest seriously wounded late Wednesday when a man wielding a machete stormed two churches in southern Spain, the government said. Prosecutors immediately opened a terror probe into the attack, which took place in the port city of Algeciras in Spain’s southern Andalusia region. “Just after 7:00 pm (1800 GMT) this evening, a man entered the church of San Isidro in Algeciras, where, armed with […]
