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Tokyo, Japan (AFP) by Kyoko HASEGAWA Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday left on a tour of Europe and North America with security-focused talks on the agenda after his nation’s biggest defence policy overhaul in decades. Japan holds the 2023 presidency of the G7, and Kishida will visit bloc members France, Italy, Britain and Canada starting Monday. Kishida’s final stop is the United States — his first visit to Washington as prime minister — […]
Bogor, Indonesia (AFP) Malaysia’s new prime minister met with Indonesia’s president Monday on his first foreign trip after winning a confidence vote and cementing his mandate last month following an inconclusive election. Anwar Ibrahim, a long-time opposition leader, was sworn in as the country’s 10th prime minister on November 24 to head a unity government in a shaky alliance with the graft-tainted party of his former political rivals. He met Indonesian President Joko Widodo […]
Moscow, Russia (AFP) Russian-backed separatist forces in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine said Monday they had seized a village near the key city of Bakhmut that Moscow has been trying to capture for months. The village of Bakhmutske in “the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic was liberated by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,” on Monday, read a statement from separatist authorities on Telegram. AFP could not independently verify these claims. The […]
(Eagle News) — Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation, and Unity Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. is the new secretary of the Department of National Defense. According to the Presidential Communications Office, Galvez has already accepted the post offered by President Bongbong Marcos. The offer came following DND officer-in-charge Jose Faustino Jr.’s resignation as DND officer-in-charge. The Palace did not say the reason behind Faustino’s resignation. Galvez served as chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines under […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Almost 90 percent of people in China’s third most populous province have now been infected with Covid-19, a top official said Monday, as the country battles an unprecedented surge in cases. Kan Quancheng, director of the health commission for central Henan province, told a press conference that “as of January 6, 2023, the province’s Covid infection rate is 89.0 percent.” With a population of 99.4 million, the figures suggest about 88.5 […]
BRASÍLIA, Brazil (AFP) — Brazilian security forces locked down the area around Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court Monday, a day after supporters of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the seat of power in riots that triggered an international outcry. In stunning scenes reminiscent of the January 6, 2021 invasion of the US Capitol building by supporters of then-president Donald Trump, backers of Bolsonaro broke through police cordons and overran the seats of power […]
(Eagle News)–Almost 600 police generals and colonels have already filed their courtesy resignations, Philippine National Police chief General Rodolfo Azurin Jr. said on Monday, Jan. 9. Their submissions came days after Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos urged the specified PNP officials to do the same as part of the government’s efforts to rid the national police force of police scalawags. Abalos had said a five-man team would review the resignations. If a police official was found […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – Goldman Sachs plans to cut 3,200 jobs and could announce this as early as this week, a source close to the issue said Sunday, confirming press reports. The American investment bank did not respond to an AFP query seeking comment. A source close to the issue said there would be a maximum of 3,200 jobs eliminated — less than the figure of 4,000 cited in the press last month — […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) – Pakistan will ask Monday for billions in international support towards its recovery from the aftermath of last year’s devastating floods and to help it better resist climate change. To meet the huge needs, Pakistan and the United Nations will co-host an international conference in Geneva, urging countries, organizations and businesses to step up with financial and other support towards a long-term recovery and resilience plan. Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and UN […]
EL PASO, United States (AFP) – President Joe Biden went to the US-Mexico border on Sunday for the first time since taking office, visiting an El Paso, Texas entry point at the center of debates over illegal immigration and smuggling. He met with uniformed customs and immigration staff at the Bridge of the Americas checkpoint, a complex of inspection buildings and fencing that separates the two countries. Officers, including sniffer dog specialists, demonstrated techniques for searching […]
Washington, United States (AFP) A six-year-old boy opened fire in an elementary school classroom in the eastern US state of Virginia on Friday, seriously injuring a teacher, police said. No students were hurt in the incident at Richneck Elementary School in the coastal city of Newport News. “The individual is a six-year-old student. He is right now in police custody,” local police chief Steve Drew told a news conference, adding that “this was not […]
#Earthquake (#séisme) confirmed by seismic data.⚠Preliminary info: M7.0 || 25 km NW of #Port-Olry (#Vanuatu) || 10 min ago (local time 23:32:43). Follow the thread for the updates👇 pic.twitter.com/ZtMmoXG2GW — EMSC (@LastQuake) January 8, 2023 Sydney, Australia (AFP) Frightened villagers fled to higher ground fearing a tsunami when a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck late Sunday just off the coast of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. The violent quake’s epicentre was in the sea just off […]
