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BERLIN, May 5, 2024 (AFP) – A 17-year-old has turned himself in to police in Germany after an attack on a lawmaker that the country’s leaders decried as a threat to democracy. The teenager reported to police in the eastern city of Dresden early Sunday morning and said he was “the perpetrator who had knocked down the SPD politician”, police said in a statement. Matthias Ecke, 41, European parliament lawmaker for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social […]
TOKYO, May 5, 2024 (AFP) – More than 400 residents in northern Japan were urged to evacuate on Sunday over fears a forest fire that has been blazing for two days could spread to residential areas. Helicopters poured water for hours on the mountains around Nanyo city in Yamagata prefecture to douse the flames, but the operation was called off after dark with the fire still burning. “We’re urging over 400 residents in the […]
GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, May 4, 2024 (AFP) – A senior Hamas official on Saturday said the group would not accept a truce that did not completely end the Gaza war, accusing Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu of “personally hindering” a deal. Qatari, Egyptian and US mediators met a Hamas delegation in Cairo on Saturday in the latest bid to halt the devastating almost seven-month-old war that has triggered worldwide protests. They were to hear the […]
A jailbreak at a prison in northern Haiti led to a lockdown on the streets of the coastal city of Port-de-Paix, as authorities tried to recapture escapees with a pair still at large, police said Saturday. Six fugitives had been apprehended since the Friday night escape. Four others were shot dead. Gang violence beginning at the end of February — plunging impoverished and politically unstable Haiti deeper into chaos — has led to more than […]
TIJUANA, Mexico, May 5, 2024 (AFP) – Three bodies recovered from a cliff-top shaft in Mexico’s crime-hit Baja California state are very likely those of two Australian brothers and an American who disappeared on a surfing trip, local investigators said Saturday. The bodies were in an “advanced state of decomposition” when they were hoisted out of a shaft a few steps from the edge of the Pacific Ocean cliff, said state prosecutor Maria Elena Andrade. […]
By Carlos FABAL PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, May 5, 2024 (AFP) – Raging floods and mudslides have killed at least 57 people in southern Brazil and forced nearly 70,000 to flee their homes, the country’s civil defense agency said on Saturday. At least 74 people were injured and another 67 missing from the catastrophic flooding, civil defense said. The toll did not include two people who died in an explosion at a flooded gas station in […]
SYDNEY, May 5, 2024 (AFP) – Western Australian police shot and killed a “radicalised” 16-year-old boy with a knife who had stabbed a man in a Perth car park, police and the state premier said Sunday. The teenager “rushed” at police who responded by shooting him twice with Tasers before firing a single fatal shot, they said. “There are indications he had been radicalised online. But I want to reassure the community at this stage […]
(Eagle News)–President Bongbong Marcos has ordered the streamlining of the permits process for infrastructure flagship projects (IFPs). In issuing Executive Order No. 59, the President said there was a need to particularly further streamline the process for the issuance of required licenses, clearances, permits, certifications or authorizations “to expedite the implementation of IFPs, consistent with RA 9485, as amended.” The EO stipulates clauses on online processes and/or electronic submission and acceptance, the simultaneous processing of […]
By Tanya WILLMER NAIROBI, May 4, 2024 (AFP) – Coastal regions of Kenya and Tanzania were buffeted by heavy rains and high winds from a tropical cyclone on Saturday, adding to the chaos caused by deadly floods that have ravaged the region. More than 400 people have lost their lives across East Africa and tens of thousands have been uprooted from their homes in recent weeks as torrential rains triggered flooding and landslides that engulfed […]
(Eagle News)–President Bongbong Marcos has designated the Tupi Information Technology (IT) Park in South Cotabato as a Special Economic Zone. The Presidential Communications Office said this was done by virtue of Proclamation No. 530, issued on May 2 upon the recommendation of the board of directors of the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA). “Such designation is also pursuant to the powers authorizing the chief executive under Republic Act (RA) No. 7916, or the Special […]
(Eagle News)–The Marawi Compensation Board has so far awarded over P140 million in compensation to the victims of the 2017 Marawi siege. According to the Presidential Communications Office, the P148,848,794.26 awarded as of April 30–or roughly nine months since the board started receiving claims—constitute compensation for 86 death claims and 32 structural and personal property claims. MCB Chair Maisara Dandamun-Latiph said the compensation is based on Republic Act 11696, which “offers a legal framework to […]
