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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AFP) — Myanmar’s execution of four prisoners, including a former member of Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, is “highly reprehensible,” said the chair of a regional bloc leading diplomatic efforts to resolve the post-coup crisis. Cambodia, which currently heads the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), said the bloc was “extremely troubled and deeply saddened” by the executions — Myanmar’s first in decades. In a statement issued Tuesday, it accused the junta […]
by David McNew with Chris Lefkow in Washington Agence France-Presse MIDPINES, United States (AFP) — Firefighters were battling California’s largest wildfire of the summer on Monday, a blaze near famed Yosemite National Park that has forced thousands of people to evacuate, officials said. The Oak Fire in central California broke out on Friday and is raging while parts of the United States remain in the grip of a sweltering heat wave. The fire in Mariposa […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A high-level US delegation will travel to the Solomon Islands to mark the 80th anniversary of the World War II Battle of Guadalcanal, months after the country signed a controversial security pact with China, the State Department announced Monday. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and other senior diplomats and military leaders will visit the islands’ capital Honiara from August 6-8 and attend memorial events organized with Japan, now a […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is monitoring a low pressure area off Catanduanes. According to PAGASA, the LPA was so far situated 190 kilometers north northeast of Virac. As a result, Visayas, Bicol Region, and MIMAROPA will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides due to moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, meanwhile, […]
MASKWACIS, Canada (AFP) — Some seemed far away, others wept or applauded: a great wave of emotion swept through the crowd on Monday in western Canada’s Maskwacis when the pope himself begged forgiveness for the “evil” done to Indigenous people. One way or another, they had all been affected by the decades of abuse against children in schools run by the Catholic Church, part of a system seeking to stamp out the Indigenous identity […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan on Tuesday executed a man convicted of killing seven people in a stabbing rampage in Tokyo’s popular Akihabara electronics district in 2008, local media reported. The Justice Ministry declined to immediately confirm reports on national broadcaster NHK and other outlets that Tomohiro Kato had been executed over the attack, which began with him driving a truck into a crowd. Kato went on the stabbing spree on June 8, 2008, telling […]
by Clement Melki and Amel Semmache Agence France Presse Pope Francis on Monday apologized for the “evil” inflicted on the Indigenous peoples of Canada on the first day of a visit focused on addressing decades of abuse at Catholic-run residential schools. The plea for forgiveness from the leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics was met with applause by a crowd of First Nations, Metis and Inuit people in Maskwacis, in western Alberta province […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — A gunman killed two people and wounded two others in a series of shootings near Vancouver in the early hours of Monday, before being shot dead by police, authorities said. Earlier reports had suggested the assailant may have targeted homeless people, but this was not immediately confirmed by authorities in Langley, a town of 130,000 people about an hour southeast of Vancouver. “I can confirm that four people were shot by […]
by Joe Jackson Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain’s two prime ministerial contenders clashed fiercely over tax, China and character on Monday night in their first head-to-head televised debate, as Rishi Sunak seeks to peg back the frontrunner Liz Truss. The primetime debate kicked off a crucial 12-day period featuring three such live TV duels and four husting events in front of Conservative party members who will decide the contest and begin receiving […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Joe Biden said Monday he does not expect the United States suffer an economic downturn, although GDP figures due later this week may show the economy shrinking for a second consecutive quarter. “We’re not going to be in a recession in my view,” Biden told reporters. Citing strong employment figures, the president said he hoped instead for a soft landing where “we go from this rapid growth to steady […]
by Frankie Taggart Agence France-Presse KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) — Russia’s state-owned gas company on Monday announced an unexpected, drastic cut in supply to Europe, leading Ukraine to call the West to action over the “gas war”. The gas cuts came amid guarded hope of resuming exports this week of another key commodity — Ukraine’s grain — under a breakthrough deal that was called into question by a strike by Moscow on the key port of […]
by Shaun Tandon Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A potential visit to Taiwan by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is stirring alarm in President Joe Biden’s administration which fears the trip may cross red lines for China — and that there is no exit path. China on Monday warned it was “getting ready” for a Pelosi visit to the self-ruling island next month and that the United States would “bear all responsibility for […]
