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US President Joe Biden will travel to South Korea and Japan in May, the White House announced Wednesday, paying a visit to two of Washington’s main Asian allies amid tensions with rival China and regional foe North Korea. During the May 20-24 trip, Biden will meet the leaders of the two countries with the aim of advancing his “administration’s rock-solid commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific and to US treaty alliances with the Republic of Korea and […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China’s Xi Jinping has called for an “all-out” campaign to build infrastructure, according to state media, marking the latest attempt by leaders to boost growth in the Covid-battered economy. Despite struggling to defeat the country’s worst outbreak in two years, the leadership is digging in its heels with a strict zero-Covid policy that involves lockdowns in the biggest cities and mass testing. But the measures have snarled supply chains and hammered […]
by Glenn Chapman © Agence France-Presse SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — The fate of Twitter’s top attorney, deemed a moral champion of the platform, was in doubt Wednesday after Elon Musk tweeted displeasure with content moderation she had carried out. Musk, the world’s richest man, has vowed to be a free speech absolutist when he takes control of the global messaging platform as part of a $44 billion deal. The lawyer, Vijaya […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — At least 11 people including three minors were killed Wednesday after a temple chariot procession came into contact with a high-voltage wire in India, police said. Initial indications suggested that the crowd used water to contain an initial fire after the top of the chariot touched the wire in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. At least 15 other people were hospitalised after the incident at around 3:00 am (2130 […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — One of the Myanmar military’s first moves during its coup last year was to arrest the country’s democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi, who has spent decades battling military rule. The Nobel laureate, 76, has been kept out of the public eye ever since as the junta seeks to crush resistance to its putsch. AFP takes a look at what we know about Suu Kyi’s detention. – Where is she? […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is monitoring a low pressure area off Mindanao. According to PAGASA, the LPA is so far located 80 km south southeast of Zamboanga City. It is embedded along the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) affecting Southern Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. As a result, Visayas, Mindanao, Bicol Region, Romblon, and Palawan will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides due […]
DOH says first case also traveled to QC (Eagle News) — The COVID-19 Omicron sub-variant BA.2.12 has been detected in Baguio City, the Department of Health announced on Wednesday, April 27. According to the DOH, the sublineage was detected in a 52-year-old Finnish female who arrived in the country on April 2. The DOH said the patient was not required to undergo routine isolation in a quarantine facility because she was asymptomatic and was fully […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — A Myanmar junta court on Wednesday sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail for corruption, part of a barrage of criminal cases that could see the deposed civilian leader jailed for decades. Since a military coup ousted her government in February last year, plunging Myanmar into upheaval, Suu Kyi has been in military custody. In the latest case, the Nobel laureate was accused of accepting a bribe […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia’s energy giant Gazprom said Wednesday it had stopped all gas supplies to Poland and highly dependent Bulgaria after not receiving payment in rubles from the two EU members. President Vladimir Putin last month said Russia will only accept payment for deliveries in its national currency, with buyers required to set up ruble accounts or have their taps turned off. Gazprom said in a statement it notified Bulgaria’s state-owned gas […]
Hackers’ group found to have links with ex-Smartmatic employee who committed data security breach (Eagle News) – Three men who were connected to a former Smartmatic employee were arrested in an entrapment operation by the combined efforts of the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) and the Philippine National Police anti-cybercrime group. The three men were allegedly behind the hacking of the Smartmatic system, and claimed they could manipulate the results of the May […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — China is “very likely” to put troops in the Solomon Islands after signing a contentious security deal with the Pacific nation, Australia’s home affairs minister said Wednesday. The deal was announced by Beijing last Tuesday, just weeks after a draft version leaked on social media and sparked concern it could open the door to a Chinese military presence in the South Pacific. Asked how realistic it was that China would […]
by Sam Reeves © Agence France-Presse SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — A mentally disabled Malaysian man was executed in Singapore on Wednesday, his family said, after losing a long legal battle and despite a storm of international criticism and appeals for clemency. Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam was arrested in 2009 for trafficking a small amount of heroin into the city-state, which has some of the world’s toughest drugs laws, and handed a death sentence the following year. […]
