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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AFP) — The death toll from an oil tanker explosion in central Pakistan has risen to 190, hospital and government officials said Friday, as 16 more people succumbed to their injuries. The tanker overturned early Sunday on a main highway from Karachi to Lahore while carrying some 40,000 litres of fuel. It exploded minutes later as crowds from a nearby village gathered to scavenge for fuel, despite warnings by the driver as well […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesperson Steffen Seibert on Friday expressed “deep sorrow over a great German and a great European” on news that Helmut Kohl had died. Merkel’s chancellery chief-of-staff Peter Altmaier said that “we owe an infinite debt to Helmut Kohl: for our freedom, for our unity, for our Europe.”
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany’s longest serving post-war leader, Helmut Kohl, the father of German reunification and an architect of European integration, died Friday at the age of 87. Kohl, a passionate European, helped long-divided Germany navigate the traumatic transition to a reunified country, and later worked with France’s Francois Mitterand to put Germany at the core of the European project. Tributes poured in for the man former United States president George H.W. Bush hailed […]
Nine Filipinos who were part of an armed group that occupied part of Borneo in 2013, in an episode that left several dead, have been sentenced to hang. The incursion by some 200 Islamic militants from the southern Philippines was inspired by a proclaimed Filipino sultanate’s claims of historical dominion over the state of Sabah on Borneo island. The assault led to a siege between the militants and the Malaysia’s armed forces who were sent to root them […]
RAIPUR, India (AFP) — An Indian television presenter has been praised for her calmness and bravery after reading out a breaking news report of a road accident which killed her husband. Supreet Kaur was presenting a news bulletin on the IBC-24 news channel in Chhattisgarh state on Saturday when a reporter phoned in live with details of an accident which killed three of the five people travelling in a sport utility vehicle. The report did not name […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Northern Ireland’s former deputy First Minister and one-time IRA commander Martin McGuinness has died aged 66, his Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein said on Tuesday. McGuinness had resigned from politics in January, citing a serious illness and a breakdown in relations with the rival Democratic Unionist Party. “It is with deep regret and sadness that we have learnt of the death of our friend and comrade Martin McGuinness who passed […]
(Eagle News) — Former Senator Leticia Ramos-Shahani passed away on Monday, her family said. In a Facebook post, her daughter Lila said she died at 2:40 a.m. She was 87. “Bereft and full of grief, but still strangely peaceful in the knowledge that she is now free from all suffering,” Lila said. Shahani is the sister of former President Fidel V. Ramos. She won as senator in the 1987 elections, and had an extensive […]
by Jason Ryan Agence France Presse CHARLESTON, United States (AFP) — A US jury on Tuesday sentenced Dylann Roof, the self-described white supremacist who gunned down nine black worshippers in a South Carolina church, to death over the June 2015 massacre. Roof, 22, was convicted last month of 33 federal charges — including hate crimes resulting in death — in connection with the carnage at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston. […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday (September 29) expressed his mourning on the death of former Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago. “Senator Santiago has left a sterling career in public office. She is best remembered as a graftbuster ‘eating death threats for breakfast,’ earning her the Iron Lady of Asia. A constitutionalist, she has always been an advocate for the rule of law” Duterte said in a statement in Vietnam. “We express our deepest sorrow […]
ORLANDO, United States (AFP) — Florida’s Walt Disney World plans to put up signs warning of the danger of alligators following the death of a toddler snatched from the shore of a resort lake, US media reported. Disney is “conducting a swift and thorough review of all of our processes and protocols. This includes the number, placement and wording of our signage and warnings,” spokeswoman Jacquee Wahler told reporters Thursday. The signs will explicitly warn […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A Japanese man who stabbed his father to death with a chopstick was arrested on Thursday, police said. Michikazu Ikeuchi, 51, admitted that he stabbed his 80-year-old father in the throat with a 30-centimetre- (12- inch) long wooden, cooking chopstick on Wednesday night after a quarrel at their home in Osaka, western Japan, according to police. “Ikeuchi told us he had tried to stop his parents from arguing and he did […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A diet that includes three daily servings of whole grains appears to help people live longer, including by reducing the rates of death from heart disease and cancer, according to findings released Monday. For each 16-gram serving of whole grains, public health researchers at Harvard University noted a seven percent decrease in overall risk of death, including a nine percent decline in risk of heart disease death and five percent […]
