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BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AFP) — Ample courage and honed jungle smarts have been hailed as the main reasons four Indigenous children managed to stay alive in Colombia’s Amazon jungle for 40 days after surviving a plane crash. Against all odds, siblings Lesly, Soleiny, Tien Noriel and Cristin — ages 13, nine, five and one respectively — were found weak, but alive, on Friday after a massive search by some 200 soldiers and Indigenous jungle experts. The […]
SYDNEY, Asutralia (AFP) — A French surfer has survived a shark attack in Australia with only minor leg injuries by punching it twice, local media reported. Dylan Nacass, 23, was surfing at Bells Beach, about 1.5 hours from Melbourne, when the shark attacked on Friday, Nine News said. Video footage shows a shark swimming up behind two men as they paddle desperately to get away. Nacass told Nine the shark latched onto his leg until […]
(Eagle News)—Daanbantayan, Cebu Mayor Vicente Loot, who was named a narco-general by President Rodrigo Duterte, survived a strafing incident on Sunday, May 13. The nanny of his grandchild and his two drivers were however wounded when five men carrying high-powered firearms shot at them at a port in Barangay Maya, Daanbantayan. The mayor and his family, who had just arrived from Malapascua around 7 a.m., were unhurt because they were on a pumpboat at that […]
by Haitham el-Tabei Agence France Presse CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) — In an endless cacophony of car horns, Mostafa Ekram each day confronts the frenzy of Cairo’s traffic jams: pedestrians darting out into the street, swerving tuk-tuks and even donkey carts. At the wheel of his SUV, in the heart of Egypt’s bustling capital, he doesn’t bat an eyelid as he narrowly dodges a black tuk-tuk, a three-wheeled vehicle, driving in the wrong direction. It’s an […]
