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(Eagle News)–The Supreme Court on Friday, April 17, ordered jail authorities to comment on the petition of 22 detainees who are seeking their temporary freedom amid the COVID-19 crisis. The 15 justices ordered the respondents to file their comment to the petition filed by the group led by National Democratic Front consultant Vicente Ladlad by April 24. The group of detainees had asked they be freed temporarily on bail or on recognizance, citing what they […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert, whose positive coronavirus test prompted the NBA to shut down its season, says the virus has caused him to lose his sense of smell. The French big man, whose defensive talents earned him the nickname the “Stifle Tower,” tested positive for COVID-19 on March 11, the result bringing the NBA season to an abrupt halt. In social media posts since then, the 27-year-old had […]
SHANGHAI, China (AFP) — The NBA and Brooklyn Nets abruptly canceled a media event in Shanghai on Tuesday as the American basketball league struggles with a public relations crisis sparked by a tweet from a Houston Rockets executive backing Hong Kong democracy protesters. Nets players, the team’s Taiwanese-Canadian owner Joseph Tsai, and NBA China officials were scheduled to be on hand for the publicity event, ahead of a pair of exhibition games in China against […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that “allies owe each other respect,” after he was assailed on Twitter by US President Donald Trump after his visit to France for World War I commemorations. “I think he’s doing this for American politics,” Macron said in a televised interview on board France’s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea. “At every crucial moment in our history, we have been allies,” he said […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Online reaction to the suspected terror attack on a pop concert that killed at least 19 people has been swift. Singer Ariana Grande, who had just finished performing in Manchester, northern England, when the blast took place, tweeted that she was “broken” by the attack. “From the bottom of my heart, I am so so sorry. I don’t have words,” the 23-year-old wrote on her verified @ArianaGrande account, which has […]
Reuters — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday (January 5) targeted Toyota Motor Corp, threatening to impose a hefty fee on the Japanese automaker it if builds its Corolla cars for the U.S. market at a plant in Mexico. “Toyota Motor said will build a new plant in Baja, Mexico, to build Corolla cars for U.S. NO WAY! Build plant in U.S. or pay big border tax,” Trump said in a post on Twitter. Toyota, […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — No, Britney Spears is not dead. Yet her fans’ hearts may have skipped a beat today when tweets purportedly from Sony Music Entertainment said “RIP @britneyspears #RIPBritney 1981-2016” and “Britney spears is dead by accident! We will tell you more soon #RIPBritney.” The real Sony Music Entertainment quickly deleted those tweets and issued a terse clarification: “Sony Music Entertainment’s Twitter account was compromised. This has been rectified,” it said. […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President-elect Donald Trump took on Bill Clinton Tuesday in a new tweet attack, after the former president questioned his intelligence. In an impromptu discussion at a book store in upstate New York earlier this month, Clinton said this when asked if he thought Trump was smart: “He doesn’t know much. One thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him.” Clinton made the remarks […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese state media said Monday US President-elect Donald Trump’s diplomatic inexperience could spark a confrontation between the two nations, while one newspaper termed him unfit to lead a superpower. They were commenting on Trump’s response to Beijing’s seizure of a US maritime probe in international waters, a move which raised already heightened tensions between the world’s two largest military powers. A Chinese naval vessel “unlawfully” grabbed the unmanned underwater vehicle in […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton blasted Donald Trump on Monday after her Republican rival posted a “blatantly anti-Semitic” tweet. Clinton’s criticism came after Trump tweeted a picture of Clinton on Saturday that described her as corrupt and featured stacks of money and a six-pointed star. “Donald Trump’s use of a blatantly anti-Semitic image from racist websites to promote his campaign would be disturbing enough, but the fact that it’s […]
