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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Syria is to blame for the United States missile strikes carried out after a deadly suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town earlier this week, North Atlantic Treaty Organization head Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday. “The Syrian regime bears the full responsibility for this development,” Stoltenberg said in a statement. “Any use of chemical weapons is unacceptable, cannot go unanswered, and those responsible must be held accountable,” he added.
MOSCOW, Russia (Eagle News) — Russia’s military on Friday said the Syrian forces’ air defenses will be boosted following the United States’ strike on a regime air base ordered by US President Donald Trump. “To protect Syria’s most sensitive infrastructure, a complex of measures will be implemented in the near future to strengthen and improve the effectiveness of the Syrian armed forces’ air defence system,” said spokesperson Igor Konashenkov.
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) –The United States missile strikes on a Syrian airbase Friday demonstrated “needed resolve” against chemical attacks, European Union President Donald Tusk said. “US strikes show needed resolve against barbaric chemical attacks,” tweeted Tusk, who represents the 28 EU member states, adding the bloc will work with the US to “end brutality” in Syria. Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, the EU executive, expressed his support for the US decision. “President Juncker […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Moscow slammed the United States strike on a Syrian airbase Friday as “aggression against a sovereign state,” and suspended a bilateral agreement to help avoid clashes in the skies over the war-torn country. “President (Vladimir) Putin considers American strikes on Syria aggression against a sovereign state in violation of international norms, and under an invented pretext,” said the statement by the Kremlin press service posted on the official website. […]
by Bryan McManus Agence France Presse BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — International donors on Wednesday pledged $6.0 billion in aid for Syria this year at a conference overshadowed by a suspected deadly chemical attack blamed by the West on Damascus. The countries further pledged $3.73 billion in aid for 2018-20 at the Brussels meeting, which was co-chaired by the European Union and United Nations and follows a conference in London last year which raised $12 billion […]
PARIS, France (Reuters) — Paris’s Eiffel Tower went black an hour earlier than usual in memory of the 14 victims of the St Petersburg attack on Tuesday (April 4). The lights went out at the monument just before midnight (2200GMT), echoing a similar tribute to the victims of the London stabbings last month. Previously the Eiffel Tower had been lit up in the colors of the French, German, Belgian and rainbow flags as a […]
by Gina Doggett / Adam Plowright PARIS, FRANCE (AFP) — French presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron attacked far-right leader Marine Le Pen over her economic policy and plans to scrap the euro on Tuesday in an unprecedented debate between all 11 contenders ahead of this month’s election. The discussion was at times chaotic and dominated by the anti-capitalist and virulently anti-European Union smaller candidates who made their first major appearance ahead of the first round of the two-stage […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Police in southern Spain Tuesday staged raids targeting assets of the family of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, a judicial source said. The raids, in the Puerto Banus marina area of the plush resort of Marbella, are the result of a corruption investigation launched in France against Assad’s uncle, Rifaat al-Assad, the source said.
SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin went to lay flowers late Monday at the scene of the deadly blast that hit Saint Petersburg’s metro, an AFP photographer said. Putin, who made no comment, left a bouquet of red flowers at the entrance to the Technological Institute metro station where 11 people were killed and dozens injured on Monday afternoon in what authorities are investigating as a suspected terror attack. The area was […]
YEREVAN, Armenia (AFP) — Armenia’s ruling party was set to win the first parliamentary elections since the adoption of constitutional reforms transforming the country into a parliamentary republic, according to official results released on Monday. With votes tallied from 50.4 percent of precincts, the central electoral commission said pro-Russian President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party was leading the main opposition coalition, led by wealthy politician Gagik Tsarukyan, by 50.43 to 28.29 percent.
PARIS, France (AFP) — About 6,000 people took part in angry protests in Paris on Sunday against the death of a Chinese man shot and killed when police responded to a call at his apartment last month, police said. The rally was organized by several Chinese associations in France, and as with previous rallies held over the past week, there were sporadic skirmishes between protesters and security forces. Some of the demonstrators threw bottles, eggs […]
By Vee Sison EBC London Bureau LONDON, United Kingdom (Eagle News Service) – Ambassador Antonio Lagdameo and Consul General Senen Mangalile of the Philippine Embassy’ met representatives of Eagle Broadcasting Corporation’s in London on Thursday March 2nd 2017 for a courtesy call with the new Philippine Ambassador. The aim of the meeting is to reach out to the wider Filipino community in the United Kingdom and to foster collaborative relationships with the Philippine Embassy […]
