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SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) — A sinkhole has opened up near Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s home in the exclusive Sydney suburb of Point Piper on Wednesday (February 8). Sydney suffered heavy rain on Tuesday (February 7) with reports of flash flooding in its eastern suburbs. According to local media, police were called after reports that the sinkhole had appeared on Wednesday morning. The street was then cordoned off with the sinkhole less than a kilometer […]
by Jocelyne ZABLIT Agence France Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The US Justice Department faced tough questioning Tuesday as it urged a court of appeals to reinstate President Donald Trump’s travel ban targeting citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries — put on hold by the courts last week. The latest twist in the legal showdown comes four days after a federal judge suspended Trump’s decree, opening US borders back up to the thousands of […]
WASHINGTON, United states (AFP) — US authorities said Tuesday they will approve a permit to complete the controversial Dakota Access pipeline to reduce transportation costs and give US producers a boost as they compete against oil from Canada. The decision comes after months of protests by Native Americans and their supporters led the Obama administration to nix plans to build the pipeline close to native grounds. But President Donald Trump supported the 1,172-mile (1,886-kilometer) oil pipeline, which would snake […]
by Amelie BARON Agence France Presse PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) — Jovenel Moise was sworn in Tuesday as Haiti’s 58th president, ending a protracted electoral crisis that created a power vacuum in the impoverished Caribbean nation. Moise, a 48-year-old banana exporter who has never held political office and is not well known to the general public but ran as the candidate of the center-right Tet Kale Party (PHTK), took the oath at a ceremony at the […]
WASHINGTON, Unite States (AFP) — US embassies could ask visa applicants for passwords to their own social media accounts in future background checks, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Tuesday. Kelly said the move could come as part of the effort to toughen vetting of visitors to screen out people who could pose a security threat. He said it was one of the things under consideration especially for visitors from seven Muslim majority countries with […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AFP) — A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the coast of Pakistan early Wednesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The shallow quake struck at 3:03 am (2203 GMT), with an epicenter just 23 kilometers (14 miles) southwest of Pakistan’s coastal city of Pasni, the USGS said. Last April, a large 6.6-magnitude quake struck neighboring northeastern Afghanistan, rattling parts of South Asia and killing at least six Pakistanis. In October 2015, a […]
By Emmi Capili-Taroja EBC Australia Bureau NORTH Brisbane, Australia – 05 February 2017 – The members of the Society of Communicators and Networkers (SCAN) in Eastern Australia, together with their family members, convened in a special gathering and listened to the special message of the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ) Executive Minister, Bro. Eduardo V. Manalo, in line with the SCAN organization’s 28th founding anniversary. The event was simulcast in various locales and […]
https://youtu.be/7OU3l5Edmwo Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II succeeded to the Throne on February 6th, 1952, upon the death of her father King George VI. The coronation took place more than a year later, on June 2nd, 1953, at Westminster Abbey. Since then she has ruled for more than six decades, and visited more than 116 countries. The Queen is the most widely travelled head of state in history – despite not having a passport. Prior to Queen […]
(Reuters) — A 62-gun salute fired by the Honourable Artillery Company at the Tower of London and chimes at the Westminster Abbey on Monday (February 6) celebrated Queen Elizabeth II as the world’s longest reigning sovereign. Monday marks the queen’s Sapphire Jubilee – 65 years on the throne, the first ever British monarch to have reached such a milestone. The 90-year-old queen acceded to the throne on February 6, 1952 when her father […]
(Reuters) — Thailand’s Pattaya Provincial Court on Tuesday (February 7) handed down a death sentence to Australian national Antonio Bagnato for the murder of a former Hells Angels member over a year ago. A 22-year-old U.S. national, Tyler Gerard, was also given a three-year jail sentence for being an accomplice to the crime, but his sentence was later lowered to two years as he cooperated with the investigation and provided useful information, according to […]
(Reuters) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for a new approach to resolve the territorial dispute with Russia on Tuesday (February 7) as Japan marked Northern Territories Day. The islands, known as the Southern Kuril islands in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan, have been at the root of strained relations between the two countries since the end of World War Two when soldiers from the former Soviet Union seized the islands […]
by Mushtaq MOJADDIDI Agence France-Presse KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Civilian casualties in Afghanistan in 2016 were the highest recorded by the UN, the world body said Monday, with nearly 11,500 non-combatants — one third of them children — killed or wounded. Fighting between Afghan security forces and militants, especially in populated areas, remained “the leading cause of civilian casualties” more than two years after NATO’s combat mission ended, said the United Nations, which began documenting […]
