International

Britain’s Prince Harry visits The Running Charity

LONDON. United Kingdom (Reuters) — Britain’s Prince Harry visited a young person’s hostel in north London on Thursday (January 26), as part of his continued focus exploring how sport can be used to help communities. The Royal met those who are engaged with The Running Charity, which is the UK’s first running-orientated programme aimed at aiding the homeless and vulnerable young people. The programme offers regular running-based activities with fitness professionals as coaches, showing benefits […]

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US-Mexico tensions rise as meeting scrapped, wall tax looms

by Andrew Beatty, with Laurent Thomet in Mexico City Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US-Mexican relations were rocked Thursday as Donald Trump’s administration suggested taxing imports from the southern neighbor to fund a border wall and Mexico’s president scrapped a meeting with the US leader. Trump had been scheduled to receive Pena Nieto at the White House on Tuesday, for their first meeting since the inauguration. Instead, the Republican president is managing […]

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Chile wildfires kill 10 people: president

SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — Raging forest fires in central Chile have killed 10 people, displaced thousands and destroyed entire villages, the government said Thursday. Multiple blazes fueled by strong wind and drought conditions have ravaged 273,000 hectares (680,000 acres) in just over a week. The latest fatality was a fireman killed when a tree fell on his truck in the Biobio region 550 kilometers (340 miles) south of the capital Santiago, the regional government said. […]

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Trump wants to fund Mexico border wall with 20% import tax: spokesman

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump plans to fund his construction of a wall on the Mexican border by imposing a 20 percent import tax on goods from Washington’s southern neighbor, his spokesman said Thursday. The financing of the project, which is aimed at clamping down on illegal immigration, has sparked tensions between the two countries: Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Thursday called off a visit to Washington set for next […]

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Trump issues summit ultimatum to Mexican leader

by Andrew BEATTY Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – President Donald Trump on Thursday challenged Mexico’s president to cancel an upcoming visit to Washington if he is unwilling to foot the bill for a US border wall, escalating the war of words between the neighbors. After Enrique Pena Nieto Trump denounced the new Republican leader’s decision to move ahead with the project, Trump took to Twitter to publicly upbraid him for refusing to fund […]

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Symbolic ‘Doomsday Clock’ moves closer to midnight

by Jean-Louis SANTINI Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Comments by US President Donald Trump on nuclear weapons and climate change have helped make the world less safe, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists warned Thursday, moving its symbolic “Doomsday Clock” 30 seconds closer to midnight. The clock — which serves as a metaphor for how close humanity is to destroying the planet — was last changed in 2015, from five to three minutes […]

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Egyptian Museum, muling binuksan

Dalawang taon makalipas ang naganap na bomb attack sa isang museum sa Cairo, Egypt. Muling binuksan ang naturang art para sa publiko. Dito ay ni-restore ang karamihan sa mga art. Dinaluhan naman ito ng maraming bisita na ang karamihan ay mga turista, upang masaksihan ang kinilalang historical museum. Ilan sa idinagdag dito ay ang medicine, coins, astronomy, weaponry upang magdagdag ganda sa museum collection. Marami ang totoong nagandahan sa bagong restoration nito kumpara noong luma […]

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Kuwait executions part of ‘alarming trend’ in Middle East: HRW

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (AFP) — Human Rights Watch criticized Kuwait on Thursday for ending a moratorium on executions by hanging seven people, saying the action was part of a worrying regional rise in use of the death penalty. “Kuwait’s killing of seven people on January 25 highlights the alarming trend in the region for countries to return to or increasingly use the death penalty,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW’s Middle East director. The executions on […]

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Italy avalanche toll hits 29 as search ends

ROME, Italy (AFP) — Searchers have completed the grim hunt through the ruins of an Italian hotel buried by an avalanche and found the final bodies, bringing the toll to 29 dead, authorities said Thursday. The hundreds of rescuers who aided in the searches after the January 18 disaster, which saw the Hotel Rigopiano ripped from its foundations by a wall of snow and debris, saved 11 people. Locals authorities said in a brief statement […]

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Six people killed by Chile wildfires

SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — Six people — among them four firefighters and two police — have now been killed battling vast forest fires in central Chile, officials said Wednesday. “I can now say officially that there are two more fatalities — two Chilean police who were found in the Maule River,” said Interior Minister Mario Fernandez, raising the total death toll to six. Earlier in the day a firefighter died after getting stuck while trying […]

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Kuwait prince among those executed in Kuwait, along with Filipina OFW

  Kuwait’ State News Agency, KUNA, has confirmed the execution of a Prince in the ruling Al-Sabah family, the first execution incident of a member of the royal family in the Gulf state. The prince was hanged along with Filipina OFW Jakatia Pawa and five other prisoners who have been hanged in the mass execution in Kuwait at 3:19 in the afternoon (Philippine Time) on Wednesday, January 25. The prince was identified as Sheikh Faisal […]

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Protesters rally outside White House against Trump immigration policies

WASHINGTON, United States (Reuters) — Immigrant and refugee advocates on Wednesday (January 25) denounced White House plans to temporarily stop receiving refugees and suspend visas for people from seven Middle Eastern and North African countries, saying they target Muslims and will make America less safe. Protesters marched and rallied outside the White House denounced the Trump administration’s plan to to enact the new immigration policies. A draft executive order seen by Reuters that Trump is […]

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