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by Park Chan-Kyong / Hwang Sunghee SEOUL, South Korea | AFP |– Pressure on South Korea’s scandal-hit president to resign escalated sharply Saturday, with organisers claiming a million-strong turnout at one of the largest — and loudest — anti-government protests the country has ever witnessed. Chanting “Step down Park Geun-Hye!” enormous crowds, including high school students, Catholic nuns, labourers, farmers, retirees and young couples with babies, massed in the streets of central Seoul in […]
Sa kauna-unahang pagkakataon, nagharap na sina U.S.. President Barack Obama at incoming President Donald Trump sa White House. Bukod sa isasagawang transition of power, pinag-usapan din ng dalawa ang maraming magaganda at kumplikadong mga bagay kabilang na ang domestic at foreign policy ng Estados Unidos. Nangako naman na kapwa magtutulungan sina Obama at Trump para sa ikapagtatagumpay ng kanilang bansa. Panoorin ang detalye sa report ni Ronald Nery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3XPSr74jQc
Pakistan (AFP)- by Sajjad TARAKZAI Abbas Khan feeds a hot wire from a rickety generator into a river, a fishing technique he argues is more environmentally friendly than others used in northwest Pakistan — though he also admits it has killed several of his friends. Hundreds of fishermen risk their lives daily to hunt the rare fish known as “sher mahi”, found in the Kabul River which flows from the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan into neighbouring Pakistan, […]
SAN FRACISCO, United States (AFP) — Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday rejected the idea that bogus stories shared at the social network paved a path of victory for President-elect Donald Trump. “The idea that fake news on Facebook, which is a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in any way I think is a pretty crazy idea,” Zuckerberg said during an on-stage chat at a Technonomy technology trends conference in California. […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — One of President-elect Donald Trump’s most divisive promises — to ban Muslims from entering America — disappeared from his campaign website before reappearing on Thursday. Trump’s campaign staff told US media that text of the pledge, posted in December following terror attacks in San Bernardino, California, vanished because of a technical glitch. It reappeared after journalists questioned the disappearance. “The website was temporarily redirecting all specific press release pages to […]
by Katia Dolmadjian and Gina Doggett Paris, France (AFP) – A year after jihadists sowed terror in Paris, killing 130 people, the City of Light is struggling to restore its lustre as fearful tourists stay away in droves. In the Paris area alone, tourism revenue is expected to plunge by 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion) this year. “We haven’t recovered,” the tourism chief for the Paris region, Frederic Valletoux, told AFP. “The impact is lasting […]
https://youtu.be/qvK04Hi7cKs Thousands of protesters rally across the United States expressing shock and anger over Donald Trump’s election, vowing to oppose divisive views they say helped the Republican billionaire win the presidency.
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — New York commuters are venting anger and frustration over Donald Trump’s shock victory by indulging in collective therapy — writing messages on Post-it notes and sticking them on a subway wall. “Am I the only one who is scared?” “I need a hug” and “I am angry” number among the thousands of messages written on multicolored squares of paper fixed to a tiled wall in a tunnel at Union […]
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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Hundreds of people, many of them students who skipped classes, staged fresh protests on Thursday in several US cities in anger at Donald Trump’s election as president. Some 1,000 students, most of them high schoolers, marched through San Francisco’s financial district toward City Hall chanting “Not my president!” and blocking traffic. “We are protesting because we want to stand up for our rights and we deserve […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The Iran nuclear deal would fall apart if a US administration walked away from it, as President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to do, the State Department said Thursday. Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani had argued on Wednesday that the deal — which saw world powers lift sanctions on Tehran in return for controls on its nuclear program — has been enshrined in international law. The outgoing US administration is proud of […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — US president-elect Donald Trump on Thursday invited British Prime Minister Theresa May to visit him “as soon as possible” as they held their first conversation since his election, Downing Street said. The pair reaffirmed the “very special” relationship between their two countries, while May emphasised their “long history of shared values” and of standing together “when it counts the most”, her office said. Congratulating Trump on his shock win in […]
