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(REUTERS) International prosecutors investigating the downing of a Malaysian airliner two years ago have concluded it was shot down by a Russian-made missile fired from rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine, victims’ family members said on Wednesday. Families were informed of the prosecutors’ findings shortly before a news conference was due to start in the central Dutch city of Nieuwegein on the outcome of the investigation. A surface-to-air missile hit Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Relations between China and the Philippines are improving “beautifully” under President Rodrigo Duterte, Beijing’s envoy has said as Duterte warms to China and Russia following US criticism of his bloody war on crime. Ambassador Zhao Jianhua offered effusive praise for Duterte in a speech at an embassy reception late Tuesday, saying China “firmly supports” his anti-drugs campaign that has prompted Western condemnation of alleged extrajudicial killings. Duterte has rejected the criticism, […]
NEVADA, Las Vegas, USA (Eagle News) — A unique “interactive watch party” of the first televised presidential debate in the United States was held at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. The students from local middle schools, high schools and colleges participated in the interactive watch party where the viewers from the local schools and the community not only heard what US presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had to say, but […]
BEIJING (Reuters)– Singapore’s ambassador to China on Tuesday accused a major state-run Chinese newspaper of fabricating a report about Singapore’s position on the South China Sea, but the paper stuck by its story. The Global Times said on Sept. 21 that at a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Venezuela, Singapore had raised the issue of the disputed waterway and an international tribunal’s ruling in favor of the Philippines in a case it lodged against […]
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand ruled out on Wednesday Zika as the cause of two cases of microcephaly but is investigating two other cases that could be the first linked to Zika in Southeast Asia of the condition that results in babies being born with small heads. Microcephaly is a rare birth defect that has been linked, in Brazil in particular, to the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which is spreading in Southeast Asia. Thai health authorities said […]
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday (September 27) he is hopeful for improved relations with the United States, a day after meeting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Maduro met Kerry in Colombia’s coastal city of Cartagena after the signing of a major peace deal between leftist guerrillas and the Colombian government. “I ask God to bless the results of the meeting, and for Venezuela to open a new era of good relations with […]
(Reuters) Former Israeli president and elder statesman Shimon Peres died in Tel Aviv on Wednesday aged 93, Israel Radio said. Peres was hospitalized following a stroke two weeks ago and had made some progress before a sudden deterioration in his condition on Tuesday. An official announcement of the death of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former prime minister was expected at around 7 a.m. local time (04:00 GMT). Details of the timing of […]
Thirty-three bodies were recovered on Tuesday (September 27) as a wreck of a boat that sank off Egypt last week with hundreds of migrants aboard was lifted from the depths, raising the confirmed death toll to 202, a local official said. The boat capsized off the Mediterranean coast on Sept. 21. Rescue workers and fishermen said they had rescued at least 169 people, but uncertainty remains over how many might still be missing. “This is […]
China shut schools and cancelled dozens of flights as Typhoon Megi made landfall in the southern province of Fujian on Wednesday (September 28) with winds of close to 120 km per hour (75 mph), state media reported. Megi, which has killed four people and injured more than 523 in Taiwan since roaring in from the Pacific, made landfall at 4:40 a.m. local time (2040 GMT Tuesday, September 27). Chinese authorities issued their third-highest severe weather […]
A fast-growing brush fire prompted mandatory evacuations on Tuesday (September 27) from an area of the Santa Cruz mountains in Northern California, according to the California government website. The blaze charred about 2200 acres of drought-parched vegetation, burned two homes and threatened at least 300 structures, according to the website. Air tankers and helicopters assisted the firefighters to battle the so-called ‘Loma’ fire, officials said. In Tuolumne County, in Northern California, a fire that broke […]
A South Korean court will rule on the prosecutors’ arrest warrant request for the chairman of the Lotte Group after holding a hearing on Wednesday (September 28), following a criminal probe into the sprawling retail-to-chemicals conglomerate. “I will sincerely answer the court’s questions. I am sorry for causing concerns,” Lotte Chairman Shin Dong-bin told reporters before attending the closed hearing at Seoul Central District Court on Wednesday morning. South Korean prosecutors made the request on […]
KELOWNA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada (Reuters) — The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge continued their tour of Canada on Tuesday (September 27) with a stop at University of British Columbia Okanagan campus. The Royals attended a dedication at the ten-year-old campus in Kelowna which is home to 8,000 students and 600 research projects. Following the ceremony Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, attended a volleyball demonstration by the universities’ national ranked volleyball team.
