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QUEZON City, Philippines (September 1) – Popular social media and micro-blogging site Twitter made the news after suspending almost 235,000 accounts for violating policies banning use of the platform to promote extremism in the first half of 2016. The company said that it has suspended a total of 360,000 accounts since June 2015. All of the accounts that are suspended promoted terrorism by posting hate speech, violent threats and terrorist propaganda online. Twitter is known worldwide for […]
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia confirmed on Thursday its first case of Zika after a woman tested positive for the virus following a three-day visit to neighboring Singapore on August 19. The 58-year-old woman had showed signs of a rash and fever one week after returning from Singapore, according to Health Minister Subramaniam Sathasivam. “We are carrying out control measures against aedes mosquitoes near the woman’s home to prevent the spread of the virus,” […]
South Korean prosecutors summoned the elder son of the founder of Lotte Group for questioning on Thursday (September 1), signalling the resumption of a criminal probe against the conglomerate following the suicide of a senior executive last week. Shin Dong-joo was ordered to appear for questioning by 10 a.m. on Thursday, a spokesman for the son of Lotte founder Shin Kyuk-ho told Reuters. He did not comment on the reasons for the summons. Prosecutors rescheduled […]
by Maria PANINA MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — The G20 summit starting in China on Sunday gives Russian President Vladimir Putin one more chance to try to strongarm US leader Barack Obama over Syria and Ukraine as their fraught relationship nears an end. In recent years the two world leaders have barely been able to hide their disdain for each other as ties between Washington and Moscow fell to their lowest level since the Cold War […]
by Andrew BEATTY WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Barack Obama begins his 11th and final presidential trip to the Asia-Pacific in earnest on Friday, visiting China to nurture what has become arguably the world’s most important relationship and cementing an eight-year “pivot to Asia.” After a series of US stops outside Washington, the outgoing US president jets in to the picturesque Chinese city of Hangzhou where he will take part in his final G20 meeting. […]
PHOENIX, United States (AFP) — Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump traveled to Mexico Wednesday to tell President Enrique Pena Nieto that he will erect a border wall if elected, but controversy erupted over whether they discussed who would pay for it. The tense international trip saw Trump navigating a political tightrope just 69 days before the US presidential election, as he seeks to clarify his stance on his campaign’s signature issue: immigration. Trump spent […]
Hurricane Madeline weakened to a tropical storm on Wednesday (August 31) as it advanced toward Hawaii’s Big Island, where residents were bracing for strong winds and rain even as another storm across the country continued its path to Florida, officials said. Hawaii officials opened shelters and closed offices, schools and roads on Wednesday to prepare for Madeline, which is expected to pass just south of the Big Island. “We went through this last year, at […]
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx met with Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Wednesday (August 31) as the first scheduled commercial passenger flight from the United States to Cuba in more than half a century landed on the island. The event has opened another chapter in the Obama administration’s efforts to improve ties and increase trade and travel with the former Cold War foe. Foxx and Rodriguez met at the Foreign Ministry in Havana. A […]
Spain’s acting premier on Wednesday (August 31) lost a parliamentary confidence vote for a second term after he failed to win enough support from the opposition, bringing the country closer to a potential third election in a year. Mariano Rajoy, of the centre-right People’s Party (PP), received 170 votes of support, falling short – as expected – of the minimum 176 needed to form a government. He needed the support of the Socialists, who voted […]
(REUTERS) Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday he was ready to discuss any issues with Barack Obama when they meet in Laos next week, but added that the U.S. president must listen to him first before bringing up the question of human rights. Washington has expressed concern about a surge in drug-related killings since Duterte became president two months ago promising to wipe out narcotics in the Southeast Asian nation. Asked if he would […]
(REUTERS) Brazil’s Senate ousted President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday, ending an impeachment process that polarized Latin America’s biggest country amid a massive corruption scandal and brutal economic crisis. Senators voted 61-20 to convict the country’s first female president for illegally using money from state banks to bankroll public spending, marking the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule. Rousseff’s opponents hailed the removal of the former leftist guerrilla as paving the way […]
Donald Trump told Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday (August 31) that the United States has the right to build a border wall to halt illegal immigration, but the Republican presidential candidate did not bring up his signature demand that Mexico pay for it. In an unexpected trip to a country that he has vilified for causing illegal immigration and drug smuggling into the United States, Trump held talks with the Mexican leader at […]
