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NEW DELHI, India (AFP) – by Nicolas REVISE The United States and India urged Pakistan Tuesday to do more to counter extremist groups operating from its soil as the world’s two largest democracies announced measures to strengthen security and energy ties. Speaking on a visit to New Delhi, US Secretary of State John Kerry declared that ties once clouded by suspicion had progressed “amazingly” in the last two years and echoed President Barack Obama’s description of […]
DUBLIN, Ireland (AFP) – by Douglas DALBY The European Commission’s demand for Apple to pay Ireland some 13 billion euros in back taxes has put the country in the strange position of refusing the windfall for fear of scaring away valuable investment. Rather than welcoming the cash — equivalent to around five percent of its gross domestic product — the government has vowed to appeal the ruling, fearing an ever greatest cost to its […]
Singapore, Singapore (AFP) – The number of Zika cases in Singapore has surged to 82, the government said Tuesday, as the mosquito-fighting effort continued in a bid to curb the spread of the disease. Singapore’s Ministry of Health and National Environment Agency confirmed 26 new local infections — the majority around the eastern Aljunied suburb where most of the other cases have been clustered. Many of the initial cases were foreign workers on a condominium […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) – by Mohamad Ali Harissi Libya has shipped the last of its chemical weapons stocks out of the country, officials said Tuesday, under a UN-backed plan to ensure the arsenal could not fall into the wrong hands. The move will ease fears that extremists like the Islamic State group could gain access to the weapons in Libya, which has been wracked by chaos since the 2011 overthrow of Moamer Kadhafi. A senior […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) — Nepal has imposed a 10-year mountaineering ban on an Indian couple who faked photographs purporting to show them at the top of Mount Everest, an official said Tuesday. Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod, both police constables, said they reached the top of the world’s highest mountain on May 23. But fellow climbers cast doubt on their claim, saying their photos at the summit were doctored. Nepal’s tourism department initially certified their claim […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto’s alma mater said Monday he had plagiarized parts of his law school thesis, confirming an investigative news site’s report last week. Mexico’s Panamerican University said it had reviewed the president’s 25-year-old thesis and found five types of “treatment of the ideas of others.” They included “textual reproductions of citations without footnotes or mention in the bibliography,” it said in a statement. In other cases, Pena […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A strong typhoon was on course Tuesday for a direct hit on northeastern Japan, with authorities warning of heavy rain and high waves along the Pacific coast. Typhoon Lionrock was 170 kilometers (105 miles) east of the city of Choshi, as of 9 am (0000 GMT). Choshi lies straight east of Tokyo. Packing wind gusts up to 180 kilometers per hour, the storm was moving north at 30 kilometers per hour […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Around 6,500 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya on Monday, the Italian coastguard said, in one of its busiest days of life-saving in recent years. Dramatic images of one operation showed about 700 migrants crammed onto a fishing boat, with some of them jumping off the vessel in life jackets and swimming towards rescuers. A five-day-old baby was among those rescued along with other infants and was airlifted to […]
(Eagle News)– The White House announced on Monday that United States President Barack Obama plans to meet President Rodrigo Duterte on September 6. The talks are expected to center on human rights and security concerns. “We absolutely expect that the president will raise concerns about some of the recent statements from the president of the Philippines,” White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters when asked about Duterte’s controversial remarks on women, journalists […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The six people who went into isolation for a year in Hawaii to help NASA plan for a mission to Mars emerged Sunday, happy to breathe fresh air and meet new people. The team was based on a barren, northern slope of Mauna Loa, living inside a dome that is 36 feet (11 meters) in diameter and 20 feet tall. French astrobiologist Cyprien Verseux said that he was “feeling […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A strong 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck north of Ascension Island in the mid-Atlantic early Monday, the US Geological Survey said, though there were no immediate reports of damage. The shallow quake struck at the equator north of the remote islands at 0429 GMT, with no people likely to have been affected by shaking, USGS said. The National Weather Service Tsunami Warning Center said a damaging tsunami was not expected. © 1994-2016 […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — An unsupervised Taiwanese naval officer who decided to experiment with a missile launcher and accidentally fired towards China was one of three people charged Monday over the fatal incident. The misfiring of the supersonic “aircraft carrier killer” last month struck a damaging blow to the military’s image, embarrassing new president Tsai Ing-wen and angering Beijing. The Hsiung-feng III (Brave wind) missile hit a Taiwanese trawler, killing the skipper on board and […]
