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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) y 6/4/2016 —Boxing icon Muhammad Ali died on Friday, a family spokesman said in a statement. “After a 32-year battle with Parkinson’s disease, Muhammad Ali has passed away at the age of 74,” spokesman Bob Gunnell said. Ali, whose fame transcended sport during a remarkable heavyweight boxing career that spanned three decades, had been hospitalized in the Phoenix, Arizona, area with a respiratory ailment this week. Concern for the three-time heavyweight world […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries failed once again to agree on its aim to limit oil production among its member after Iran made a statement that it will increase its oil production to supply the world market. On the other hand, Saudi Arabia – the world’s largest oil supplier – promised that it will not increase its current oil output. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing […]
by Mariano Andrade SAN JOSE, United States (AFP) — Protesters who oppose Donald Trump scuffled with his supporters Thursday as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee held a rally in California, with fistfights erupting and one supporter hit with an egg. Hundreds of demonstrators blocked a police van and then entered the parking area of the San Jose Convention Center where the event took place, insulting Trump supporters in their cars and attacking those leaving the […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The father of a seven-year-old Japanese boy who went missing for nearly a week after his parents abandoned him in a mountain forest as punishment apologized on Friday hours after his son was found safe. “My excessive act forced my son to have a painful time,” Yamato Tanooka’s father told reporters outside the hospital where his son was being treated. “I deeply apologize to people at his school, people in the […]
(Reuters) — Respect for and protection of freedom of religious belief is China’s long-term basic national policy, stated the white paper “Freedom of Religious Belief in Xinjiang” published by the State Council on Thursday. The paper said Chinese laws protect normal religious activities. Citizens can have all normal religious activities in their own homes or at religious venues in accordance with the customary religious practices, including going to prayers, Ramadan, worshiping Buddha and other […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — Two people were killed and dozens injured Thursday in Colombia as more than 30,000 farmers joined a growing anti-government protest, blocking roads and clashing with police, officials said. The farmers, who launched their protest Monday, complain that free-trade agreements with Europe and the United States are flooding the country with cheap food imports, exacerbating rural poverty. Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas announced the “death of two indigenous persons during the day’s […]
by Shingo Ito and Kyoko Hasegawa TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A seven-year-old boy missing since being abandoned in a bear-inhabited forest in northern Japan as a punishment nearly a week ago was found alive on Friday and reunited with his parents, officials said. The boy, apparently unharmed and in good health, was discovered at a military base. Reports said he had taken shelter in a hut and found a tap to drink from but was hungry […]
SAN DIEGO, United States (AFP) — US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton tore into her likely election rival Donald Trump as never before Thursday, saying his foreign policy is dangerously incoherent and labeling him unfit for office. “He is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility,” Clinton said, cranking up the rhetoric in what is already a deeply acrimonious election. “This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea has again accused the South of “premeditated” abduction, following the latest defection of North Korean staff working at a Pyongyang-run restaurant in China. The three North Koreans arrived in Seoul on Wednesday — the second such group defection this year after a dozen employees of another restaurant in China defected to the South in April. “This incident, too, was the organised and premeditated abduction by gangsters of the […]
by Andrew BEATTY WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Like many patriotic, flag-pin wearing American politicians before him, President Barack Obama told US military personnel on Thursday that they are part of “the greatest military in the history of the world.” We asked military historians whether his common refrain is true, and if it matters: “It matters a great deal to the cadets and officers and their families and the veterans we honored Monday (on Memorial […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A seven-year-old boy missing since his parents abandoned him in a bear-inhabited forest in northern Japan as a punishment nearly a week ago was found alive on Friday, officials said. The boy, apparently unharmed and in good health, was discovered inside a military base at about 7:50 am (2250 GMT Thursday), a police spokesman said. “A Self-Defence Force official who was on a drill found a boy whose age appeared to […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — The remains of Australian troops killed in the Vietnam War and their families were returned to Sydney Thursday in a formal military ceremony, half a century after being buried in Malaysia and Singapore. Thirty-three bodies, interred in Malaysia’s Terendak Cemetery and Singapore’s Kranji War Cemetery, were brought home in flag-drapped coffins on two Royal Australian Air Force C-17 Globemaster aircraft. Almost 60,000 Australian military personnel fought alongside the United States in […]
