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MANILA, Philippines (AFP)– Plans by the Philippines’ controversial president-elect to give late dictator Ferdinand Marcos a hero’s burial triggered outrage on Tuesday, with martial law victims warning it would whitewash the strongman’s crimes. Rodrigo Duterte, who won this month’s elections in a landslide, announced on Monday he would allow Marcos to be buried at the Heroes’ Cemetery in Manila, in what would be another big win for the dictator’s family as it cements a remarkable […]
WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — Former US president Jimmy Carter is decrying the resurgence of racial tensions coinciding with the rise of Donald Trump, warning that the billionaire tycoon’s White House candidacy has tapped a reservoir of “inherent racism.” Carter told The New York Times on Monday that he was disappointed about a recent spike in racism, “except for one thing: I think the country has been reawakened the last two or three years […]
Around 20 students protesting the Chilean government’s education policies were forcibly removed by guards from the presidential palace on Tuesday (May 24) after they had entered disguised as tourists. Wearing orange baseball caps and backpacks, the students walked in the front entrance of the Palacio de la Moneda in downtown Santiago, cameras in hand. Upon reaching the central patio, they unfurled a banner reading, “Take note: the offensive begins today.” Interior Minister, Jorge Burgos, said […]
by Rim Haddad and Maher Al Mounes DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) — More than 148 people were killed Monday in bombings claimed by the Islamic State group in northwestern Syria, the deadliest attacks to date in the regime’s coastal heartland. Seven near-simultaneous explosions targeted bus stations, hospitals and other civilian sites in the seaside cities of Jableh and Tartus, which until now had been relatively insulated from Syria’s five-year war. The attacks on strongholds of President […]
Ukraine said on Tuesday (May 24) that seven of its servicemen had been killed in the past twenty four hours as a result of increased attacks by pro-Russian rebels, the highest reported daily casualty figure since August. International efforts are under way to end a conflict that has contributed to the worst tensions between Moscow and the West since the Cold War. A ceasefire signed in February 2015 has failed to quell all fighting in […]
CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) — Egyptian forensics officials collected DNA Tuesday from relatives of EgyptAir MS804 victims to help identify body parts retrieved from the Mediterranean, where the crash killed 66 people, the airline said. Investigators are still searching for Airbus A320’s two black boxes on the seabed as they seek answers as to why the aircraft came down early on Thursday. “Body parts arrived at the morgue yesterday and other body parts arrived the day […]
by Jérôme CARTILLIER Jerome TAYLOR HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — President Barack Obama urged communist Vietnam on Tuesday to abandon authoritarianism, saying basic human rights would not jeopardise its stability, after Hanoi barred several dissidents from meeting the US leader. In a sweeping speech, which harked back to the bloody war that defined both nations but also looked to the future, Obama insisted that “upholding rights is not a threat to stability”. Vietnam ruthlessly cracks down […]
Brazil’s interim President Michel Temer said on Tuesday (May 24) he would seek a constitutional amendment to curb public spending as his government unveiled a raft of austerity measures to reduce a record fiscal deficit and regain investor confidence. Temer, a centrist who took over from leftist President Dilma Rousseff two weeks ago after she was suspended pending an impeachment trial, told congressional leaders that the amendment would limit growth in primary government spending before […]
Some migrants who left the squalid tent city near Greece’s border with Macedonia on Tuesday (May 24) during the first major evacuation of the makeshift camp refused to stay in the new camps they were taken to by authorities. At the Oreokastro camp near the city of Thessaloniki, migrants already living there shouted at new arrivals not to get off the buses because of conditions there, a Reuters witness said. One bus eventually left with […]
Idomeni, Greece (AFP)—Greek police on Tuesday transferred some two thousand migrants out of the overcrowded camp of Idomeni, launching a major operation to clear up the squalid tent city where thousands fleeing war and poverty have lived for months. The operation began at dawn, and by evening officials said they had put 2,031 people on buses to newly opened camps near Greece’s second city Thessaloniki, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) to the south. “The operation […]
ENGLAND, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry and other members of the British Royal family arrived at Chelsea for the annual flower show on Monday (May 23). Many of the exhibits on show mark the Queen’s 90th birthday, including a 21ft (6.4 metre) floral arch of at least 10,000 blooms, and an exhibition of Royal photographs at Chelsea dating back to 1949. The grounds of the […]
WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton on Monday rejected an invitation to take part in a final campaign debate against her rival Bernie Sanders, her campaign said. “We have declined Fox News’ invitation to participate in a debate in California,” Clinton spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri said in a statement, adding that the former secretary of state would concentrate on campaigning against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump instead. “We believe that Hillary […]
