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by Amber WANG TAIPEI , Taiwan (AFP) — When Tsai Ing-wen takes office as Taiwan’s president Friday she steps onto a tightrope between voter dreams of national pride and a Beijing that wants the island on a short leash. Tsai’s election victory reflected public desire for a president who would put self-ruling Taiwan first, not “sell out” to China, which still sees the island as part of its territory. Her political message revolves around the […]
WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — The Islamic State group has continued losing control over territory across Iraq and Syria, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday, including almost half of what it had once held in Iraq. The Defense Department had previously estimated that IS fighters had lost control of about 40 percent of the territory they claimed in Iraq and about 10 percent of the land they held in Syria. Those tallies had gone up […]
by Andrew BEATTY WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — Barack Obama’s visit to Hiroshima next week has reignited an emotive debate over former US president Harry Truman’s epoch-making decision to drop the first atomic bomb. On April 25, 1945, thirteen days after Franklin Roosevelt’s death thrust Truman into the White House, the strained new commander-in-chief got a startling top secret briefing. “Within four months we shall in all probability have completed the most terrible weapon […]
by Dave Clark VIENNA , Austria (AFP) — Senior envoys from world and regional powers are to meet once again in Vienna on Tuesday in an effort to salvage stumbling efforts to halt Syria’s bloody civil war. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov — diplomacy’s odd couple, at loggerheads over much else in the world — will chair the meeting. At the gathering, the 17-nation International Syria Support Group […]
Who will be the next president of Philippines? That is the question on every Filipino all over the world. And tasked with the responsibility of monitoring the absentee voting are the Philippine consulates of the various countries. Whether you are in the Philippines or in abroad, every vote counted. The Philippine consulate general in New York in particular has the task of attending to almost 26, 000 registered voters for this year’s election. Philippine nationals […]
The Philippine Embassy in Washington D.C. prepared for the canvassing and counting of the absentee voting ballots from 47 precincts.
DIYARBAKIR , Turkey (AFP) — Turkish authorities on Monday confirmed that 13 missing civilians had been killed last week in a blast caused by a huge quantity of explosives hoarded by Kurdish rebels blowing up accidentally. The mainly Kurdish region of Diyarbakir, in southeast Turkey, was rocked by a massive explosion on Thursday night said to have been caused by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants loading explosives onto a truck. Four people, all PKK militants, […]
by Alice RITCHIE LONDON , United States (AFP) — South Korean author Han Kang won the Man Booker International Prize on Monday, sharing the £50,000 ($72,000, 63,500 euros) award with her translator — who had only taught herself Korean three years before. Han Kang, 45, an author and creative writing teacher who is already successful in South Korea, is likely to enjoy a spike in international sales following the win for “The Vegetarian”. “I’m so […]
WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — US Secretary of State John Kerry is unavailable the day a Paris meeting to relaunch negotiations over the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is set to occur, the State Department said Monday. However the United States and France are looking into a possible alternative date for the ministerial discussions, which fall on the US Memorial Day holiday honoring members of the armed forces who died in combat. “We’ve made it clear […]
LONDON , United Kingdom (AFP) — Donald Trump warned Monday he may end up having a bad relationship with British Prime Minister David Cameron, who branded the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s proposal to stop Muslim immigration to the US “stupid”. “It looks like we are not going to have a very good relationship,” Trump told Britain’s ITV television. “Who knows, I hope to have a good relationship with him but he’s not willing to address […]
MEXICO CITY , Mexico (AFP) — The World Wildlife Fund urged Mexican authorities on Monday to ban all fishing in the upper Gulf of California to save the vaquita marina, the world’s smallest porpoise, from extinction. The environmentalist group made the plea three days after an international team of scientists revealed that only 60 of the sea creatures were left and that they could vanish by 2022. “It’s a drastic measure but maybe the most […]
TOKYO ,Japan (AFP) –An earthquake shook buildings in the Japanese capital Tokyo and other areas on Monday but no damage or injuries were immediately reported. The quake struck at 9:23 pm (1223 GMT) in Ibaraki 41 kilometres (25 miles) northeast of Tokyo at a depth of 37 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said, putting the magnitude at 5.4. It was felt in large parts of eastern Japan. Japanese authorities said there was no danger of […]
