INSTABUL, Turkey (AFP ) — A Turkish town on the Syrian border was on Wednesday hit by new rocket fire from Syria, a day after two people were killed by shelling from a jihadist-controlled area, reports said. Kilis, which lies just a few kilometres from the border with Syria, has been hit by fire from Katyusha-type rockets every day this week amid growing concern over its vulnerability. The latest rocket fire caused no injuries with the projectiles falling […]
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More than 12, 000 Filipinos voted in 1st day of overseas absentee voting
MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Foreign Affairs announced that more than 12, 000 overseas Filipinos voted in the first day of the overseas absentee voting last April 9, with the Hong Kong polls having the largest voter turnout. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by Lovely Ann Cruz) https://youtu.be/6OQUtrFk3hc
Traffic chaos, schools shut as Riyadh hit by rare flooding
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Traffic backed up and schools were shut in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Wednesday after the desert city was struck by a rare severe storm that sparked flooding. The storm, which struck during Tuesday evening’s rush hour, had subsided by daybreak Wednesday but some roads were still inundated. Riyadh implemented its emergency plan to deal with the flooding, the spokesman for the municipal council, Mohammed al-Shwayman, was quoted by the official Saudi […]
Bus, truck collision kills 19 in Pakistan
MULTAN,Pakistan (AFP) — At least 19 people including two children were killed in a collision between a passenger bus and a truck in Pakistan early on Wednesday, officials said. The accident took place near the town of Theekriwala in Punjab province due to “speeding and reckless driving”, senior police official Afzaal Ahmed Khosa told AFP. “Nineteen passengers including two women and two children were killed,” Khosa said. Dr Naeem Hashmi, who works at the Allied […]
Lebanon deploys army in Sidon after bomb killed senior Fatah official
SIDON, Lebanon (Reuters) – The Lebanese army was deployed in the southern city of Sidon on Tuesday (April 12) after a bomb killed an official from the Palestinian Fatah movement. The victim was identified as Fathi Zaydan, a Fatah official responsible for the Palestinian camp of Mieh Mieh in Sidon. A photograph of the blast site near a Palestinian refugee camp showed a man’s body lying next to a burning vehicle. A local official said […]
Philippines, Vietnam reaffirm strategic partnership: Commit to step up Maritime Security Cooperation
IN his maiden foreign visit as Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jose Rene D. Almendras paid a courtesy call to newly-appointed Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Nguyen Xuan Phuc in the early evening of April 11 at the Prime Minister’s Office in central Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. The call on PM Phuc was followed by a call on Vet Nam’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh at […]
Uber launches in Argentina; taxi drivers protest
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) – As Uber launched its service in Argentina on Tuesday (April 12), taxi drivers choked downtown Buenos Aires traffic to protest the service. The private car company, which is not yet regulated in Buenos Aires, claims to have thousands of drivers on the streets of the South American capital. It launched its service by offering users two free trips, as long as each trip was below 100 pesos (USD 5.73). Taxi drivers […]
Sinkhole forms in California street
A SINKHOLE in the middle of a California street. This was what a policeman in California recently captured in a video of the California city of Madera on Monday (April 11). The depression in the residential road was already cordoned off by police, when the street slowly started collapsing into an underground sewage line, creating a hole 15 to 20 feet deep, according to Madera police. It’s unclear what provoked the collapse, but it […]
North Korean soldiers conduct live-fire drill
Reuters – North Korea’s state-run television KRT on Tuesday (April 12) released still photographs of soldiers conducting a live-fire drill at night time. KRT said the soldiers trained for a possible surprise landing of an enemy while firing artilleries towards the sea. KRT, however, did not specify the date or the location of the drill. North Korean Director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People’s Army, Hwang Pyong So, Director of the General […]
Dutch police arrest one person outside Amsterdam airport
SCHIPHOL AIRPORT, AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) – Access to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport returned to normal in the early hours of Wednesday (April 13) after temporarily closure of part of its shopping area due to a suspicious situation, local media reported. Part of Schiphol Plaza – the commercial area located at the entrance of the airport and accessible to both passengers and visitors – was evacuated on Tuesday (April 12) evening around 9.40 P.M. (0740GMT) and a […]
120 million euro “lost Caravaggio” discovered in French attic
PARIS, France (Reuters) – A painting discovered two years ago in a leaky attic in the south of France is by Italian master Caravaggio and worth an estimated 120 million euros, experts said on Tuesday (April 12). The painting, entitled “Judith Beheading Holofernes”, lay hidden for 150 years, members of the firm Eric Turquin said, before being discovered by a family in Toulouse who went into the eaves of their house looking for the source […]
Six-storey building collapses in Uganda, at least one dead
Reuters – A six-storey building under construction collapsed in Uganda’s capital Kampala on Monday, leaving at least one dead. Seven people have so far been taken out from the rubble. The injured have been rushed to hospitals around Kampala. An unknown number of people are believed to be still trapped underneath the rubble. Some of the trapped have made phone calls to their family members and friends. A witness Hope Erumana describes the incident: “What […]
