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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump on Tuesday refused to back any nominee but himself, another flip-flop in his position since the start of the race. In an interview on CNN, the party frontrunner was asked if he would support the Republican candidate for the White House, no matter who it ends up being. “No, I don’t anymore,” Trump said. “No, we’ll see who it is.” Trump added: “I have been […]
LAHORE,Pakistan (Reuters) — Residents in the Pakistan city of Lahore, concerned about their safety, demanded more security on Tuesday (March 29) after an Easter Day bombing on Sunday (March 27) that killed at least 70 people in the provincial capital of country’s richest and most populous province. Pakistan has decided to launch a paramilitary crackdown on Islamist militants in Punjab, officials said on Monday (March 28). Security and government officials told Reuters the decision had […]
CAIRO, Egypt (Reuters) — Passengers from the hijacked Egypt Air plane returned home on Tuesday night (March 29) after their plane was forced to divert to Cyprus following a threat from a hijacker who was later arrested. The plane flying from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked and forced to land in Cyprus by a man with what authorities said was a fake suicide belt. Neither the passengers or crew were harmed during the incident. Eighty-one […]
by Kiki Siregar JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Ten Indonesian sailors have been kidnapped in waters of the conflict-wracked southern Philippines by Islamic militants who have demanded a ransom for their release, authorities said Tuesday. The crew were travelling on a tugboat pulling a barge from Borneo island to thePhilippines when they were hijacked, Indonesian and Philippine officials said. Hijackers on a wooden motor boat are thought to have abducted the sailors Saturday. The vessels’ owners […]
ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT -Egypt’s interior ministry released footage on Tuesday (March 29) of a man they described as the hijacker of an Egypt air plane, passing through airport security before boarding the flight. The footage was posted on the interior ministry’s social media accounts. It shows a screen showing people by a luggage x-ray machine before a person circled in red passes through. He appears to place his bag on the machine and pass through an […]
(Reuters) — Former Canadian Cabinet minister Jean Lapierre died on Tuesday (March 29) in a plane crash that also killed his wife and three of his siblings on the way to his father’s funeral in eastern Quebec. The TVA network, for which Lapierre worked as a political commentator, said all seven people on board Lapierre’s twin-engined chartered aircraft were killed when it crashed in bad weather as it was coming in to land on […]
The hijacking of an EgyptAir plane to Cyprus on Tuesday is not related to terrorism, the island’s President Nicos Anastasiades said. “The hijacking is not terrorism-related,” he told a joint news conference with the visiting president of the European Parliament Martin Schultz. Anastasiades said the Cyprus government had done everything it could to ensure the safe release of the passengers, most of whom were reported to have been set free. AFP
CYPRUS, Egypt (AFP) — Unidentified hijackers seized an Egyptian airliner on Tuesday and diverted it to Cyprus, where it landed at Larnaca airport on the south coast, Cypriot police said. The hijackers contacted the control tower at 8:30 am (0530 GMT) and the plane was given permission to land at 8:50 am, the police said. The hijackers made no immediate demands and a crisis team has been deployed to the airport. © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
(Reuters) A man thought to be strapped with explosives hijacked an Egyptian plane on a flight between Alexandria and Cairo on Tuesday and forced it to land in Cyprus, Egyptian officials said. After the EgyptAir plane landed at Larnaca airport, the hijacker released all the people onboard except four foreign passengers and the crew, EgyptAir said. About 60 people, including seven crew, had been onboard, Egyptian and Cypriot officials said. Cyprus broadcasting (CYBC) reported that […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — The Taiwanese coastguard said Monday it had arrested 41 Chinese fisherman in possession of 15 tonnes of illicit coral reef and endangered turtles near a disputed atoll in the South China Sea. Taiwanese authorities detained the fishermen on March 22 after their 300-tonne vessel was discovered operating illegally off the shore of Tongsha island, the coastguard said, in the island’s largest mission targeting rampant poaching in the contested waters. Officials later […]
Washington, United States (AFP)—United States President Barack Obama will this week meet Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit, with North Korea on the agenda, the White House said recently. The trilateral meeting on Thursday in Washington comes the same day that Obama is scheduled to meet one-on-one with Chinese President Xi Jinping. “This meeting will be an opportunity for the three leaders […]
MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections opened to the public the profiles of the national candidates by uploading said information in the COMELEC’s official website. Said act aims to inform the public regarding the candidates, especially their platforms. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/mi2cLOO7yK4
