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Due to the rising threat of terrorism, the State Department of the United States of America issued a worldwide travel alert to its citizens. Said country has also been under heightened alert ever since the Paris attacks. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/2AskAeTNSkU
The International Space Station (ISS) Expedition crew 46-47 visited Red Square and the Yuri Gagarin museum at Star City, Russia on Monday (November 23) to cap off their training ahead of their launch next month. The ISS crew of Russian Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko, NASA Astronaut Timothy Kopra, and British Astronaut Timothy Peake lay flowers at the graves of Russian cosmonauts and toured the Kremlin. The men said they were excited to participate in the […]
The Philippine embassy in Saudi Arabia is putting the required documents in order to allow the remains of the 13 Filipinos that died in a vehicular accident to come back to the Philippines. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged caution on Sunday (November 21) after China said it would continue to build military and civilian facilities on disputed artificial islands that have been seen as a provocation by the United States. “On the competing claims in the South China Sea I have consistently said all parties should exercise the utmost restrain and resolve the dispute in a peaceful manner through dialogue and in conformity in international law,” said […]
(Reuters) Around 27 people were reported dead on Friday after Malian commandos stormed a hotel seized by Islamist gunmen to rescue 170 people, many of them foreigners, trapped in the building. The jihadist group Al Mourabitoun, which is based in the desert north of the former French colony, claimed responsibility for the attack and said it worked with al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Mali has been battling Islamist rebels for years. A security source […]
NEW York City, United States of America – The United Nations made a reminder during World Toilet Day regarding the importance of maintaining a clean toilet as well as access to a clean toilet, adding that this is vital to the prevention of communicable diseases. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing and Uploaded by Vince Alvin Villarin)
(REUTERS) All remaining hostages at the Malian siege where at least three people died are now safe and out of the Radisson Blu in Bamako where they had been held, ministerial adviser Amadou Sangho told French television station BFMTV. “These people have been taken under the wing of the civil authorities,” he said. Earlier Malian commandos stormed the luxury hotel after Islamist gunmen took 170 people including many foreigners hostage in the capital of the […]
(REUTERS) An African jihadist group affiliated with al Qaeda claimed responsibility on Friday for an attack on a luxury hotel packed with foreigners in the Malian capital Bamako. Al-Mourabitoun, a group based in northern Mali and made up mostly of Tuaregs and Arabs, posted a message on Twitter saying it was behind the attack on the Radisson Blu hotel, where around 130 people were reported to be trapped or held hostage. The claim could not […]
(REUTERS) Two attackers have taken 170 people hostage in a luxury hotel in the Malian capital Bamako on Friday, the group that runs the hotel said. “The Rezidor hotel group, which manages the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, understands that a hostage-taking is under way at the site today,” the group said in a statement quoted by the BBC. “According to our information, two people are holding 140 clients and 30 employees”.
Brunei’s Prime Minister Hassanal Bolkiah arrived in Malaysia on Friday (November 20) ahead of a two-day regional meeting. Hassanal Bolkiah and wife Pengiran Anak Saleha arrived in Subang Abdul Aziz Shah Airport and were met by Malaysian officials. Brunei is one of the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Leaders of the 10-member state regional bloc will meet with their dialogue partners from United States, China, Japan, Australia, India, New Zealand, Russia […]
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria released a video wherein two militants issued threats, saying that the Islamic State will conduct suicide bombings and car blasts against the White House as well as threatening more attacks against France. On the other hand, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said that there is still no credible threat against the United States. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded […]
(Reuters) At least four of the Paris attackers were listed in a central counter-terrorism database maintained by the U.S. intelligence community, five U.S. officials said on Thursday. At least one and possibly more of the attackers was also on a more selective U.S. “no fly list”, three of the officials said, though they would not provide a specific number. In coordinated attacks in Paris last Friday, 129 people were killed and more than 300 were […]
