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Barcelona forward Lionel Messi was named the best player of the year at the Globe Soccer Awards in Dubai on Sunday (December 27). The 28-year-old Argentine international, who is a four-times world player of the year and has been shortlisted for the 2015 Ballon d’Or, helped to inspire his team to the Champions League, La Liga and King’s Cup treble despite losing two months to injury. “It’s always beautiful receiving this recognition. Even though the […]
Iraq’s army declared victory over Islamic State fighters in a provincial capital west of Baghdad on Sunday (December 27), the first major triumph for the U.S.-trained force since it collapsed in the face of an assault by the militants 18 months ago. The capture of Ramadi, capital of mainly Sunni-Muslim Anbar province in the Euphrates River valley west of the capital, deprives Islamic State militants of their biggest prize of 2015. The fighters seized it […]
A suicide bomber killed at least one person and wounded 13 in an attack on a road near Kabul airport, officials in the Afghan capital said on Monday (December 28), barely two weeks after a major Taliban assault in the city. A police officer at the scene said the suicide bomber walked up to a white pickup truck and detonated explosives he was wearing. A minibus was also destroyed by the explosion, which shattered the […]
Taiwan’s opposition leader and presidential front runner on Sunday (December 27) called on China to respect the island’s democratic process and said she believes Beijing will have a “rational attitude” when dealing with her independence-leaning party. Tsai Ing-wen, chairwoman of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), made the comments in the first live, televised presidential debate with three weeks to go before Taiwan votes in a new president and parliament. Tsai, with a double-digit percentage lead […]
China’s parliament passed a controversial new anti-terrorism law on Sunday (December 27) that requires technology firms to hand over sensitive information such as encryption keys to the government and allows the military to venture overseas on counter-terror operations. Chinese officials say their country faces a growing threat from militants and separatists, especially in its unruly Western region of Xinjiang, where hundreds have died in violence in the past few years. Speaking after China’s largely rubber-stamp […]
Islamic State has sanctioned the harvesting of human organs in a previously undisclosed ruling by the group’s Islamic scholars, raising concerns that the violent extremist group may be trafficking in body parts. The ruling, contained in a January 31, 2015 document reviewed by Reuters, says taking organs from a living captive to save a Muslim’s life, even if it is fatal for the captive, is permissible. Reuters couldn’t independently confirm the authenticity of the document. […]
According to an online money service firm, Filipinos are the second most educated migrants with 1.5 million Filipino migrants being university-educated. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by Lovely Ann Cruz)
The Philippines sent an emergency response team to confirm if there are any Filipinos injured in the hospital fire in Saudi Arabia that killed and injured hundreds. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, initial reports say that no Filipinos were injured in said fire. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by Lovely Ann Cruz)
A British man who was stopped along with 10 other members of his family from boarding a flight to the U.S. said on Wednesday (December 23) he believed his family had been singled out because they were Muslim. Gym instructor Mohammed Tariq Mahmood said he and his family were getting ready to board a flight to Los Angeles for a dream holiday to Disneyland when they were stopped by U.S. officials and told they could […]
The search for the people missing after a ferry sank off Indonesia’s eastern island of Sulawesi in stormy waters entered its fifth day on Wednesday (December 23). The fate of as many as 70 people remains unknown. Seven people have been reported dead, and 41 pulled out alive from rough seas by rescue teams, Alamsyah, the chief of the Disaster Mitigation Agency in the island’s Wajo regency, told Reuters. Helicopters, fishing vessels and rubber dinghies […]
A Chinese coastguard ship equipped with what appeared to be four gun turrets was sighted near disputed islands in the East China Sea, Japan’s coastguard said on Wednesday (December 23). Chinese coastguard vessels sail regularly near the islets, but a Japanese coastguard spokeswoman told Reuters it was the first time an armed Chinese coastguard ship had been spotted in the area. Takako Ito, a spokeswoman at Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in an email […]
A New York City police detective volunteering for his third deployment to war zones was mourned on Tuesday (December 22), a day after he and five other Americans were killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan near Bagram Air Base. “Detective Joseph Lemm epitomized the selflessness we can only strive for: putting his country and city first,” New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said in a statement. Six American troops, including Lemm, a 15-year veteran […]
