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The Philippines and Israel aim to strengthen the promotion and development of tourism between the two countries with the forging of a bilateral cooperation agreement. What better way is there to know a country, its people and its culture than to experience it for yourself? The title of the joint-conference of tour operators and companies between Israel and the Philippines says it all: “Tourism: A bridge between the pearl of the orient and the holy […]
Two Canadian tourists, a Norwegian resort manager and a Filipino woman have been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from a popular resort island in the southern Philippines. Philippine Army Captain Alberto Caber said the four were taken at gunpoint during a raid late on Monday night on the Oceanview Resort on Samal Island, near Davao City. Military and police officials were surprised by the latest attack, which came as a reminder of volatile security in […]
More than 1,000 people who were forced to evacuate from areas of Northern California affected by a deadly wildfire will be allowed to return home on Sunday (September 20), a day after a new fire broke out further south and killed one person, officials said. The unidentified person died in the so-called Tassajara Fire, which also prompted mandatory evacuations in Monterey County, said Lynnette Round, spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection […]
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 22 (PNA/Xinhua) — With more than 200 million school-aged children unable to read and write, the UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will focus on access to quality education, the executive director of UNICEF, said Monday. “There are 250 million children around the world of fourth and fifth grade age who can not read and write or do their numbers,” Anthony Lake told reporters here. The new SDGs — a set of […]
Australia on Monday (September 21) swore in its first female defense minister, Senator Marise Payne, who will oversee open-ended military engagements in two countries and some of the country’s most important defense contracts in a generation. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull last week ousted long-time rival Tony Abbott as leader of their ruling Liberal Party, citing a chaotic management style and dismal poll numbers. Turnbull’s cabinet which was sworn in on Monday features five women, more […]
The United States will take in 15,000 more refugees from around the world next year, increasing the current level to 85,000, and to 100,000 in 2017, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday (September 20). “I’m pleased to announce today that the United States will significantly increase our number for refugee resettlement in the course of this next year and the year after,” Kerry said after talks with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier. […]
(Reuters) Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi kept his finance, investment and interior ministers in a new government sworn in on Saturday (September 19) as he tries to rebuild an economy battered by Islamist militant violence. Sisi named former head of the state oil company Tarek al-Mullah as petroleum minister, charged with easing the country’s energy crisis and attracting more foreign investment in a strategic sector. Mullah succeeds Sherif Ismail, seen as one of the best-performing […]
(Reuters) The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea on Friday (September 18) issued new reports on the expansion of female prison camps in North Korea. There have long been concerns about reports of atrocities including executions and torture, but they have largely been overshadowed by international alarm about North Korea’s nuclear weapons. Held at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., presenter David Hawk and author of Hidden Gulag IV: Gender Repression and Prisoner Disappearances, told […]
(Reuters) Japan’s parliament voted into law on Saturday (September 19) a defence policy shift that could let troops fight overseas for the first time since 1945, a milestone in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s push to loosen the limits of the pacifist constitution on the military. Abe says the shift, the biggest change in Japan’s defence policy since the creation of its post-war military in 1954, is vital to meet new challenges such as from a […]
(Reuters) Massachusetts officials on Friday (September 18) announced they have identified the young girl whose body was found stuffed in a trash bag on a beach in Boston Harbor last June, and they have arrested two people in connection with her death. At a press conference in Boston, Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley said, after months of work, officers were able to identify the toddler whose imagined picture had captivated people across the country. […]
(Eagle News) — The magnitude 8.3 earthquake that struck Chile has left 10 people dead as millions were displaced when they evacuated for safer areas. Said earthquake also resulted in the issuance of tsunami warnings to many countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Authorities ask evacuees to refrain from going back to their homes as the government continues to monitor the situation. <em>(Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)</em> https://youtu.be/pL58tR1BFsk
A bomb concealed in a motorcycle parked outside a temple in Thailand’s southernmost province killed two people and wounded 14 on Thursday (September 17) in attacks by suspected ethnic Malay separatists, police said. The bomb was one of five that went off in the late evening in a district of Narathiwat, one of three Muslim dominated provinces where shadowy insurgents are waging a low-level rebellion against the Thai state. Soldiers were among the dead and […]
