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JULY 16 (Eagle News) — Good news for overseas Filipino workers in Taiwan because the government of the said country approved a wage hike that will benefit over 94, 000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the said country. (Taipei, Taiwan) (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
JULY 14 (Reuters) — U.S.-led forces stepped up air operations in Iraq against Islamic State positions, with 29 of 39 air strikes in the country on Sunday (July 13) coming near the Anbar provincial capital Ramadi, the Combined Joint Task Force and White House said on Monday. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the increased air strikes are a sign of the growth of the Iraq security forces and the ongoing coordination between the Iraq […]
(REUTERS) Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto called on Sunday (July 12) for a full investigation into the jailbreak of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to uncover whether any public officials helped the kingpin escape even as Mexico’s attorney general told journalists that dozens of prison employees were being questioned about possible involvement. Pena Nieto was flying to France on a state visit when news of Guzman’s escape late on Saturday night broke. In […]
(REUTERS) Euro zone finance ministers said on Sunday (July 12) some issues remained before they could give the green light for a third bailout programme for Greece. They asked Greece to show it was serious about the reforms it pledged to implement by getting them approved in parliament in the coming days. Some laws will have to be passed by Wednesday and the entire package endorsed by parliament before talks can start, ministers said. […]
(REUTERS) China’s state television CCTV on Saturday (July 11) aired video of 109 people being deported from Thailand. CCTV said they were mostly from the country’s western, Xinjiang region and were attempting to go to Turkey and then to join the Jihad in Syria and Iraq, and 13 of them were terror suspects. They were seen seated on the plane with black hoods over their heads flanked by police who wore face masks. Hundreds, […]
(Reuters) — Cuban state media released on Saturday (July 11) images of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro at an event recognizing agriculture workers. The images show the former leader posing with workers during the event on Thursday (July 09). Fidel Castro presented the workers with certificates of achievement in the production of food and highlighted their achievements despite global challenges like climate change, droughts and international conflicts. The 88-year-old former leader made a rare […]
(REUTERS) Returning from an event commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre the Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told media he had been the victim of an organised attack. Driven from the event at Potocari in Bosnia and Herzegovina by a group of angry onlookers who jeered and threw bottles and stones, Vucic and his entourage ran to their vehicles. Serbia, which backed the Bosnian Serbs during the war with men and money, condemned […]
(REUTERS) France’s foreign minister appeared to put pressure on the United States and Iran on Saturday to speed up nuclear talks, saying all issues were now on the table and that the time had come to make a decision. Western and Iranian diplomats close to the talks said they expected to work well into the night in hopes of a breakthrough, perhaps as early as on Sunday, on a deal to bring sanctions relief for […]
(REUTERS) Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump was on the move Saturday (July 11) traversing from one state to another to take his message to the American people. The real estate mogul began his day with a speech in Las Vegas, Nevada before heading to Pheonix, Arizona, where he spoke passionately in front of more than 20 thousand people after the venue had to be changed due to a larger than expected crowd turn out. In […]
(REUTERS) Sceptical euro zone finance ministers demanded on Saturday (July 11) that Greece go beyond painful austerity measures accepted by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras if he wants them to open negotiations on a third bailout for his bankrupt country to keep it in the euro. The ministers meeting in Brussels postponed until Sunday a decision on whether to recommend starting talks on a new loan for Athens and sought further commitments first on product market […]
Torrential rains brought by Typhoon Chan-Hom have wreaked havoc in many parts of east China’s Zhejiang Province for the past two days, including causing severe flooding, landslides and damaging many roads. A total of 20 counties in the province reported more than 100 millimeters of rainfall during a 36-hour period. In the coast city of Zhoushan, where the typhoon made landfall on Saturday afternoon, the persistent downpour led to knee-deep floodwaters in the low-lying […]
JULY 10 (Reuters) — Filipino boxing superstar Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao visited an Indonesian prison on Friday (July 10) to meet a Filipina woman on death row for drug trafficking, hoping to draw attention to her case and get her sentence commuted. Mary Jane Veloso won a last-minute reprieve from execution in April this year, after officials in Manila asked Indonesian President Joko Widodo to let her give evidence in an investigation into a network accused […]
