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THE record-breaking California drought has snapped communities into taking action to conserve water, and Los Angeles is leading the pack with a team of “water cops” dispatched to educate residents about what they can do to help. Rick Silva, a water conservation supervisor for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, has been driving around the city to inform residents when they might in violation of water conservation ordinances. “We’re not looking to get […]
MIGRANTS with severe burns received treatment at a medical center on the Italian island of Lampedusa on Friday (April 17), hours after they were rescued at sea by the Italian coastguard. A dinghy carrying between 60-70 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa was intercepted by the coastguard who found many of the people on board suffering from severe burns, including young children. One 25-year-old woman had died of her injuries onboard. “Certainly there are severe burns. At least […]
WASHINGTON DC, USA (Eagle News)- According to United States Navy Admiral Samuel Locklear, the ongoing reclamation activities of China is very aggressive and will give them de facto control of the said region. China however denied that its activities are against international law. In the light of the event, high foreign affairs officials of the United States, Japan and South Korea asked China to follow international law and stop its reclamation system. (Eagle News Service […]
SLOVENIA – A suspected case of Ebola was recorded in Slovenia after a patient was admitted in a hospital with severe fever after returning from Africa. This will be the first case of Ebola in the country. The patient is still undergoing tests, while authorities wait for the result. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, Vince Alvin Villarin)
WASHINGTON, DC, USA – United States President Barack Obama met the leaders of West Africa regarding the Ebola outbreak in the said nations, reminding them to remain vigilant until the said virus is completely wiped out. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, Vince Alvin Villarin)
ROME, Italy, April 18, (Eagle News) – According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, the price of rice is expected to recover this year in the world market despite the low demand from exporters. FAO added that the world rice supply was affected not only by the bad weather but by the low price in the world market. One of the most affected is India, which is one of the largest rice exporter in the […]
The vice foreign ministers of Japan, South Korea and the United States (U.S) urged China on Thursday (April 16) to adhere to international law and cease its development of island strips in the South China Sea for the apparent purpose of establishing its footprint in the region. “What, I think we all agree on, is the need to pursue any claims that countries have with strict adherence and respect for the rule of law, for […]
THE annual ‘March of the Living’ march took place on Thursday (April 16) with thousands of Jewish adults and teens from around the world walking the three-kilometer stretch from the Auschwitz concentration camp to Birkenau. Among them were also Holocaust survivors and former captives of Nazi concentration camps. The March is also dedicated to students from all over the world to study the history of the Holocaust and to examine the roots of prejudice, intolerance […]
CHINA has urged the Philippines to respect its territorial sovereignty after President Benigno Aquino said Beijing’s efforts to control the South China Sea should cause fear around the world. The Philippine president made the comments during an interview with AFP on Tuesday (April 14), adding that while he did not believe China intended to start a military conflict in the region, there was a possibility of one breaking out. In response to the comments, China’s […]
WITH wildlife and forest crimes on the rise, yielding enormous profits for criminal networks, high-level officials from the United Nations (UN) have warned that they fuel violence, corrupt supply chains and undermine the rule of law. Speaking at a major anti-crime meeting in Doha, Qatar, co-hosted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the […]
SOUTH Koreans mourning the death of their teenage children in the country’s worst sea disaster in 44 years sailed on Wednesday (April 15) to the spot where the 6,800-tonne ferry remains under water, to mark a year since the sinking that killed more than 300 people. A ship carrying about 200 family members made the hour-long trip to the site of the sinking, where they threw white chrysanthemums into the sea, before returning to the […]
Europe must show flexibility in dealing with the Greek debt crisis not just out of a sense of solidarity but to defend the common interest as well, European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Tuesday (April 14). “If one falls, it’s the whole system that falls,” she said. Speaking with students ahead of a meeting of G7 foreign ministers in the German town of Luebeck, Mogherini said the rest of the EU should […]
