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SINGAPORE, June 15, 2024 (AFP) – Beaches on Singapore’s top resort island of Sentosa, which also house luxury waterfront homes, were shuttered on Saturday due to an oil spill at a nearby port, maritime authorities said. The oil spill resulted from an accident on Friday at the Pasir Panjang terminal between a Netherlands-flagged dredger and a stationary Singapore-flagged bunker vessel, Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) said. Waters of three popular beaches on the island […]
By Jing Xuan TENG SHANGHAI, June 15, 2024 (AFP) – New Chinese coast guard rules took effect Saturday, under which it can detain foreigners for trespassing in the disputed South China Sea, where neighbours and the G7 have accused Beijing of intimidation and coercion. Beijing claims almost the entirety of the South China Sea, brushing aside competing claims from several Southeast Asian nations including the Philippines and an international ruling that its stance has no […]
SKARDU, Pakistan, June 15, 2024 (AFP) – One of two Japanese climbers was found dead and his body recovered from a mountain in northern Pakistan on Saturday, with a search ongoing for the second man, an official said. Ryuseki Hiraoka and Atsushi Taguchi were attempting to summit the 7,027-metre (23,054-foot) Spantik mountain in the Karakoram range before they went missing this week. “The dead body of a Japanese climber was found, and a search is […]
SEOUL, June 15, 2024 (AFP) – North Korea’s military has been building roads and walls inside the Demilitarized Zone that separates it from the South, the Yonhap news agency reported Saturday. The construction activities are taking place north of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) that runs through the middle of the DMZ, the South Korean agency said, citing an unnamed military source. The report follows an incident last week when South Korean forces fired warning […]
By Sylvain PEUCHMAURD, Joe JACKSON LONDON, June 15, 2024 (AFP) – Catherine, Princess of Wales, on Saturday tentatively returned to UK public life for the first time since being diagnosed with cancer, attending a military parade in London to mark King Charles III’s official birthday. Kate, as she is widely known, travelled in a state carriage alongside her three children at the outset of the annual event before watching the ceremonial proceedings from a viewing […]
MOSCOW, June 14, 2024 (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow would only halt its offensive on Ukraine if Kyiv effectively surrenders by pulling its troops out of the east and south and dropping its bid for NATO membership. Ukraine, NATO and the United States immediately rejected Putin’s hardline conditions to halt the full-scale military offensive that he launched in February 2022. The two countries have been locked in bloody conflict for […]
WASHINGTON, June 14, 2024 (AFP) – The US Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a ban introduced by ex-president Donald Trump’s administration on “bump stocks” — which allow semi-automatic rifles to fire like a machine gun — is unconstitutional. The case stems from the worst mass shooting in US history, in October 2017, when a man fired on a crowd attending an outdoor music concert in Las Vegas, killing 58 people and wounding around 500. […]
VIENNA, June 13, 2024 (AFP) – A landslide after heavy rains in Austria has killed a five-year-old boy, police said, as the environment minister warned Thursday that climate change was hitting the mountainous country “harder and harder”. In recent weeks, heavy rains have led to widespread flooding and hundreds of landslides across Austria. The area close to the border with Slovenia and Hungary in the southern provinces of Styria and Burgenland has been especially […]
GENEVA, June 13, 2024 (AFP) – Switzerland government websites were hit Thursday by the first of an expected wave of cyberattacks ahead of a weekend summit on peace in Ukraine hosted by Bern. The National Cyber Security Centre said the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which make websites or network resources unavailable by flooding them with malicious traffic, resulted in minor outages. “A first DDoS attack on various federal government websites and organisations involved in the […]
LILONGWE, Malawi, June 11, 2024 (AFP) – Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima was killed in a plane crash, the nation’s president said on Tuesday, after searchers located the wreckage of the aircraft in a mist-shrouded forest. The military plane carrying Chilima, 51, and nine others disappeared on Monday, after it failed to land in the northern city of Mzuzu due to bad weather and was told to return to the capital, Lilongwe. Photographs shared with […]
By Ryan Collerd with Chris Lefkow in Washington WILMINGTON, United States, June 11, 2024 (AFP) – A jury found Hunter Biden guilty on Tuesday of federal gun charges in a historic first criminal prosecution of the child of a sitting US president. The 54-year-old son of President Joe Biden was convicted on all three of the felony counts stemming from his 2018 purchase of a handgun while addicted to crack cocaine. The verdict comes as […]
(Eagle News)–Six volcanic earthquakes were monitored at Kanlaon in the last 24 hours. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said sulfur dioxide flux was at 3304 tons. A plume reaching 300 meters high was also observed. PHIVOLCS reminded the public about the ban on the entry into the 4-kilometer Permanent Danger Zone. It also advised pilots against flying close to the volcano. Kanlaon volcano remains under alert level 2.
