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by Danny KEMP with Eric RANDOLPH in Calais BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — The European Union will Wednesday announce plans for emergency aid to Greece which is struggling to cope with an influx of migrants with thousands stuck in misery at its border after Balkan states tightened their frontiers. Greece has asked for around 480 million euros ($520 million) to help shelter 100,000 refugees as Europe faces its biggest wave of refugees since World War II […]
Truly an exemplar of excellence in visual media! Carlo Jay Ortega Cuevas proves that Filipinos are truly amazing at the International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema in London! Congratulations Direk Jay for winning the Best Director award for a Foreign Feature Film for “Walang Take Two”!
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton rolled up a series of wins on Tuesday, as the two presidential front-runners took a step toward capturing their parties’ nominations on the 2016 campaign’s biggest day of state-by-state primary contests. Trump and Clinton turned their sights on each other after their Super Tuesday wins, with Trump promising to “go after” Clinton and the former secretary of state decrying what she called Trump’s divisive rhetoric. U.S. networks […]
MANILA, March 2 — The Palace reiterated yesterday that the government is continuously monitoring the situation of overseas Filipino workers in the Middle East who may be affected by the slump in the price of oil. Presidential Communications Secretary Sonny Coloma said the government is implementing measures to assist the OFWs there. “DOLE has established fully-integrated processes for new job applications and placements, livelihood assistance and training and other social safety nets for cushioning the impact of […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US State Department said Tuesday there has been no significant violation of the fragile ceasefire in Syria in the past 24 hours, but a spokesman noted “nobody’s doing any victory dances” yet. “Over the last 24 hours, we have not been apprised of any claims of any additional violations of any significance,” spokesman John Kirby said. “It’s a very fluid environment and we’re just going to keep monitoring as […]
ARLINGTON, Virginia, United States (Reuters) — Russia’s military activity in eastern Ukraine has increased and broaden recently, NATO’s top commander said on Tuesday (March 1), warning that the risk of confrontation between Turkey and Russia over Syria remained high. U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove, the NATO supreme allied commander, said that Russia’s involvement in the conflict in Syria has “complicated the problem”. “Despite public pronouncements to the contrary, today Russia has done little to […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Scientists have been telling Americans about the benefits of healthy eating for decades, and yet more Americans are obese than ever — more than a third of the country. Now, researchers at Harvard and Tufts Universities have laid out concrete steps officials can take by linking food prices to health effects. Reducing prices of fruit and vegetables while raising prices for sodas and other sugary drinks could save millions of […]
TOKYO, JAPAN (Reuters)— Akiko Hoshino’s 17-year-old female Shiba Inu, named “Nene”, is so old in dog years that she can no longer walk by herself. On the rare days she is out on the streets of Tokyo, Hoshino has to carry Nene everywhere, occasionally a friend helps her wipe the drool from Nene’s open mouth. Depending on how you calculate dog years, Nene is around 84 years old in human terms. “You can’t say this […]
NEW HAVEN, VERMONT, UNITED STATES (Reuters)— Vermont is known as the ‘Green Mountain State’ for its rural, lush landscape. Maybe best known for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and the psychedelic rock band Phish, Vermont is also known for its liberal attitudes. Vermont was among the first states to legalize same-sex marriage and legalize assisted suicide. Last week the Vermont State Senate voted to legalize recreational marijuana. Vermont also has some of the least restrictive […]
BEIJING, CHINA (Reuters) — China’s economy grew 6.9 percent last year, the slowest in more than two decades. While declaring that pace of growth was hardly shabby, the government admits China’s investment-fed model of growth has reached its boundaries, and a more sustainable path of development is needed, and industrial overcapacity and high debt levels will have to be slashed. As China restructures its inefficient state sector and shuts debt-laden “zombie” firms in bloated sectors, […]
MONKAYO, Mindanao — Police said 4 people died and 5 are missing after water flooded a mine in a mountainous gold rush town in the Southern Philippines. Provincial police commander Senior Superintendent Albert Ferro said rescuers lowered tubes to pump water out of the mine in the impoverished town of Monkayo during the search for the missing. It was not immediately clear how the tunnel became flooded early Sunday but there was heavy rain in […]
MANILA, Philippines — Japan signed an agreement to supply defense equipment to the Philippines. Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said the agreement he signed with the Japanese Ambassador to Manila, Kazuhide Ishikawa, provides a framework for the supply of defense equipment and technology and will allow the Asian countries to carry out joint research and development projects. Neither side mentioned China’s increasingly assertive behavior in disputed areas but that has been a major security concern for […]
