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WASHINGTON D.C., USA (Reuters) — The U.S. Justice Department filed a civil rights lawsuit against Ferguson, Missouri, on Wednesday (February 10) to enforce a police and court reform plan after the city said it wanted to amend some aspects of a consent decree it had reached with the federal agency. The Justice Department initiated a civil rights investigation into Ferguson’s policing after an unarmed black teenager was killed by a white police officer in 2014. […]
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, USA (Reuters) — Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy in 1968, faces a California parole board for the 15th time on Wednesday (February 10). Sirhan, 71, will have a suitability hearing at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego, the California Board of Parole Hearings said on its website. The Palestinian-born Sirhan is serving a life sentence for gunning down Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los […]
ANKARA, Turkey (AFP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday bitterly attacked ally the United States over its support for Syrian Kurdish groups, as they seized an airport near Aleppo and sought to build ties with Russia. In an impassioned and sometimes angry address, Erdogan accused Washington of creating a “pool of blood” in the region by working with Kurdish groups Ankara lists as terror organisations. The US has been supporting Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Russian air strikes in and around the city of Aleppo against opponents of the Syrian regime are benefitting the Islamic State group, a senior US official charged Wednesday. “What Russia’s doing is directly enabling ISIL,” Brett McGurk, President Barack Obama’s special envoy to the coalition fighting the group in Syria and Iraq, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. US Secretary of State John Kerry has taken the lead over the past […]
United States Agency for International Development or USAID chief financial officer Reginald Mitchell visited Tacloban City to inaugurate new structures as part of the U.S. government’s continuing support for communities impacted by typhoon Yolanda. Mr. Mitchell joined Tacloban City mayor Alfred Romualdez and Department of Education (DepEd) region VIII Director Dr. Luisa Yu in the formal opening of four climate-resilient and fully-furnished classrooms at the Tacloban City National High School. Meanwhile, as part of the […]
MANILA, Philippines — President Benigno S. Aquino will attend the Association of ASEAN-U.S. Summit next week. He will be joined by Foreign Affairs secretary Albert Del Rosario. The summit aims to build deeper partnerships that the U.S. has forged with ASEAN since 2009 and further advance Washington’s rebalance to Asia and the pacific. The event will provide leaders a forum to strengthen cooperation on political security and economic issues under the new U.S.-ASEAN strategic partnership, […]
LEADERS of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations or ASEAN and United States president Barack Obama will jointly endorse guidelines to enhance cooperation in the first stand-alone U.S.-ASEAN Summit in Sunnylands, California next week. The result of the summit will be issued in cooperation guidelines, called the Sunnylands principles, to be endorsed by President Obama and ten ASEAN leaders. In November last year, Obama invited ASEAN leaders to the special talk after ASEAN elevated relations […]
DIKWA, Nigeria (Reuters) — Two female suicide bombers killed more than 60 people at a camp for people displaced by an insurgency of the jihadist Boko Haram group in the northeast Nigerian town of Dikwa, military and emergency officials said on Wednesday (February 10). The attack occurred 85 km (50 miles) outside the capital of Borno state, centre of the seven-year insurgency, they said. It took place on Tuesday (February 9), but a breakdown in […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Kurdish forces backed by Arab rebel groups captured a strategic air base and the adjacent town in northern Syria from rival anti-government factions overnight, a monitoring group said early Thursday. The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and its Arab allies expelled Islamist and other rebel fighters from the Minnigh air base and adjacent town, north of Syria’s second city Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP. The advance comes […]
MANILA – Now in its 11th year, the Philippine International Jazz Festival (PIJF) promises to be grander than ever with the inclusion of German pianist and composer Florian Ross, set to perform from February 25 to 28 in Manila. The Cologne-based Ross will be guesting at the PIJF for the very first time and is coming to Manila by invitation of the Goethe-Institut Philippinen, the German cultural center. Joining forces with him are local jazz mainstays Colby Dela Calzada (bass) […]
Remembering Evelio Bellaflor Javier (October 14, 1942 – February 11, 1986) Today is Evelio B. Javier Day. Governor Evelio B. Javier Day, is a Special non-working holiday in the four provinces that comprise Panay Island (specifically Antique, Capiz, Aklan, and Iloilo) in the Philippines, to “commemorate the death anniversary of the late Governor Evelio B. Javier.” It has been a holiday on Panay island every year since 1987. Evelio Javier was a politician who was […]
MANILA, Philippines — Showing na sa lahat ng sinehan nationwide ang pelikulang “Girlfriend for Hire” na pinagbibidahan nina Andre Paras at Yassi Pressman. Ang nasabing pelikula ay hango sa isang sikat at best-selling wattpad stories na mayroon ng 70 million views under Viva Films. Ang showing ng pelikula ay nagsimula kahapon, Pebrero 10, kaya ano pang hinihintay ninyo? Tara na at muling kiligin sa pelikulang “Girlfriend for Hire.”
