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Battered crude oil prices bounced back from their lows on Thursday (January 21, 2015), propelling solid gains in Asian shares and the dollar. Thursday’s gains built on Wall Street’s consolidation overnight in which major indexes finished with declines of more than 1 percent, but well off the 3 percent plus they plumbed in the previous session when U.S. crude had dropped to 2003 lows. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei average added 0.5 percent early after plunging 3.7 […]
Military operations have been carried out continuously at Russia’s Hmeymim airbase in the Syrian city of Latakia, with the roar of aircraft a common occurrence since Russian forces arrived last September. With Mi-24 attack helicopters hovering over the airbase, fighter jets from the Sukhoi-designed fleet, including the Russian Air Force’s latest Su-34 model, have been taking off from the base to conduct airstrikes against terrorist targets in the war-stricken country. “The Russian air force has […]
Protesters forced their way into the Moldovan parliament demanding snap elections on Wednesday (January 20), after lawmakers appointed the country’s third prime minister in less than a year in a bid to end months of political deadlock. Waving flags and shouting slogans, a dozen protesters scuffled with police in riot gear and accused lawmakers who appointed Pavel Filip, a member of the main pro-European coalition, of being traitors. Police later secured the building and the […]
Jobless protesters clashed with police on Wednesday (January 20) in the central Tunisian city of Kasserine as anger over rising unemployment in the North African country triggered demonstrations in the capital Tunis and several other cities. At least one policeman was killed in Feriana after he was attacked by protesters, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said. Large crowds burned tyres and chanted: “Work, freedom, dignity” during a second day of demonstrations that erupted in […]
Hundreds of Syrian families displaced by armed conflicts returned to their homes in south Damascus on Wednesday as part of a truce between the government and local rebels reached last year. About 4,000 residents of Qadam Municipality, who fled the fighting in the last three years, returned to their hometown on the buses provided by the government. “I feel so happy. How I wish that all Syrians could go back to their homes and that […]
The Iglesia Ni Cristo is conducting its own inquiry concerning the events which led to the serving of an arrest warrant against expelled member Lowell Menorca on Wednesday morning. Inc spokesperson, Bro. Edwil Zabala challenged Menorca to prove his allegations that he was being prevented to attend a scheduled hearing at the court of appeals for his petitions for writs of amparo and habeas corpus. “We would like to clarify that the INC’s legal team […]
U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter won agreement from defense ministers from France and five other nations on Wednesday to intensify the campaign against IS militants in Iraq and Syria. A bilateral meeting was held firstly between Ashton Carter and Jean-Yves Le Drian, France’s Defense Minister, to discuss the issue before the closed-door meeting among the defense ministers from the other five countries, including the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, Italy and Germany. This is the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (January 21) – The much buzzed-over veto of P-Noy to the pension hike of SSS beneficiaries makes everyone do their heavy face-palms. It’s an outrageous move. Both houses, the House of Representatives and the Senate, already approved its passing. All possible holes about the bill were already debated. Only the President’s signature is missing. According to the President, the agency would go bankrupt if the bill was approved. This statement is supported by […]
Pinagtibay na ng Sandiganbayan Third Division ang nauna nang desisyon na isalang sa paglilitis si dating Chief Justice Renato Corona dahil sa kasong perjury at misdeclaration ng kanyang mga ari- arian. Sa dalawampu’t walong pahinang resolusyon, ibinasura ng Anti-graft Court ang inihaing motion for reconsideration ng punong mahistrado na baligtarin ang desisyon para isalang ito sa paglilitis. Ayon sa korte, hindi nakitaan ng probable cause ang inihaing mosyon ni Corona. Nakatakda ang paglilitis kay Corona […]
Kinondena ng ilang bansa ang harassment na ginawa ng China sa eroplano ng pilinas nang magsagawa ng inspeksyon sa pinag-aagawang teritoryo sa West Philippine Sea. Sinabi ni British Ambassador to the Philippines Asif Ahmad na hindi papayagan ng Britanya na limitahan ng Beijing ang freedom of navigation sa nasabing disputed islands. Binalaan din ni Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull ang China na tigilan na ang pag-angkin sa buong West Philippine Sea na maari lang aniyang […]
NASA released video on January 15 showing a set of ‘magnetic arches’ which were created in December 2015 when a dark solar filament above the sun’s surface became unstable and then erupted. The video was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and then put onto social media. NASA said on social media that a small eruption in the upper right part of the sun’s filament was most likely related to the collapse. NASA also […]
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden criticised modern corporate “short-termism” on Wednesday (January 20) and urged chief executives gathered in Davos to look after their workers as well as their shareholders. Relishing his nickname of “middle-class Joe”, he told delegates at the World Economic Forum annual meeting that the middle classes, the backbone of economies and democracies, now faced unprecedented threats from technological change. “For I believe the underlying question for world leaders, civil society, academia, […]
