Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2019 09:30:25 +0000
HONG KONG, China (AFP) – Hong Kong riot police clashed with pro-democracy protesters for a third straight day yesterday as the city’s leader warned the global financial hub was nearing a “very dangerous situation” and a rare strike caused transport chaos. Clouds of tear gas billowed across the working-class district of Wong Tai Sin […]
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2019 03:29:47 +0000
SYDNEY – Australia’s Defense Minister Linda Reynolds has confirmed her country will not be used as a base for any planned U.S. midrange missiles, following talks with American officials in Sydney on the weekend.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 22:54:37 +0000
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s seismology center says a magnitude 5.2 earthquake has rocked the country’s south-west.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 22:43:49 +0000
ISSAQUAH, Wash. – Nestled in the foothills of Washington’s Cascade Mountains, the bustling Seattle suburb of Issaquah seems an unlikely candidate for anxiety over wildfires.
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 09:16:35 +0000
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) – Nine people in Ohio have been killed in the second mass shooting in the US in less than 24 hours, and the suspected shooter is also deceased, police said. Dayton police tweeted that an active shooter situation began in the Oregon District at 1 a.m. (1 p.m. Manila time) yesterday, but […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 08:49:45 +0000
HONG KONG (AFP) – Hong Kong riot police fired repeated tear gas rounds on Saturday evening at pro-democracy protesters in a popular tourist district, during the latest violence to rock the global finance hub despite increasingly stern warnings from China. The semi-autonomous southern Chinese city has seen two months of protests and clashes triggered by […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 08:43:57 +0000
MOSCOW (AP) – Police in Moscow cracked down hard on an unsanctioned election protest for the second weekend in a row Saturday, detaining more than 800 people at a rally against the exclusion from city council contests of some independent and opposition candidates, an arrest monitoring group said. Election officials rejected signatures several candidates needed […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 06:16:12 +0000
EL Paso, Texas (AFP) – A gunman armed with an assault rifle killed 20 people Saturday when he opened fire on shoppers at a packed Walmart store in Texas, the latest mass shooting in the United States. As President Donald Trump led the condemnation over “an act of cowardice” that police are treating as a […]
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 23:06:38 +0000
XALAPA, Mexico – A journalist in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz has been shot dead just days before he was scheduled to testify before state authorities about threats of violence against him.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 22:50:40 +0000
MEXICO CITY – U.S. federal prosecutors have accused the Honduran government of essentially functioning as a narco-state, with the current and former presidents having received campaign contributions from cocaine traffickers in exchange for protection.
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