Triumphant Marcos faces high expectations from Philippines poor
AFP - Asia - 11/05/2022
Despite his Oxford education and jet-set lifestyle, the Philippines’s president-elect Ferdinand Marcos Junior sailed to victory this week as a champion of the poor
Now they expect him to deliver.
Residents of the impoverished Baseco neighbourhood in Manila do not…
South Korea's Yoon calls on North to trade nukes for aid
AFP - South Korea - 10/05/2022
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol called on the North to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for massive economic aid at his swearing-in Tuesday, describing Pyongyang’s missiles as a threat to regional and global security
Yoon, 61, who started work in…
Russia accused of stoking divisions in Bosnia amid war in Ukraine
AFP - Bosnia/Herzegovina - 29/04/2022
As war rages in Ukraine, more than a thousand miles away in Bosnia observers are warning that Russia is fanning the embers of separatism which could spell trouble for the deeply divided Balkan country
Since the end of the war that claimed around 100,000 lives between 1992…
42 hurt in clashes at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound
AFP - Israel - 29/04/2022
Fresh clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound injured 42 people on Friday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, following weeks of violence at the flashpoint site
The unrest came on the final Friday in the Muslim holy…
Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid hero, dies at 90 years old
AFP - International - 27/12/2021
South Africa began a week of mourning events for anti-apartheid icon, the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, described as the country’s moral compass, on Monday as tributes poured in from across the world for the outspoken Nobel peace laureate.
Tutu, who died on Sunday aged…
China Mobile aims to pocket $7.6 bn in Shanghai IPO
AFP - International - 21/12/2021
China Mobile is aiming to raise $7.64 billion in a Shanghai share listing, documents filed Tuesday showed, after the telecoms giant was delisted in New York tensions between Beijing and Washington worsened
Read also: Fitch shrinks Sands China rating
The 48.7 billion…
European stock markets rebound at open
AFP - International - 21/12/2021
European equities rebounded by 1.0 percent on Tuesday after the previous day’s sharp global selloff that was rooted in concerns over Omicron economic fallout
London’s benchmark FTSE 100 index of major blue-chip companies climbed to 7,268.87 points.
Read…
Egypt hosts UN anti-corruption conference
Xinhua - 14/12/2021
The ninth session of the Conference of the States Parties (CoSP9) to the UN Convention against Corruption kicked off on Monday in Egypt’s resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh. The session will last until Dec. 17, with more than 2,000 participants from governments, regional…
Trump's final days in office detailed in new book
AFP - International - 13/12/2021
The Congressional investigation into the January 6 assault on the US Capitol by a mob loyal to Donald Trump is increasingly focusing on the former president and his top aides — and what they did before the riot
Last week, an appeals court ruled that Trump cannot…
Asian stocks on the rise after Wall Street boost
AFP - International - 13/12/2021
Asian stocks rose early Monday, following a record-smashing lead from Wall Street. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index was up 1.03 percent, while Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index rose 1.09 percent
Friday’s gains on Wall Street, where the broad-based S&P…
