Section: Philippines
Sen. Pacquiao to fight on Nov. 5
Neophyte Senator Manny Pacquiao is coming out of a brief retirement and will return to the boxing ring on Nov. 5 after Top Rank chief Bob Arum conferred with the Filipino boxing icon. Arum said if Terence Crawford wins against Viktor Postol of Ukraine in their showdown this weekend, he will be a prime candidate to face Pacquiao. But not to be...
HIV infections still at 2.5M a year – study
PARIS: Some 2.5 million people are still becoming infected with HIV every year even as drugs have slashed the death rate and virus-carriers live longer than ever, a global AIDS study said Tuesday. New infections have plateaued for the past 10 years after a steep dip from the peak rate of 3.3 million in 1997, said the authors of a comprehensive...
HIV infections level off at ‘worrying’ 2.5M a year – study
PARIS: Some 2.5 million people are still becoming infected with HIV every year even as drugs have slashed the death rate and virus-carriers live longer than ever, a global AIDS study said Tuesday. New infections have plateaued for the past 10 years after a steep dip from the peak rate of 3.3 million in 1997, said the authors of a comprehensive...
HIV infections level off at ‘worrying’ 2.5 mn a year: study
by Mariëtte Le Roux Paris, France – Some 2.5 million people are still becoming infected with HIV every year even as drugs have slashed the death rate and virus-carriers live longer than ever, a global AIDS study said Tuesday. Volunteers light 1,638 candles at the Quezon Memorial Circle during the first AIDS Hour Saturday evening to remember...
Attacker staked out Nice site, accomplice suspected
NICE: The Nice truck attacker staked out the seafront for two days before striking, it emerged Sunday as investigators pieced together details of the Islamic State-claimed massacre and questioned possible accomplices. A source close to the investigation told AFP that Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian, sent a text message just...
Two years on, Ukraine villagers mourn at MH17 crash site
PETROPAVLIVKA, Ukraine – Dozens of villagers carried flowers and lit candles on Sunday, July 17, at the site in rebel-held eastern Ukraine where flight MH17 crashed two years ago, killing all 298 people on board. About 60 people joined the vigil on the small … …read more Source:...
UPDATE 2 more held as details emerge on France truck attacker
NICE, France: French investigators arrested two more people Sunday as they pieced together details about the motives and planning of the Tunisian who rammed a truck into a crowd in an IS-claimed attack that killed 84. Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel staked out the Nice promenade with his rented truck twice in the two days before he smashed the vehicle...
France calls for reservists after Nice attack
NICE, France: France has called on young “patriots” to join the reserves following an IS-claimed truck attack in Nice which killed 84 and prompted tough questions over security failures. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve made the appeal for volunteers to boost the security service on Saturday as France reels from its third major Islamist attack...
France calls for reservists after truck massacre
NICE, France: France has called on young “patriots” to join the reserves following an IS-claimed truck attack in Nice which killed 84 and prompted tough questions over security failures. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve made the appeal for volunteers to boost the security service on Saturday as France reels from its third major Islamist attack...
IS claims Nice massacre as France mulls security failings
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Saturday for an attack in which a Tunisian plowed a truck into a crowd in Nice, killing 84, prompting hard questions in France over security failures. A picture taken on July 15, 2016 shows a black ribbon on a French flag, flowers and candles at a makeshift memorial near the site of the deadly attack...
