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Typhoon moves into South China Sea after pounding Philippines
AFP, Published on 10/11/2025
» MANILA - A weakening Typhoon Fung-wong departed the Philippines into the South China Sea on Monday morning after its driving winds and heavy rain killed at least two people and forced more than a million people to evacuate their homes.
Over 1m evacuate as deadly Super Typhoon Fung-wong nears Philippines
AFP, Published on 09/11/2025
» MANILA - More than a million people have been evacuated and at least two people killed as floodwaters rose in the Philippines on Sunday before Super Typhoon Fung-wong's expected landfall on the east coast.
Philippine torture victim relives horror as dictator's son rises
AFP, Published on 23/02/2022
» Ferdinand Marcos Junior's quest for the Philippine presidency has Loretta Rosales recoiling in horror remembering the nightmare she went through standing up to his late father's brutal rule.
In Texas, driverless trucks are set to take over roads
AFP, Published on 21/01/2022
» HOUSTON: A giant 18-wheel transport truck is barreling down a multi-lane Texas highway, and there is no one behind the wheel.
'Potential hijack' of ship off UAE coast
AFP, Published on 04/08/2021
» LONDON: A UK maritime security agency said Tuesday a ship may have been hijacked off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, five days after an attack on a tanker left two dead.
In Colombia, cattle farmer declares truce with jaguar
AFP, Published on 13/05/2021
» HATO COROZAL (COLOMBIA) - On the plains of eastern Colombia, an age-old conflict between man and beast plays out near-daily. Jaguars attack cattle. Farmers retaliate with shotguns.
Colorado mass shooting sparks urgent calls for gun control
AFP, Published on 23/03/2021
» BOULDER (UNITED STATES) - America was reeling Tuesday from its second deadly mass shooting in a week, after a gunman killed 10 in a Colorado grocery store, sparking urgent new calls for political action on the fraught issue of gun control.
10 killed in mass shooting at Colorado grocery store
AFP, Published on 23/03/2021
» BOULDER, Colorado, US: A gunman killed at least 10 people including a police officer at a grocery store in Colorado on Monday, police said, in the latest shooting to hit the western state -- scene of two of the most infamous US mass murders.
'Multiple' deaths in US mass shooting at Colorado grocery store
AFP, Published on 23/03/2021
» BOULDER, United States: A gunman killed multiple people including a police officer at a grocery store in Colorado on Monday, police said, in the latest shooting to hit the western state -- scene of two of the most infamous US mass murders.
Uber posts big loss as pandemic clobbers ridesharing, despite delivery offset
AFP, Published on 11/02/2021
» SAN FRANCISCO - Uber on Wednesday reported another hefty loss in the final three months of 2020, though the company's food delivery operations partly offset the hit taken from the decline in ridesharing during the pandemic.