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Singapore police say American accused of leaking HIV data 'pathological liar'

Reuters
Feb 15 12:57 AM

SINGAPORE - Singapore police said on Wednesday a U.S. citizen accused of leaking the names of more than 14,000 HIV-positive people was “a pathological liar”, in a case that has raised concern over data privacy in the city-state. Read more »

5 Filipino seafarers missing off Falkland Islands: DFA

ABS-CBN News
Feb 15 12:52 AM

MANILA - Five Filipino seafarers went missing after a Taiwanese fishing vessel caught fire off the Falkland Islands on Monday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Thursday. Read more »

Through the Brexit Looking Glass: What happens next?

Kylie MacLellan, Reuters
Feb 14 10:32 PM

LONDON - Britain's parliament last month demanded Prime Minister Theresa May renegotiate a Brexit divorce deal that the other members of the European Union say they will not reopen. Read more »

14 students with HIV expelled from school in Indonesia

Kyodo News
Feb 14 10:24 PM

Fourteen students with HIV have been expelled from a public elementary school in Indonesia following demands from parents of other students, the school's headmaster and a local group that assists HIV-infected children said Thursday. Read more »

US, China seek deal to prevent trade war escalation

Ryan Mcmorrow, Agence France-Presse
Feb 14 05:52 PM

Trump indicated this week he was open to extending a trade truce beyond March 1 depending on progress in Beijing. He is considering pushing the deadline back an additional 60 days, Bloomberg News reported, citing sources. Read more »

Valentine's Day makeover treat sa distressed OFWs sa Dubai, ikinasa

Rachel Salinel, ABS-CBN News
Feb 14 05:16 PM

DUBAI – Walang pera o ka-date? Hindi ito naging hadlang sa mga Pilipinong nagkaproblema sa trabaho o estado sa Dubai para magpaganda bago pa sumapit ang Araw ng mga Puso. Read more »

Judge rules that ex-Trump aide Manafort broke plea deal

Agence France-Presse
Feb 14 10:57 AM | Updated Feb 14 11:12 AM

WASHINGTON - Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort could face a much longer prison sentence than expected after a Washington judge ruled Wednesday that he had broken his plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Read more »

Boxer who hit French police gets year-long jail sentence

Reuters
Feb 14 08:12 AM

PARIS - A Paris court gave a year-long firm jail sentence on Wednesday to a former French boxing champion who was filmed raining blows on riot officers during a "yellow vest" protest last month. Read more »

A year after US school massacre, gun control remains elusive

Leila Macor, Agence France-Presse
Feb 14 08:10 AM | Updated Feb 14 08:34 AM

MIAMI - On Valentine's Day of last year, a 19-year-old armed with a military-style assault rifle walked into his old high school in Parkland, Florida and slaughtered 17 people.  Read more »

Mga aplikante sa pagka-nurse sa Germany binalaan vs illegal recruiters

ABS-CBN News
Feb 13 06:38 PM

Binalaan ng Philippine Overseas Employment Administration ang mga Pilipino na naga-aplay para maging mga nurse sa Germany laban sa umano ay mga illegal recruiter. Read more »

Japan to make unauthorized downloads of all copyrighted work illegal

Kyodo News
Feb 13 04:56 PM

TOKYO - Japan will make it illegal to download without permission of copyright holders all works including manga, computer games and literary writings, as a government panel adopted the policy on Wednesday. Read more »

Family wants justice for kin killed in Illinois

Connie Macatula-DeLeon, ABS-CBN North America News Bureau
Feb 13 04:03 PM

SKOKIE, Illinois - The family of the Filipino-American man whose frozen body was found in a Chicago suburb last month is crying for justice.  Read more »

Lovers, comrades! Forbidden love in North Korea finds a way in Vietnam

Reuters
Feb 13 03:13 PM

A young couple with matching expressions stare nervously into the camera with deep brown eyes. He, a Vietnamese student, has just met the love of his life. She, a North Korean, is forbidden to love him back. Read more »

Japan gay couples seek marriage rights in Valentine's lawsuit

Kyoko Hasegawa, Agence France-Presse
Feb 13 01:52 PM

Chizuka Oe and Yoko Ogawa have been together for 25 years, but when they submitted their marriage registration at a Tokyo town hall, they knew it would be rejected. Read more »

Thai princess apologizes after being disqualified from PM run

Patpicha Tanakasempipat, Reuters
Feb 13 12:52 PM

Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya Sirivadhana Barnavadi apologized for causing "problems" for the Thai people ahead of next month's election. Read more »

UK's May seeks more time to find Brexit deal, tells lawmakers: Hold your nerve

Kylie MacLellan and William James, Reuters
Feb 13 08:01 AM

Prime Minister Theresa May told lawmakers on Tuesday to hold their nerve over Brexit and give her more time to negotiate a deal acceptable to both the European Union and the British parliament.   Read more »

US commander says N.Korea unlikely to give up all nuclear weapons

David Brunnstrom, Reuters
Feb 13 07:58 AM

Weeks before a second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the top US military commander for Asia on Tuesday echoed an intelligence assessment that North Korea is unlikely to give up all its nuclear weapons. Read more »

'El Chapo' likely heading for Colorado prison where no one has escaped

Alex Dobuzinskis, Reuters
Feb 13 07:44 AM

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Mexican found guilty in a US court on Tuesday of running a criminal enterprise that smuggled drugs into the United States, is likely headed to a "supermax" prison where repeating his past escapes would be nearly impossible.   Read more »

Harrison Ford attacks leaders who deny climate change

Agence France-Presse
Feb 13 07:40 AM

Hollywood veteran Harrison Ford on Tuesday attacked US President Donald Trump and other world leaders who deny climate change saying they were "on the wrong side of history". Read more »

Hundreds flee US-backed Syria battle for last IS holdout

Maya Gebeily, Agence France-Presse
Feb 13 07:38 AM

Exhausted families trudged out of the Islamic State group's last bastion in eastern Syria Tuesday, as Kurdish-led forces boxed holdout jihadists into an ever-shrinking pocket.  Read more »

Trump says not 'happy' with budget deal but shutdown unlikely

Agence France-Presse
Feb 13 07:32 AM

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wasn't "happy" with a preliminary deal by US lawmakers to provide funding for a border wall with Mexico but added another government shutdown was not likely.  Read more »

BBC wants security review after cameraman attacked at Trump rally

Agence France-Presse
Feb 13 07:04 AM

The BBC asked the White House to review security arrangements Tuesday after a BBC cameraman was assaulted at a rally in Texas with President Donald Trump. Read more »

US Southern Baptist churches embroiled in sex abuse scandal

Nova Safo, Agence France-Presse
Feb 13 06:50 AM

The United States' largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, is facing a sexual abuse crisis after a bombshell report revealed hundreds of predators and more than 700 victims since 1998.  Read more »

Drug 'godfathers' to surrender in Bangladesh

Agence France-Presse
Feb 13 06:34 AM

Over 100 suspected meth traffickers are expected to surrender to Bangladeshi authorities this week thanks to a deadly, Philippines-style police crackdown that has sown fear, officials said Tuesday. Read more »

Turn it down! Millennials' music habit puts their hearing at risk - UN

Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters
Feb 13 06:07 AM

GENEVA - A generation of music-lovers are damaging their hearing with audio players that do not limit dangerously high noise levels, the UN health agency said on Tuesday. Read more »