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Chile in shock as 10 women perish in nursing home blaze

Agence France-Presse
Aug 15 05:47 AM

Ten women burned to death in a blaze at a Chilean nursing home Tuesday, shocking the country and prompting a call by President Sebastian Pinera to shake consciences over treatment of the elderly. Read more »

Trump calls former White House aide a 'dog'

Reuters
Aug 15 04:56 AM

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday called former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman a "dog," and his campaign took legal action against her as the two former reality TV stars escalated their public feud. Read more »

From laboratory in far west, China's surveillance state spreads quietly

Reuters
Aug 15 12:52 AM

Hand-held phone scanners are harvesting data from individuals in China, whether on the militarized streets of Xinjiang or behind closed doors in Shanghai or Beijing.   Read more »

Car hits pedestrians in suspected terrorist attack at UK parliament

Reuters
Aug 15 12:35 AM

LONDON - A man deliberately drove a car into London pedestrians and cyclists on Tuesday before ramming it into barriers outside Britain's parliament in what appeared to be the second terrorist attack at the building in just under 18 months, police said. Read more »

Italy motorway bridge collapses, killing at least 35

ABS-CBN News
Aug 14 11:09 PM | Updated Aug 15 12:39 AM

GENOA, Italy (2nd UPDATE) - At least 35 people were killed when a motorway bridge collapsed in torrential rains on Tuesday morning over buildings in the northern Italian port city of Genoa, Italy's ANSA news agency cited fire brigade sources as saying. Read more »

Italy motorway bridge collapses, 'dozens' feared dead

Reuters
Aug 14 09:46 PM | Updated Aug 14 11:10 PM

A motorway bridge collapsed on Tuesday over the northern Italian port city of Genoa, killing dozens of people according to the local ambulance service, in what the transport minister said was likely to be "an immense tragedy". Read more »

Malaysian women to be caned for lesbian sex

Agence France-Presse
Aug 14 07:09 PM

Two Malaysian women have been sentenced to caning after they admitted having sex in contravention of strict Islamic laws, an official said Tuesday, sparking outrage from rights groups. Read more »

Suspected terror attack injures pedestrians outside UK parliament

Agence France-Presse
Aug 14 06:50 PM

Police said they had arrested the driver, in his 20s, and were holding him on suspicion of terrorist offenses. Read more »

Taiwan leader makes rare US speech

Agence France-Presse
Aug 14 06:16 PM

Taiwan's president has given a speech in the United States—the first time in 15 years that a leader of the island has spoken publicly on American soil—in a move likely to anger Beijing. Read more »

S.Korea marks first 'comfort women' day, joined by protestors in Taiwan

Joyce Lee and Yimou Lee, Reuters
Aug 14 04:18 PM

The comfort women issue has been a regular cause for contention between Japan and neighbors including China and North and South Korea since the war. Read more »

OFW sa Riyadh na hinalay umano ng anak ng amo, nasagip

ABS-CBN News
Aug 14 03:34 PM | Updated Aug 14 08:41 PM

Nasagip ang isang overseas Filipino worker na humingi ng saklolo sa isang social media post matapos umano siyang halayin ng anak ng kaniyang amo sa Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Read more »

Australian archbishop avoids jail over sex abuse cover-up

Reuters
Aug 14 08:35 AM

MELBOURNE - A former Australian archbishop, the most senior Catholic cleric in the world convicted of concealing child sex abuse, avoided jail on Tuesday when he was ordered to serve his one-year sentence at home, according to Australian media. Read more »

'When can we meet?': Koreans divided by war find little peace 65 years later

Haejin Choi and Hyun Young Yi, Reuters
Aug 14 07:54 AM

GYODONG ISLAND, South Korea - Retired South Korean farmer Hwang Rae-ha would love to see his mother again, but nearly 70 years after he last set eyes on her, he says he would settle for a photograph. Read more »

Trump says 'Space Force' to dominate foes, cites China

Agence France-Presse
Aug 14 07:47 AM

US President Donald Trump signed an almost $750 billion defense spending bill Monday, while vowing a new "Space Force" would give America dominance over rivals in China and elsewhere.   Read more »

FBI agent Strzok, who criticized Trump in text messages, is fired

Sarah N. Lynch, Reuters
Aug 14 07:46 AM

WASHINGTON - Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who came under fire from President Donald Trump and other Republicans for sending text messages that disparaged the candidate during the presidential campaign, was fired late on Friday, his attorney said on Monday. Read more »

Falling Shanghai signboard kills 3, injures 6

Agence France-Presse
Aug 14 06:28 AM

Three people were killed and 6 others injured in Shanghai when a shop signboard toppled onto a crowded sidewalk in a popular shopping district amid heavy rain triggered by Typhoon Yagi.   Read more »

Rogue White House ex-staffer releases Trump tape

Agence France-Presse
Aug 14 04:07 AM

Former White House staffer and TV celebrity Omarosa Manigault Newman has released a recording of a private conversation with President Donald Trump after she was fired. Read more »

U.S. judge allows Mueller case against Russian company to proceed

Reuters
Aug 14 04:03 AM

WASHINGTON - A U.S. judge on Monday backed Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the federal Russia investigation, allowing a case to proceed against a Russian company accused of helping fund a propaganda operation to sway the 2016 presidential election in Donald Trump's favor. Read more »

Pinoy family killed in U.S. car crash laid to rest

Don Tagala, ABS-CBN News
Aug 14 01:36 AM

Hundreds gathered on Saturday to bid farewell to five members of a Filipino family who were killed in a car crash in Delaware last month. Read more »

China denies internment of 1 million Uighurs

Agence France-Presse
Aug 14 12:35 AM

China vehemently denied Monday allegations that one million of its mostly Muslim Uighur minority are being held in internment camps, insisting all ethnic groups in the country are treated equally. Read more »

Duterte appoints Andanar’s dad as envoy to Malaysia

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Aug 13 04:06 PM | Updated Aug 13 04:13 PM

MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte has tapped Wencelito Andanar as special envoy to Malaysia, Malacañang said. Read more »

Meteor watch

Darrin Zammit Lupi, Reuters
Aug 13 12:16 PM

People watch as a meteor streaks past the Milky Way in the night sky during the Perseid meteor shower at Dwejra, outside the village of San Lawrenz on the island of Gozo, Malta on Monday. Read more »

Arrested and killed: inside the Bangladesh prime minister's war on drugs

Clare Baldwin and Ruma Paul, Reuters
Aug 13 08:06 AM

Bangladesh police arrested Riazul Islam as he was walking home from his in-laws' house. At 3:15 a.m., he was shot dead in a sandy field beside a set of railroad tracks north of Dhaka.  Read more »

Washington police brace as hundreds protest neo-Nazi marchers

Thomas Watkins and Antoine Boyer, Agence France-Presse
Aug 13 06:52 AM

Washington police threw a ring of steel around the White House on Sunday, as a first small group of white supremacists arrived in the nation's capital to rally a year after a deadly protest highlighted the growing boldness of America's extreme right.  Read more »

California fire threatens retirement community

Agence France-Presse
Aug 13 06:49 AM

One of the fires scorching California Sunday moved in on a retirement community, prompting evacuation orders for thousands of people. Read more »