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☆ An American was kidnapped from a southern Philippine town and a search is underway
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-19 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

The Philippine police said Friday it has launched a search after gunmen reportedly abducted an American national, who was shot in the leg as he tried to resist before being spirited away from a southern Philippine coastal town by speedboat. Police in Sibuco town in the southern province of Zamboanga del Norte tried to pursue the suspected abductors and their victim, who they identified as Elliot Onil Eastman, 26, from Vermont, after the reported abduction on Thursday night. “We confirm that there was a report of the alleged abduction of an American national,” the regional police said in a statement. The southern Philippines has bountiful resources but has long been hamstrung by stark poverty and an array of insurgents and outlaws. They targeted American and other Western tourists and religious missionaries, most of whom were freed after ransoms were paid.

Persons: Elliot Onil Eastman, Hamsiran Jala, Eastman, Abu, Abu Sayyaf, ransoms Organizations: Philippine, Catholic, Police, American, Associated Press, Eastman, Facebook, Embassy Locations: American, Philippine, Philippines, Sibuco, Zamboanga del Norte, Vermont, Basilan, Sulu, Sibuco ., U.S, Manila, Moro Islamic, Abu Sayyaf, United States, beheadings, Sirawai

☆ US sends land-attack missile system to Philippines for exercises in apparent message to China
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Brad Lendon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The presence of the US Army’s Mid-Range Capability (MRC) ground-based missile system, increases the risks of “misjudgment and miscalculation” in a region already on edge over Chinese-Philippines face-offs in the South China Sea, Beijing says. It’s the first-ever deployment of the MRC missile system, also known as the Typhon system, to the Indo-Pacific theater, and it comes amid a series of US-Philippine military exercises, including the largest-ever edition of the bilateral Balikatan exercises beginning Monday. It also can fire the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile, a maneuverable cruise missile with a range of 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles), according to the CSIS. Those are the same rules Washington and Manila accuse Beijing of ignoring with aggressive Chinese actions that have injured Filipino sailors and damaged vessels around disputed features in the South China Sea. US Army PacificChina’s missile advantageAnalysts say the deployment of the Typhon missile battery is the first signal of US plans to address what has long been an advantage for Beijing in the region.

Persons: Lin Jian, ” Lin, Stephen Koehler, “, equalizes, ”, Collin Koh, Christopher Milhal, Koh, Rupert Schulenberg, Donald Trump “, Thomas, CNN’s Steven Jiang Organizations: South Korea CNN, US, MRC, US Army, Missile Defense, Center for Strategic, International Studies, Foreign, US Pacific Fleet, Sunday, Xinhua, CNN, US Air Force, US Army Pacific, Beijing, Rajaratnam, of International Studies, People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force, ”, don’t, International Institute for Strategic Studies, South, Lewis, McChord, Nuclear Forces Treaty, Russian, Philippine News Agency, CNN Philippine Locations: Seoul, South Korea, China, United States, Philippines, South China Sea, Beijing, Philippine, South China, Taiwan Strait, Qingdao, Washington, Manila, Asia, Pacific, Japan, Taiwan, Guam, Singapore, South, Soviet Union, Palawan, Sulu, Spratly

☆ Malaysia says sultan's heirs withdraw claim on Paris buildings
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Malaysia said the heirs of a former sultan have withdrawn their claims over three Malaysian-owned diplomatic properties in Paris, as part of a $15 billion arbitration dispute between the two sides. An enforcement judge in Paris on Nov. 9 "recorded the claimants' withdrawal from the proceedings they had initiated to seize the... diplomatic buildings," Malaysia's law ministry said in a statement issued late on Thursday. But in June, a Paris court upheld the Malaysian government's challenge against enforcing a partial award. In the statement, the law ministry said the enforcement judge also quashed an earlier order authorising that a statutory mortgage be registered on the three buildings. The judge asked the heirs of the sultan to pay 15,000 euros ($16,008) to Malaysia as costs, in addition to the 100,000 euros ordered by a Paris Court of Appeal earlier this year, it said.

Persons: Martin Petty Organizations: Malaysian, of, Paris, Thomson Locations: KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Paris, Sulu

They have since sought to seize Malaysian government assets in France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, in a bid to enforce the award. In September, the heirs sought permission from a Dutch court to enforce the award in the Netherlands, Reuters reported. Lawyer Paul Cohen, acting for the Sulu heirs, said they were disappointed with the court decision. The heirs say they were not involved in the incursion and sought arbitration over the suspension of payments. This month, a Paris court upheld the Malaysian government's challenge against enforcing a partial award to the heirs.

Persons: Anwar Ibrahim, Anwar, Lawyer Paul Cohen, Sulu, Stephanie van den Berg, Rozanna, Robert Birsel, Clarence Fernandez, Mark Potter Organizations: THE HAGUE, Malaysian, Malaysia, Reuters, Borneo . Independent Malaysia, Thomson Locations: KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Paris, Sulu, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Philippines, Borneo ., Kuala Lumpur

☆ Malaysia wins appeal against partial award in $15 bln claim by sultan's heirs
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The win for Malaysia implies the final award will be annulled and the descendants' efforts to seize Malaysian assets will end, the government said. The Filipino heirs of the last Sultan of Sulu won a $14.9-billion award in a French arbitration court last year in a long-running dispute over the deal, after a partial award was first issued in May 2020. The Paris Court of Appeal found the case arbitrator had wrongly upheld his jurisdiction, Malaysia said on Tuesday. The heirs say they were not involved in the incursion and sought arbitration over the suspension of payments. In recent months, Malaysia has stepped up efforts to protect itself from the arbitration award, including filing police complaints against one of the claimants' lawyers.

Persons: Azalina Othman Said, Kanupriya Kapoor Organizations: Malaysian, Malaysia, Appeal, United, Independent Malaysia, Thomson Locations: KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sulu, France, United Nations, Philippines, Borneo

☆ Philippines' military chief visits remote islands near disputed Spratlys
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Karen Lema | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

BALABAC, Philippines, May 18 (Reuters) - When the Philippine military chief addressed a small contingent of navy officers on a remote island in Palawan province near the disputed Spratly archipelago in the South China Sea, he reminded them their mission was to "ensure there is peace". "We make sure that we are deployed where we are needed. "This is surrounded by islands, and this is where foreign vessels from international waters will enter and pass through our SLOCs (sea lines of communications)," Centino said of the air base's location. China claims sovereignty over almost the entire South China Sea with a "nine-dash line" on maps that stretches more than 1,500 km off its mainland and cuts into the exclusive economic zones of Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia. "It is important we are able to monitor to detect who is coming in and out... if hostile or friendly forces," Centino said.

☆ 40 years ago, a US Navy aircraft carrier ran aground as thousands of sailors' families watched
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Miguel Ortiz | We Are The Mighty | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

On April 28, 1983, USS Enterprise arrived in San Francisco after an eight-month deployment. Imagine, then, the frustration felt by sailors and family members alike when a ship ran aground right before it docked. USS Enterprise sails under the Golden Gate Bridge as it returns from a deployment in April 1983. 4,500 sailors and 3,000 family members could now just see each other, but were still far from being reunited. "Our vessel is the Starship Enterprise and this is the USS Enterprise," he later said, "We've got a new drink—Enterprise on the Rocks."

☆ The High Seas Treaty, Explained
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Haphazard Authority On Ocean Resources | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +12 min

Global News Changing Tides The first international agreement to protect the world's oceans aims to create “international parks” in the high seas. The high seas represent 95% of the world’s total habitat by volume, but the nautical world remains largely unexplored. “A sentiment we often encountered was that there’s not much in terms of biodiversity out there in the high seas,” he said. MPAs that already exist mostly occupy exclusive economic zones and only make up about 3% of the high seas. A 2016 Pew study on mapping governance in the high seas showed 19 governing bodies with a high seas mandate.

☆ Exclusive: After $15 billion award, sultan's heirs target Malaysian properties in Paris
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Rozanna Latiff | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The Paris properties are only the third set of Malaysian assets that the heirs have publicly acknowledged going after. On Monday, French bailiffs attempted to evaluate the three properties in preparation of a sale, the lawyers said. A Malaysian law ministry spokesperson said the bailiffs appeared at the Malaysian embassy in Paris but were turned away. "To the extent that Malaysians blocked entry to the bailiffs, they are in open defiance of a French court order," Cohen said. The Malaysian government and the French court, the Tribunal Judiciaire de Paris, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

☆ Petronas units in Luxembourg seized again in $15 bln arbitration dispute
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Rozanna Latiff | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

It obtained a stay on the award in France but the ruling remains enforceable overseas under a United Nations treaty on arbitration. The Petronas Azerbaijan (Shah Deniz) and Petronas South Caucasus units were first seized in July 2022, but the Malaysian government said last month that the order had been set aside by a Luxembourg district court. On Tuesday, Luxembourg court bailiffs issued a second seizure order on the units and related bank accounts, court documents shared by the heirs' lawyer, Paul Cohen, showed. The Luxembourg court could not be immediately reached for comment. The heirs say they were not involved in the incursion and sought arbitration over the suspension of payments.

☆ Days after Biden's face-to-face meeting with Xi Jinping, Kamala Harris is making a rare trip to a South China Sea hotspot
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Christopher Woody | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Palawan looks over the South China Sea, where Beijing and its neighbors have competing claims. "This is another historic visit, as the vice president is the highest-ranking US official ever to visit Palawan," a senior administration official told reporters on Tuesday. It divides the Sulu Sea and the South China Sea, where the Philippines is one of several countries that dispute Beijing's expansive claims. The Philippine province of Palawan separates the Sulu Sea and the South China Sea. Asked on Tuesday how China should view the trip, the US official said, "China can take the message it wants.

☆ Spain briefly closes part of airspace as Chinese rocket debris flies over
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MADRID, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Spain briefly closed the airspace over the northeastern region of Catalonia and three other regions on Friday as remnants of a Chinese rocket were expected to pass by, emergency authorities in Catalonia said on Friday. The Long March 5B (CZ-5B), China's most powerful rocket, blasted off on Oct. 31 from southern China to deliver the last module of the Chinese space station currently under construction. As gravity pulls the rocket back to Earth, most of it is expected to burn up on re-entry, though there are concerns sizable chunks might survive. "These predictions however come with uncertainties, and a better estimation will only be possible close to the re-entry." Debris from the second flight landed harmlessly in the Indian Ocean, while remnants from the third fell into the Sulu Sea in the Philippines.

☆ Dolly Chugh Q&A: How to love a country with a complicated history
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Angela Duckworth | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

This tradition of loving one’s country, but not always liking what is done in its name, is not new. In this conversation, she offers seven tools grounded in psychological research that can help you learn — and unlearn — American history. The newly released book "A More Just Future: Psychological Tools for Reckoning With Our Past and Driving Social Change" is written by social psychologist Dolly Chugh. Dolly Chugh: The interview opened with him spontaneously singing “Hello, Dolly!” to me, so he definitely had me at hello! Dolly Chugh of the NYU Stern School of Business offers seven tools that can help you learn — and unlearn — American history.

☆ Un avion militar cu 92 de persoane la bord s-a prăbuşit în Filipine. Cel puțin 17 morți
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-04 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Potrivit şefului armatei, generalul Cirilito Sobejana, cel puţin 40 de persoane au fost salvate, iar operațiunea de căutare a victimelor continuă, scrie digi24. Aparatul, un C-130, s-a prăbuşit în timpul manevrelor de aterizare pe insula Jolo, în provincia Sulu, situată la circa 1.000 km sud de Manila. Majoritatea pasagerilor abia încheiaseră pregătirea militară de bază şi erau desfăşuraţi la Mindanao (sud), notează Agerpres. Oficialul filipinez a adăugat că speră ca şi alte persoane să mai poată fi salvate. Armata este foarte prezentă în sudul Filipinelor, din cauza implantării organizaţiei islamiste Abu Sayyaf, considerată drept grupare teroristă de către Washington.

Persons: Cirilito, Delfin, Reuters, Abu Sayyaf Organizations: Agerpres, Armata Locations: Filipinelor, Jolo, Sulu, Manila, Agenţia, Mindanao, Washington

☆ Un avion militar cu 92 de persoane la bord s-a prăbuşit în Filipine; Cel puțin 17 morți
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-04 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Sursa foto: Twitter/ Philippine Emergency Alerts - PEAUn avion militar cu 92 de persoane la bord s-a prăbuşit în Filipine; Cel puțin 17 morți17 oameni au murit în urma prăbușirii avionului militar, în sudul Filipinelor. Potrivit şefului armatei, generalul Cirilito Sobejana, cel puţin 40 de persoane au fost salvate, iar operațiunea de căutare a victimelor continuă. Un avion militar cu 92 de persoane la bord s-a prăbuşit şi a fost cuprins de flăcări în sudul Filipinelor, iar şeful armatei, generalul Cirilito Sobejana, a declarat că cel puţin 40 de persoane au fost salvate. "Echipele de salvare sunt la faţa locului, ne rugăm să putem salva şi alte vieţi", a spus generalul citat. Armata este foarte prezentă în sudul Filipinelor, din cauza implantării organizaţiei islamiste Abu Sayyaf, considerată drept grupare teroristă de către Washington.

Persons: Cirilito, Delfin, Reuters, Abu Sayyaf Organizations: Armata Locations: Filipine, Filipinelor, Jolo, Sulu, Manila, Agenţia, Mindanao, Washington

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