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MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Nagtipun-tipon ang mga tagasuporta ni Dating Senador Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., sa harap ng Korte Suprema na tumatayong Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) para sa unang araw ng manual recount ng election protest laban kay Vice President Leni Robredo. Hindi bababa sa 200 tagasuporta ni Marcos ang nagtungo sa harap ng gate ng Supreme Court suot ang pulang t-shirt. Bukod sa mga tagasuporta naroon din si Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos […]
(Eagle News)–The State Prosecutors and Prosecution Attorneys Association Inc. (SPPAAI) expressed “alarm” over the Presidential Anti-Crime Commission’s request to place under preventive suspension the prosecutors who dismissed the charges against Kerwin Espinosa and others. In a statement, the group said the act of requesting to also file administrative charges against Assistant State Prosecutor Michael John Humarang, officer in charge-Senior Deputy State Prosecutor Rassendel Rex Gingoyon, Acting Prosecutor General Jorge Catalan, and former Assistant State Prosecutor […]
(Eagle News)– Vice President Leni Robredo’s camp on Sunday expressed confidence the results of the manual recount that is slated to start on Monday will only affirm that she was the winner in the 2016 vice presidential elections. “Kumpiyansa kami at walang dapat ikatakot sa magiging resulta ng recount dahil walang dudang si (Robredo) naman talaga ang nanalo noong 2016 elections,” lawyer Romulo Macalintal said in a statement. He said the recount would also prove […]
By Ayee Macaraig Agence France Presse After fleeing for their lives nearly a year ago, some residents of the battle-scarred city of Marawi were allowed back Sunday for the first time — to dig through the rubble that was once their homes. Swathes of the southern city were destroyed in five months of house-to-house fighting between troops and jihadists loyal to the Islamic State group that killed nearly 1,200. The stunned and tearful residents, who once […]
(Eagle News) — Detained Senator Leila de Lima has filed a bill to ensure the protection of what she said were the rights of “human rights defenders.” De Lima said Senate Bill 1699 was filed after the “obsessive attacks against” the “concepts and principles”of “human rights defenders” like herself, “led by no less than the President himself.” Under the measure, she said the rights of these “defenders” include their right to seek and receive information, their […]
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (AFP) — A Kuwaiti court on Sunday sentenced in absentia a Lebanese man and his Syrian wife to death by hanging over the murder of a Filipina maid, a judicial source said. The court issued the sentence in the first hearing in the case of Joanna Demafelis, the 29-year-old maid whose body was found in a freezer in Kuwait earlier this year. The sentencing can still be appealed if the couple returns to […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte is open to resuming peace talks with the communist rebels, Bayan Muna party-list Representative Carlos Zarate said on Sunday. In a radio interview, Zarate said the President made the pronouncement during a meeting with officials of the Royal Norwegian Government, the third party in the negotiations, in Davao. He said this was after members of the House committee on peace, reconciliation and unity met with Idun Tvedt, the new special envoy for […]
“Only” 48 untoward incidents recorded, PNP says (Eagle News)–The long holidays have generally been peaceful, the Philippine National Police said, even as it recorded 48 untoward incidents. Bulalacao said in a radio interview on Sunday that most of the 48 incidents recorded were drowning incidents. He said there were theft incidents, and vehicular accidents, among others. “Mas mababa ngayon (ang insidente kaysa nakaraang taon),” he said. He attributed the decrease in incidents to police visibility. […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima called on the international community to “continue condemning and making the Duterte administration accountable for its murderous war on drugs that lacks moral and legal justification.” De Lima made the call in a statement read during the 61st Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, and which was sent to the media on Saturday. “Let us all say no to extrajudicial killings committed in its name and demand accountability […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Richard Gordon on Saturday said the “syndicate” behind the proliferation of fake medicines in the market should be “unmasked and be held accountable.” Gordon made the statement days after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the arrest of peddlers of the counterfeit substances and the filing of charges against them. He issued the order after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an advisory against fake paracetamol being sold in the market. According to Gordon, […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP)–North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un has met Olympics chief Thomas Bach in Pyongyang, thanking him for helping to bring about a “dramatic thawing” of tensions on the Korean peninsula, the country’s state media said Saturday. Last month’s Winter Olympics in South Korea triggered a fast-moving rapprochement that will see Kim sit down with the South’s President Moon Jae-in in late April — with a US summit with President Donald Trump planned for […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Francis Pangilinan said the Maranaos should be allowed to “return to their homeland and repair or make new homes on the same site where they (were) situated before the siege.” “Let them rebuild from their roots,” he said, noting that their homes were where “their families converge, where their Islamic faith has been grounded, where their value systems have been established…” “They should be allowed to return to ground zero and be given assistance, […]
