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MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The widow of a slain Islamist militant leader will be charged for allegedly using social media to recruit Islamic State sympathizers to join a five-month siege of a southern city, Philippine authorities said Friday. Hundreds of local and foreign gunmen who had pledged allegiance to IS rampaged through Marawi, the principal Islamic city in the mainly Catholic Philippines, starting in May — sparking the nation’s longest urban war that claimed more […]
By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service Senator Nancy Binay on Friday appealed for the Department of Health and Sanofi to issue a nationwide medical advisory and hold an information campaign on the dangers of the dengue vaccine Dengvaxia. Binay issued the statement after Sanofi admitted the vaccine could result in “more cases of severe disease” following vaccination “upon a subsequent dengue infection” for those “not previously infected by (the) dengue virus.” Binay said such a […]
(Eagle News) — Senator JV Ejercito on Friday called for a Senate investigation into the government’s procurement of the dengue vaccine Dengvaxia. Ejercito made the appeal following a statement from the vaccine manufacturer Sanofi that those who were “not previously infected by dengue virus” but were vaccinated “upon a subsequent dengue infection” could, “in the longer term,” develop “more cases of severe disease.” Ejercito said since the issue was about “corruption and accountability,” the blue ribbon […]
(Eagle News) — Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque has been officially dropped from the list of members of the 17th Congress. Majority Floor Leader Rodolfo Fariñas made the announcement during a regular session on Wednesday. The development came weeks after Roque, then the representative of the Kabayan partylist in the House of Representatives, was named presidential spokesperson by President Rodrigo Duterte. Roque replaced Ernesto Abella, who was later designated as Foreign Affairs undersecretary. Roque was also […]
by Jo Biddle and Charlotte van Ouwerkerk THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Dutch prosecutors were investigating Thursday how a Bosnian Croat war criminal managed to commit suicide in front of shocked UN judges, in scenes set to cast a shadow over the court’s two-decade legacy. Staff at the imposing buildings of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague had been expecting to spend the next few weeks quietly winding down […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Europe, like the United States, is now in reach of North Korea’s ballistic missiles, French Defense Minister Florence Parly warned Thursday. The regime’s test of its third intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday is “a demonstration of (Pyongyang’s) rising power” Parly told BFM television. “Europe like the United States is certainly within reach of these launches,” she said, adding that “few Western cities” would be out of range. An initial assessment by […]
(Eagle News) — One of the personalities facing criminal charges over the P6.4-billion shabu shipment that slipped through the country via Customs express lanes in May tried to leave the Philippines on Thursday. Immigration spokesperson Antonette Mangrobang said Chen Ju Long, alias Richard Tan or Richard Chen was, however, denied departure by the Bureau of Immigration as he tried to board China Eastern Air flight # 5046 at the Clark International Airport. She said Chen, the owner of […]
(Eagle News) — “Lies.” This was how Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno described on Thursday the allegations leveled against her by lawyer Larry Gadon in an impeachment complaint. “Dahil sa pagkumpol kumpol na kasinungalingang ito, gusto bang pigilan ang mga reporma na nangyayari (sa hudikatura)?” Sereno said in a short speech at the University of the Philippines-Diliman, where several groups gathered to express their support for her. Sereno said these reforms in the judiciary included, […]
(Eagle News) — Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives held a bicameral conference on Thursday to thresh out the differences in their respective versions of the budget bill for 2018. Attending the executive session were members of the finance committees led by Senator Loren Legarda and Rep. Karlo Nograles. The bicameral conference was held a day after the Senate approved, with a 16-0 vote, its version of the 2018 General Appropriations Act. This […]
(Eagle News) — The government plans to turn war-torn Marawi into a commercial and tourism hub in Mindanao, a military official announced on Thursday, as rehabilitation efforts went underway. In an interview over dzbb, Armed Forces of the Philippines Public Affairs Office chief Edgar Arevalo said the plan was to make Marawi known not only as a city that defeated terrorism, but also as a city that rose from the ashes to become a magnet for […]
(Eagle News) — A 5.0-magnitude quake struck Davao Oriental on Thursday. The Philippine Institute Volcanology and Seismology said the earthquake hit 46 kilometers southeast of Caraga at at 9:16 a.m. Depth of focus was at 23 kilometers. An intensity III was felt in Bislig City, Surigao. No aftershocks were reported.
(Eagle News) — Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno was acting based on her own discretion when she issued the temporary restraining order on the Commission on Elections’ proclamation of party-lists in 2013. According to her lawyers, this is in accordance with Section 6, Rule 7 of the SC Internal Rules that states that “the Chief Justice is expressly empowered to ‘act’ on urgent cases requiring immediate action, including initiatory pleadings praying for the issuance […]
