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(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre on Monday filed criminal charges against Senator Risa Hontiveros for supposed violation of the Anti-Wiretapping Law. Aguirre personally filed the charges that stem from Hontiveros’ public display of what the justice secretary said were his private messages with a certain Jing during a Senate hearing on the death of Kian Loyd delos Santos. In the messages, Hontiveros said Aguirre urged former Rep. Jacinto Paras to file cases against […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) – Canadian police arrested a man early Sunday suspected of stabbing an officer and deliberately ramming pedestrians during a high-speed chase in a rented truck, injuring four in what authorities were calling an “act of terrorism.” The crime spree began Saturday evening outside a football stadium in the western city of Edmonton and ended hours later when the suspect’s U-Haul rental truck flipped onto its side with police in hot pursuit. The suspect, described as […]
by Marianne Barriaux and Anna Cuenca Agence France-Presse BARCELONA, Spain – It was still pitch black when would-be voters lined up in Barcelona early Sunday, braving rain as they hoped to cast ballots in referendum, banned by Spain’s government, on independence for Catalonia. As dawn broke, though, those hopes diminished as news spread that riot police were on the way. And then they arrived. At one polling station, armed, helmeted police broke in to seize ballot boxes prepared […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed concern and outrage Sunday over a “terrorist attack” in which five people were injured by a driver who ran over police and pedestrians in a violent rampage. “While the investigation continues, early reports indicate that this is another example of the hate that we must remain ever vigilant against,” he said in a statement.
by Francois Becker with Adam Plowright in Paris Agence France Presse MARSEILLE, France — A suspected Islamist knifeman killed two women at the main train station in the French Mediterranean city of Marseille on Sunday before being shot dead by soldiers patrolling there, local officials and police said. One of the victims was fatally stabbed while the other had her throat slit by the assailant who is believed to have shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is […]
(Eagle News) — At least 27 passengers were injured after the driver of the bus they were on lost control of the vehicle, causing it to fall from the Alabang flyover. The Cher bus, with plate number TYW-504, was going up the flyover toward Alabang when the incident took place on Sunday evening, the Manila Toll Expressway Systems Incorporated (MATES), operator of the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX), said. The bus landed on the service road, by the […]
by Javier Tovar Agence France Presse Disgraced American football star O.J. Simpson, whose racially charged 1995 murder trial riveted the nation, was released from jail on parole early Sunday after nine years behind bars for armed robbery. Simpson, 70, left the Lovelock Correctional Center in the western state of Nevada just after midnight local time, prison spokesperson Brooke Keast said. “I don’t know where he was headed,” Keast told AFP. Simpson was granted parole at […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy has ordered North Korea’s incoming new ambassador to leave the country in a protest over Kim Jong-Un’s missile launches and nuclear tests. Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano announced the move in an interview with Italian daily La Repubblica, published on Sunday. “We have taken the firm decision to interrupt the accreditation procedure. The ambassador will have to leave the country,” Alfano said. “We want to make Pyongyang understand that isolation is […]
President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday night accused Deputy Ombudsman Melchor Arthur Carandang of “lying to his teeth” and “waving fabricated evidence.” President Duterte made the accusation after the Anti-Money Laundering Council itself denied it had provided the Ombudsman with a report on the Duterte family’s bank transactions, as claimed by Carandang. Carandang said in an interview that the report was used as a basis to launch a probe on the President’s family wealth. “Waving fabricated evidence, […]
The Philippines will receive a loan of $415.2 million from the World Bank and the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to help it solve chronic flooding in Metro Manila. The lenders will put up $207.6 million each for a $500-million project, with the Philippine government footing the balance, the banks said in a joint statement Friday. Over the next seven years, the government plans to rebuild or construct 56 stations to pump floodwaters from the coastal metropolis […]
President Donald Trump has backed away from a threat to skip a summit with Southeast Asian leaders in the Philippines later this year, with the White House saying it had accepted an invitation from host Rodrigo Duterte. In a statement Friday, the White House said that Trump will visit Manila as part of a bumper November 3-14 tour of China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and the US state of Hawaii. The announcement tees up a […]
by Andrew Beatty Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump’s embattled health secretary was forced out of the US administration Friday amid a scandal over his use of costly private jets for government travel. Tom Price was the latest top official to join in a stream of steady and embarrassing exits from a White House administration that has stumbled from one scandal or self-inflicted wound to another since Trump took power […]
