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Refutes police version of events (Eagle News) — The taxi driver allegedly held at gunpoint by Carl Angelo Arnaiz surfaced on Sunday, and claimed the statement police showed in public was not his. In a press conference, Tomas Bagcal said in the police station, he was “only asked” his birthday, name, age and then the OR/CR of his vehicle. He said this was after a man he picked up from Navotas and who was later […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Sunday that North Korea’s nuclear and missile program represented a “global threat and requires a global response.” In an interview with the BBC, he also refused to say whether an attack on the Pacific US territory of Guam would trigger the military alliance’s collective defense clause. “The reckless behavior of North Korea is a global threat and requires a global response, […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Hurricane Irma strengthened to a Category 4 storm as it closed in on the island chain known as the Florida Keys, the US National Hurricane Center said early Sunday. The storm was churning about 70 miles (115 kilometers) south-southeast of Key West, menacing Florida with maximum sustained winds of 130 miles per hour. Its eye was expected to cross the Lower Florida Keys within hours before moving “near or along” […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has accused Senator Antonio Trillanes IV of owning bank accounts outside the country. “I’m coming out with Trillanes’ bank accounts all over,” the President said in his speech during the closing ceremony of the 26th Mindanao Business Conference in Cagayan de Oro. Duterte made the announcement after Trillanes accused his son, Paolo, and son-in-law Mans Carpio of owning more than P100 million each in each of their accounts, of […]
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Hurricane Irma weakened slightly to a Category 4 storm early Saturday, according to the US National Hurricane Center, after making landfall hours earlier in Cuba with maximum-strength Category 5 winds. The fierce storm was zeroing in on Florida, churning some 245 miles (395 kilometers) away from Miami and packing still powerful maximum sustained winds of 155 miles per hour. “Some fluctuations in intensity are likely during the next day or two, […]
MIAMI, Florida (AFP) — Florida has ordered 5.6 million people to evacuate as massive Hurricane Irma menaces the southeastern US state, according to its Division of Emergency Management. Irma regained strength as a Category 5 storm late Friday as it made landfall on the Camaguey Archipelago of Cuba, and is now swirling about 275 miles (440 kilometers) away from Miami packing maximum sustained winds of 160 miles per hour. Irma is expected to strike the […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Environmental ministers representing Canada, China and the European Union will co-host a meeting in Montreal later this month to move forward with the implementation of the Paris climate change agreement. The ministerial meeting will include representatives from some 30 countries, according to Canada’s minister of environment and climate change, Catherine McKenna. “This meeting brings together major economies and key climate actors to advance the implementation of the Paris Agreement and demonstrate […]
(Eagle News) — The government has put in place contingency measures for Filipinos in South Korea amid tensions resulting from North Korea’s missile tests. “Meron tayong contingency plans at mayroong indications sa alert levels,” Ambassador Raul Hernandez said in a radio interview. He said Filipinos in the country should “monitor developments” and “always get in touch with the embassy.” Apart from the Filipinos residing there, he said around 400,000 go to South Korea as […]
(Eagle News) — A 3.3-magnitude earthquake struck Batangas on Saturday. The quake hit 3 kilometers north east of Mabini at 10:15 a.m. The earthquake was felt at intensity III in Batangas City. No aftershocks were expected.
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional a provision in the country’s anti-drugs law that prohibits drug suspects from striking plea agreements. The decision is in favor of Salvador Estipona, Jr., who had asked the High Court to junk the provision, after his motion for a plea bargain was junked two times by the Legazpi City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 3. Estipona had argued the accused of “other heinous crimes such as murder, some acts […]
CHR to issue request “one more time” (Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government said on Friday that President Rodrigo Duterte has thumbed down the Commission on Human Rights request to view police case folders on supposed extrajudicial killings. “Yes. It’s something like that,” DILG officer-In-charge Catalino Cuy said in a chance interview when asked if Duterte would heed the CHR’s request. He said he already informed CHR Chairman Chito Gascon […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte believes some parties are out to “sabotage” the government’s war on drugs, which some say was used as pretext to claim the lives of three boys, including Carl Angelo Arnaiz, whom the President described as his relative. “Silipin mong mabuti kasi may (nananabotahe). Sinasadya talaga iyan..Bantay ka riyan, may nagluluto diyan to discredit (the government),” he told Philippine National Police Chief Roland dela Rosa, who was with him when […]
