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By Vivem Soriano Eagle News Service Floyd Mayweather beat Conor McGregor via 10th round TKO, in a much-publicized fight that led to television delays as a result of audience demand. Referee Robert Byrd mercifully halted the bout after McGregor got tagged defenseless with vicious head punches by Mayweather. But it wasn’t like this in the beginning of the fight. McGregor came out firing at the start, tagging Mayweather with numerous jabs and hooks. Mayweather had […]
by Mark Ralston with Katie Schubauer in Port Aransas ROCKPORT, United States (AFP) — Hurricane Harvey lashed central Texas with torrential rains on Saturday, raising fears of “catastrophic” flooding after the megastorm — the most powerful to hit the United States since 2005 — left a deadly trail of devastation along the Gulf Coast. The latest forecasts show that Harvey, now downgraded to tropical storm status, will hover along the shore for the next four […]
by Rob Woollard LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) — Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor prepared for their money-spinning showdown on Saturday as Las Vegas crackled with anticipation for what is poised to become the richest fight in history. Undefeated welterweight boxing world champion Mayweather and mixed martial arts star McGregor were expected to touch gloves at around 9:00 pm (0400 GMT Sunday) before 20,000 fans at the T-Mobile Arena. The controversial 12-round showdown between two […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — A powerful storm lashed Hong Kong and Macau on Sunday, just days after a punishing typhoon swept through southern China and claimed at least 18 lives. Both cities raised a Typhoon 8 signal, the third-highest warning level, early Sunday morning as severe tropical storm “Pakhar” made landfall in the region, where emergency workers are still battling to repair Wednesday’s damage. Hong Kong’s flagship carrier Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon cancelled 50 […]
HELSINKI, Finland (AFP) — Finnish police have released three of the seven suspects held following a stabbing spree that killed two people last week, they said in a statement Saturday. But four men are still in custody after last week’s attack in the southwestern city of Turku, which investigators are treating as the country’s first terror attack. They include the main suspect in the attack, which took place on August 18, a man police initially […]
(Eagle News) — Gilas clinched the gold medal in the Southeast Asian Games men’s basketball after blowing out the Indonesian team on Saturday. The first quarter saw the two teams neck and neck, with Gilas at one point trailing the red shirts but only by a few points. It was in the second quarter when Gilas pulled away from the Indonesians, who were seen panicking in the end. Mike Tolomia also exploded, as he made […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — A man arrested under the Terrorism Act after deliberately driving at police outside Queen Elizabeth II’s Buckingham Palace residence in London had a “four-foot sword” in his car, police said on Saturday. Upon being challenged by officers, the 26-year-old attacker “reached for what we now know to be a four-foot sword which was in the front passenger foot well,” the police statement said. “The man, who repeatedly shouted Allahu akbar […]
by Mark Ralston with Katie Schubauer in San Antonio Agence France-Presse CORPUS CHRISTI, United States – Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Texas coast late Friday, unleashing torrents of rain and packing powerful winds, the first major storm to hit the US mainland in 12 years. The storm roared ashore at the town of Rockport — near Corpus Christi, a major US oil industry hub — packing sustained winds of 130 miles per hour (215 kilometers per hour), a […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Saturday urged the public to “trust the justice system,” as the 17-year-old boy who was killed in an anti-drug operation in Caloocan was laid to rest. “Let us allow the legal process to run its course…,” China Jocson, assistant to the presidential spokesperson, said in a statement. According to Jocson, the President “has reminded our law enforcement officers in numerous occasions that he will not tolerate their wrongdoings or […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — A man who attacked police Friday with a knife outside Queen Elizabeth II’s Buckingham Palace residence in London has been arrested under the Terrorism Act, police said. “Detectives from the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command are now investigating the incident which occurred near Buckingham Palace,” the Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra may have fled to Dubai, a senior party source told AFP Saturday, after slipping out of the country to avoid a court ruling in an escape act that stunned many Thais. Yingluck, 50, was on Friday morning due to arrive at the Supreme Court for the ruling in her trial for criminal negligence that could have seen her jailed for 10 years. But she did […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila City government has created a unit that will conduct entrapment operations against individuals who pose as traffic enforcers reportedly to extort money from motorists. In a statement on Saturday, the Manila government said six have been arrested so far. Benjamin Baliwag, Enrique Duque, and Kenneth Garcia were the first to be arrested. Dennis Alcoreza, Manila Traffic Parking Bureau chief, said the three were among the 690 of his men who were fired […]
