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(Eagle News) — The Department of National Defense on Thursday reminded government forces that the rule of law and human rights should still prevail in Mindanao. In a memorandum to the chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and to other DND offices and bureaus, Eduardo del Rosario, DND officer in charge, noted that the declaration of martial law in Mindanao does not mean a suspension of the “operation of the Constitution” nor “(a supplanting of) the […]
(Eagle News) — Nagbabala na ang British government sa kanilang mga kababayang nasa bansa na iwasan munang magtungo sa Western Mindanao, kabilang na ang Marawi City kung saan nagpapatuloy ang operasyon ng tropa ng gobyerno laban sa teroristang grupong Maute. Sa travel advisory ng Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) ng United Kingdom sa kanilang website, inaabisuhan nila ang mga Briton na huwag magtungo sa lugar dahil sa terorismong nagaganap doon. Kabilang sa travel warning ang iba […]
(Eagle News) –Malaking tulong daw sa operasyon ang deklarasyon ng martial law sa Mindanao. Ito ay ayon sa Armed Forces of the Philippines, na kasalukuyang nakikipagbakbakan sa mga miyembro ng Maute terrorist group sa Marawi. Ayon sa militar, makakatulong ang pagdeklara ng martial law sa Mindanao sa pagpigil na makatakas sa ibang lugar ang mga bandido. Samantala, kinumpira ng mga awtoridad ang impormasyon na may mga pinugutan at may hawak na mga hostage ang mga terorista. […]
(Eagle News) — Asahan pa raw ang pagpapaigting ng seguridad sa Metro Manila. Ito ang sinabi ni National Capital Region Police Office Director Chief Superintendent Oscar Albayalde sa gitna nang kaguluhan sa Marawi City kung saan sangkot ang pinagsanib na pwersa ng grupong Abu Sayyaf at Maute Group, laban sa militar at mga pulis. Ang bakbakan ang naging dahilan ng pagdeklara ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ng martial law sa Mindanao. Ayon kay Albayalde, asahan pa raw ang […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A US Navy ship has sailed in disputed South China Sea waters near a reef claimed by Beijing in the first “freedom of navigation” exercise under President Donald Trump, a US official said. The USS Dewey sailed “less than 12 nautical miles” from Mischief Reef — part of the Spratly Islands — early Thursday morning local time, the official said. The exercise is likely to provoke anger from Beijing as the […]
(Eagle News) — Malacañang sent President Rodrigo Duterte’s official declaration of martial law in Mindanao to Congress on Wednesday night for review and approval. The office of House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez received a certified copy of Proclamation No. 216 at 10:26 p.m. from the Malacanang Records Office, a full 24 hours since martial law was declared in Mindanao by Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella in Moscow, Russia, where President Duterte was then in an official visit. Proclamation No. […]
(Eagle News) — Net satisfaction rating of the Duterte administration’s performance rose in the latest Social Weather Stations survey. From a +61 in December 2016, the second time SWS conducted a poll on the Duterte administration’s performance, overall net satisfaction rating increased to a +66 in the poll done from March 25 to March 28. The +66 overall net satisfaction rating was the same net satisfaction rating the Duterte administration received in September 2016, the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte announced on Wednesday he had sacked the head of the Dangerous Drugs Board. “You’re fired today. Get out of the service. You do not contradict your own government,” Duterte said he told Benjamin Reyes. Duterte was speaking to reporters upon his arrival from Russia, where he was supposed to have a five-day official visit. The visit was cut short after clashes between government troops and the Maute terrorist group […]
(Eagle News) — If the threat of the Islamist-inspired terrorist reaches Luzon, President Rodrigo Duterte said he might just impose martial law in the entire country to protect the Filipino people. “If I think that ISIS has taken foothold in Luzon, I might declare martial law throughout the country to protect the people,” the President said upon his arrival from his official visit in Russia late Wednesday afternoon. The President said he might also suspend […]
Islamist militants rampaging through a southern Philippine city beheaded a local police chief, President Rodrigo Duterte said Wednesday, even as there were reports that the Maute group had also taken hostages, including a Catholic priest. President Duterte disclosed the news of the Maute beheading of a local police official in his speech upon his arrival from Moscow on Wednesday afternoon. He said the attack occurred near the southern city of Marawi, which is under […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday said Maute’s “open defiance” and “rebellion” prompted him to declare martial law in Mindanao, as he assured the public he would not allow abuses on the part of the security forces. In his arrival speech from Russia, Duterte said the Islamist militants rampaged through Marawi and beheaded the police chief in Malabang who was on his way home. “…Going back he was stopped by a checkpoint manned by terrorists and […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – A militant group declared its opposition to President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration placing Mindanao under martial law for 60 days. “Karapatan strongly protests Duterte’s Martial Law declaration, emphasizing that it will not address the circumstances of the current situation in Marawi, but will aggravate the insecurity in the area,” the group in a statement said. Karapatan expressed apprehensions about the declaration of martial law, adding that it may give rise to human rights […]
