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(Reuters) — The closer a person lives to a source of pollution, like a traffic dense highway, the more likely they are to develop Alzheimer’s or dementia, according to a study by the University of Southern California (USC) that has linked a close connection to pollution and the diseases. In a mobile lab, located just off of one of Los Angeles’ busiest freeways, USC scientists used a state-of-the-art pollution particle collector capable of gathering […]
(Reuters) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday (February 17) that the Western alliance is seeing progress on encouraging Moscow to be more open about its military exercises that he says are unpredictable, after holding talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Munich. But disagreements remained, he said, over the crisis in Ukraine, where the West accuses the Kremlin of arming separatist rebels in a conflict that has killed 10,000 people since […]
MUNICH, Germany (AFP) — Jittery European partners looking for reassurance from a member of US President Donald Trump’s new administration might have found it Friday in the form of Defense Secretary James Mattis. Allies are deeply troubled after Trump’s campaign rhetoric questioned long-established alliances, and they worry about a simmering scandal over possible ties between the White House and Moscow. Mattis, a former four-star Marine general whom Trump coaxed from retirement to run the […]
(Eagle News) — Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, visited for the first time on Friday, (February 17) the Roman Tre University, a public research university in Rome, Italy, where he met students who excitedly took the time to take various selfies with him and even briefly talked to one Filipino student who was handing him religious pamphlets and magazines of the Church of Christ (Iglesia Ni Cristo). Pope Francis, the […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Director General Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa assured the Korean community and the public that he will do his best to avoid the repeat of the “tokhang for ransom” and murder of South Korean businessman Jee Ick Joo under the Duterte Administration. Dela Rosa said that he believes that if the same case happened again under his watch, he will not be surprised if he will be […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Malacañang on Thursday, February 16 said that it may release the transaction history of President Rodrigo Duterte after Senator Antonio Trillanes opened the revival of the issue that the President has Php 2 billion in his bank accounts. According to Presidential Spokeperson Ernesto Abella, they will do this if really necessary. “Not in response to grandstanding. If necessary and within the right context, due process but not just to respond to […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – Senator Richard Gordon said that the Senate Blue Ribbon committee hearing into the alleged bribery scandal in the Bureau of Immigration had produced many revelations, which may lead to other immigration employees to be filed cases in connection to it. During the hearing, Gordon said that it was clear that former BI Deputy Commissioners Al Argosino and Mike Flores had accepted money from the Macau-based gaming tycoon Jack Lam […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Special Sixth Division of the Court of Appeals has dismissed Senator Leila De Lima’s petition for a temporary restraining order against the investigation conducted by the Department of Justice on the criminal charges against her in connection with her alleged involvement in the illegal drug trade in the New Bilibid Prison. In a resolution dated February 10, the CA Special Sixth Division refused to issue a temporary restraining […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed three separate drug-related charges against Senator Leila de Lima at the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court for her alleged participation in the illegal drug trade at the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP). The charges filed on Friday, February 17, were for violation of Republic Act No. 9165 or Dangerous Drugs Act, Section 5, penalizing the “sale, trading, administration, dispensation, delivery, distribution and transportation” of illegal drugs. […]
(Eagle News) — Nakamit na ng may isang daan at labing isang magsasaka sa Hacienda Luisita ang kanilang minimithing sariling lupa. Ayon kay Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella , naiaward na sa mga magsasaka ang Certificate of Land Ownership para sa may 6,600 square meters ng lupain na matatagpuan sa mga barangay ng Asturias, Bantog, Cut-Cut, Mabilog, Mapalacsiao, Motrico, Pando, at parang na bahagi ng Hacienda Luisita. Ang isang daan at labing isang magsasaka na ito […]
(Eagle News) – The Supreme Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), affirmed its earlier declaration that the electoral protest of former senator and then vice-presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos was “sufficient in form and substance.” With this decision, the PET junked the poll protest case filed by Marcos’ rival, Vice-President Leni Robredo, and would likely proceed to recount the votes cast in the very controversial and hotly contested May 2016 vice-presidential race. […]
(Eagle News) – Presidential daughter and Davao City mayor Sara Duterte and presidential son, Davao City vice-mayor Paolo Duterte, flatly denied allegations made by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on their alleged illegally acquired bank accounts. Mayor Sara Dutetre, in a statement,flatly denied she has P121 million presently or that her bank accounts were illegal as claimed by the senator. If Trillanes can prove it, she said, he can get them all and she would […]
