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By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump will be sworn in on Friday as the 45th president of the United States, taking power over a divided country after a savage campaign and setting the country on a new, uncertain path at home and abroad. In a ceremony likely to draw 900,000 people, including protesters, Trump and his vice president, Mike Pence, will take the oath of office at midday (1700 GMT) outside the domed […]
Hours before the inauguration of United States President-elect Donald Trump, hundreds of militants staged a rally in Manila denouncing the incoming US president as a protector of big business and American interests that would affect Filipino immigrants. The militant groups of Bayan and League of Filipino Students marched along Roxas Boulevard and tried to come near the US embassy but were prevented by members of the Manila Police District. Later on, the rallyists were […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Give Donald Trump a chance, incoming first daughter Ivanka is asking fellow Americans as her father readies to be sworn in as president of a sharply divided country on Friday. Yet in an interview with ABC News, aired on the eve of the inauguration, the businesswoman and mother of three also admitted to urging her father to cut out some of his more controversial tweets. “My father is an […]
(Reuters) — Donald Trump, who takes office on Friday (January 20), has rattled Beijing with threats to impose tariffs on Chinese imports and by questioning the United States’ commitment to the “one China” policy, under which Washington acknowledges China’s position that Taiwan is part of its territory. The billionaire businessman has also vowed to declare China a currency manipulator. Like the rest of the world China is watching and waiting to see what will […]
(Eagle News) — Policemen have now fetched from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) the main cop suspect in the abduction and killing of a Korean businessman last year. After an Angeles City court issued an arrest warrant for SPO3 Ricky Sta. Isabel and other cops involved in the crime, a team from the Philippine National Police Anti-Kidnapping Group went to the NBI to serve the arrest warrant on Sta. Isabel. Sta. Isabel […]
(Eagle News) – The head of the Philippine National Police expressed deep shame that those involved in the abduction-slay of a Korean businessmen were members of his police force and that the victim was even killed inside the police’s national headquarters. PNP chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa said he wanted to disappear from the face of the Earth after learning of the crime that happened right inside PNP’s Camp Crame in Quezon City.. […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan will carry out a tabletop exercise next week to simulate its response in the event of a military clash between China and Taiwan, Japanese media said. The Self-Defence Forces will conduct drills from Monday through Friday with the US military participating as an observer, a Japanese government source told Kyodo News. The exercises, which do not involve actual troop deployments, assume that the US and Japan are responding to a military […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Teresita Ang See of the Movement for Restoration of Peace and Order (MRPO) revealed that the case of ‘Tokhang for Ransom’ is not a new thing. This has happened even before the controversial abduction-slay of Korean-National Jee-Ick-Joo . Jee-Ick-Joo was abducted by a group of armed men in Angeles City, Pampanga last year. Suspects demanded P5-million ransom money from Joo’s wife, in exchange for his life. But the suspects apparently had already […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice is recommending the filing of a kidnapping for ransom with homicide case in court against three police officers involved in the abduction and killing of Korean national Jee Ick Joo last year. Assistant State Prosecutor Olivia Laroza Torrevillas found probable cause to charge SPO3 Ricky Sta Isabel, Ramon Yalung and two other police officers for the October 18, 2016 abduction and killing of Korean businessman Ji Ick […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit Friday off the Solomon Islands, the US Geological Survey said, in the same region where several large tremors struck last month. The quake struck at 10:04 am local time (2304 GMT) at a depth of 33 kilometres (20 miles) some 70 kilometres west of Kirakira, the USGS said. No tsunami warning was issued. Three strong tremors were felt off Kirakira in December, although there were no reports […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday nominated former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue to be his agriculture secretary, rounding out his cabinet picks. For the first time since Ronald Reagan’s presidency in the 1980s, the cabinet will feature no Hispanics, if all of Trump’s nominees are confirmed. The following is a list of key cabinet and other nominations made by Trump, who takes office on Friday. Cabinet State: Rex Tillerson, 64 […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President-elect Donald Trump told Americans Thursday that he will “unify” the nation after a bruising election campaign, as he prepared for his inauguration the following day at the US Capitol. “We’re going to unify our country,” Trump told a crowd of thousands in front of the Lincoln Memorial after a pre-inauguration concert. “We’re going to do things that haven’t been done for our country for many, many decades,” he added. “It’s […]
