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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday commuted the sentences of 330 people, mostly drug offenders, a record number issued in a single day, on the eve of his departure from the White House. It is Obama’s second such measure this week, including his surprise decision to commute the sentence of transgender army private Chelsea Manning, imprisoned for 35 years for handing more than 700,000 classified US documents to WikiLeaks. Originally set […]
by Michael Mathes Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump jetted into the US capital Thursday on the eve of the most consequential moment of his life — his inauguration as the nation’s 45th president and the setting of a four-year course of American political reform. The Republican billionaire’s arrival caps an extraordinary and improbable run for the White House that, once he takes the reins from President Barack Obama at noon […]
by Christina NEUHAUS Agence France-Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) – Former Volkswagen boss Martin Winterkorn said Thursday that he did not know the beleaguered German auto giant was engaging in systematic emissions cheating until shortly before the scam broke. Winterkorn told a parliamentary committee into the “dieselgate” scandal that “total clarity was and is the order of the day”, and that he was still trying to understand how the scandal could have happened. The 69-year-old resigned […]
by Johannes MYBURGH Agence France-Presse NATAL, Brazil (AFP) – Stick-wielding inmates hurled stones and lit fires Thursday in a Brazilian jail where dozens were previously massacred, as authorities struggled to contain a spreading wave of gang violence. Police fired rubber bullets to try to separate two groups of inmates as they fought a pitched battled in the courtyard of the Alcacuz prison in the northern town of Natal, AFP reporters overlooking the facility saw. The […]
by Siavosh Ghazi Agence France-Presse TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) – Rescue workers in Tehran were desperately hunting for firefighters trapped under the rubble after a fire Thursday led to the collapse of Iran’s oldest high-rise, the 15-storey Plasco building. Officials had yet to confirm if anyone had been killed, but Tehran mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf told state television that between 20 and 25 firefighters were thought to be inside when the building fell. Three people were […]
(Eagle News) — Iginiit ng China na lehitimo at legal ang paglalagay nila ng mga military facility sa mga artipisyal na isla sa South China Sea. Ayon kay Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying, may karapatan ang China na magtayo ng mga pasilidad lalo’t may soberenya sila sa mga ito. Gayunman, nangako ang China na makikipagtulungan sila para resolbahin sa mapayapa at maayos na pamamaraan ang mga hindi pagkakaunawaan ng mga bansang may claim sa […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Posibleng hindi na alisin ang panukalang exemption ng Value Added Tax (VAT) sa mga senior citizen at persons with disability (PWDs). Ito ay batay sa House Bill 4774 na inihain ni House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dakila Carlo Cua. Nakasaad sa nasabing panukala na hindi na itutuloy ang pagsusulong nang pag-aalis ng VAT exemption sa mga senior citizen at PWD’S, taliwas sa orihinal na proposal ng Department Of Finance […]
(Eagle News) — Ibinunyag ni Justice Seceretary Vitaliano Aguirre II na may ilang matataas na opisyal ng Philippine National Police (PNP) ang dawit umano sa pagdukot sa dating executive ng Hanjin Shipping Firm na si Jee Ick Joo. Ayon kay Aguirre, tinukoy na ni SPO3 Ricky Sta. Isabel ang mga opisyal ng pulis na kasangkot sa pagdukot kay Jee noong October 18, 2016. Bukod pa aniya ito sa walong kakuntsaba umano ni Sta. Isabel na […]
(Eagle News) — Idineklara ng Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), na mapanganib at isa sa mga pinakamalubhang uri ng child labor ang ilan pang mga trabaho na may kaugnayan sa pagsasaka. Ito ay alinsunod sa Department Order No. 149-A ni Labor secretary Silvestre Bello III, na nagpapalawig sa employment ban sa mga menor de edad sa sektor ng agrikultura at livestock farming. Partikular na tinukoy ng DOLE, ang mga plant propagation activities gaya ng […]
(Eagle News) — The South Korean government is asking the Philippine government for an explanation regarding the murder of one of its nationals who was apparently a kidnap for ransom victim, by certain police officers under the Philippine National Police Anti-Illegal Drugs Group. This came about as Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre said other PNP officers could be involved in the kidnapping. But he refused to name these officers. The South Korean Foreign Minister Yun […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — A top US military commander warned Wednesday that the Asia-Pacific region is at risk of attacks by Islamic State group fighters returning to their home countries. As the group loses territory in the Middle East, radicalised fighters from Bangladesh, Indonesia and elsewhere are likely to target their native countries, Commander of the US Pacific Command Admiral Harry Harris said. “It’s not a theory. It’s real. In the past year […]
https://youtu.be/5az27vleKmQ by Agence France Presse Hundreds of thousands of American forced out of their homes, the Stock Market tanking and the economy losing 700 thousand jobs a month. That was the bleak economy Barack Obama inherited as he took office in 2009. Jared Bernstein, Economist and Advisor to Obama administration from 2009 to 2011, said: “Our GDP was declining at a rate of 8 percent, which is huge. Technically you call that a nightmare, […]
