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MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Malabo umanong mapagtibay ang panukalang panunumbalik ng parusang kamatayan ito ay dahil ilang Senador ang nagsabing hindi ang bitay ang solusyon para tuluyang masugpo ang matinding problema ng krimen sa bansa. https://youtu.be/OMmew4CNrs0
MANILA, Philipines (Eagle News) — Kinumpirma ni House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez na may dalawang incumbent congressmen ang kasama sa Narco List ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte. Gayunman, tumanggi si Alvarez na pangalanan ang dalawang kongresista. Tiniyak naman ni Alvarez na naberipika nang husto ang impormasyon kaugnay rito at maging siya ay nagsagawa rin ng sariling beripikasyon. Protektor umano ng sindikato ng droga ang papel ng dalawang nasabing kongresista. Maliban aniya sa mga ito, may mga Gobernador, […]
(Reuters) — The commitment of the United States is vital for peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday (January 16) during a visit to Vietnam, the last destination of his six-day trip to the region. “We (Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines and Australia) have agreed that the commitment of the United States is vital for the peace and prosperity of the region,” he told a news conference in Hanoi, […]
(Eagle News) — China said it is committed to “peacefully resolving the South China Sea dispute through dialogue and negotiation” with sovereign states like the Philippines, even as it stressed its right to put military equipment on its alleged territories in the disputed seas. In a statement, China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said direct negotiations with the Philippines have “lowered the temperature” in the South China Sea maritime dispute. But she maintained that […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs said it had sent about three or four note verbales to China expressing the Philippines’ concern over the reported military equipment recently set up by China in the Spratly Islands. One note verbale was issued after an American think tank report in December 2016 that said China has installed anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapons on its man made islands. Earlier, the Center for Strategic and International Studies […]
(Reuters) — Nigeria’s air force killed 50 people and injured 120 in an air strike on a camp for displaced persons in the northeast of the country on Tuesday (January 17), Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said. The military said the strike had targeted Boko Haram. MSF said the strike occurred in Rann in Borno state, the epicentre of the jihadist group’s seven-year-old bid to create an Islamic caliphate. Regional military commander General Lucky Irabor located […]
by Johannes MYBURGH Agence France-Presse NATAL, Brazil (AFP) – Brazil’s government Tuesday ordered the armed forces to help secure the country’s overcrowded jails as police fought to separate rival gangs of inmates in one prison following a massacre. Inmates climbed on the roof and set up barriers of furniture in a northeastern jail inhabited by warring rival drug gangs vowing to behead each other. Police fired rubber bullets to try to keep apart two rival […]
by Andrew BEATTY Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – US President Barack Obama on Tuesday commuted the sentence of transgender soldier Chelsea Manning, who is serving 35 years behind bars for handing classified US documents to WikiLeaks. Obama pardoned 64 people and commuted the sentences of 209 others, including Manning, in one of his final acts as president. Manning was convicted in August 2013 of espionage and other offenses after admitting to leaking 700,000 […]
BANJUL, Gambia (AFP) – Gambian President Yahya Jammeh on Tuesday declared a state of emergency just two days before he was due to step down, denouncing what he called dangerous foreign meddling in the country’s post-electoral crisis. The measure was prompted by the “unprecedented and extraordinary amount of foreign interference in the December 1 presidential elections and also in the internal affairs of The Gambia,” Jammeh announced on state TV. The 15-nation Economic Community Of West […]
by Glenda Kwek SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — The massive underwater search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was called off Tuesday, leaving unsolved one of the most enduring mysteries of the aviation age. Nearly three years after the airliner vanished, distraught relatives refused to accept the idea that the 239 passengers and crew might now never be found after the failure of one of the most expensive undersea operations ever. “Despite every effort using […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The European Union is considering giving financial assistance to the anti-drug campaign of the Philippines. EU Ambassador to the Manila Franz Jessen said that EU is conducting a study into funding the drug rehabilitation of drug dependents in the country. EU was one of the earlier critics of the anti-drug campaign in the Philippines due to the numerous cases of extra judicial killings.
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Senate Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Senator Sonny Angara said that the Department of Finance will no longer remove the exemptions of senior citizens and persons with disabilities (PWDs) from value-added tax despite the comprehensive tax reform program of the Duterte administration. The aim of the comprehensive tax reform is to reduce the income tax rate while increasing the excise tax on oil products. https://youtu.be/MqyyOQ1-d4g
