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by Ali Noorani Agence France Presse TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a pugnacious moderate who survived for decades despite challenging his own turbaned elite, died on Sunday after suffering a heart attack. Rafsanjani, who was 82, was a pivotal figure in the foundation of the Islamic republic in 1979, and served as president from 1989 to 1997. “Despite the efforts of the doctors he died” at Shohadaa Hospital in northern […]
BOA VISTAa, Brazil (AFP) – Brazil was hit Friday by its second eruption of grisly prison violence this week, as inmates beheaded and mutilated fellow prisoners at a northern jail, leaving at least 33 dead. Pictures taken by a police officer at the scene showed bloodied, mangled bodies piled in a concrete hallway at the Monte Cristo Farm Penitentiary (PAMC) in Roraima state. Many of the victims were beheaded, disemboweled or dismembered, said officials. The […]
by Leila MACOR Agence France-Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP) – A gunman opened fire Friday at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood airport, a major tourist hub in Florida, killing five people and injuring eight, and sending panicked travelers fleeing for safety. Broward County Sheriff’s office tweeted that a suspect was in custody following the shooting that broke out around midday, shutting down the international airport. The Sheriff’s office said five people were dead and eight had been taken […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – A massive ice block nearly 100 times the area of Manhattan is poised to break off Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf, scientists reported Friday. A slow-progressing rift suddenly grew by 18 kilometres (11 miles) at the end of December, leaving the finger-shaped chunk — 350 metres thick — connected along only a small fraction of its length. The rift has also widened, from less than 50 […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday (January 6) toured a Russian Navy ship docked in a port in Manila and personally welcomed the Russian naval officers as friends, saying that Manila is open to them if they need anything such as the replenishment of their supplies. “To the friendship of Russia and the Philippines. We welcome our Russian friends. Anytime you want to dock here for anything, for play, for replenish supplies, […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) started the procedure of returning the vote counting machines (VCM) to Smartmatic, ignoring the request made by former Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to preserve these for his protest case towards Vice President Leni Robredo. This came about as the Supreme Court, sitting as Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), authorized the poll body to immediate start the procedure of returning the VCMs. “Authorize the Comelec […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — In an opinion article by CNN that talks about the winners and losers in Asia, President Rodrigo Duterte was announced as the “big winner in Asia 2016” for his great effort in “rethinking and reshaping the state of affairs – for good or for bad– at home and abroad.” Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella said that the article about the President written by former US ambassador to Asian Development Bank Curtis […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Malacañang confirmed that the Department of Health and a Chinese company signed the Memorandum of Agreement on the rehab center facility that will be established in Carmen, Bohol. “The Department of Health signed the Memorandum of Agreement yesterday January 4, 2017 with ARCHIGLOBAL to build the next Mega Drug Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation Center inside the military camp in Carmen, Bohol,” Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said. Health Assistance Secretary for […]
QUEZON CITY, Jan. 6 – The province of Marinduque received P6.3 million worth of agricultural assistance from the Department of Agriculture (DA) for the rehabilitation program for both agriculture and fishery industries badly damaged by typhoon Nina. Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol led the distribution of equipment to almost 500 affected farmers and fisherfolk during the stakeholders’ consultation in Boac, Marinduque on January 5, 2017. “I am amazed by the resilience of the […]
QUEZON CITY, Jan. 5 – The Department of Agriculture is proposing a P900-million Japanese Yen Loan with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for the full mechanization of farming in a first batch of 10,000 hectares of selected rice farms under a program to modernize Philippine agriculture and help realize the Duterte Administration’s goals of producing and making available affordable food to Filipinos. Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said that under the Philippine Agricultural Modernization Program, […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Ipapanalangin na lang daw ni Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre ang kahinaan ng karakter ni Senadora Leila De Lima. Ito ang sagot ni Aguirre sa pagtawag sa kanya ni De Lima bilang “despicable lying bastard.” Hinamon ni Aguirre si De Lima na sa halip na siraan nito ang kanyang pagkatao ay maglabas na lang ng mga ebidensya na wala siyang kinalaman sa tangkang pagpatay kay Jaybee Sebastian. Bilang abogado at isang […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Kakalampagin ni Senador Leila De Lima ang Committee on Justice and Human Rights sa Senado upang pa-imbestigahan ang naganap na riot sa New Bilibid Prison na ikinamatay ng isang high profile inmate at pananaksak at tangkang pagpatay kay convicted drug trader na si Jaybee Sebastian. Ayon kay De Lima, sa pagbabalik sesyon sa Enero 16, kakausapin niya si Senador Richard Gordon para ipaki-usap na bigyan pansin ang resolution at agad […]
