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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte called on all members of the Anti- Money Laundering Council to resign, saying that all of them were “corrupt.” Duterte was furious that the central bank’s Anti-Money Laundering Council had failed to provide him an unspecified “assessment report”. “I’ll count one to three and if you don’t resign, I will treat you as a drug addict,” he said. In a speech after signing the 2017 national budget, he […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said there was “nothing unusual” about US President-elect Donald Trump’s call to boost America’s nuclear capability. “As concerns the new president-elect of the United States Mr Trump, there is nothing new here. During his election campaign he spoke about the necessity of strengthening the nuclear component of the United States, to strengthen the armed forces. There is nothing unusual here,” Putin said at his annual press […]
(Eagle News) — The country’s weather bureau, PAGASA, said tropical storm Nina (international name Nock-Ten) is expected to make landfall on Sunday, at around 5 p.m. or 8 p.m., over the Bicol region, and is going to affect Southern Luzon and Metro Manila. Nock-Ten is expected to be packing winds of up to 194 kilometres (120 miles) an hour and gusts of nearly 241 kilometers by Sunday, according to the US Joint Typhoon Warning […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — The Tunisian man suspected of carrying out the deadly Berlin truck attack was shot dead by police in Milan Friday, Italian media reported, citing security sources. Italy’s interior minister Marco Minniti has announced a press conference for 10.45 am (0945 GMT). According to the reports, the suspect, Anis Amri, was stopped in his car around 3am for what was a routine identity check. He pulled out a pistol and shootout ensued in […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — President Vladimir Putin said Friday the recapture of the devastated city of Aleppo by Syrian regime forces was a “very important” step towards stabilizing the war-torn country. “The liberation of Aleppo from radical elements is a very important part of the normalization in Syria, and I hope, for the region overall,” Putin told defense minister Sergei Shoigu in a meeting, Russian news agencies reported. The Syrian army said late Thursday that […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — At least 88 civilians have been killed in 24 hours of Turkish air strikes on an Islamic State group bastion in northern Syria, a monitoring group said Friday. A barrage of raids hit Al-Bab on Thursday, killing 72 civilians including 21 children, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Bombardment continued on Friday, leaving another 16 civilians dead, including three children. “Eighty-eight civilians have been killed in 24 hours,” Observatory […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte called the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein “stupid and “a little bit crazy” for tagging him as a “murderer” and for dictating on the Philippine government on what it should do on its own affairs. Mr. Duterte said it was not proper for a UN official to dictate on a sovereign country what it should do. He said Al Hussein cannot just […]
by Maria ANTONOVA MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called for the country to reinforce its military nuclear potential and praised the army’s performance in its Syria campaign. In a speech that recapped military activities in 2016,Putin said the army’s preparedness has “considerably increased” and called for continued improvement that would ensure it can “neutralize any military threat”. “We need to strengthen the military potential of strategic nuclear forces, especially with […]
by Cécile FEUILLATRE Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – The fall of Aleppo marks the victory of an authoritarian alliance stretching from Tehran to Moscow, analysts say — and the biggest win yet for President Bashar al-Assad since civil war erupted in 2011. His regime’s total control over east Aleppo, declared Thursday, was obtained with pitiless brute force that has reduced much of the country’s former economic heart to rubble, in a war that has […]
MANILA, Dec. 23 — More than 10,000 overseas Filipino workers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who were displaced by the oil crisis in the Middle East have benefited from the government’s Relief Assistance Program (RAP). RAP is a one-time grant of financial assistance provided to each qualified affected OFW who are either staying in camps or are live-out in KSA or who have been repatriated to the Philippines but have not received their salaries or end-of-service […]
CLARK FREEPORT ZONE (PIA) — President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Thursday, December 22 reiterated his all-out war against illegal drugs. “During the time of (Former) President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, I was taken in by her as a consultant on peace and security, so more or less I know the country’s situation because I was there,” Duterte shared during the Convergence of the Nanay Volunteers as Community Drugwatch. The President added that even when he was […]
PASIG CITY, Dec. 23 — Good news for Public School Teachers and other school employees! Department of Education (DepEd) school-based personnel in Regions 4A, 4B, 5, 6, 11, 12, Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), CARAGA and National Capital Region (NCR) are slated to receive their performance-based bonus (PBB) for Fiscal Year 2015 in the coming days. This is following a memorandum issued by DepEd Planning Service and Field Operations Undersecretary Jesus Mateo mandating field offices to immediately […]
