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80 percent of world’s city dwellers breathing bad air: UN
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Over 80 percent of the world’s city dwellers breathe poor quality air, increasing their risk of lung cancer and other life-threatening diseases, a new World Health Organization (WHO) report warned Thursday. Urban residents in poor countries are by far the worst affected, WHO said, noting that nearly every city (98 percent) in low- and middle-income countries has air which fails to meet the UN body’s standards. That number falls to 56 […]
Shaking felt in Taipei as 5.6-magnitude quake hits
TAIPEI , Taiwan (AFP) — Buildings shook violently in Taiwan’s capital Taipei Thursday as a 5.6-magnitude quake hit off the island’s northeast coast. The shallow quake struck at a depth of 10 km (six miles), the US Geological Survey said, just east of the coastal city of Yilan, 60 kilometres from Taipei. There were no immediate reports of damage. It comes after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in February left 117 dead when an apartment complex collapsed […]
Four Indonesians held hostage in the Philippines freed
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo on Wednesday, May 11 said that the four Indonesian sailors who had been held hostage in the southern Philippines have been released. “The release happened because of coordination between the governments of Indonesia and the Philippines,” Widodo told reporters at the presidential palace in Central Jakarta, adding that the four sailors were in good health. Ten other Indonesian hostages held by groups with suspected links to militant network […]
COMELEC declares failure of elections in 11 areas; to conduct special polls on May 14
QUEZON City, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) has declared failure of elections in 11 municipalities in the country after voting did not push through last May 9, affecting 17,657 registered voters. COMELEC Resolution No. 10129 said there were a total of 52 clustered precincts from 11 towns, mostly in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and eastern Visayas where no elections were held last Monday due to problems in the ballots and security […]
Marcos supporters troop to Luneta Park
MANILA, Philippines — Supporters of Vice Presidential Candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos on Wednesday morning (May 11) trooped to Luneta Park to protest alleged anomalies and cheating in the vote counting machines or VCM. Raquel Cascon, an Overseas Filipino Worker from Hong Kong claimed that most of the voters in the said were solid for Marcos. Protesters also said that they are ready to go to the streets — in a show of force — to […]
Malacanang denies hatching any “Plan B” to sabotage next administration
(Eagle News) — Malacanang has denied it had a “Plan B,” referring to circulating reports on an alleged plan that would ensure that Liberal Party vice-presidential bet Leni Robredo would continue the Aquino government’s “agenda”. In a statement, the Palace claims it has no plans to impeach the winning president and install the Vice President who comes from the Liberal Party to continue its agenda. “Masyado yatang malawak na imahinasyon ang ginagamit sa ganyang mga […]
President Aquino informs Duterte’s camp of transition team for the next presidency
(Eagle News) — Malacanang has already formed the transition team to be headed by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr., that would be in charge of the “smoothest transition possible” for the administration of the next President. President Aquino himself has informed the camp of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte about this transition team. “I talked to Mr. Bong Go (Tuesday) to relay to Mayor Duterte that an Administrative Order is being drafted designating the Executive […]
Marcos camp says “new script” was entered into Comelec server on night of May 9
(Eagle News) The camp of vice-presidential candidate Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr., claimed on Wednesday that a “new script” was introduced into the transparency server of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) on Monday night (May 9), pointing to this as the possible cause of the sudden erosion of vote counts for the senator. “We received unsettling information that at past 7:30 p.m. on May 9, 2016 Election Day, a new script or computer command was […]
Baghdad market bombing claimed by IS kills 64
by Salam Faraj BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — A car bombing claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group killed at least 64 people Wednesday at a market in a Shiite area of Baghdad, in the single deadliest attack this year in the capital. The blast comes as the government is locked in a political crisis that some have warned could undermine the fight against IS. The bombing, which hit the frequently targeted Sadr City area of northern […]
Australia holds five suspected of plotting sailing trip to join Islamic State
(Reuters) — Australian police have detained five men suspected of planning to sail a small boat from the far north of the country on to Indonesia and the Philippines and finally to Syria to join Islamic State, officials said on Wednesday (May 11). The men were held on Tuesday (May 10) after towing the seven-meter boat almost 3,000 km (1,865 miles) from Melbourne to Cairns in Queensland state, police said. “There have been reports that […]
Duterte, Marcos lead in local absentee voting
QUEZON City, Philippines – Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Bongbong Marcos lead in the local absentee voting where government employees, military and police personnel as well as members of the media exercised their right to vote. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
