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QUEZON City, Philippines – Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned the act of the Abu Sayyaf when said group decapitated its Canadian captive five hours after the deadline of the payment of the ransom for said hostages. Trudeau called the act “cold-blooded murder” during his Cabinet retreat in Alberta. According to reports, the Armed Forces of the Philippines found the head in an island in Jolo after the lapse of the deadline. The AFP and […]
The Philippine armed forces on Tuesday (April 26) expressed sympathy over the execution of a Canadian hostage by Islamist militants in the southern Philippines, as military operations continue to secure the remaining captives. John Ridsdel, 68, a former mining executive, was captured by Islamist militants along with three other people in September 2015 while on vacation on a Philippine island. The Philippine army said a severed head was found on a remote island on Monday […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – According to a report that appeared in the Hong Kong newspaper, South China Morning Post, China will start construction of an outpost in the Panatag Shoal in order to have good air coverage. China is claiming said shoal despite the claim of the Philippines that said shoal is with its exclusive economic zone. It is expected that the decision of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague, Netherlands regarding said […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – In the face of the travel warnings issued by the United States of America and the United Kingdom to its citizens regarding the southern portion of the Philippines due to the activities of the Abu Sayyaf group, Presidential Communications Secretary Sonny Coloma said that the government understands said steps taken by the US and the UK in order to guarantee their citizens’ safety. Coloma added that the government is exerting all […]
Your body can’t function without sodium, so is salt really the blood pressure bogeyman we think it is? What we know and suprisingly don’t know about salt.
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Department of Energy countered its earlier statement, now saying that the DOE is not sure that the May 9 election will be “brown-out free”. Energy Secretary Zenaida Monsada said that the DOE is doing all that it can to guarantee that there will be a sufficient energy supply during the elections and that there are no problems in the Luzon Grid. Monsada defended that the government does not control electric […]
CCTV footage shows an officer noticing cracks forming in the middle of the road. He then decides to divert traffic around the cracks by cordoning off the area using cones. Minutes later, the road collapses!
Hundreds of Iglesia ni Cristo members along with their visitors attended a Musical Evangelical Mission in Bangkok, Thailand.
The Court of Appeals officially dismissed the Writ of Amparo petition filed by expelled Iglesia ni Cristo member Lowell Menorca and his family. In a 13-page resolution of the CA 7th division, dated April 21, 2016, written by Associate Justice Victoria Isabel Paredes, the court favored the omnibus motion filed by the Iglesia ni Cristo seeking the dismissal of the case, for being “moot and academic.” According to the CA, the court is just wasting […]
The United States began its biggest European deployment of F-22 fighters with a visit to the Black Sea in an exercise aimed at beefing up military support for NATO’s eastern European allies who say they face aggression from Russia. President Barack Obama promised in 2014 to bolster the defences of NATO’s eastern members which were spooked by Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and the Kremlin’s use of pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine. A U.S. […]
The European Space Agency launched a satellite on Monday (Aprli 25) to track the progress of global warming, as part of its Copernicus project. The Sentinel-1B joins its identical twin, Sentinel-1A, in orbit to deliver information for various services, from monitoring ice in polar seas to tracking land subsidence, the ESA said. It will also respond to disasters such as floods. Both satellites carry an advanced radar that images Earth’s surface through cloud and rain […]
The powerful young prince overseeing Saudi Arabia’s economy unveiled ambitious plans on Monday (April 25) aimed at ending the kingdom’s “addiction” to oil and transforming it into a global investment power. Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the kingdom would raise the capital of its public investment fund to 7 trillion riyals ($2 trillion) from 600 billion riyals ($160 billion). He added that the world’s top oil exporter expects state oil company Saudi Aramco […]
