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(Reuters) — South Korea reported its first confirmed case of the Zika virus on Tuesday (March 22) in a 43-year old male who have travelled to Brazil, its center for disease control said. “This patient is the first Zika virus-infected patient in South Korea. However, the fever has subsided,” said Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Jung Ki-suck at a news conference. “The patient is a 43 year-old-male. He visited Brazil for 22 […]
(Eagle News) — Expelled Iglesia Ni Cristo member Lowell “Boyet” Menorca II again failed to show up Monday (March 21) in the hearing on the petition for writ of amparo filed by his camp before the Court of Appeals, and the magistrates are giving him until hearing next week (March 28) to show up. Only his lawyers and his brother Anthony Menorca were present in the hearing and the CA finds this repeated failure […]
HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) — U.S. President Barack Obama pushed Cuba to improve its record on human rights and sparred with President Raul Castro during a historic visit to the Caribbean island on Monday (March 21), while Castro hit back by decrying U.S. “double standards”. “We continue, as President Castro indicated, to have some very serious differences including on democracy and human rights. President Castro and I have had very frank and candid conversations on these […]
by Michael Mathes Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump exchanged jabs Monday as they separately courted a massive crowd of pro-Israel lobbyists, putting their support for the Jewish state front and center in their White House battle. Democrat Clinton bashed her rival as prejudiced and insufficiently pro-Israel, signalling some of her likely points of attack should she face the Republican frontrunner in November’s US presidential election. Trump dismissed the former secretary of state as “a total […]
by Andrew Beatty and Sebastian Smith HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro vowed Monday in Havana to set aside their differences in pursuit of what the US president called a “new day” for the long bitterly divided neighbors. Castro acknowledged there were still “profound” differences over Cuba’s human rights situation and the decades-old, crippling US economic embargo on the island. In a sometimes comic, sometimes tetchy press conference — […]
MANILA, Mar. 22 – Malacañang has denied the claim of Senator Grace Poe that the administration is practicing “selective justice” for not filing charges against their allies. During the second presidential debate at the University of the Philippines campus in Cebu City on Sunday, Senator Poe told Liberal Party standard-bearer Manuel Roxas II that the administration does not file cases against important members of the Liberal Party (LP), such as Transportation and Communications Secretary Joseph […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Leading streaming service Spotify said Monday that it had reached 30 million paying subscribers as the company suggested it would keep expanding to more countries. The milestone was announced by Spotify’s chief executive Daniel Ek as he commented positively about President Barack Obama’s historic visit to longtime US adversary Cuba. “We have 30 million Spotify subscribers, but none of them are in Cuba … yet. So cool to see […]
(Reuters) — China’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday (March 21) that a Chinese coastguard vessel did not enter Indonesian waters after Indonesia protested against what it called an infringement of its waters by a Chinese vessel near a disputed area of the South China Sea over the weekend. The incident involving an Indonesian patrol boat, and a Chinese coastguard vessel and fishing boat in what Indonesia said was its waters, has angered Indonesia. Indonesia says […]
Tokyo, Japan (AFP)—An armed nuclear transport vessel preparing to ship a huge cache of plutonium — enough to produce 50 nuclear bombs — to the United States arrived at a Japanese port on Monday amid tight security, local media said. The stockpile, provided by the US, Britain and France decades ago for research purposes, is being returned to the US as part of a bilateral storage deal. Television footage showed the Britain-registered ship entering a port […]
Donetsk, Russian Federation (AFP)—A court in southern Russia on Monday found Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko guilty of murder over the killing of two Russian journalists in war-torn east Ukraine, at a trial condemned by Kiev and the West as a political sham. Savchenko “committed the premeditated murder as part of a group of people from the motives of hatred and enmity,” a judge in the town of Donetsk was quoted as saying by Russian news […]
Tortosa, Spain (AFP)—Seven Italians and two Germans were among the 13 young female students killed in a weekend coach crash in northeastern Spain, a regional official said Monday. The victims of Sunday’s crash, all aged between 19 and 25, also included a Romanian, a Frenchwoman, an Austrian and a student from Uzbekistan, Jordi Jane, the in-charge for interior matters in Catalonia, said on the radio. © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
BORACAY, Philippines – It is expected that 50, 000 tourists will go to Boracay this holiday break with the walkway in Station 2 already fully-booked. In response to this, the Philippine Army, Philippine Coast Guard and the Philippine Red Cross added personnel in the said island. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
