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Several explosions went off and gunfire broke out in the centre of the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Thursday (January 14) and police said they suspected a suicide bomber was responsible for at least one the blasts. Media said six bombs went off and a Reuters witness saw three dead people and a gunfight going on. One blast was in a Starbucks cafe and security forces were later seen entering the building. Indonesia has been on […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – The Iglesia Ni Cristo, through its spokesperson, Bro. Edwil Zabala, on Thursday (Jan. 14) held a press conference where the official statement of the Church was read regarding the decision of the INC to finally file an ejectment case against expelled members, Mr. Angel Manalo and Mrs. Lottie Hemedez. He added that when they were expelled, they lost the privilege of living in the Iglesia Ni Cristo compound. They […]
Liberia is set to be declared Ebola-free on Thursday (January 14) for the third time in a year as West Africa appears to finally be over the epidemic that left over 11,000 people dead since it began in early 2014. Even though Sierra Leone had the highest number of Ebola cases at 14,122 compared to Liberia’s 10,675, the death toll was highest in Liberia at 4,809, with Guinea registering 2,536 deaths from 3,804 cases, according […]
PRESIDENT Aquino on Wednesday said he hoped that the next president would continue the government programs that assist the poor, such as the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program, to make the country’s economic growth more inclusive. In a speech delivered during a conference on sustaining the gains of the CCT, held at the Asian Development Bank headquarters in Mandaluyong, President Aquino reported that the government has continued to develop ways to make the CCT program […]
Joined by an “A-list’ crowd, David Beckham worked the red carpet on Tuesday night (January 12) at an elegant Beverly Hills gala, where he was honored by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for his strong humanitarian efforts. The former soccer great, who looked in mid-season form, was presented with the Danny Kaye Humanitarian Leadership Award for his extraordinary support of UNICEF’s work to put children first program. “My job was important to me but […]
Turks on Wednesday (January 13) were worried by the economic repercussions of a suicide bomb attack that killed at least 10 people, most of them German tourists, in Istanbul’s historic heart on Tuesday (January 13). All of those killed in Sultanahmet square, near the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia – major tourist sites in the centre of one of the world’s most visited cities – were foreigners, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, blaming the […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is looking forward to cooperating with the China-initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), said an IMF official on Tuesday. Chikahisa Sumi, assistant director of the Asia and Pacific Department of the IMF, made the remarks at a forum attended by IMF officials and members of U.S. think tanks in Washington, D.C. “Infrastructure investment need is huge, is simply huge. And then infrastructure investment is very productive investment. And then, it […]
(Eagle News) — In his proposal to reopen the Mamasapano probe, Senate Minority Leader Juan Ponce Enrile said that President Aquino’s presence in the inquiry is not needed, but “he still needs to explain” his part in the ill-fated operation last January 2015. According to the veteran senator, he will not insist on the President’s attendance to the probe, but said that Aquino has to clarify his involvement in the operation that killed 44 members of […]
Malaysian police said that militant group Islamic State in Iraq ans Syria (ISIS) is training children to become the next generation of terrorists. Children as young as two years old are being trained at camps in Syria and Kazakhstan. In response to this, the ambassador of the republic of Kazakhstan in Singapore, Yerlan Baudarbek-Kozhatayev, said that “there are no camps of ISIS on the territory of the republic of Kazakhstan” and that it takes seriously […]
Meanwhile, an Australian expert has challenged claims that China’s build-up of artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea threatens commercial ships passing through the world’s busiest waterways, declaring that they are “completely fabricated”. Greg Austin, a visiting professor at the University of New South Wales based in Canberra, says despite the “shock” expressed by strategic analysts China has not embarked on an operation to expand its territory and is defending what it sees as […]
Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko will make a five-day trip to the Philippines from January 26 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the normalization of bilateral ties between Japan and the Philippines. It will be the first official visit by a Japanese emperor to the Philippines, where around 1.1 million Filipinos and some 518,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians perished during World War II. The emperor and empress last visited the Philippines in […]
Attorney Democrito Mendoza, founder of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines, died last night, January 12, at the age of 93. His family is still waiting for the medical findings for the cause of death. Mendoza served as the president of the TUCP for 38 years before retiring in 2011. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
