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Chairman of the Commission on Elections, Sixto Brillantes is scheduled to retire this week but he assured the public that the COMELEC’s plan for the 2016 elections will go smoothly. Other than Brillantes, two other Commissioners will also resign, leaving the COMELEC only four commissioners to handle the preparations for the 2016 elections.
Consumers should expect a roll back on diesel prices this week. Said rollback is expected to be around 20 – 30 centavos.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe condemned on Sunday (February 1) the apparent killing of journalist Kenji Goto by Islamic State, after the militant group released a video purporting to show the beheading of the veteran war correspondent. Islamic State insurgents said on Saturday (January 31) they had killed Goto, after the apparent failure of sustained international efforts to secure his release through a prisoner swap. The video showed a hooded man standing over Goto with […]
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Plunged into chaos just hours after entering this world, nine babies found alive after a gas blast in a Mexican maternity hospital underwent DNA tests on Friday in a bid to reunite them with their parents. Thursday’s blast devastated the hospital on the western edge of Mexico City, sending a fireball into the air and killing a nurse and two infants. But dozens of people, including mothers and newborns, who were […]
Islamic State militants struck at Kurdish forces in the northern province of Kirkuk on Friday (January 30). Police said Islamic State launched mortars and attacked positions of Kurdish fighters in four districts southwest of Kirkuk city. Militants later detonated a car bomb at a disused hotel in Kirkuk city centre and clashed with peshmerga forces. Kurdish forces later found the body of a militant in the hotel and threw the body over a balcony down […]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged Americans on Thursday (January 29) to get vaccinated for measles amid an outbreak that began at Disneyland in December, saying that 2014 saw the highest number of cases in two decades. So far more than 90 people have been diagnosed with measles in California and elsewhere, most of them linked to an outbreak that public health officials suspect began when an infected person from outside the […]
(Reuters) – Oil prices roared back from six-year lows on Friday, rocketing more than 8 percent as a record weekly decline in U.S. oil drilling fueled a frenzy of short-covering. In a rally that may spur speculation that a seven-month price collapse has ended, global benchmark Brent crude shot up to more than $53 per barrel, its highest in more than three weeks in its biggest one-day gain since 2009. The late-session surge was primed […]
President Aquino gave his guarantee to the families of the PNP-SAF that the remaining terrorist target will be arrested.
President Aquino attended the necrological services held in honor of the fallen 44 members of the PNP-SAF, spending time with each and personally giving medals and plaques to the relatives of the deceased.
The Iglesia Ni Cristo held a grand evangelical mission at the Philippine Arena and before said event, a “Kabayan Ko, Kapatid Ko” was held in the said venue, which provide entertainment through musical performances as well as free medical and dental aid.
After meeting each other in an NBA match, the respective camps of Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr., were said to have already agreed on a match between the two boxers. The Pacquiao camp reportedly gave in to all of Mayweather’s demands, including the opportunity to announce the match between them.
The Cebu Pacific paid in full the 52.1 million pesos fine imposed by the government to the said airline due to the numerous flight delays and cancellations during the recent holiday season.
