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Britain will slash import tariffs in case of a no-deal Brexit and will not apply customs checks on the border with Ireland, the government said on Wednesday. Under the new system, which would come into force if Britain leaves the EU on March 29 without an agreement, tariffs would be retained but reduced for some agricultural products to protect British producers. The new regime is aimed at avoiding a jump in prices of EU imports […]
(Eagle News)– Marawi City Vice Mayor Arafat Salic was arrested on Wednesday, March 13, over rebellion charges. Army 103rd Infantry Brigade commander Colonel Romeo Brawner said Salic, who was included in the list of the Office of the Martial Law Administrator and had an arrest order dated Sept. 4, 2017, was nabbed at the Marawi City Hall around 10 a.m. Apart from Salic, included in the arrest orders issued after the Marawi siege in May […]
by Patrick GALEY A quarter of all premature deaths and diseases worldwide are due to manmade pollution and environmental damage, the United Nations said Wednesday in a landmark report on the planet’s parlous state. Deadly smog-inducing emissions, chemicals polluting drinking water, and the accelerating destruction of ecosystems crucial to the livelihoods of billions of people are driving a worldwide epidemic that hampers the global economy, it warned. The Global Environment Outlook (GEO) — a report […]
Ethiopia does not have the equipment to analyse the black boxes from Sunday’s deadly Ethiopian Airlines plane crash, and is considering sending them abroad, a spokesman for the airline said Wednesday. “It could be sent abroad because there is no equipment to read it here,” said spokesman Biniyam Demssie. The airline’s chief executive Tewolde GebreMariam earlier told CNN the black boxes would have to be examined outside the country, in a destination to be chosen […]
(Eagle News) — The European Union will so far hold the funds for non-government organizations which have links to the Communist Party of the Philippines, a military official said on Wednesday, March 13. Armed Forces of the Philippines deputy chief of staff for civil-military operations Brig. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. made the revelation in a press conference in Malacanang on Wednesday, March 13, following what he said was a meeting of government and military officials […]
China on Wednesday offered to help Venezuela as it faces a crippling multi-day power blackout that President Nicolas Maduro has blamed on the United States. “China hopes that Venezuela can quickly find the cause of this accident and restore normal power and social order,” foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said at a regular briefing. “China is willing to offer assistance and technical support to Venezuela to restore the power system,” Lu said. Power has been […]
(Eagle News)—Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde has reminded regional directors to conduct a stringent selection process in setting up drug enforcement units. The PNP said in a statement that Albayalde gave the order in a recent memorandum. The order came following the recent arrests of policemen who were assigned at the DEU for alleged extortion. Only recently, Police Corporal Marlo Quibete of the Eastern Police District’s anti-illegal drugs unit was nabbed after his group allegedly demanded […]
The US warned Tuesday it was considering a complaint at the World Trade Organization over “discriminatory” new taxes on American digital giants such as a Facebook and Google planned by France and other EU nations. “We think the whole theoretical basis of digital service taxes is ill-conceived and the effect is highly discriminatory against US-based multinationals,” Chip Harter, a Treasury official and US delegate for global tax talks, said in Paris. Speaking ahead of two […]
Israel’s army said Wednesday it had uncovered a unit recently created by Hezbollah across the ceasefire line in the Syrian Golan Heights and led by a commander previously jailed over an attack on US forces. With President Bashar al-Assad regaining control of southern Syria with the help of Russia and Hezbollah backer Iran, Israel is concerned that a front against it could be established there. Hezbollah, based in neighbouring Lebanon, has also been supporting Assad […]
The former choirboy molested by Australian Cardinal George Pell led the response to his sentencing Wednesday, saying it was “hard to take comfort” from his six-year jail term. Pell was sentenced in the County Court of Victoria after being found guilty of five counts of sexual and indecent assault in the sacristy of a Melbourne cathedral in 1996 and 1997. Chief Justice Peter Kidd told the court the 77-year-old would be eligible for parole after […]
(Eagle News)—Speaker Gloria Arroyo may be charged for signing the P3.757-trillion budget bill that contains provisions that were not approved by the bicameral conference committee nor ratified by both houses of Congress, Senator Panfilo Lacson said on Wednesday, March 13. Lacson was referring to the bill which the House of Representatives printed and transmitted to the Senate but which, according to him, was only a “manipulated” version of the budget bill that has already been […]
Hong Kong on Wednesday barred Boeing 737 MAX airliners from its airspace, the latest in a series of government bans worldwide in the wake of a deadly plane crash in Ethiopia. Despite Boeing’s assurances in the wake of the disaster, the European Union, Britain and India joined China and other countries grounding the plane or banning it from their airspace as they await the results of the crash investigation. The semi-autonomous Chinese city’s Civil Aviation […]
