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(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Customs has seized P15.572 million worth of ecstasy in Pasay City. According to the bureau, the 9160 tablets were concealed in three parcels declared as clothes and shoes sent to the Central Mail Exchange Center. The bureau said the illegal drugs were found after an “intensified profiling and examination” by bureau personnel. The parcels had been sent from The Netherlands and had been consigned to a person with residence in Dasmariñas, […]
by Peter HUTCHISON Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A defiant Ghislaine Maxwell said Friday that prosecutors had failed to prove her guilty of sex crimes, as her defense wound up in a trial that heard lurid claims she groomed minors for abuse by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. Speaking for the first time since her sensational trial opened late last month, the 59-year-old British socialite addressed the New […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Pfizer announced Friday that it wants to test a third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in the under-fives, as the low dosage such small children can handle may not offer the same protection that older children enjoy from just two shots. The company does not expect the change to affect its plans to file for emergency use authorization in the United States in the first half of next year. […]
(Eagle News) — A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck Sorsogon on Friday night. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, the quake hit at 10:28 p.m. It had its epicenter eight kilometers southwest of Donsol. The depth of focus was 20 kilometers. The following intensities and instrumental intensities were reported: Reported Intensities: Intensity V – Donsol, Sorsogon Intensity IV – Jovellar and Pilar, Sorsogon Intensity III – Irosin and Juban, Sorsogon; Naga City; Canaman, Camarines […]
(Eagle News) — The Commission on Elections has junked a petition seeking to declare Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos as a nuisance candidate in the May 2022 elections. In a message to reporters, Comelec Spokesperson James Jimenez said the petition in particular of Danilo Lihaylihay was denied by the 2nd Division of the poll body. According to Jimenez, the division ruled that Marcos did not fall under any of the three broad categories of nuisance candidates: one […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police has accused the Communist Party of the Philippines- New People’s Army of being behind the recent attack on humanitarian and disaster response teams in Visayas and Mindanao that killed three persons and wounded several others. In a statement, PNP Chief, Police General Dionardo B Carlos, condemned the twin attacks in Samar and Surigao del Sur provinces on government personnel and civilians engaged in preemptive evacuation operations ahead of […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines rose to 2,837,464 after the Department of Health reported 582 more cases According to the DOH, of the total cases, 10,167 were active. Of these, 539 were asymptomatic, 4015 mild, 3415 moderate, 1815 severe, and 383 critical. Recoveries rose to 2776727 with the additional 494. The death toll is now at 50570, after 74 more deaths were reported. The DOH has reminded the public against complacency, noting […]
More casualties feared as Odette leaves trail of destruction in Visayas, Mindanao (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte will visit and tour the areas in Mindanao and the Visayas that have been ravaged by supertyphoon Odette (international name Rai) this weekend, according to Malacanang. The superhowler had left at least 12 people dead as it barreled through Visayas and Mindanao, making an unprecedented nine landfalls while packing winds of between 205 kilometers per hour […]
(Eagle News) — Typhoon “Odette” has maintained its strength as it threatens the Kalayaan Islands Signal No. 3 is raised over the area, with “Odette” 40 km west northwest of Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, packing maximum sustained winds of 150 km/h near the center and a gustiness of up to 185 km/h. Signal No. 2, meanwhile, has been raised over the central portion of Palawan (San Vicente, Quezon, Puerto Princesa City, Aborlan). The rest of mainland […]
Odette expected to exit PAR by Saturday, Dec. 18 (Eagle News) — Northern Palawan bore the brunt of Supertyphoon Odette (international name Rai) on Friday, December 17, as the howler made its ninth landfall in the town of Roxas that afternoon. With maximum sustained winds of 150 kilometers per hour near the center and gustiness of up to 205 km/h, Odette made landfall over Roxas, Palawan at 3:10 p.m. on Friday, according to […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines reached a vaccination milestone on Thursday, December 16, when it first breached 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines that have been administered since the vaccination began last March. The National Vaccination Operations Center (NVOC) said that on Thursday, the total vaccine doses that have been administered so far reached 100,019,137. Of this number, over 43 millionhave already been fully vaccinated representing 55.78 percent of the target population. As of […]
Odette (int’l name Rai) has made more landfalls than supertyphoon Yolanda (Haiyan) (Eagle News) — Supertyphoon Odette (international name Rai) has made nine landfalls in the country, exceeding the record of Supertyphoon Yolanda (Haiyan) which only made six landfalls in 2013. Odette made its latest and ninth landfall at 3:10 p.m. on Friday, December 17, in Roxas, Palawan. Earlier at exactly 12 a.m. Friday, December 17, it made its eighth landfall in La Libertad, […]
