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(Eagle News)-The Judicial and Bar Council is now accepting applications for vacant Legal Education Board posts and judicial posts. In a statement, the JBC said the positions of chair and regular members of LEB were now vacant following the lapse of the terms of LEB chair Emerson B. Aquende and regular member Zenaida N. Elepaño, representing the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, on January 13, 2019. The term of regular member Abelardo T. Domondon, representing […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Barcelona imposed a ban Thursday on older, more polluting vehicles during most of the day in a bid to reduce air pollution in Spain’s second largest city. Gasoline-powered cars registered in Spain before 2000, and diesel-powered cars registered before 2006 are now banned from most city streets on weekdays between 7:00 am and 8:00 pm and face a fine of at least 100 euros ($112) if they violate the rule. All banned vehicles […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed “severe revenge” after the United States killed the commander of the Islamic republic’s Quds Force, General Qasem Soleimani, in Baghdad on Friday. “Martyrdom was the reward for his ceaseless efforts in all these years,” Khamenei said on his Farsi-language Twitter account in reference to Soleimani, also declaring three days of mourning. “With him gone, God willing, his work and his path will not be […]
(Eagle News)-Japan’s foreign minister Motegi Toshimitsu will visit the Philippines from Jan. 8 to 9, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. In a statement, the DFA said in his first visit since he was appointed to the post in September 2019, Motegi is scheduled to pay a courtesy call on President Rodrigo Duterte. The DFA said Motegi will have a bilateral meeting with Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr., on Jan. 9 to “discuss […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Rookie Michael Porter Jr. put on a shooting clinic on Thursday, scoring a career-high 25 points to lead the Denver Nuggets to a 124-116 NBA victory over the Indiana Pacers. Porter came off the bench and connected on 11 of 12 shots from the field — a 91.7 percent success rate — as the Nuggets shook off a slow start and rebounded from a New Year’s Eve loss to […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesian rescuers mounted a desperate search Friday for those missing after flash floods and landslides sparked by torrential rains killed at least 43 people across the Jakarta region, leaving whole districts underwater and thousands homeless. Around a dozen people were still unaccounted for after record rains that started on New Year’s Eve pounded the capital and left swathes of the megalopolis, home to some 30 million, a wasteland of overturned cars […]
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US strike on Baghdad’s international airport on Friday, Iraq’s powerful Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force has said, in a dramatic escalation of tensions between Washington and Tehran. The Hashed’s deputy chief was also killed in the attack, the force added, which comes after a pro-Iran mob this week laid siege to the US embassy following deadly American airstrikes on a hardline Hashed faction. […]
(Eagle News)-The partial deployment ban on Overseas Filipino Workers to Kuwait also covers returning household service workers. This is according to Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III, who gave an interview over CNN Philippines on Friday, Jan. 3. “Initially, I was inclined to exempt yung mga (the) balik-manggagawa dahil ito yung mga nagbakasyon e. But in consultation with the DFA (Department of Foreign Affairs) they suggested that we include even the balik-manggagawa,” Bello said. Bello had […]
by Reinnier KAZE Editor’s choice (AFP) –It was a “dirty war” waged by French colonial troops but it never made headlines and even today goes untold in school history books. The brutal conflict unfolded in Cameroon, which on January 1 marked its 60th anniversary of independence — the first of 17 African countries that became free from their colonial masters in 1960. Many decades on, those who witnessed the violence recall events that shaped countless […]
(Eagle News)-Another Philippine National Railways train was damaged after a stone-throwing incident on Wednesday, Jan. 1. The Department of Transportation said the incident, reported in Caloocan at 6:01 p.m., damaged the front glass windshield of a refurbished Rotem train unit. The glass windshield underwent replacement on Thursday, Jan. 2, at 12:03 p.m. The DOTr called for “heightened vigilance from the public, particularly our train-riding commuter, to help us in pinpointing the areas where these misdeeds […]
(Eagle News)-Rains are expected in parts of the country today, Jan. 3. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Davao Region, SOCCSKSARGEN, Maguindanao, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi Tawi will have cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms due to the Intertropical Convergence Zone affecting Southern Mindanao. PAGASA said Bicol Region, Eastern Visayas, Quezon, Marinduque, and Oriental Mindoro will have cloudy skies with scattered rains and isolated thunderstorms due to the tail-end of a cold […]
by Javier TOVAR / Andrew MARSZAL LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Hollywood’s biggest stars gather Sunday for the glitzy Golden Globes, the first major awards show of a packed season that looks set to mark Netflix’s coming-of-age in Tinseltown. The celebrity-filled gala in Beverly Hills is billed as the most raucous event in the showbiz calendar, where success helps create buzz ahead of next month’s Oscars. Netflix garnered an overwhelming 34 Globe nominations across […]
