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FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany (AFP) — An assailant has stabbed to death the son of former German president Richard von Weizsaecker in attack at a Berlin hospital that left one other person seriously injured, police said Wednesday. The motive for the attack on Fritz von Weizsaecker, 59, on Tuesday evening was unclear. Von Weizsaecker, a doctor, had just delivered a lecture on liver diseases at the Schlosspark hospital in the western Berlin neighbourhood of Charlottenburg […]
(Eagle News) — An Olongapo court has sentenced to prison the man who confessed to the killing of businessman Dominic Sytin. Branch 72 Judge Richard Paradeza sentenced Edgardo Luib to the supreme penalty of reclusion perpetua for the killing, and to a minimum of six years, one month and 11 days of prision mayor up to a maximum of 12 years, five months and eleven days reclusion temporal for the near-fatal shooting of Sytin’s bodyguard-driver, […]
(Eagle News) — “Ramon” has weakened into a tropical depression as it moved over the Isabela area, but “Sarah” is now a tropical storm. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Batanes, Cagayan including Babuyan Islands, Apayao, Kalinga, Abra, Ilocos Norte, and Ilocos Sur, western portion of Isabela (Quezon, Mallig, Quirino, Roxas, San Manuel, Burgos, Aurora, Reina Mercedes, Luna, Cabatuan, San Mateo, Cauayan, Ramon, Alicia, Angadanan, San Isidro, Santiago and Cordon), Mountain Province, […]
(Eagle News)–The Manila Regional Trial Court has junked the demurrer to evidence filed by Rappler’s Maria Ressa and former reporter Reynaldo Santos in connection with the case filed against them by businessman Wilfredo Keng. In junking the demurrer which aimed for the dismissal of the cyber libel case filed against them over an article published in 2012, Branch 46 Judge Rainelda Estacio-Montesa said she did not find merit in the same. The judge said the […]
(Eagle News) — Vice President Leni Robredo has written President Rodrigo Duterte a letter to ask what exactly her mandate as co-chair of the Inter-Agency Committee Against Illegal Drugs was. In an interview with reporters on Wednesday, Nov. 20, Robredo said she wrote the letter asking Duterte to clarify her responsibilities even before the President said in a press conference on Tuesday that he did not trust her enough to include her as a member […]
(Eagle News) — Several flights on Wednesday, Nov. 20, were cancelled due to bad weather. Below is a list: (M8) Skyjet M8 816 Manila-Basco M8 817 Basco-Manila (5J) Cebu Pacific 5J 504 Manila-Tuguegarao 5J 505 Tuguegarao-Manila Signal No. 3 has been hoisted over several areas as “Ramon” and “Sarah” continued to threaten northern Luzon as of Wednesday morning, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said.
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Nov. 19, said he decided against including Vice President Leni Robredo in the Cabinet because he does not trust her. “Ang problema ko kay Robredo… Marami na siyang pinagsasabi. If that is the way her mouth behaves there can be no position for her,” the President said. Robredo has been vocal about the government’s war on drugs. Earlier, she figured in a video where she criticized the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has given the assurance the two Cabinet members who were linked to corruption would be given due process. “If you are corrupt, kasi ipapatawag kita dito sa opisina and we will have a one-on-one talk. Kasi kung meron, I’ll fire you. Sigurado ‘yan,” Duterte said, without giving names. He said he has already seen the briefer on the two officials, but said he has yet to see the result […]
(Eagle News)–A 3.3-magnitude earthquake struck Cotabato on Wednesday, Nov. 20. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, of tectonic origin, hit 19 kilometers southeast of Tulunan at 7:49 a.m. Depth of focus was one kilometer. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday night directed Agriculture Secretary William Dar to suspend all rice importations, and to instead buy all the palay or rice harvested by the country’s farmers. Duterte said that the Department of Agriculture should buy all the palay of the country’s farmers at farmgate prices even if this would mean using up funds that would exceed the allocation for this. This is because he wants to support […]
(Eagle News)–Signal No. 3 remains hoisted over portions of Cagayan as Typhoon “Ramon,” which has made landfall in Santa Ana, continues to move inland. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Signal No. 3 remains hoisted over the northern portion of the province, particularly in Santa Praxedes, Claveria, Sanchez Mira, Pamplona, Abulug, Ballesteros, Aparri, Calayan, Camalaniugan, Buguey, Santa Teresita, Gonzaga, Santa Ana, Allacapan, Lal-lo, Gattaran, Lasam, Baggao, Alcala, and Santo Niño. Signal No. […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte explained that he decided not to appoint Vice-President Leni Robredo as a cabinet member because he believed doing so would “jeopardize” the country’s state secrets. Speaking late Tuesday night, Nov. 19, Duterte said that he is not allowing state secrets to be known by Robredo, and that she could have access only on a “need to know basis” to certain confidential information on the anti-illegal drug war. The President […]
