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(Eagle News)–The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority on Wednesday, Nov. 13, warned motorists of heavy traffic in some areas as the agency conducts a traffic simulation for the 2019 Southeast Asian Games on November 14. The MMDA said the following roads will be affected by the simulation: EDSA Northbound lane Mindanao Avenue North Avenue Quirino Avenue Pasay Avenue Taft Avenue Magallanes South Luzon Expressway North Luzon Expressway The MMDA said it will implement the stop and […]
(Eagle News) – Vice-President Leni Robredo said that officials of the United States are fully supportive of the Philippine government’s war against drugs and would be willing to give any help if needed for the campaign’s success. In her statement given after meeting with the US officials on Wednesday, Nov. 13, Robredo, the recently designated anti-illegal drugs czar by Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, said that the various representatives of the US agencies she had […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Mainland Chinese students have begun fleeing Hong Kong campuses over security fears, police and university officials said Wednesday, as the city’s seething political crisis saw some of its worst violence this week. The most intense clashes on Tuesday occurred at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where pitched battles were fought with the police firing tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets and protesters throwing petrol bombs and bricks, […]
(Eagle News)–A 3.2-magnitude earthquake struck Cotabato on Wednesday, Nov. 13. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, of tectonic origin, hit 24 kilometers southeast of Makilala at 7:41 p.m. Depth of focus was five kilometers. An instrumental intensity I was felt in Kidapawan. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
(Eagle News) – Tropical Storm “Ramon” has slightly slowed down as it moved west-northwestward, as the country’s weather bureau raised tropical cyclone wind signal number 2 in Catanduanes, while signal number 1 is in effect over more areas in Luzon and Visayas. PAGASA said that “between today and tomorrow afternoon, light to moderate with occasional heavy rains may be experienced over eastern portion Cagayan and Isabela, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, and Catanduanes.” “Light to […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Pro-democracy protesters Wednesday stepped up a “blossom everywhere” campaign of road blocks and vandalism across Hong Kong that has crippled the international financial hub this week and ignited some of the worst violence in five months of unrest. The new phase in the crisis, which has forced schools and shopping malls to close as well as the shutdown of large chunks of the vital train network, prompted police to […]
CANBERRA, Australia (AFP) — Disgraced Catholic Cardinal George Pell was handed a final chance to clear his name Wednesday, when Australia’s top court agreed to allow his appeal against convictions for child abuse. The 78-year-old former Vatican treasurer is currently serving a six-year jail sentence for molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in a Melbourne cathedral in the 1990s, but continues to deny any wrongdoing. Justice Michelle Gordon — in a statement that took less than […]
(Eagle News)–The Commission on Appointments has approved the ad interim appointment of General Noel Clement as Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff. Clement will serve as head of the AFP until January 2020. Before he became chief of staff, Clement was head of the military’s Central Visayas Command. The CA also approved the promotion of Navy Vice Admiral Allan Ferdinand Cusi, who is currently the superintendent of the Philippine Military Academy. Meanne Corvera
(Eagle News)–The military will recommend the extension of martial law only in selected areas in Mindanao. Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff General Noel Clement made the confirmation after his confirmation hearing before the Commission on Appointments. “But as we see it right now, the current security situation in Mindanao has improved a lot,” Clement told Senator Risa Hontiveros under questioning. Earlier, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said they were only waiting for the […]
(Eagle News) – Six soldiers from the Philippine Army’s 14th infantry Battalion were killed while 20 others were wounded in an ambush by New People’s Army (NPA) rebels who used improvised explosives in Borongan City, Eastern Samar. The ambush happened late Monday afternoon, Nov. 11, when the NPA rebels detonated six explosives in a remote village called Pinanag-an. The Philippine soldiers from the three platoons of the Army’s 14th IB suffered heavy casualties following the […]
(Eagle News)–Retired Chief Justice Lucas Bersamin is getting death threats, Supreme Court spokesperson Brian Hosaka said on Wednesday, Nov. 13. Hosaka said he learned about the death threats yesterday when he briefly talked to the former Chief Justice just before the ceremony for his Doctors of Law conferment by the University of the East. “He was his normal self confident self. I guess coming from a political family, they have encountered this scenario before and […]
MEDAN, Indonesia (AFP) — A suspected suicide bombing outside a police station in Indonesia has left at least one attacker dead and six other people wounded, authorities said Wednesday. The explosion happened around 8:45 am local time (0145 GMT) at the compound in Medan on Sumatra island during morning roll call. “We suspect this is a suicide bombing with one attacker killed,” national police spokesman Dedi Prasetyo told reporters in Jakarta. He said at least […]
