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SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to “go to the mat” to fight a government attempt to break up the social media giant, according to a report Tuesday based on a leaked audio recording. Tech news site The Verge released leaked comments from a meeting of Facebook employees in July in which Zuckerberg said he would challenge a breakup effort, repeating his argument that splitting the company would not […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — As Hong Kong raged with the worst political violence so far this summer, many of those hitting the streets adopted a new symbol — smiling Guy Fawkes masks. The face coverings, made popular by the comic book and film “V for Vendetta”, have been embraced by multiple protest movements in recent years, particularly Anonymous hactivists and Occupy Wall Street. But until recently they had not made much of an appearance […]
(Eagle News)–Former Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Chief Benjamin Magalong on Wednesday, Oct. 2, said he does not recall asking now-Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde for a “little favor” between 2006 and 2010. Magalong told ANC that in the first place, during that time, the administration of then-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was “against him,” noting that he had been charged with rebellion for supposedly planning to destabilize the government in 2006. He was later absolved. […]
by Emmeline MOORE TURIN, Italy (AFP) — Cristiano Ronaldo scored his first goal in this season’s Champions League, sealing a 3-0 win for Juventus over Bayer Leverkusen in their Group D game in Turin on Tuesday. Ronaldo blasted in the third goal in the 89th minute to extend his record to 127 strikes in the competition to add to Gonzalo Higuain and Federico Bernardeschi’s earlier efforts. Juventus move top of their section, level on four […]
by Ammar Karim BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Two demonstrators were killed and more than 200 people injured Tuesday, health officials said, in clashes with security forces during protests in Baghdad and the provinces that mounted the first challenge to Iraq’s fragile one-year-old government. More than 1,000 protesters had descended on the capital before security forces dispersed the crowds with a volley of gunfire and tear gas. Protests in Baghdad left one dead and 200 wounded, […]
(Eagle News)–A thunderstorm advisory has been hoisted over parts of Mindanao. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said moderate to heavy rainshowers with lightning and strong winds due to thunderstorms are expected over Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga City and Davao Oriental within one to two hours. These conditions are being experienced in Kitcharao, Jabonga in Agusan del Norte; Malimono, Mainit, Sison in Surigao del Norte; Olutanga, Talusan, Mabuhay, Alicia, Payao in Zamboanga Sibugay; […]
(Eagle News)–Several flights on Wednesday, Oct. 2, were cancelled due to bad weather at the destination. Below is a list: Philippine Airlines PR 418 Manila-Pusan PR 419 Pusan-Manila According to the weather bureau, Wednesday is expected to see the most precipitation in Pusan, South Korea, with around 34 millimeters, or about 1.3 inches anticipated.
(Eagle News)–Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde on Wednesday, Oct. 2, said former Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Chief Benjamin Magalong called him up once to ask him for a favor. Albayalde made the remark in an interview over ANC, after Magalong accused him of calling up Aaron Aquino, then the region 3 police director, to ask him to review the cases filed against several of his men over a controversial drug raid in Pampanga […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets sank Wednesday and the dollar struggled to bounce back following a worse-than-expected reading on US factory activity that revived worries about the impact of the trade war on the global economy. Adding to the selling pressure in Hong Kong were long-running concerns about the impact of increasingly violent pro-democracy protests in the city that saw a demonstrator shot and wounded by police on Tuesday. Regional investors took their […]
by Helen ROXBURGH BEIJING, China (AFP) — Sun Dawu sighs sadly when asked about the death of thousands of his pigs, killed by the African swine fever outbreak that has been decimating hog herds across China. “The pig farm was completely destroyed,” he says quietly, fanning himself from the heat and flies on his large Hebei province farm outside Beijing. “It’s a painful process, it’s painful to watch them die. We buried all the dead […]
(Eagle News)–The Senate is targeting to submit the national budget for 2020 to President Rodrigo Duterte before the end of the year. This is according to Senator Sonny Angara, chair of the Senate finance panel, who announced the receipt of the P4.1-trillion General Appropriations Bill from the House of Representatives. According to Angara, so far, the Senate finance subcommittees are completing the hearings on the proposed budgets of the last few agencies. “During the break, […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — At least 17 people were killed and some 30 injured when a passenger bus plunged off a cliff on Tuesday in the mountainous Cusco region of Peru, local police said. Police are trying to determine why the bus driver sent the vehicle off the road and into a 100-meter deep ravine. The accident took place around dawn Tuesday as the bus, with 48 passengers, was heading from the Amazon rainforest city […]
