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(Eagle News) – Senator Francis Tolentino filed a bill which will declare the “existence of a national emergency” due to the traffic and congestion crisis in various metropolitan centers in the country. Senate Bill 213 also seeks to grant emergency powers for two years to the President to address this traffic crisis. “This bill proposes to declare the existence of a national emergency in view of the traffic and congestion crisis in Metropolitan Manila, Metropolitan […]
by Daniel SILVA Agence France Presse MADRID, Spain (AFP) — A Spanish court ruled Wednesday that Grammy award-winning singer Julio Iglesias is the biological father of a 43-year-old man after a protracted paternity battle with the star. The judge in the case refused to admit DNA evidence obtained surreptitiously by a private detective working for the claimant and his lawyer. But he ruled that the man’s mother had provided credible details of her affair […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain’s ambassador to Washington Kim Darroch said Wednesday he was resigning after drawing Donald Trump’s ire for calling the US president “inept” in leaked confidential cables to London. Darroch said in a resignation letter to the Foreign Office that the scandal made it “impossible” for him to continue representing British interests in the United States. Trump has said his administration would no longer “deal” with Darroch. “Since the leak […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte warned there could be “dangerous times ahead” which necessitated strengthening the country’s military and police, including equipping them properly with “armaments.” Duterte, speaking at the appreciation dinner on Tuesday night, July 9, for outgoing House Speaker and former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, said that he hoped that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) would be better equipped by the time his term […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Nine deer have died after swallowing plastic bags in Japan’s Nara Park, a wildlife group said on Wednesday, warning that a surge in tourism may be to blame. The Nara Deer Preservation Foundation said that masses of plastic bags and snack packets were found in the stomachs of the deer which died between March and June this year. “The biggest litter found in one of the nine amounted to 4.3 […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine security forces confirmed Wednesday that at least one Filipino “suicide bomber” was behind a deadly attack last month, in a first for the Asian country. Norman Lasuca and one other yet to be identified suspect blew themselves up outside a military camp on the remote southern island of Jolo on June 28 in an attack that also killed three soldiers and two civilians, the police and military said. “We […]
(Eagle News) — The United States Embassy in Manila said that it was not true that US State Department deputy assistant secretary Mina Chang would be replacing the incumbent US Ambassador Sung Kim. “We’ve seen this claim. It is not true. In September 2018, the White House announced the President’s intent to nominate Mina Chang to be an Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development for the Bureau of Asia,” the US […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — NBA free agency rules need to be revised after a wild week of deals saw superstar talent shifts and player trade demands, league commissioner Adam Silver said Tuesday. Speaking in Las Vegas after team owners meetings at the NBA Summer League, Silver said it was clear talks had been underway about major moves long before the NBA opened its official negotiating period. News of Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US officials held a phone call on Tuesday with their Chinese counterparts to discuss the ongoing trade conflict between the countries, US officials said. It was the first official contact since President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed to resume talks just over a week ago. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer “spoke with Vice Premier Liu He and Minister Zhong Shan today to […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Tuesday congratulated Greece’s new conservative prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, pledging in a telephone call to keep pursuing the countries’ warming relations, the White House said. “The two leaders expressed their mutual interest in working together and continuing strong cooperation between the United States and Greece,” the White House said. A State Department spokeswoman separately called Greece “one of our closest allies.” The United States hopes […]
(Editor’s note: In the latest development, the US Embassy has denied that US State Department deputy assistant secretary Mina Chang is being eyed as the next US Ambassador to the Philippines. See story here: https://www.eaglenews.ph/us-embassy-says-not-true-that-us-state-dept-official-mina-chang-would-be-replacing-ambassador-kim/) (Eagle News) – The next ambassador of the United States in the Philippines could be the current US State Department deputy assistant secretary Mina Chang. If appointed, Chang will be the second female US ambassador to the country after […]
by Emily Manuel (Eagle News) — Swedish Ambassador Harald Fries reiterated the Swedish embassy’s support to the #RespetoNaman campaign in a media fika or gathering which he hosted at his Makati City residence last July 9, 2019. According to to the ambassador, “gender equality is a top priority for the Swedish government.” “Four and a half years ago, when a new government came into power in Sweden, they formed the first feminist government in the […]
