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Explains context of his earlier remarks about maritime incident (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte apologized to the 22 fishermen whose vessel sank after a Chinese vessel hit it while anchored at Recto Bank, saying that this was a maritime incident that he was not belittling. Duterte on Monday evening, June 24, said he was sorry if that was how the fishermen felt about his initial statement on the Recto Bank incident. “Well, I’m sorry, […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has affirmed an Ombudsman ruling clearing personalities connected to the late president Ferdinand Marcos, including former senator Juan Ponce Enrile, and several others of graft over an alleged P108-million behest loan granted to a sugar milling company by the Philippine National Bank in 1968. The SC, in a 15-page decision, affirmed a 2006 ruling of the Ombudsman that had junked the graft complaints filed by the Presidential Commission on […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — US President Donald Trump will visit South Korea at the weekend after the G20 summit to discuss deadlocked nuclear talks with the North with President Moon Jae-in, Seoul’s presidential office said Monday. Trump will fly to the South Korean capital on Saturday after attending the G20 summit in Japan, officials said, prompting speculation he could try to visit the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula. The visit comes after Trump […]
(Eagle News) – The country’s weather bureau, PAGASA, said on Monday that the low pressure area off the waters of Aurora may develop into a tropical depression within 48 hours. “In case the LPA develops into TD while inside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), it will be named ‘DODONG’,” said PAGASA in its advisory. The LPA was last seen at 610 kilometers east of Casiguran, Aurora as of 3 p.m. Monday. If the […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Governments must regulate social networks and not the companies themselves, Facebook’s head of global affairs and a former deputy prime minister of the UK said in an interview Monday. “It’s not for private companies, however big or small, to come up with those rules. It is for democratic politicians in the democratic world to do so,” Clegg told the BBC. Clegg, the former leader of UK political party the Liberal […]
(Eagle News) – The National Water Resources Board (NWRB) advised the public to conserve water and to “hope for heavy rains” as the water level in Angat Dam continued to dip below the critical level of 160 meters as it registered a level of only 159.09 meters, resulting in a further decrease in the water allocation for Metro Manila and surrounding areas. “We again appeal to the public to conserve water and hope for […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck remote eastern Indonesia on Monday, forcing people to flee office buildings as far away as the northern Australian city of Darwin, officials and reports said. The deep and powerful earthquake sent shockwaves around the region, with people on the tourist island of Bali as well as in East Timor reporting feeling the tremor. Indonesia was the epicentre of the Asian tsunami in 2004 that killed more […]
by Sébastien DUVAL WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — “How do you drink a milkshake without a straw?” It is a question the city of Washington will soon face after deciding, in the interest of the environment, to ban plastic drinking straws — an almost sacrilegious act in the birthplace of this simple object, a seemingly indispensable part of daily American life. In the last century, millions of straws were produced in the Stone Straw Building, […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Iran said Monday that no cyber attack against the Islamic republic has ever succeeded, after American media reported the US launched one last week amid a standoff between the two countries. “The media are asking about the veracity of the alleged cyber attack against Iran. No successful attack has been carried out by them, although they are making a lot of effort,” telecommunications minister Mohammad Javad Azarari Jahromi said on Twitter […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — A train plunged into a canal when the bridge it was travelling across gave way, killing four people and injuring 100 more in Bangladesh on Monday. Officials said part of the bridge collapsed as the express train went over, sending five cars crashing to the ground, with one of them landing in the water. Scores of people were trapped in the accident at Kalaura, 300 kilometres (185 miles) from Dhaka. Local […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Oil prices extended gains Monday as rising US-Iran tensions fuelled supply concerns, while Asian equity traders moved cautiously ahead of a crunch meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping this week. Both main crude contracts are up almost 10 percent since Tehran last week shot down a US “spy drone” for breaching its airspace, ratcheting up fears of a conflict between the old foes. At the weekend Trump said he […]
by Suy SE SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (AFP) — The retrieval of bodies from a building collapse in Cambodia continued Monday, as the death toll rose to 24 with no further survivors expected to be found under the debris of the seven-storey Chinese-owned construction site. Workers clawed back the rubble overnight as a grim-faced Cambodian premier Hun Sen visited the scene of the collapse in Sihanoukville, a beach town undergoing a Chinese investment bonanza. The night was […]
