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by Thomas URBAIN NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A helicopter crash-landed on top of a high-rise in midtown Manhattan Monday, starting a fire and leaving one person dead as the entire building shook from the impact. Emergency services fanned out around the 54-story building on Seventh Avenue after what was described as a “hard-landing” by a chopper that took off barely 10 minutes earlier from a heliport in the city. The New York fire […]
(Eagle News)–A 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck Davao Occidental on Tuesday, June 11. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, of tectonic origin, hit 145 kilometers southeast of Sarangani at 6:20 a.m. Depth of focus was 118 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded
(Eagle News)–An Intertropical Convergence Zone is affecting Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao on Tuesday, June 11. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said MIMAROPA, Visayas and Mindanao, as a result, will have cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms are possible. Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon will also have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers, this time due to localized thunderstorms. Mindanao […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A bishop close to Pope Francis has been formally accused of sexually abusing seminarians, a public prosecutor’s office in Argentina said Friday. The prosecutor’s office in the Argentine province of Salta said prosecutor Mónica Viazzi accused Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta of “aggravated continuous sexual abuse.” This is the first time that a prosecutor has formally accused Zanchetta in his native Argentina. Zanchetta resigned suddenly as bishop of the Argentine city […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Google took in some $4.7 billion in revenue in 2018 from “crawling and scraping” news websites without paying publishers, according to an industry-sponsored study released Monday which was disputed by the tech giant and media analysts. The study by the News Media Alliance underscores industry arguments about Google and other online giants harming traditional news organizations by dominating the internet news ecosystem and ad revenues generated through it. According […]
(Eagle News)–The Presidential Communications Operations Office is investigating the Philippine Information Agency director general over allegations of corruption. Harold Clavite is reportedly being probed for splitting contracts and for misusing funds for hotel accommodations, among others. “Given the gravity of the corruption allegations and guided by the ‘whiff of corruption principle’ of the Duterte administration, our legal office is one with the President to stomp out corruption from the bureaucracy as long as there is […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte met with PhilHealth officials on Monday, June 10, following reports a dialysis center in Quezon City processed PhilHealth claims of deceased patients. In a statement, Senator-elect Bong Go, who attended the meeting, said Duterte, who was “saddened and dismayed” by the incident, asked the officials to tender their courtesy resignations. “Gusto ni Pangulo ng clean slate sa pamunuan ng PhilHealth…Sa ngayon, plantilla officials muna ang temporary na mamamalakad at maa-assign sila […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is rejecting a challenge to federal regulation of gun silencers, just days after a gunman used one in a shooting rampage that killed 12 people in Virginia. The justices did not comment Monday in turning away appeals from two Kansas men who were convicted of violating federal law regulating silencers. The men argued that the constitutional right “to keep and bear arms” includes silencers. Kansas and seven other […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Disgraced Australian Cardinal George Pell is facing fresh legal woes after being named in a civil suit alleging he failed to protect victims of a priest he knew was abusing children. The civil case was filed in the Victoria state Supreme Court on Friday by a man who said he suffered abuse at the hands of Christian Brother Edward “Ted” Dowan when he was a student at a Melbourne college […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AFP) — Former Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari was arrested Monday after his bail application was rejected in connection with a high-profile money laundering case that saw millions allegedly siphoned out of the country. Zardari, husband of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, served as president from 2008 until 2013 and has long been the subject of corruption allegations, and he is widely known in Pakistan as “Mr Ten Percent”. Small scuffles […]
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was ambushed by a man who got off a motorcycle and shot him in the back at close range Sunday night in his native Dominican Republic, authorities said. Dominican National Police Director Ney Aldrin Bautista Almonte said Ortiz was at the Dial Bar and Lounge in Santo Domingo around 8:50 p.m. when the gunman approached from behind and shot him. Ortiz […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump said Monday a secret provision of the US immigration deal with Mexico will require the approval of that country’s legislature and warned US tariffs will be reinstated if it is not forthcoming. Trump did not say what the provision entails, only that it would be revealed “in the not too distant future and will need a vote by Mexico’s Legislative body.” “We do not anticipate a […]
