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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant will not play in the opening game of the NBA finals against the Toronto Raptors on Thursday because of a calf injury, coach Steve Kerr reiterated on Monday. Durant injured his right calf on May 8 in game five of the Western Conference finals against the Houston Rockets. “KD’s not playing game one,” Kerr said after Monday’s practice. “I think we already announced […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A mass stabbing attack in the Japanese city of Kawasaki on Tuesday injured at least 19 people, among them one person left with “no vital signs”, the local fire department said. “The number of injured people is now 19, including one who is seriously injured and now shows no vital signs,” Kawasaki Fire Department spokesman Keiichi Hayakawa told AFP. “A man stabbed them,” another spokesman for the department, Dai Nagase, earlier […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — A Japanese man with 246 packets of cocaine in his stomach and intestines died mid-flight on his way from Bogota to Tokyo, authorities said Monday in northern Mexico, where the plane made an emergency landing. The 42-year-old man, identified only as Udo “N,” began having a seizure after traveling from the Colombian capital to Mexico City and catching a connecting flight to Japan, said the prosecutor’s office for the state […]
by Alex PIGMAN BRUXELLES, Belgium (AFP) — Slovaks and Latvians cast their ballots in EU elections on Saturday as the far right hoped to clinch major gains and deny a pro-Europe victory to French President Emmanuel Macron. Polls were open in Malta, Slovakia and Latvia, with most of the bloc’s 28 member states — including big players Germany, France and Italy — to vote on Sunday, with turnout expected to be low. Polling has shown […]
by Jastinder KHERA and Julia ZAPPEI VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Monday became the first chancellor in the country’s post-war history to be removed from office by a no-confidence vote over a corruption scandal that had already brought down his coalition with the far-right. The motion against Kurz and his cabinet is the latest fallout from the so-called “Ibiza-gate” scandal, which saw far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) leader and Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache […]
(Eagle News)–Court of Appeals justice Henry Inting has been named Supreme Court justice. Inting, the brother of Commission on Elections commissioner Socorro Inting, will replace the seat vacated by Lucas Bersamin after he was appointed Chief Justice. With his appointment, the 15 seats in the High Court are now filled.
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, May 27, threatened to resign if his son Paolo runs for the speakership in the House of Representatives. “Sinabi ko sa kanya, if you run for speakership, let me know. Kasi kung tatakbo ka, magre-resign ako,” Duterte said in a speech during the oathtaking of new government officials in the Palace. According to Duterte he was not taking sides in the race. Davao del Norte Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez, who […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Monday, May 27, admitted to meeting Peter Joemel Advincula but noted he did not pay much attention to what he said in his supposed exposé at that time. In a privilege speech, Trillanes said priests brought Advincula, who claimed to be the yellow-hooded character “Bikoy” in the “Ang Totoong Narcolist” videos against President Rodrigo Duterte, his family and some of his allies, to him in August last year. Trillanes […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday he had won the backing of US President Donald Trump for a proposed meeting with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un. “I feel I have to meet face-to-face with Chairman Kim without attaching any preconditions and exchange frank views with him… President Trump… said he will give full support needed for that,” Abe said. © Agence France-Presse
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — “Aladdin” apparently still has the old magic, as the new Disney film took in an estimated $86.1 million in the Friday-to-Sunday period in North America to lead all box-office offerings, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported. The film, released on the US’s four-day Memorial Day weekend, is expected to earn $105 million when Monday’s ticket sales are included, well beyond earlier estimates of around $80 million, according to the Hollywood […]
(Eagle News)–Lawyer Ferdinand Topacio on Monday, May 27, asked Chief Justice Lucas Bersamin to probe officials of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines who allowed Peter Joemel Advincula to hold a press conference at the IBP headquarters early May. In a letter submitted to Bersamin’s office, Topacio noted it was “highly improper” for IBP national president Abdiel Fajardo and incoming president and current vice chairman Domingo Cayosa “to have accommodated Advincula in using the IBP […]
(Eagle News)–Albay Rep. Joey Salceda on Monday, May 27, asked the Supreme Court to stop the implementation of a Metropolitan Manila Development Authority regulation that would eventually lead to the closure of provincial bus terminals along Edsa. In his petition for prohibition and/or mandamus with an application for a temporary restraining order and/or writ of preliminary injunction, Salceda asked the High Court to stop the MMDA from implementing MMDA Regulation No. 19-002, Series of 2019 […]
