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SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant will miss Friday’s NBA playoff game at Houston after an MRI scan revealed a strained right calf, the reigning league champions announced Thursday. Durant, averaging a league-best 34.2 points in the playoffs, was removed in the third quarter of Golden State’s 104-99 home victory Wednesday over Houston, which gave the Warriors a 3-2 edge in their best-of-seven Western Conference second-round series. There were […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Jeff Bezos, who heads both Amazon and space company Blue Origin, unveiled a lunar lander Thursday that he said would be used to transport equipment, and possibly human beings, to the south pole of the Moon by 2024. “This is Blue Moon,” he said at a presentation in Washington, as curtains lifted to show a mock-up of a huge vessel weighing many tons and able to carry four self-driving rovers. […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a “long-range strike” drill, the state news agency reported Friday, a day after South Korea said the weapons fired were short-range missiles. “At the command post, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un learned about a plan of the strike drill of various long-range strike means and gave an order of start of the drill,” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said. Thursday’s launch was […]
(Eagle News)–Two people, including a psychiatric patient, were killed in a shooting incident in the National Center for Mental Health in Mandaluyong on Thursday, May 9. Hospital authorities did not reveal the identities of those killed in the incident past 2 p.m., citing the “sensitivities of the issue involving the patient.” Police reports said, however, that apart from the patient, who has a pending case, killed was his wife. The suspect was reportedly the couple’s […]
(Eagle News)—A 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck Eastern Samar on Friday, May 10. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, an aftershock of the 6.5-magnitude earthquake that hit the province on April 23, struck 16 kilometers northwest of San Julian at 4:19 a.m. The depth of focus of the quake was 64 kilometers, with intensity II felt in Borongan. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
(Eagle News)–A low pressure area is affecting Visayas and Mindanao on Friday, May 10, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. In its 4 a.m. advisory, PAGASA said as of 2 a.m., the LPA was located 860 kilometers east of Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur, embedded along the Intertropical Convergence Zone. According to the weather bureau, Eastern Visayas, CARAGA and Davao region will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms due to the […]
Moira Encina Eagle News Service Naghain ng motion to inhibit sa Department of Justice ang ilang magulang ng mga batang namatay matapos mabakunahan ng Dengvaxia laban kay Acting Prosecutor General Richard Anthony Fadullon. Pinag-iinhibit ng mga pamilya ng mga sinasabing biktima ng Dengvaxia si Fadullon matapos nitong aprubahan ang inamyendahang kaso sa korte kung saan ginawa na lamang isang count ng kasong reckless imprudence resulting in homicide ang kaso ng dalawang batang namatay diumano dahil […]
(Eagle News)–Solicitor General Jose Calida on Thursday, May 9, called for the resignation of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines president for allegedly turning the organization of lawyers into a “highly politicized” group and for allegedly “using his position to advance his political agenda.” In a statement, Calida called Abdiel Dan Elijah Fernando a “disgrace,” backing the IBP Davao chapter’s criticism of him for allowing the organization’s office to be used as a “staging area” […]
By Caesar Vallejos OPEN FOR BUSINESS, Eagle News Service Foreign and local tourists can now easily “come again” to Camiguin with Skyjet Airlines’s first-ever direct flight to the island in the coast of Southern Philippines whose volcanic origins and eruptions got its brand as the “island born of fire.” From its inaugural flight last May 6, Skyjet flies to Camiguin daily (except Tuesdays and Wednesdays). “Right now, we wanted to do a daily flight but […]
(Eagle News)–A judge was ambushed in Zamboanga del Norte on Thursday, May 9. The Supreme Court said Judge Reymar L. Lacaya of Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte Regional Trial Court, Branch 11, was ambushed in the afternoon in Liloy. No other details were available. Chief Justice Lucas Bersamin condemned the killing, and urged the authorities to expedite their probe. “I am urging the authorities to exert their best efforts for the immediate apprehension of those responsible […]
(Eagle News)–A 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck Eastern Samar on Thursday, May 9. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, an aftershock of the 6.5-magnitude quake that hit the province on April 26, struck 77 kilometers northeast of San Julian at 2:38 p.m. The depth of focus was 36 kilometers. Intensity I was felt in Borongan City. PHIVOLCS said no damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
by Richard SARGENT Agence France Presse YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — After relentless diplomatic pressure and global outrage, fallen democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi finally decided that a pardon for two Myanmar journalists jailed for reporting on a Rohingya massacre was the only way to resolve an issue that has dogged her government for nearly 18 months. Observers say the unexpected release of the two Reuters reporters was a political decision timed to save […]
