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(Eagle News)–Around 50 houses were gutted by a fire that hit a residential area in Quezon City on Saturday, April 20. Authorities said the blaze struck Barangay Apolonio Samson around 5 a.m. The fire reached the fourth alarm. It was put out at 7:39 a.m. There were no reported casualties.
London, United Kingdom (AFP) — K-pop sensation BTS scored another record on Friday, becoming the first Korean act to top Britain’s album chart. The floppy-haired seven-piece’s latest album “Map of the soul: Persona” went straight in at number one, days after their single “Boy With Luv” broke the YouTube record for the most views in 24 hours with 74.6 million hits. The track is also the band’s first ever British Top 15 single, charting at […]
Tokyo, Japan (AFP) — The world’s smallest baby boy, who was born in October in Japan weighing as much as an apple, is now ready for the outside world, his doctor said Friday. Ryusuke Sekiya was delivered via emergency Caesarean section, after 24 weeks and five days of pregnancy as his mother Toshiko experienced hypertension. At 258 grams (9.1 ounces) he was even lighter than the previous record holder, another Japanese boy who weighed just […]
Montreal, Canada (AFP) — Three world-renowned professional mountaineers — two Austrians and an American — were missing and presumed dead after an avalanche on a western Canadian summit, the country’s national parks agency said Thursday. American Jess Roskelley, 36, and Austrians Hansjorg Auer, 35, and David Lama, 28, went missing Tuesday evening in Banff National Park, according to media reports. Authorities launched an aerial search the next day. The three men were attempting to climb […]
(Eagle News)—Candidates vying for several posts in the May elections are slated to resume their campaign today, April 20, following a two-day hiatus. The bets only have roughly three weeks on the campaign trail, as the last day of the campaign is May 11, two days before the May 13 elections. The campaign period for senatorial candidates and party-list groups started on Feb. 12. The campaign period for local bets – for governors down to […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima has slammed three of her colleagues who accused some US lawmakers of intervening in Philippine affairs when they urged her release from detention. According to De Lima, Senate President Tito Sotto and Senators Gringo Honasan II and Panfilo M. Lacson failed to see the “global consensus about the unjustness of my situation.” She noted that last April 4, US Senators Marco Rubio, Edward J. Markey, Richard Durbin, Marsha Blackburn, and […]
(Eagle News)—Senator Nancy Binay has reiterated her call for the creation of an Arbitration Commission that will solve cases and disputes arising from, or connected with medical malpractice, insurance laws, maritime laws, intellectual property law and intra-corporate matters. Binay, who filed in 2017 Senate Bill 2033 seeking for this, made the push anew in a recent statement as she noted this would allow for the decongestion of court dockets. Binay cited former Chief Justice Artemio […]
(Eagle News)—Isolated thunderstorms are expected in parts of the country today, April 20, as the easterlies affect Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Palawan, Visayas, and Mindanao will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. Flash floods during severe thunderstorms are also possible Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon, on the other hand, will also have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A weapons test announced by North Korea was not of a ballistic missile, the US defense chief said Thursday, adding that US forces have not changed their posture in response. “There was a test,” Patrick Shanahan, the acting defense secretary, told reporters as he met his Albanian counterpart at the Pentagon. He declined to elaborate on the findings of US intelligence but said, “It’s not a ballistic missile.” “Also […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A triumphant President Donald Trump on Thursday proclaimed “Game Over” for his critics following the long awaited publication of the Mueller report, which cleared him of colluding with Russia. Not so fast, replied prominent Democrats — as they vowed to continue investigating the Republican president over what they said was “dishonest” and “immoral” conduct revealed by the two-year-long Russia probe. “FOR THE HATERS AND RADICAL LEFT DEMOCRATS — GAME […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia on Friday once more dismissed the Mueller report, saying it failed to present clear evidence of any meddling by Moscow in the 2016 US election and called its impact on relations regrettable. “As a whole the report as before does not present any reasonable proof at all that Russia allegedly meddled in the electoral process in the US,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists, saying it contained “no new […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — Thirteen people were killed and 16 injured when part of a church collapsed on worshippers following a violent storm near the eastern South African city of Durban, officials said Friday. The accident happened late Thursday when a brick wall under a makeshift roof collapsed during a service at a Pentecostal church, a converted hangar, in the town of Ndlangubo, north of Durban, in KwaZulu-Natal province. “Such a tragedy. 13 […]
