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(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said he could not imagine why the past administration had allowed Philippine National Police special forces to be used in Mamasapano considering they were trained to address urban terrorism and not jungle warfare. He said this bungled operation and decision-making at the top led to the massacre of 44 PNP-Special Action Forces personnel four years ago. President Duterte said that it was like these officials fed the PNP-SAF […]
(Eagle News)–At least 14 people, mostly children, have been rushed to the hospital after they reportedly inhaled an excessive amount of chlorine while swimming in a pool in Pandi, Bulacan on Friday, April 19. The police said the victims, between 3 years old and 22 years old, all complained of stomach pain and dizziness after swimming in the pool in Barangay Bagong Barrio around 9 a.m. Some of them also reportedly vomited. The authorities said […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — A schoolgirl was burned to death in Bangladesh on the orders of her head teacher after she reported him for sexually harassing her, police said Friday. The death of 19-year-old Nusrat Jahan Rafi last week sparked protests across the South Asian nation, with the prime minister promising to prosecute all those involved. Rafi was lured to the rooftop of the Islamic seminary she attended where her attackers asked her to […]
(Eagle News)–A 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck Davao Oriental on Friday, April 19. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake hit 20 kilometers southwest of Governor Generoso at 3:08 p.m. The quake, which was of tectonic origin, had a depth of focus of 158 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were expected.
(Eagle News)–Senator Richard Gordon has urged the Land Transportation Office to craft the implementing rules and regulations of the Motorcycle Crime Prevention Act, which mandates bigger and color-coded license plates for motorcycles, as soon as possible. Gordon made the call following the recent killings in the Visayas perpetuated by people riding on board motorcycles. Last Friday, John Michael Hermoso, 29, and Kis Tryvl Ramos, 21, who was about to graduate with a degree in psychology […]
BAMAKO, Mali (AFP) — Mali’s prime minister resigned along with his entire government on Thursday following criticism over their handling of an upsurge of violence in the center of the country and a massacre last month that left 160 people dead. A statement from President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s office said he had accepted Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga’s resignation and that of his government two weeks after mass protests erupted over the rising tide of violence. […]
(Eagle News) – The country’s weather bureau recorded the highest heat index on Thursday at 49.2 degrees Celsius in Guiuan, Eastern Samar, and recorded 15 more areas where the heat index exceeded the “danger” level of 41 degrees Celsius yesterday, April 18. PAGASA describes the heat index as the “human discomfort index that gives the ‘apparent’ temperature or what human perceive or feel as the temperature affecting their body.” “High air temperatures and high relative […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — “Millions” of Instagram users had their passwords stored in unencrypted form on internal servers, Facebook said Thursday, raising its original estimate of tens of thousands. “We discovered additional logs of Instagram passwords being stored in a readable format. We now estimate that this issue impacted millions of Instagram users,” Facebook said in a blog post. “We will be notifying these users as we did the others. Our investigation […]
by Fran BLANDY Agence France-Presse UDIER, South Sudan (AFP) – By the time he was brought into the remote clinic in northeastern South Sudan, two-year-old Nyachoat was already convulsing from the malaria attacking his brain. After being given medication he lies fast asleep, naked and feverish, attached to a drip, his anxious mother sitting on the bed next to him. Nyachoat could be saved, but others are not so lucky. In South Sudan mind-bending horrors abound […]
by Harry PEARL Agence France-Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) – Indonesia pulled off a complex yet peaceful election across its vast — and ethnically diverse — island territory this week, cementing its place as a democratic beacon in a sea of authoritarian governments, analysts say. But the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation still faces a spike in militant Islam and myriad other challenges. On Wednesday, the sprawling Southeast Asian archipelago saw as many as 190 million voters […]
by Saska CVETKOVSKA and Nicolas GAUDICHET Agence France-Presse SKOPJE, Republic of North Macedonia (AFP) – North Macedonia holds the first round of its presidential election on Sunday, the country’s first vote under a new name as it struggles with enduring economic problems, cronyism and corruption. The vote for the largely ceremonial post comes less than three months after a deal with Athens on Skopje’s name change came into force, ending a decades-long identity dispute between the […]
(Eagle News)–A vessel rammed a sea wall while docking in the Batangas Port on Friday, April 19. The Department of Transportation said the incident involving the MV RDI Genesis I of RDI Genesis Inc. took place at 6 a.m. The agency did not say if there were casualties but said a suspension order would follow. Meanwhile, several shipping operators cancelled their trips today: 1. SuperCat – No trips 2. Fastcat – No morning trips; will […]
