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Kirstjen Nielsen, the US homeland security chief whose departure was announced by Donald Trump on Sunday, was said to be a frequent target of the president’s ire despite being among the staunchest defenders of his controversial immigration policies. Last summer, as images were broadcast of wailing children being wrested from their parents under the administration’s practice of separating families, she took to the White House podium to defend the “zero tolerance” approach, becoming the face […]
(Eagle News)—Forty bricks of suspected cocaine were found floating off the waters of Burgos, Surigao del Norte on Sunday, April 7. Police said the suspected illegal drugs were found in floating boxes by fishermen at 4:30 p.m. The suspected cocaine has been turned over to the Burgos municipal police station. President Rodrigo Duterte has said international crime syndicates were behind the illegal drugs found off Philippine waters recently. Authorities have said they would intensify their […]
(Eagle News)–A 4.4-magnitude earthquake hit Batanes on Monday, April 8. The quake struck 3 kilometers south of Basco at 10:59 a.m., the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. The depth of focus of the quake, which was of tectonic origin, was 16 kilometers. An Intensity IV was felt in Basco, PHIVOLCS said. No damage to property nor aftershocks were expected.
(Eagle News)– The Supreme Court has ordered a local court to reinstate the criminal case for reckless imprudence against an official of the Sulpicio Lines, Inc. in connection with the 2008 M/V Princess of the Stars tragedy that resulted in the death of 227 passengers. In a 20-page decision penned by Justice Jose C. Reyes, Jr., the Court’s Third Division ordered the Manila City Regional Trial Court Branch 5 to refile the case against Edgar […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — A Cathay Dragon flight from Taiwan to Hong Kong made an emergency landing on Monday at the city it departed from after experiencing a “technical issue” shortly after take-off, the carrier said. Cathay Pacific, the parent company of Cathay Dragon, said flight KA451 from Kaohsiung to Hong Kong made an “air return” and landed safely back at the southern Taiwanese city. An official with Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) told […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets were mixed Monday but investors remain broadly upbeat after a strong US jobs report that eased concerns about the world’s top economy, while the pound edged up at the start of another crucial week in the Brexit saga. The gains built on last week’s rally that was fuelled by optimistic tones from China and the United States on trade talks, with top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow […]
(Eagle News) – The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has set a maximum speed limit of 60 kilometers per hour along EDSA and other major roads in a new rule where violators will be fined P1,000. The measure, Regulation No. 19-00 is aimed to prevent vehicular accidents in major thoroughfare in Metro Manila which “can be largely attributed to over speeding.” “Said vehicular accidents cause needless loss of innocent lives and damage to property which […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia on Monday launched a major education campaign to encourage its residents, particularly those traveling overseas, to get vaccinated against measles as a sudden spike in cases amid a global resurgence causes alarm. Measles — an airborne infection causing fever, coughing and rashes that can be deadly in rare cases — was declared officially eliminated from Australia by the World Health Organisation in 2014. In developed nations including Australia however, the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States is “deeply concerned” by fighting near Libya’s capital Tripoli and is seeking an “immediate halt” to an offensive by strongman Khalifa Haftar, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday. “We have made clear that we oppose the military offensive by Khalifa Haftar’s forces and urge the immediate halt to these military operations against the Libyan capital,” he said in a statement. Libya descended into chaos during […]
CURITIBA, Brazil (AFP) — Several thousand supporters of former Brazilian president Lula Inacio da Silva rallied on Sunday outside the prison where he has now been held for a year, as they demanded his release and chanted slogans against current leader Jair Bolsonaro. In a letter read by Workers’ Party president Gleisi Hoffmann, Lula, who is 73, insisted that his conviction on corruption charges was “unjust,” designed expressly to prevent him from returning to the […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Researchers in Florida using a new approach to combating a destructive invasion by enormous pythons have captured one of the biggest ever, a 17-foot-long (5.2 meters) specimen large enough to eat a deer, they said. The female snake is longer than a one-story building is high, and weighs 140 pounds (64 kilograms). It is one of the biggest pythons ever caught in southern Florida, according to a post on the Facebook […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) –US President Donald Trump on Sunday announced Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, the front-line defender of the administration’s controversial immigration policies, would leave her position. “Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen will be leaving her position, and I would like to thank her for her service,” Trump tweeted. He added US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan would become acting secretary. Nielsen initially joined the Trump administration in January 2017 […]
