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Cloudy skies to prevail in many parts of PHL today

(Eagle News)–Cloudy skies will prevail in many parts of the country on Sunday, March 24, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. In its advisory, PAGASA said Batanes and the Babuyan Group of Islands will experience cloudy skies with light rains caused by the northeast monsoon. Metro Manila and the rest of the country will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers caused by  localized thunderstorms, PAGASA said. According to the […]

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Palace slams Sison for saying Duterte “like an old broken record”

(Eagle News)—The Palace on Saturday, March 23, slammed Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison for saying President Rodrigo Duterte sounded “like an old broken record” with his permanent termination of peace talks. “If as Mr. Sison says the President sounds like a broken record, the cantankerous steak chieftain of the National Democratic Front is like an echo with his repeated criticisms of President Rodrigo Duterte and this administration to stay politically […]

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Sison: Termination of peace talks actually benefits “revolutionary” forces, Filipinos

(Eagle News)—Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison on Saturday, March 23, said the termination of the peace talks actually benefits the “revolutionary forces” and the “Filipino people.” In a statement, Sison said this was because “it drives the broad masses of the people and the organized revolutionary forces to wage all forms of resistance to isolate and intensify them in order to isolate and defeat the tyrannical US-Duterte regime.” He said  […]

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Several BPI electronic, ATM services unavailable from April 5 to 7

(Eagle News)–Some electronic and automated teller machine services of the Bank of the Philippine Islands will be unavailable from April 5 to 7. BPI said the online banking, mobile app, Bizlink platform, ATMs and cash accept machines, and debit and prepaid card services will be temporarily unavailable from 10 p.m.  of Friday, April 5, to 5 a.m. of April 7, Sunday. BPI said this was because of a major systems upgrade to “enhance client experience.” […]

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6 killed, 9 wounded in NLEX accident

(Eagle News) — Six people were killed, while nine others were hurt, when the van they were riding in flipped to its side after a tire blowout along the northbound lane of the North Luzon Expressway  around noon Saturday, March 23. The passengers were on board a Hyundai H100 semi-van when one of its tires blew out, along a portion of the NLEX in Apalit, Pampanga. The van was carrying 15 passengers. Five of the […]

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Emotional Muslims return to Christchurch mosque as NZ works to move on

  by Chris Foley / Glenda Kwek Agence France Presse CHRISTCHURCH,New Zealand (AFP) — Muslims held emotional prayers inside Christchurch’s main mosque on Saturday for the first time since a white supremacist massacred worshippers there, as New Zealand sought to return to normality after the tragedy. The Al Noor mosque had been taken over by police for investigations and security reasons after alleged gunman Brenton Tarrant gunned down Muslims gathered there and at a smaller […]

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Priest stabbed live on TV at Canada’s biggest church

  by Julien Besset Agence France Presse MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — A priest was stabbed in front of his congregation live on television during morning mass on Friday at Canada’s biggest church, in what police described as an isolated incident. Footage broadcast on a Catholic television station and picked up by the top-rated CTV network showed a man in jeans, parka and white baseball cap approach Claude Grou at St Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal, in […]

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Mozambique cyclone death toll climbs to 417: government

  BEIRA, Mozambique (AFP) — The death toll in Mozambique has climbed to 417 after a cyclone devastated swathes of the southern African country, flooding thousands of square kilometres (miles), the government said Saturday. Cyclone Idai smashed into the coast of central Mozambique on Friday last week, unleashing hurricane-force winds and rains that flooded the hinterland and drenched eastern Zimbabwe. “At this time 417 deaths have been recorded,” Lands and Environment Minister Celso Correia told […]

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Galvez: “Safe conduct passes” of NDFP consultants considered “revoked” following official termination of peace talks

(Eagle News)—National Democratic Front of the Philippines consultants can now be arrested, government peace adviser Carlito Galvez Jr. said. In a statement, Galvez said this was because the  safe conduct pass which was granted to them  to “create an enabling environment before the formal peace talks” was “automatically revoked” with President Rodrigo Duterte’s official termination of the peace talks with the group and the dissolution of the negotiating panels.” He said as a result, the […]

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DILG to Misuari: Don’t worry, gov’t advocacy for federalism never wavered

(Eagle News)–Moro National Liberation Front Chair Nur Misuari “should not worry” as the “government’s advocacy for a federal system has never wavered ..” This is according to the Department of the Interior and Local Government, which issued the statement after President Rodrigo Duterte said Misuari would go to war if the shift to federalism did not take place. According to the DILG, it was “now working with other government agencies in finalizing the details of […]

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Ballet Philippines’ Tales of the Manuvu is back at the CCP

One of Ballet Philippines’ most celebrated original, distinctly Filipino masterpieces, Tales of the Manuvu, is back at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. The widely successful rock opera ballet that brought together fans of rock, pop, ballet and neo Filipino dance on the stage back in the 70s is being revived to culminate the company’s 49th season. Most monumental coup Choreographed by National Artist for Dance and Ballet Philippines’ Artistic Director Alice Reyes in 1977, […]

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Junjun Binay’s former executive assistant passes away after being shot in Makati

(Eagle News)–The former executive assistant of ex-Makati Mayor Junjun Binay has died. Binay said  Monette Bernardo, 44, succumbed to the gunshot wound she sustained when she was attacked last Thursday. According to the police, Bernardo was shot by a lone gunman after she alighted from her vehicle to enter her residence along Makiling Street in Barangay Olympia in Makati. The gunman fled with a cohort on board a motorcycle. The police are still determining the […]

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