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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — James Harden shouldered the scoring load on Thursday, delivering his seventh career 50-point, 10-assist performance as the Houston Rockets edged the Miami Heat 121-118. With Harden in a three-point shooting slump over the last few games, the Rockets have been depending on their reserves to get the job done. But Harden reasserted himself Thursday in front of a home crowd of 18,100 at the Toyota Center, finishing with 58 […]
(Eagle News)—-A Syrian national was arrested after he allegedly tried to enter the country using a Kiribati passport, the Bureau of Immigration said on Friday, March 1. BI Port Operations Chief Grifton Medina said Al Naasan Ibrahim was arrested upon his arrival from Malaysia at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Feb. 22. This was after he allegedly admitted to being Syrian, and to merely paying US$5,000 to a Jordanian national based in Siem Reap, Cambodia […]
by Jordi MIRO Agence France Presse BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido vowed on Thursday to return home “in the coming days… despite threats” from President Nicolas Maduro’s regime, as he continues a tour of regional allies to rally international support. Guaido, recognized as interim president by more than 50 countries, met with Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday afternoon while Paraguay’s leader Mario Abdo announced Guaido would be in Asuncion on […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte still has no specific plans to visit the United States so far. When asked on Friday, March 1, about whether Duterte would finally make the visit, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said “specific dates will have to wait for the end of the elections.” Locsin noted the President, after all, was busy endorsing his candidates for the polls slated in May. In any case, he said he has already conveyed […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Vatican diplomat Luigi Ventura — who is already under investigation in France over alleged sexual assault — is now facing a similar complaint in Canada, the Vatican embassy in Ottawa said Thursday. Luigi Ventura, currently the Vatican’s envoy to France, has been accused of molesting an official at the Paris mayor’s office. The 74-year-old Italian archbishop served as the envoy to Canada from 2001 to 2009. He now faces a “single” […]
(Eagle News)–Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. believes there is no need to review the Mutual Defense Treaty to ensure the United States will come to its aid should China attack the Asian country over the dispute in the South China Sea. “In vagueness lies the best deterrence,” Locsin said in a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Department of Foreign Affairs on Friday, March 1. “We are very […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Bangladesh told the UN Security Council on Thursday that it will no longer be able to take in refugees from Myanmar. Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque told a council meeting that the crisis over the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya sheltering in his country had gone from “bad to worse” and urged the council to take “decisive” action. Around 740,000 Muslim Rohingya are living in camps in Bangladesh […]
(Eagle News)—-A Manila court has reset the arraignment of Rappler’s executive editor Maria Ressa and former reporter Reynaldo Santos for cyber libel. Instead of Friday, March 1, Branch 46 Judge Rainelda Estacio-Montesa rescheduled the same to April 12 at 8:30 a.m., and ordered the prosecution to comment on Ressa’s and Santos’ motion to quash within 10 days. In their motion filed early this week, Ressa and Santos argued the information against them does not cite an […]
by Glenn CHAPMAN Agence France Presse SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Tesla said Thursday its Model 3 — heralded as an electric car for the masses — is available for order online only, at a price of $35,000 with delivery promised within a month. The announcement fulfills a vision of Tesla founder and chief Elon Musk, who has touted a more affordable electric car as part of his vision of weaning drivers from gasoline-powered […]
(Eagle News)—A 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck Sorsogon early Friday, March 1. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake hit 36 kilometers southeast of Prieto Diaz at 5:47 a.m. The earthquake, which was of tectonic origin, had a depth of focus of 3 kilometers. PHIVOLCS said no damage nor aftershock were expected.
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte will appoint “in the next few days” an undersecretary who will supervise the citizens’ complaint hotline 8888. Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea made the revelation as he announced government plans to create another office that will monitor the public’s complaints, and to incorporate a text messaging system to the current setup in an interview over dzmm radio. “Talagang tututukan na yan because dati, it was under an office of a director..,” Medialdea […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Just 10 countries were responsible for three-quarters of a global surge in measles cases last year, the UN children’s agency said Friday, including one of the world’s richest nations, France. Ninety-eight countries reported more cases of measles in 2018 compared with 2017, and the world body warned that conflict, complacency and the growing anti-vaccine movement threatened to undo decades of work to tame the disease. “This is a wakeup call. We […]
