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(Eagle News)–The Palace on Friday, Feb. 22, gave the assurance the government was doing all that it could to secure the release of the Malaysian and Indonesian hostages of the Abu Sayyaf. In a statement issued after videos circulating online showed alleged Abu Sayyaf members threatening to behead the hostages, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo reiterated, however, the government’s no-ransom policy. “To give in to the demands of terrorists and other lawless groups would embolden them […]
Entire Cavite Maritime section sacked (Eagle News)–A high-ranking maritime police official in Cavite was arrested for allegedly extorting money from an association of fishermen in exchange for fishing rights in the area. The Philippine National Police’s Counter – Intelligence Task Force, which runs after police scalawags, said Supt. Armandy Dimabuyo, commander of the 402nd Cavite Maritime Police Station, was arrested after he received the P18,000 from the fishermen as this month’s grease money in his office. The […]
TEL AVIV, Israel (AFP) — Israel is to launch its first moon mission next night from Cape Canaveral. Videographic on the mission.
(Eagle News) – Manila Archbishop Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle admitted publicly in a world meeting of Catholic bishops on Thursday, February 21, in Vatican City on how priests had sexually abused children and minors, and stressed the need for all priests to “bring healing” to the wounds they had inflicted. Tagle was the first to give the formal talk in the meeting called by the Catholic Church’s Pope Francis to address the widespread abuse […]
(Eagle News) — Commission on Elections Commissioner Rowena Guanzon on Friday, Feb. 22, called out several candidates for what she said were their illegal campaign materials. Among those Guanzon berated were former Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chair Francis Tolentino, who is running for a Senate seat in the elections. “I’m calling on the candidates especially candidate Tolentino whose billboard is still there in Pasay and I see that billboard every time I go to the […]
(Eagle News) — The Sandiganbayan has acquitted former Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief Diomedio Villanueva of graft. In acquitting Villanueva, the First Division said the prosecution failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he committed the offense when he, as postmaster general at the Philippine Postal Corp., supposedly refunded PhilPost USA, a private company $1,031,936.04 or P53,043,834.52. The amount supposedly represented “Terminal Dues paid for mail matters sent to Royal Mail (UK post office).” […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets mostly fell Friday, tracking losses on Wall Street as optimism over the China-US trade talks was trumped by a weak round of US data that revived concerns about economic growth. With high-level negotiations between the world’s top economies still taking place in Washington, there has been little concrete news about their progress, though some reports have said the two are heading towards an eventual deal. The lack of […]
(Eagle News) — Kasalukuyang nagsasagawa ang Eagle Broadcasting Corporation ng blood donation drive sa tanggapan nito sa No. 25 Central Avenue Diliman, Quezon City. Ang nasabing blood donation drive ay bahagi ng EBC Cares (Enabling a Better Community) katuwang ang Philippine Red Cross. Ang tema ng blood donation drive sa taong ito ay “Dugong Alay, Pandugtong Buhay.” Ito na ang ikaapat na pagkaktaon na nagsagawa ang Eagle Broadcasting Corporation ng blood donation drive sa ilalim […]
(Eagle News) — Interior Secretary Eduardo Año on Friday, Feb. 22, said the “narco-politicians” who he said figured in the agency’s list will be identified within the election period. Año made the statement in a radio interview days after President Rodrigo Duterte publicly expressed his support for the release of the list ahead of the May polls. According to Año, there was a need to validate the names on the list before it was released. He said […]
(Eagle News) — Humigit kumulang 100 bahay ang nilamon ng apoy kahapon ng umaga. Nangyari ang sunog bandang alas 9:30 ng umaga sa Brgy. Tabon, Bislig City. Nagsimula ang apoy sa bahay ng isang Joyce De Castro. Ayon sa isa sa mga nasunugan napansin na lang nila ang nagliliyab na apoy na nagmumula sa katabi nilang bahay. Kanya-kanya nang salba ang mga residente ng kani-kanilang mga gamit at nagtutulong na rin gamit ang timba at […]
(Eagle News) — Matagumpay na naisagawa sa buong bansa ang pinaka-unang Nationwide Simultaneous Earthquake Drill sa unang quarter ng 2019. Iba’t-ibang lugar, mga ahensya sa gobyerno, mga paaralan maging ang nasa pribadong mga sektor ang lumahok at pinagsanayan ang pagdu-duck, cover at hold. Ang Nationwide Simultaneous Earthquake Drill ay pinangunahan ng National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council at ng Office of Civil Defense. 1st quarter simultaneous earthquake drill, isinagawa sa Baguio City Nakiisa rin […]
by Catherine Marciano with Ella Ide in Rome Agence France Presse VATICAN CITY (AFP) — The Catholic Church’s Pope Francis on Thursday opened a landmark Vatican summit on fighting child sex abuse, calling for “concrete measures” and handing top Catholic bishops a roadmap to tackling paedophilia in the church. “The holy people of God looks to us, and expects from us not simple and predictable condemnations, but concrete and effective measures to be undertaken. […]
