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CALGARY, Canada (Eagle News) — The historic Enoch Sales house in Calgary’s Victoria Park was destroyed by an early morning fire on Saturday, February 2, 2019. Built in 1904 by merchant Enoch Samuel Sales, this Victorian Mansion is one of the last pre-WWI homes in the area and had significant heritage value. (Eagle News Service)
(Eagle News) — Over 700 of the more than 1,000 takers passed the licensure exams for physical therapists, the Professional Regulation Commission said. The 772 who passed represent 59.9 percent of the 1,287 who took the examinations in Manila and Cebu. Gea Gabrielle Serafica Rosales of Silliman University topped the exams, with a rating of 86.6 percent. The full text of the successful examinees can be found here: https://www.prc.gov.ph/sites/default/files/PTOT0219se.pdf
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, Feb. 7, admitted he walked out of a Cabinet meeting once due to dismay over the slow processing of documents in government. In a speech before the oath-taking of new government officials in Malacanang, Duterte recalled how some of those attending the meeting were talking about applications before the National Economic Development Authority that were pending for 25 years. “Sinabi ko, this I would not like to […]
(Eagle News) — The Indonesian couple who carried out the twin blasts at Jolo, Sulu in January left their 10-year-old daughter with an Abu Sayyaf supporter days before. This is according to Interior Secretary Eduardo Año, who spoke to reporters on Thursday, Feb. 7. According to Año, they were now looking for the child of Abu Huda and his wife, who was not identified. Earlier, Año said Huda arrived in the country way before his wife, who […]
WARSAW, Poland (AFP) — The Catholic Church’s Polish Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki on Wednesday said he had met with several victims of church sex abuse ahead of a Vatican meeting on the issue later this month. Pope Francis has called senior bishops from around the world to Rome on February 21-24 to provide them with concrete measures to deal with widespread clergy sex abuse of children and young people. “A couple of weeks ago… I […]
GERMANY (AFP) — Germany’s Federal Competition Office (FCO) said Thursday it would impose new limits on how Facebook collects data from subsidiaries Whatsapp and Instagram, as well as third-party websites with embedded Facebook features such as “Like” buttons. Rather than requiring users to accept that such data can be folded into their Facebook accounts under a one-off agreement to the social network’s terms and conditions, users must in future be asked for their specific consent […]
(Eagle News) – Not one of the six towns in Lanao Del Norte which sought to be included in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) managed to get the required “double majority” votes to be included in the new autonomous region, according to the latest plebiscite results. Lanao del Norte provincial election officer Atty. Joseph Cuevas made this announcement on Thursday, February 7, just a day after the historic second round of […]
(Eagle News) — The Armed Forces of the Philippines is still verifying reports Abu Sayyaf sub-commander Idang Susukan was killed in Jolo, Sulu. Brig. Gen. Edgard Arevalo, AFP spokesperson, made the statement after a report from The Star Malaysia said Susukan was injured in military offensives launched on Feb. 2 in the area. The offensives were launched following the twin blasts at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral on January 27. Five soldiers and three […]
(Eagle News) — Citing “infirmities,” the Court of Appeals junked the petition filed by the Alliance of Concerned Teachers to stop what it said was the police’s profiling of its members. In a four-page resolution dated Feb. 4, the eleventh division said in the first place, the petition was not accompanied by “certified true copies” of the Philippine National Police memoranda that allegedly ordered the “profiling” and which the group was assailing. ACT had argued […]
(Eagle News) — Aabutin ng isa at kalahating kilometro ang bakod na ilalagay sa Manila Bay upang bigyang-daan ang rehabilitasyon at maiwasan na ang pagsi-swimming sa karagatan. Sa panayam ng Radyo Agila, sinabi ni Environment Undersecretary Benny Antiporda na bubuksan ang kanal at lalagyan ng daluyan patungo sa outfall upang masigurong wala nang maruming tubig na babagsak sa karagatan. Mula aniya sa seawall ay dalawang metro ang layo ng itatayong bakod. “The main objective is […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines’ recent construction work on Thitu Island (Pag-asa Island) has provoked a “paramilitary response” on the part of China, which has claims on the same as well, an American think-tank said in a recent report. In its report published on Feb. 6, the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative said China deployed a “large fleet of ships from Subi Reef, just over 12 nautical miles southwest” off the island after satellite imagery from […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The number of people using European airports set a record last year but growth slowed compared with 2017, the Airports Council International Europe (ACI) said Wednesday. The total number of passengers at European airports reached 2.34 billion according to the group, which represents more than 500 airports in 45 countries. The number of passengers grew by 6.1 percent, down from an 8.5-percent rise in 2017, a statement said. Europe’s five biggest […]
