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(Eagle News) — The National Capital Region Police Office has downgraded the full alert status declared in Metro Manila following the Jolo, Sulu twin blasts that killed at least 23 people. In a statement, NCRPO head Guillermo Eleazar said the downgrading to a heightened status was effective today, Feb. 7. Eleazar made the announcement a day after Philippine National Police spokesperson Senior Supt. Bernard Banac said the Jolo blasts case was “solved” following the identification […]
by Robin MILLARD Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — A mission to explore uncharted depths in the Indian Ocean was launched on Wednesday, hoping to discover hundreds of new species and find out what impact plastic is having way below the surface. The First Descent expedition, led by British-based ocean research institute Nekton, is set to send submersibles as deep as 3,000 meters off the Seychelles from March to test the health of the […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Health has expanded the areas covered by its measles outbreak declaration on Wednesday, Feb. 6. Apart from Metro Manila, the declaration now covers Ilocos Region, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, CALABARZON, MIMAROPA and Bicol Region. “We are expanding the outbreak (declaration) as cases have increased in the past weeks…,” Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said in a press conference on Thursday, Feb. 7. According to the DOH, from Jan. 1 to […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Glenn Murray blasted Brighton into the FA Cup fifth round as the veteran striker’s extra-time double sealed a 3-1 win at West Bromwich Albion on Wednesday. Murray came off the bench to lift Brighton past their Championship opponents in a dramatic fourth round replay at the Hawthorns. Kyle Bartley’s late goal, when the defender hooked in from an acute angle, had put West Brom on course for a victory over their […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Europe’s stock markets struggled to find direction Wednesday as investors digested downbeat German economic data following an uneventful State of the Union address by US President Donald Trump. Frankfurt dropped 0.3 percent as official figures showed that industrial orders in Germany fell back in December, the latest sign of a slowdown in Europe’s largest economy. London stocks slipped by 0.1 percent meanwhile, with online supermarket Ocado hit by a […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo stocks opened lower on Thursday tracking falls in US shares, with investors focusing on corporate earnings reports. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index was down 0.19 percent or 39.11 points at 20,834.95 in early trade while the broader Topix index slipped 0.24 percent or 3.78 points to 1,578.35. “Following declines in US shares, selling is seen dominating trade in early hours,” Okasan Online Securities said in a commentary. Given earnings reports […]
Four people arrested (Eagle News) — Authorities seized around P3.5 million worth of illegal drugs in a buy-bust operation in Quezon City on Thursday, Feb. 7. The National Capital Region Police Office said the police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency operatives also arrested Ruby Balani, Mary Jane Duran, Joshua Salazar, and Mineya Amorine in their joint operation in an apartelle on Araneta Ave. in Cubao. Confiscated from the suspects were 500 grams of shabu with a street value […]
(Eagle News) — At least nine people were killed after a fire engulfed a house in Pasay early Thursday, Feb. 7. The fatalities in the fire that broke out in the residence in Maricaban at 2:10 a.m. were Julius Wablas, his wife Rheadela, and daughters Nicole, Juric Andrea and Julia Janet, the Bureau of Protection said. Also killed were Michael Calma and his sons Mark Joseph, John Clark and Andrew James. Only Calma’s wife, Jasmin, survived. The […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice has ordered the indictment of Rappler Inc.’s executive editor Maria Ressa and two others for cyberlibel in connection with an article that alleged then-Chief Justice Renato Corona, during his impeachment trial, had been using a sport utility vehicle lent to him by a “controversial” businessman. In a 7-page resolution dated Jan. 10 but received only by parties on Feb. 4, the DOJ ordered for Rappler Inc. and its […]
(Eagle News) — The House of Representatives on Wednesday, Feb. 6, approved on second reading a bill that requires senior high school students to undergo the Reserved Officers Training Program program to graduate. Under House Bill 8961, only Grade 11 and 12 students who are unfit–whether physically or physiologically— may be exempted from undergoing the program if they secure a certification from the Armed Forces of the Philippines Surgeon General or a medical officer. Those who may also […]
(Eagle News) — The National Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday, Feb. 6, said those who coddled Kenneth Dong, who has been accused of smuggling P6.4 billion worth of shabu from China, may face charges for obstruction of justice. Authorities said they were still in the process, however, of identifying these individuals who hid Dong from the authorities until he was arrested on Monday, Feb. 4. Dong was arrested by NBI operatives in Katarungan Village in […]
by Ella Ide Agence France Presse VATICAN CITY (AFP) — Pope Francis’s public admission that priests have used nuns as “sexual slaves” — and may still be doing so — marks a new chapter in the abuse crisis rocking the Catholic church. “It is the first time that the pope, but also the church as an institution, has publicly admitted this abuse is taking place, and that’s hugely important,” Lucetta Scaraffia, editor of the Vatican’s […]
