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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather on Wednesday scrapped a planned fight with a Japanese kickboxer, claiming he had been duped into agreeing to the contest. In a lengthy statement posted on social media, Mayweather said he had been “blindsided” by organizers of the proposed bout against Tenshin Nasukawa, set for New Year’s Eve in Saitama. “I want it to be clear that I, Floyd Mayweather, never agreed to an official […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — The Italian Senate on Wednesday cleared the way for far-right leader Matteo Salvini’s tough anti-migrant and security decree to become law following a confidence vote. The populist government of Salvini’s League and Luigi Di Maio’s anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) won the vote with 163 senators for, 59 against and 19 abstentions, including five M5S members opposed to the stringent decree. The lower house of parliament now has until the […]
by Estelle EMONET / Julie Pacorel Agence France Presse MARSEILLES, France (AFP) — A sixth body was found Wednesday in the wreckage of two dilapidated buildings that collapsed in the French city of Marseille, where furious residents have accused authorities of ignoring warnings about the state of housing for the poorest. Officials have vowed to inspect all buildings in the southern city deemed “unsuitable” for habitation, two days after the apartment blocks collapsed in […]
by Patrick Galey Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Millions of people in Europe, North America and Australia will die from superbug infections unless countries prioritize fighting the growing threat posed by bacteria immune to most known drugs, experts predicted Wednesday. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) warned of “disastrous consequences” for public healthcare and spending unless basic hospital hygiene is boosted and unnecessary antibiotic use slashed. Drug-resistant bacteria killed more […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Boeing issued a special bulletin Wednesday addressing a sensor problem flagged by Indonesian safety officials investigating the crash of a Lion Air 737 that killed 189 people last week. The planemaker said local aviation officials believed pilots may have been given wrong information by the plane’s automated systems before the fatal crash. “The Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee has indicated that Lion Air flight 610 experienced erroneous input from one […]
(Eagle News) — A Makati court has asked the government to comment on Senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s appeal of its earlier decision upholding the legality of Proclamation No. 572. Judge Andres Soriano of the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 148, who in the same decision, however, junked the Department of Justice’s request for the issuance of a warrant of arrest against the senator for coup d’etat, gave prosecutors five days to answer Trillanes’ motion for partial […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — A flood of precursor chemicals into Myanmar is fuelling record meth production, officials said Wednesday, as the country’s multi-billion-dollar drug trade spills out across Asia-Pacific. The “Golden Triangle” — a lawless wedge of land intersecting China, Myanmar, Thailand and Laos — has for generations served as a base for opium and heroin production. But it is Myanmar’s meth production and trafficking that has skyrocketed to “alarming levels” in recent years, […]
(Eagle News) – Senator Gregorio “Gringo” Honasan III will soon be named the new secretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT). Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III confirmed that Honasan could be appointed to the DICT next week, particularly on Nov. 12, by President Rodrigo Duterte based on talks they had with the President on Oct. 29. Among those who attended the meeting in Malacanang with President Duterte were Senators Panfilo […]
(Eagle News) — The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board on Wednesday, November 7, clarified the new fare matrix for public utility jeepneys costs P560, and not P610, as reported by some media outfits. In an interview over CNN Philippines, Delgra said of the P560, the P510 represents the “regulatory fee” mandated by a department order as early as 2001. He said the P50, on the other hand, represents the cost of the fare matrix […]
(Eagle News) — Minority senators are seeking a probe into the deaths of nine sugarcane farmers in Sagay, Negros Occidental on Oct. 20. In filing Senate Resolution No. 929, Senators Leila de Lima, Francis Pangilinan, Bam Aquino, Risa Hontiveros, Antonio Trillanes IV and Franklin Drilon urged the government to look into the killings they believe were perpetrated by “powerful landowners..” Earlier, leftist groups said landowners related to political clans were behind the killings of the […]
(Eagle News) — Magdalo Rep. Gary Alejano on Wednesday, Nov. 7, urged President Rodrigo Duterte to fire Michael Yang as his economic adviser. According to Alejano, Yang, who was a Chinese national, “may have access to confidential and sensitive information which could affect national security” in his current post. He said Yang “has close connections with the Chinese government which we have standing territorial disputes and tense diplomatic relations with.” “Further, it allows a foreigner […]
(Eagle News) — A telecommunications consortium of Chinese state-owned China Telecommunications Corporation and of Udenna Corporation owned by a Davao-based businessman becomes the “provisional” third major player in the country’s telecommunications industry. This was according to a selection panel of the National Telecommunications Commission that screened bidders aspiring to become the third major telecommunications player in the country that would ultimately break the current duopoly in the industry. Mislatel Consortium involving businessman Dennis Uy […]
