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(Eagle News) — Former Customs commissioner Isidro Lapeña has officially started his new job as director general of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) after taking his oath before President Rodrigo Duterte. In his speech before he turned over his former job to former MARINA administrator Rey Leonardo Guerrero on Wednesday, Oct. 31, Lapeña insisted he had tried to institute reforms at the controversial Bureau of Customs, even as he admitted that […]
By Caesar Vallejos Eagle News Service An underwater 3D geospatial mapping and analytics startup was adjudged the winner of Pitch Haifa, a competition for innovative technology-oriented startups organized by the Embassy of Israel and the Israel Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the Philippines. As the sole winner in the pitch competition held at the QBO Innovation Hub last October 24, 2018, Aaron Hilomen of Antipara Exploration will participate in the Start Haifa 2018 in […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Accused Pittsburgh synagogue gunman Robert Bowers is now facing 44 charges including federal hate crimes in connection with a shooting spree that left 11 people dead, as prosecutors unveiled an expanded indictment Wednesday. Authorities say Bowers, 46, burst into the Tree of Life synagogue with an AR-15 assault rifle and three handguns, killing 11 worshippers at Shabbat services and wounding six others, including four police officers. “While inside the […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has confirmed that former customs intelligence officer was indeed admitted to the Department of Justice’s Witness Protection Program (WPP). “Yes, Mr. Guban has been admitted into the WPP. But that’s all that I can say,” he told reporters on Tuesday afternoon. Guevarra refused to give more details citing the “confidential” nature of the WPP. Thank you for understanding the confidential nature and purpose of the WPP. Really […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Faced with an influx of asylum seekers from the United States, Canada is planning to substantially step up deportations of illegal migrants, Canada’s public broadcaster reported Wednesday. A leaked email from a senior Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) official to staff, cited by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the goal is to deport some 10,000 persons a year, as much as a 35 percent increase over recent years. CBSA enforcement director Brad […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that as many as 15,000 soldiers could be dispatched to the US-Mexican border to stop what he described as dangerous groups of immigrants. With more than 5,000 soldiers already being sent, Trump told reporters “we’ll do up to anywhere between 10 and 15,000 military personnel.” “It’s a dangerous group of people,” Trump said of the latest caravan of mostly impoverished Central Americans trying to walk […]
by Patrick GALEY Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — More than 70 percent of Earth’s last untouched wilderness lies in the territories of just five countries, scientists said Wednesday — mostly nations that alarm environmentalists with their lukewarm response to climate change. True wild spaces — land and sea areas mostly unaffected by mankind’s explosive expansion and insatiable appetite for food and natural resources — now cover just a quarter of the planet. They […]
by Fulya Ozerkan and Daniel Lawler Agence France Presse ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and his body was dismembered and destroyed as part of a premeditated plan, Turkey’s chief prosecutor said Wednesday, making details of the murder public for the first time. The revelations came only an hour after Saudi Arabia’s chief prosecutor left Istanbul, and his Turkish counterpart said he […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — EU countries on Wednesday backed the outlawing of certain single-use plastics, bringing the bloc a step closer to an outright ban on the products which account for huge quantities of waste in the world’s oceans. The approval by the 28 member states follows an overwhelming vote in the European Parliament last week to ban single-use plastic items such as straws, cutlery, cotton buds and balloon sticks. Work will begin next […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Millions of people in Mexico City are set to be without water for at least four days as authorities undertake maintenance work on one of the major supply systems. Half of the capital’s eight million population are expected to be affected, with a further three million people from the neighboring State of Mexico also impacted. Authorities are preparing for the huge challenge by employing tanker trucks to supply strategic […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — An Australian nun who battled a government bid to expel her from the Philippines after she angered President Rodrigo Duterte, said Wednesday she will leave rather than face certain arrest and deportation. Patricia Fox’s abrupt announcement came because immigration authorities refused hours earlier to extend her tourist visa and ordered the 71-year-old out by Saturday. Fox, who has spent nearly three decades advocating for the Philippines’ poorest, has become a symbol […]
Pakistan’s Supreme Court Wednesday overturned the conviction of Asia Bibi, a non-Muslim mother facing execution for blasphemy, in a landmark case which has incited deadly violence. Blasphemy is an incendiary charge in deeply conservative Muslim Pakistan, where even unproven allegations of insulting Islam and its Prophet Mohammed can provoke death at the hands of vigilantes — and the acquittal immediately sparked large protests from hardliners. Bibi appeared to be in state of disbelief after […]
