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(Eagle News) – Typhoon Yutu which has recently brought destruction to Marianas Islands has now entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) and was named “Rosita,” the country’s weather bureau, PAGASA said. As of 10 a.m. Saturday, October 27, “Rosita” was located at 1,345 km East of Aparri, Cagayan (17.6 °N, 134.3 °E ), moving west at 20 kilometers per hour. It has maximum sustained winds of 200 kph near the center and gustiness […]
A Florida fan of Donald Trump was arrested and charged Friday with mailing 13 bombs to opponents of the US president in a brazen, week-long spree that inflamed the country ahead of key elections. Cesar Sayoc, 56, who claims to have Filipino ancestry in his LinkedIn account, says his grandfather was a prominent surgeon in the Philippines. He is a registered Republican with a criminal history and reported past as a stripper. He was […]
Cesar Altieri Sayoc, the Florida man accused of sending pipe bombs to critics of Donald Trump, claims to have Filipino ancestry in his LinkedIn profile. Sayoc,56, who vows devotion for US President Trump, even claimed that his grandfather was a prominent surgeon in the Philippines, according to a report by Agence France Presse. He also makes repeated references to the Seminole Indian tribe on his Twitter feed. Sayoc had plastered his social media accounts […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Six people including an elderly man and woman died in floods in southern Russia, authorities said Friday, as emergency workers struggled to get food and water to the victims. Flash floods affected parts of the Krasnodar region, including the area around the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, where Moscow hosted the Winter Olympics in 2014. Russia’s emergencies ministry said it had recovered the bodies of six people while clearing […]
SINGAPORE (AFP) — A convicted Malaysian drug trafficker was hanged in Singapore on Friday, officials said, after the city-state rejected last minute efforts to save him. The Malaysian government — which decided earlier this month to abolish the death penalty — had asked neighbouring Singapore to spare the 31-year-old man from the gallows on humanitarian grounds. But Malaysia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement late Friday that Prabu N Pathmanathan was executed in […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Justice has filed its motion for partial reconsideration with the Makati Regional Trial Court branch 148, seeking a partial reversal of its ruling on the non-issuance of an arrest warrant for Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. The DOJ’s motion was filed on Thursday, Oct. 25 at 4:30 p.m., according to Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Friday, Oct. 26. With the filing of the motion, the DOJ is asking the […]
AMMAN, Jordan (AFP) — At least 20 people, most of them school pupils, have been killed in flash floods in Jordan, the emergency services said Friday in an updated toll. A further 35 people were injured following heavy rains on Thursday, including members of the security forces involved in rescue operations, said an official from the civil defense — Jordan’s fire service — who asked not to be named. He said rescuers were still searching […]
(Eagle News) – A member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in Canada thanked the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ) for its worldwide efforts in humanitarian service before her colleagues in a speech Thursday (Oct. 25) at Canada’s legislative assembly. Cindy Lamoureaux, the elected member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for the constituency of Burrows, said she had personally witnessed how the INC’s various socio-civic and humanitarian work had extended help to […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The two Koreas on Friday agreed to remove 11 guard posts along the heavily-fortified border next month with a goal to possibly remove all of them in the future, senior military officials said. The agreement made between generals from the two sides came as diplomatic thaw between the former wartime foes gathered pace. South Korean President Moon Jae-in and the North’s leader Kim Jong Un previously agreed on a broad […]
(Eagle News) — Pangungunahan ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang inagurasyon ng Parañaque Integrated Terminal Exchange (PITX) sa Nobyembre 5. Sinabi ng Department of Transportation (DOTr) na ang kauna-unahang landport sa bansa ay isang multi-modal terminal para sa mga bus na may biyahe papunta at pabalik mula sa Cavite, Batangas at ilan pang lugar sa southern Luzon. Ipinaliwanag ni DOTr Sec. Art Tugade na maikukumpara sa isang airport ang mga pasilidad ng nasabing transport terminal. Layunin […]
(Eagle News) — Target ng Department of Transportation (DOTr) na makapaglunsad ng passenger ferry na bibiyahe mula Metro Manila patungo ng Cavite. Ito ay upang mabigyan ng opsyon ang mga commuter sa ibang pamamaraan ng transportasyon. Sinubukan na ng team mula DOTr sa pangunguna ni Sec. Arthur Tugade ang bumiyahe sakay ng ferry patungong Cavite. Mula SM Mall of Asia nakarating ang team sa Cavite Gateway Terminal sa Tanza, Cavite sa loob lamang ng 50-minuto. […]
(Eagle News) – Nirerespeto ng Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) ang pagpataw ng Office of the Ombudsman ng preventive suspension kay Malay, Aklan Mayor Ciceron Cawaling. Ayon kay Interior Secretary Eduardo Año, nagpapakita lamang ang naturang hakbang na sinuman ay hindi makahihigit sa batas. Ang suspensyon ni Cawaling ay bunsod ng mga reklamo dahil sa environmental issues na kinahaharap ng Boracay Island na sakop ng kanyang bayan. Sinabi ni Año na inirerespeto niya […]
