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TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The Japanese government on Monday ordered Facebook to improve protection of users’ personal information following data breaches affecting tens of millions of people worldwide. Facebook said early this month that hackers accessed the personal data of 29 million users in a breach at the world’s leading social network first disclosed late September. The company had originally said up to 50 million accounts were affected in a cyber-attack that exploited a trio […]
(Eagle News) — Ipinasara ng pulisya ang mahigit 20 minahan sa Kabayan, Benguet. Ayon Kay Police Inspector John Dangiwan, Deputy Chief of Police ng Kabayan Municipal Police Station, ito ay alinsunod sa “stoppage order” ni Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu laban sa operasyon ng lahat ng small scale mining sa buong Cordillera Administrative Region. Aniya, tinatayang aabot sa mahigit 50 small scale miners ang naapektuhan sa pagpapasara sa mga nasabing minahan lalo na sa Barangay Gusaran […]
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — Hurricane Willa surged to a dangerous Category Four storm off Mexico’s Pacific coast, US forecasters said Sunday, warning of a life-threatening storm surge and heavy winds and rainfall. The monster storm was 340 kilometers (210 miles) south-southwest of Cabo Corrientes, Mexico, packing top sustained winds of 230 kilometers per hour. “Extremely dangerous… Hurricane Willa continues to rapidly strengthen (and is) forecast to produce life-threatening storm surge, wind and rainfall over portions […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is set to visit the wake of the nine sugarcane farmers killed by unidentified men in a plantation in Sagay city, Negros Occidental last Saturday night. This was announced by Former Special Assistant to the President Christopher “Bong” Go on Monday, October 22. “Inaayos pa nila pero I’m sure bibisita sa wake,” Go said to the reporters. Go said the President wanted to know what really happened to the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Four earthquakes — measuring from 4.9 to 6.8 magnitude — struck in quick succession off Canada’s west coast late Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. The epicenter of the first 6.6 tremor, at 10:39 pm (0549 GMT Monday), was located 135 miles (218 kilometers) southwest of Port Hardy — a small municipality on the northeastern tip of British Columbia’s Vancouver Island — and 355 miles northwest of Seattle. The second […]
(Eagle News) – The Makati Regional Trial Court branch 148 handling the coup d’etat case of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV has junked the motion for the issuance of arrest warrant against the senator on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, saying that it was “powerless” to revive a case which had long been dismissed. Makati RTC Judge Andres Soriano said that the coup d’etat case was dismissed based on the court’s order dated Sept. 21, 2011, or […]
(Eagle News) — Opposition senator Antonio Trillanes IV is now waiting inside his office at the Senate for word on the resolution issued by Makati Regional Trial Court branch 148 regarding his coup d’etat case. Trillanes would not yet comment while waiting for information regarding the Makati RTC resolution. He said he would wait for a copy of the resolution issued by Judge Andres Soriano who is handling his coup d’etat case which is […]
(Eagle News) — Malacanang condemned “in the strongest possible terms” the Oct. 20 killing of nine sugar workers, including two minors, in Sagay City Negros Occidental as it vowed a “thorough and impartial” investigation of the incident. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms the reported deaths of sugar workers in Sagay City, Negros Occidental,” Presidential Spokesperson and Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo said in a press statement. “Families of the victims of […]
Ni Richard dela Cruz Eagle News Correspondent ALUBIJID, Misamis Oriental (Eagle News) – Personal na pinasalamatan ni Metropolitan Trial Court Judge Isagani Ravedaz ng Alubijid, Misamis Oriental si Gen. Timoteo Pacleb, ang Acting Director ng Police Regional Office 10, dahil sa pagbigay ng police escort. Ang nasabing hakbang ay kasunod ng mga pagpatay sa mga judge ng Ozamiz City na may hinahawakang malalaking kaso. Ito ay para na rin sa kaligtasan ng opisyal at mga […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada could cancel a multi-billion dollar defense contract with Saudi Arabia following the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in an interview broadcast Sunday. Trudeau, speaking on French-language talk show “Tout Le Monde En Parle” — recorded Thursday, before Riyadh confirmed Khashoggi’s death at its Istanbul consulate — insisted Canada would “always defend human rights, including with Saudi Arabia.” Canadian military equipment sales regulations contain restrictions on […]
(Eagle News) — Maaaring pinagtatakpan lamang umano ng Bureau of Customs (BOC) ang pagiging incompetent nito kasunod ng pagkakapuslit ng 6.8 billion pesos na halaga ng shabu sa bansa. Ayon kay Senate Dangerous Drugs Committee Chairman Ping Lacson, hindi pa siya handa na paniwalaan na pinagtatakpan ni Customs Commissioner Isidro Lapeña ang isang sindikato ng droga. Sinabi ito ni Lacson kasunod ng mga alegasyon sa pagitan ng mga opisyal ng BOC at mga grupo ng […]
(Eagle News) — Nasa 35,000 hanggang 40,000 na distressed Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) ang nakinabang sa ‘Balik Pilipinas, Balik Hanapbuhay’ program ng gobyerno ngayong taon. Ayon sa Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), tumaas ito ng 250 percent mula sa naitalang 30,600 na distressed OFWs noong 2016 at 20,000 naman noong 2017. Layunin ng naturang programa na mabigyan ng negosyo ang mga distressed OFW sa kanilang pagbabalik sa Pilipinas, ang mga benepisaryo ay makatatanngap ng halagang […]
