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(Eagle News)–Over 3 million families experienced involuntary hunger in the past three months, a Social Weather Stations survey said. The Third Quarter 2018 Social Weather Survey, conducted from September 15-23, 2018, said the estimated 3.1 million families translate to a 13.3% quarterly hunger rate. The SWS said this was 3.9 points above the 9.4% quarterly hunger in June 2018. Hunger in Metro Manila, the SWS said, was at 17.3% (est. 549,000 families), in Balance Luzon […]
(Eagle News)—-Opposition senators have filed a resolution calling for an investigation into what they said was the recent spate of killings in Cebu under the “one-time, big-time” (OTBT) drug operations of the Philippine National Police. “The allegation that police officers themselves are behind some of the killings is highly disturbing,” the group composed of Senators Kiko Pangilinan, Risa Hontiveros, Bam Aquino, Antonio Trillanes IV, Franklin Drilon said in filing Senate Resolution No. 915. According to the group, […]
Mexico Beach used to be a little beach town of about 1,000 people, popular with vacationing families and retirees. But Michael changed it all, wiping away everything in a stretch of 100 yards or so between the beach and the coastal highway. Wooden beach bungalows that were built without foundations were simply swept away, leaving empty lots. Remnants of everyday life — sinks, washing machines, bikes — are scattered all over the muddy ground. […]
By JAY REEVES and BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Linda Marquardt rode out Hurricane Michael with her husband at their home in Mexico Beach. When their house filled with surging ocean water, they fled upstairs. Now their home is full of mud and everywhere they look there’s utter devastation in their Florida Panhandle community: fishing boats tossed like toys, roofs lifted off of buildings and pine trees snapped like matchsticks […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — An Airbus jetliner arrived in Newark on Friday after a nearly 18-hour trip from Singapore, completing the world’s longest commercial flight. It marked the revival of a route that had been eliminated in 2013. Singapore Airlines Flight SQ22 arrived at 5:29 am (0929 GMT), the Newark Liberty International Airport website said. That made for a flight of 17 hours and 52 minutes. The flight had been scheduled […]
by Michael O’HAGAN Agence France Presse KAMPALA, Uganda (AFP) — At least 34 people were killed after a river in eastern Uganda burst its banks, sending thick sludge and rocks barrelling into homes, disaster officials said Friday. Rescue teams were picking through the rubble, looking for survivors and victims of the disaster which took place on Thursday in the town of Bukalasi in the Bududa district. An unknown number of people were still missing. […]
Catholic Church’s Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of US Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who was blamed for not doing enough to deal with paedophile priests when he was a bishop in Pennsylvania, the Vatican said Friday. Wuerl, who has stepped down as archbishop of Washington, had announced last month that he planned to meet with the Catholic pope to discuss his resignation. A sweeping US grand jury report released in August revealed credible allegations […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Nancy Binay on Friday, October 12 filed her certificate of candidacy (COC) at the Commission on Elections main office in Intramuros, Manila as she seeks reelection in the 2019 election. Binay will run under the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) party. (Photos by Eagle News Service Jerold Tagbo)
(Eagle News) — Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio has accepted his automatic nomination for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. This was confirmed by Atty. Maria Teresa Sibulo, head of Carpio’s judicial staff. Carpio, the most senior member of the high court, had previously declined the nomination for Chief Justice after the ouster of Maria Lourdes Sereno. Chief Justice Teresita Leonardo De Castro was appointed Chief Justice by President Rodrigo Duterte after Sereno […]
PALU, Indonesia (AFP) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday visited the disaster-ravaged Indonesian city of Palu, where an earthquake and tsunami killed 2,000 people and left thousands more missing, presumed dead. A 7.5-magnitude quake and a wall of water struck the city on Sulawesi island on September 28, leaving entire neighbourhoods in ruins and 200,000 people desperate for humanitarian assistance. Rescue teams scoured the wreckage for a fortnight before calling off the search […]
(Eagle News) – Controversial lawyer Larry Gadon filed his certificate of candidacy (COC) with the Commission on Elections on Friday, October 12, where he announced his senate run for the May 2019 elections. Gadon became controversial after filing the impeachment complaint before Congress in August 2017 against then Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. Sereno was eventually ousted as the head of the tribunal by her colleagues in a quo warranto petition filed […]
(Eagle News) — Kabataan Partylist members engaged a shouting match between President Rodrigo Duterte’s supporters outside the Commission on Elections (Comelec) office during the filling of certificates of candidacy on Friday, October 12 at Palacio Del Gobernador, Intramuros, Manila. (Eagle News Service Jerold Tagbo)
