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(Eagle News) – Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Atty. Salvador Panelo held his first media briefing as the newly designated presidential spokesperson on Friday, Oct. 12, 2018 in Malacanang amid the uncertainty of whether former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque will really resign to run for the senate or not. Roque has been “on leave” since Monday, October 8, and had told Malacanang reporters that he would be going abroad and would not be able to hold […]
by Richard CARTER Agence France-Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Asian stock markets rallied Friday after two days of ferocious selling sparked by higher US interest rates, trade war fears and attacks by President Donald Trump on his “crazy” central bank. Tokyo closed near half a percentage point higher after a see-saw session that saw it open in the red but quickly pare losses. Elsewhere in Asia, China’s benchmark Shanghai Composite climbed by 0.5 percent after […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Shinzo Abe will pay the first visit by a Japanese prime minister to China since 2011 later this month, Beijing announced Friday, in the latest sign of warming ties between the rivals. Abe will visit from October 25 to 27 and mark the 40th anniversary of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the two nations, said Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang. The visit will “elevate our bilateral ties and […]
by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV in Baikonur with Theo MERZ in Moscow Agence France Presse BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AFP) — Russian investigators have launched a probe into why a Soyuz rocket failed shortly after blast-off, in a major setback for Russia’s beleaguered space industry. US astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin were forced to make an emergency landing after the incident on Thursday, but were rescued without injury in Kazakhstan. Russian officials said they were […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has chosen Office of Civil Defense deputy administrator Nicanor Faeldon to replace Bureau of Corrections chief Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa after the latter filed his certificate of candidacy to run for a senate seat in the May 2019 elections. This was according to the Department of Justice. In a brief statement, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said that President Duterte has chosen Faeldon […]
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AFP) — Southeast Asian leaders pose for a family photo for the ASEAN Leaders Gathering at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank annual meetings in Nusa Dua on Indonesias resort island of Bali on October 11, 2018. Pictured L-R: ASEAN Secretary-General Lim Jock Hoi, Laos Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen, Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, Singapore’s […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo’s key Nikkei index opened down one percent on Friday, extending losses on global bourses amid lingering worries about higher interest rates and trade wars. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index, which plunged 3.89 percent the previous day, was down 1.06 percent, or 239.23 points, at 22,351.63 at the open, while the broader Topix index was down 0.66 percent or 11.18 points at 1,690.68. “Markets are finding themselves in a total state […]
PANAMA CITY, United States (AFP) — The death toll from Hurricane Michael, which slammed into the Florida coast as a Category 4 storm, has risen to at least six in three states, US officials said on Thursday. The Gadsden County Sheriff’s Office confirmed four fatalities in the Florida Panhandle county, which is west of the state capital Tallahassee. In Georgia, where the storm moved after making landfall Wednesday in the Panhandle, an 11-year-old girl also […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP0 — Lindsey Vonn says the 2018-19 World Cup ski season will be her last, whether she breaks the all-time record for victories or not. Vonn, a four-time overall World Cup champion and three-time Olympic medalist has 82 World Cup victories — four shy of Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark’s record of 86. “If I get it, that would be a dream come true,” Vonn told NBC Sports on Thursday in New […]
SINGAPORE (AFP) — The world’s longest commercial flight takes off from Singapore, with excited and apprehensive passengers on board settling in for a marathon 19 hours in the air to New York.
(Eagle News) — Bureau of Corrections chief and former Philippine National Police Director Ronaldo “Bato” dela Rosa filed his certificate of candidacy with the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) office on Friday morning, Oct. 12, 2018. Dela Rosa said he will be running for a senate seat in the May 2019 national elections under the ruling PDP-Laban party. He came with members of his family and supporters. (Jerold Tagbo, Eagle News Service) https://youtu.be/-_OZGiFt1uo
