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By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service (Eagle News) – Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III filed his certificate of candidacy with the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) office in Manila for the May 2019 elections Thursday morning, October 11. Pimentel is seeking his reelection as senator and will be running under the ruling party Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan or PDP-Laban. He is the first senator to file his COC upon the start of the filing […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The Philadelphia 76ers’ Joel Embiid has signed a shoe deal with Under Armour that will reportedly make the Cameroonian the highest paid center in the NBA. Embiid, whose contract with adidas ended on September 30, confirmed the deal with a Twitter post and penned a first-person announcement released by Under Armour recalling his relatively late introduction to organized basketball in Cameroon. He wrote about his younger brother, Arthur, who was […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and de facto ruler ordered an operation targeting journalist and US resident Jamal Khashoggi, who has been missing for more than a week, The Washington Post reported Wednesday citing US intelligence intercepts. Khashoggi — a US resident and one of the more outspoken critics of the regime of King Salman and his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — disappeared after entering the Saudi consulate in […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is now in Indonesia to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Leaders’ Gathering today, October 11. The President arrived at the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, Indonesia on Wednesday night, October 10, for the ASEAN meeting set on the following day. Duterte was invited to participate in the event by Indonesian President Joko Widodo. The ASEAN Leaders’ Gathering is a High-Level Assembly that is a […]
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (AFP) — An explosion at a Russian-owned oil refinery in Bosnia killed one worker and injured 10 more, police and hospital spokesmen said Wednesday. Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik visited Bosnia’s sole oil refinery in the northern town of Brod and said the blast, which occurred late Tuesday and sparked a fire, was an “unfortunate accident.” He praised the refinery’s workers for having behaved in a “particularly responsible way.” “They closed […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A Tennessee man sentenced to death for a double murder has appealed to stop his execution by lethal injection, insisting the state should be forced to use the electric chair as he has requested. Edmund Zagorski, 63, was sentenced to death in 1984 after slitting the throats of two men who had reneged on a promise to sell him drugs. He asked to be put to death via the electric […]
by Luis Jaime CISNEROS Agence France Presse LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Police in Peru have arrested Keiko Fujimori, the opposition leader and daughter of the South American country’s disgraced ex-president, for alleged money laundering involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, her lawyer said Wednesday. The 43-year-old was arrested on the orders of prosecutors investigating contributions to her campaign when she ran for president in 2011, according to her lawyer Giuliana Loza. “Persecution has been disguised as […]
by Karyn NISHIMURA-POUPEE Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The cries of the raucous pre-dawn tuna auction rang out for the first time at Tokyo’s new fish market Thursday, just days after the world-famous Tsukiji site closed the door on its 83-year history. The location may have changed but the ritual remained the same: huge frozen whole tuna laid out on the ground, bells tolling to sound the start of the auction and a […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States will refuse any additional reconstruction assistance to war-torn Syria so long as Iranian troops are present in the country, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday. “If Syria doesn’t ensure the total withdrawal of Iranian-backed troops, it will not receive one single dollar from the United States for reconstruction,” Pompeo told a pro-Israel group. © Agence France-Presse
PARIS, France (AFP) — Parents exasperated by their children constantly ignoring pleas to stop picking their noses, may have finally found an argument to break the habit: it might give you pneumonia. Pneumococcus, the bacteria that causes pneumonia — a lung condition that can prove deadly if untreated — is known to spread through airborne droplets, often from the coughs and sneezes of infected individuals. British scientists said Thursday they had proved for the first […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Houston Rockets forward Zhou Qi is uncertain to be ready for next week’s start of the NBA season after the Chinese center left the court in a wheelchair with a left knee injury. The 22-year-old 7-footer (2.17m) suffered the injury after playing only four minutes in Houston’s 128-86 rout of the Shanghai Sharks in a pre-season exhibition contest Tuesday night. Zhou, who played 18 games for the Rockets last season, […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Part of a highway bridge on the Italian island of Sardinia has been swept away as a result of heavy rains, firefighter footage showed Wednesday. The road had been closed to traffic earlier after a sink hole opened up, but the collapse of the bridge across a swollen river effectively cut the highway in two. No vehicles were on the road at the time. Italy’s creaking infrastructure has come under fresh […]
