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TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s military said Sunday one of its members was killed in a car crash in the Philippines during joint exercises with US and Filipino troops. Suguru Maehara, a 38-year-old sergeant of the Ground Self-Defense Forces, was involved in the accident on Tuesday last week, according to a GSDF spokesman who confirmed his death. “It is the first time a GSDF member has died during an overseas drill,” the spokesman told […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — As many as 5,000 people are believed missing from the quake and tsunami that struck Indonesia’s Palu city, an official said Sunday, an indication that far more may have perished in the twin disaster than the current toll suggests. Indonesia’s disaster agency say they have recovered 1,763 bodies so far from the 7.5-magnitude and subsequent tsunami that struck Sulawesi on September 28. But there are fears that two of the […]
(Eagle News)–The Supreme Court has upheld the Sandiganbayan’s decision to allow the use of the Anti-Money Laundering Council inquiry report on alleged pork barrel scam transactions in the plunder case against former Senator Jinggoy Estrada. In an 11-page resolution penned by Justice Lucas Bersamin, the High Court junked Estrada’s petition for certiorari, prohibition, and mandamus assailing the denial of the Sandiganbayan of his motion to suppress/exclude the report, calling the same moot and academic. In doing so, […]
(Eagle News) — Fellow Supreme Court justices honored retiring Chief Justice Teresita Leonardo De Castro on Friday, crediting her for having restored collegiality, as well as “dignity and harmony” in the high court. The high court held a special en banc session honoring De Castro, the 24th Supreme Court Chief Justice of the country on Friday, three days before she officially reaches her mandatory retirement age of 70 on Monday, October 8, her birthday. Senior […]
(Eagle News)—-The Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Lt. Gen. Carlito Galvez Jr. recently visited a Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s camp. Galvez visited Camp Darapanan in Maguindanao in particular, pictures provided by the military showed. According to the AFP, this is the first time the military chief visited an MILF camp.
(Eagle News)–A 3.1-magnitude earthquake rocked Surigao del Norte on Sunday, Oct. 7. The Philippine Institute for Volcanology and Seismology said the quake took place 83 kilometers east of Burgos. Depth of focus was one kilometer. No aftershocks were expected.
Japanese troops stormed a beach in the Philippines Saturday in joint exercises with US and Filipino troops that officials said marked the first time Tokyo’s armoured vehicles rolled on foreign soil since World War II. The small Japanese contingent played a humanitarian support role in the drill after US and Filipino marines made an amphibious landing to retake Philippine territory from a “terrorist” group. Fifty unarmed Japanese soldiers in camouflage marched behind their four armoured […]
VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — Former Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern announced Saturday he would retire from politics, thereby also ending his bid to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker as EU Commission president next year. Kern, who stepped down as head of the opposition Social Democrat (SPOe) party last month, earlier indicated he had considered putting himself forward as a candidate to take over from Juncker. But on Saturday, the 52-year-old told reporters he was ending his career […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Tito Sotto on Saturday, Oct. 6, said people should not worry about President Rodrigo Duterte’s health. According to Sotto, who gave a radio interview, it was normal for any person aged 60 and above to have health issues. “Ang health packages ng mga ospital ngayon ang gagaling. Kahit anong sakit na makita mo, may remedyo sila,” he said. President Duterte admitted on Thursday that he underwent tests at the Cardinal Santos Medical Center. […]
By Alan Fram, Lisa Mascaro and Matthew Daly Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in Saturday night as the 114th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, after a wrenching debate over sexual misconduct and judicial temperament that shattered the Senate, captivated the nation and ushered in an acrimonious new level of polarization — now encroaching on the court that the 53-year-old judge may well swing rightward for decades to come. Even […]
By Alan Fram and Lisa Mascaro Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The bitterly polarized U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday to join the Supreme Court, delivering an election-season triumph to President Donald Trump that could swing the court rightward for a generation after a battle that rubbed raw the country’s cultural, gender and political divides. The near party-line vote was 50-48, capping a fight that seized the national conversation after claims emerged […]
by Samir Tounsi Agence France Presse KINSHASA, DR Congo (AFP) — At least 60 people died and scores suffered serious burns on Saturday after an oil tanker collided with a vehicle on an arterial highway in the west of DR Congo. The accident occurred on a highway linking the capital Kinshasa to the country’s sole seaport at Matadi on the Atlantic Ocean. “We have counted 53 charred bodies,” said Florian, a witness, speaking at […]
