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Roque on claims Trillanes was being politically persecuted: What persecution? Everything went through the correct process

(Eagle News)—-What political persecution? Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Wednesday, Sept. 26, denied a Makati court’s order to have Senator Antonio Trillanes IV arrested was political persecution, saying everything “went through the correct process.” “It was decided by the courts and no one can dispute the integrity and independence of the courts in the Philippines,” Roque said in a television interview. According to Roque, in the first place, this was a “political gift” to Trillanes […]

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Earthquake fear ends Dutch gas boom

by Charlotte VAN OUWERKERK Agence France Presse ZEERIJP, Netherlands (AFP) — The Dutch are proud of the way they have created a country by fighting back the ocean — but when they started making their own earthquakes it proved a step too far. The tiny village of Zeerijp in the northern Netherlands looks ordinary on the surface, yet closer inspection reveals cracks in homes, schools and historic buildings. A series of quakes caused by extractions […]

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SC directs revisors to refer to election returns, decrypted ballot images in Marcos poll protest vote recount

  (Eagle News) – The Supreme Court, acting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), has amended its earlier issuance on the “use of numerical threshold” on the shading of votes in the May 2016 presidential elections. In its decision, the PET instead directed head revisors to “refer to the election returns to verify the total number of votes as read and counted by the vote counting machines” in its deliberations on the electoral protest case […]

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Asian markets rise as energy firms are boosted by oil surge

HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Most Asian markets rose on Wednesday with energy firms surging with oil prices, while traders await the conclusion of a key Federal Reserve policy meeting. While worries about the China-US trade row continue to claw at confidence, the strong US economy and healthy corporate outlook are providing some buoyancy for now. The weekend decision by major producers from inside and outside OPEC to maintain output — despite Donald Trump’s call […]

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Espinosa aide shot dead in Ormoc, Leyte

(Eagle News)—An aide of self-confessed drug distributor Kerwin Espinosa was shot dead early Wednesday, Sept. 26. Police said Joel Aberilla was shot while he was drinking with his friends at 12:50 a.m. in Barangay Alta Vista, Ormoc, Leyte. The gunman, according to the police, had alighted from a white vehicle that stopped in front of Aberilla’s group. Aberilla was dead on the spot. The police Aberilla acted as Espinosa’s financier.

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DepEd sa mga estudyante: “Huwag kalimutan ang pinagmulan”

(Eagle News) — Hindi dapat na makumpromiso ang kaalaman ng mga estudyante ang tungkol sa kanilang pinagmulan habang kanilang pinalalago ang pagiging global citizen. Ayon kay Education Secretary Leonor Briones, mahalaga na hindi dapat maging hadlang ang pagtuturo ng karunungan sa mga kabataan upang mapalago ang kanilang pagiging global citizen. Aniya, dapat na hindi mawala sa isipan ng mga mag-aaral ang lokal na lenguwahe, kasaysayan, kultura at iba pang pagkakakilanlan habang sila ay tinuturuan ng […]

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New Zealand PM makes UN history with first baby

by Catherine Triomphe Agence France Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — New Zealand’s prime minister has been proclaimed a history maker for taking “first baby” — daughter Neve — into the United Nations General Assembly hall, shaking up what is still a boys’ club of world leaders. Photographs of Jacinda Ardern, 38, kissing and bouncing her three-month-old in the main hall at the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit on the eve of the General Assembly […]

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Casino operations, hindi na papayagan sa isla ng Boracay

Ni Alan Gementiza Eagle NewsCorrespondent (Eagle News) – Muling nagpahayag ang Department of Environment Natural Resources (DENR) na hindi na nila papayagan na magkaroon ng casino operations sa magiging re-opening ng Boracay sa Oktubre 26, 2018. Ayon kay DENR Undersecretary Sherwin Rigor, may direktiba na ang Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na ang Boracay ay maging casino-free. Ang ibig niyang sabihin, walang casino o anumang online gambling ang papayagn na mag-operate sa isla, ito man ay bago […]

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Palace spokesperson says he’s considering filing graft case vs ex-NFA chief Aquino

  (Eagle News) — Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said he is considering filing malversation and graft charges against former National Food Authority (NFA) administrator Jason Aquino, citing his failure to use the P5.1 billion subsidy in buying rice from local farmers to boost the NFA’s rice buffer stock. “Kung walang magpa-file, ako mismo ang magpa-file. At hindi lang for technical malversation, fa-file-lan ko rin siya ng graft (If no one will file, I myself will […]

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Tourist destinations, mahigpit na imo-monitor ng DENR

(Eagle News) — Nangako ang Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) na mas palalakasin pa ng kagawaran ang pagpapatupad ng environmental laws hindi lamang sa Boracay, kundi maging sa iba pang tourist attraction sa bansa. Ayon kay Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu, kasabay ito ng pagtatayo ng mga permanenteng opisina upang mapalakas ang pagpapatupad ng batas. Ilan sa mga lugar na paglalagyan ng mga karagdagang pasilidad ay sa mga lalawigan ng Siargao, Palawan at Bohol. […]

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“Red October plot” vs Pangulong Duterte, batay sa maling intel — former president Aquino, Robredo

Ni Eden Santos Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Mariing itinanggi ng Liberal Party ang alegasyong bahagi sila ng destabilization plot o ng “Red October Plot” laban kay Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte. Ito ay matapos lumabas na may intelligence information ang Malacañang na nakipag-alyansa ang LP at oposisyon sa mga komunista para pabagsakin ang administrasyon. Ayon kay dating pangulong Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, maituturing na tsismis ang nasabing destab plot kung hindi sumailalim sa tama at […]

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Hundreds pay tribute to Vietnam president at state funeral

HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Hundreds of black-clad mourners, weeping or lighting incense and laying wreaths, gathered early Wednesday for a somber final tribute at a state funeral for Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang who died last week after a prolonged illness. Long lines of officials, family, police and monks in golden robes streamed through the National Funeral House in downtown Hanoi where Quang’s flag-draped coffin lay beneath a large portrait of the leader who passed […]

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