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Palace lashes out at Hontiveros for calling Duterte “destabilizer-in-chief”

(Eagle News) — The Palace on Friday, Sept. 21, slammed Senator Risa Hontiveros for her comment President Rodrigo Duterte was a “destabilizer-in-chief.” In the first place, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said “it (was) ironic” Hontiveros made such a statement as she “spends so much of her time undermining the efforts of this administration..” He noted that the President has made “significant strides” in his fight against drugs, criminality and corruption. In fact, he said “there is high […]

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Updated: 25 recovered dead, 8 found alive, in Cebu landslide site; searchers hope to rescue more

  (Eagle News) — At least 25 persons are now confirmed dead after being buried in a landslide in Naga City in Cebu province as of Friday, Sept. 21, as more bodies are recovered during continuous search and rescue operations in the site’s “ground zero.” There are also more than 50 still missing in Sitio Sindalan, barangay Tinaan, Naga City, according to a report by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. Rescuers also […]

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Korean boy band BTS to address UN

UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — K-Pop sensation BTS will address the United Nations on Monday for the launch of a campaign by the UN children’s agency UNICEF as world leaders prepare to open their annual General Assembly debate. BTS will be speaking at the launch of “Generation Unlimited,” a new partnership to promote education, training and employment for the world’s youth, said a UNICEF spokesperson. Among South Korea’s best known and most lucrative musical […]

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Woman shoots dead three at US warehouse, commits suicide: sheriff

ABERDEEN, United States (AFP) — A woman opened fire with a handgun at the warehouse where she worked in the US state of Maryland on Thursday, killing three people and injuring another three before committing suicide, the county sheriff said. Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler did not identify the suspect but said she was 26 years old and a temporary employee at the distribution center for the Rite Aid drugstore chain in Aberdeen, Maryland. “We […]

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Tanzania says over 44 killed in Lake Victoria ferry capsize

NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — At least 44 people died and an unknown number went missing on Thursday when a ferry capsized in the south of Victoria, Africa’s largest lake, Tanzanian government officials said. “According to reports that President John Magufuli has just received from the authorities in Mwanza, the toll now stands at more than 40 dead,” Gerson Msigwa, the president’s spokesman said on state television, TBC 1. Regional governor John Mongella said late Thursday […]

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Propping up glaciers to avoid cataclysmic sea level rise

by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — As global warming outpaces efforts to tame it, scientists have proposed building massive underwater structures to prevent an Antarctic glacier the size of Britain from sliding into the sea and lifting the world’s oceans by several meters. The more modest of two engineering schemes — which is still on the scale of a Panama or Suez Canal — to shore up Thwaites Glacier would require […]

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Indiana Jones hat fetches over $500,000 at auction

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Indiana Jones’s signature fedora fetched more than half a million dollars at a blockbuster London auction of rare memorabilia from some of the most iconic movies of the past 40 years. But the star attraction — the sleek jacket worn by the loveable Star Wars scoundrel Han Solo in “The Empire Strikes Back” — failed to clear the £500,000 ($665,000, 563,000 euros) reserve and went unsold. Organisers said they had […]

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Ghana flooding kills 34 during heavy rains

ACCRA, Ghana (AFP) — At least 34 people have died in northern Ghana during flooding caused by heavy rains and waters spilling from a dam in neighbouring Burkina Faso, relief agency officials said Thursday. Bagre Dam is located on the White Volta river that begins in Burkina Faso and which converges with the Black Volta downstream and feeds into Lake Volta in southern Ghana. The authorities open the dam’s spillways during annual rains, but the […]

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‘Treachery’ or ‘transparency’? Russian athletes to return as WADA lifts doping ban

VICTORIA, Seychelles (AFP) – The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Thursday lifted a ban on Russia’s anti-doping agency, paving the way for Russian athletes to return to competition but also sparking claims of “treachery” and “dark shadows” cast over the fight against drugs in sport. “Today, the great majority of WADA’s Executive Committee decided to reinstate RUSADA as compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code subject to strict conditions,” WADA president Craig Reedie said. Reedie said […]

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Multiple deaths in US warehouse complex shooting

by Jim Mannion Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – An unidentified assailant opened fire Thursday at a warehouse complex north of Baltimore, killing and wounding multiple people in the latest US mass shooting, authorities said. There were reports that the incident was a rare mass shooting by a woman, but police would not confirm the gender of the attacker, merely reporting that they were in a critical condition at a local hospital. “I can […]

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Espenido, his co-accused to appeal DOJ decision to indict them for homicide

(Eagle News) — Ozamiz police chief Jovie Espenido on Thursday, Sept. 20, said he and his co-accused would appeal the Department of Justice’s decision recommending the filing of homicide cases against them. “Magmotion for reconsideration kami to inform (the) DOJ na legitimate ang operation namin na nangyari sa Ozamiz,” Espenido said in a television interview, speaking on behalf of Senior Police Officer 4 Renato Martir Jr. and Police Officer 1 Sandra Louise Nadayag. The three […]

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Duterte welcomes US official’s attack on ICC; It’s “timely, quite refreshing,” he says

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, Sept. 20, said a US official’s attack on the International Criminal Court was “quite refreshing.” Duterte, who himself criticized the body, was referring to the pronouncements of  US National Security Adviser John Bolton, who declared the ICC “dead to America and “illegitimate,” and described it as “ineffective, unaccountable, and indeed outright dangerous.” Bolton made the statements as the ICC was preparing to probe what it said was detainee […]

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