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(Eagle News) — Senator Bam Aquino questioned what he said was the Department of Budget and Management’s move to cut the Department of Education’s budget for the construction of classrooms. According to Aquino, from the original P116 billion, this was slashed to “just” P10.2 billion. He said the new amount can only allow for the construction of 4,000 classrooms, a far cry from the 47,000 classrooms the DepEd could have supposedly built for 2019 with the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo welcomed Pyongyang’s “important commitments” made by Pyongyang during Wednesday’s inter-Korean summit, adding Washington was ready to begin negotiating immediately to achieve the denuclearization of North Korea “by January 2021.” In a statement, Pompeo said he spoke with his North Korean counterpart Wednesday morning and invited him to meet in New York next week on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. The statement […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice has dismissed murder and arbitrary detention charges against Ozamiz police chief Jovie Espenido and several of his men, but found probable cause for the filing of a homicide complaint against them. In its resolution penned by Loverhette Jeffrey Villordon, assistant state prosecutor, and approved by acting prosecutor general Richard Fadullon, the DOJ said there was basis for the homicide charges filed by Carmelita Manzano against Espenido, Senior Police […]
RIYADH, Sudi Arabia (AFP) — Saudi King Salman hosted Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan Wednesday on his maiden foreign visit since coming to power, state media said, as Islamabad seeks to stave off a financial crisis. Khan also met Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and energy minister Khalid al-Falih as he concluded his two-day visit, the Saudi Press Agency said, amid speculation that he would seek economic assistance from the oil-rich ally. “Anyone who comes […]
(Eagle News) – The Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ) recently conducted an International Aid to Humanity in Long Island City in New York, particularly for the tenants of Queensbridge Houses, the largest public housing development in North America. The INC, upon the directive of INC Executive Minister Brother Eduardo V. Manalo, gave more than 1,200 goodwill bags, containing food and other items of immediate need, to the residents of Queensbridge in the morning […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Two months ago, basketball superstar LeBron James joined the Los Angeles Lakers. Now, he’s taking on Hollywood in a big way. The long-awaited sequel to “Space Jam” — the 1996 live action-animated film starring NBA legends Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Charles Barkley and Patrick Ewing — is finally moving forward. King James’s production company, SpringHill Entertainment, on Wednesday tweeted an image of a locker room featuring the names of […]
by Patrick GALEY Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Moderate global temperature rises of just two degrees Celsius could still be enough to melt parts of the largest ice sheet on Earth and raise sea levels by several metres, experts warned on Wednesday. As the pace of climate change rapidly outstrips mankind’s attempts to rein it in, scientists delved into the distant past of glaciers in eastern Antarctica to predict what lay in store […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Alibaba founder Jack Ma said his ambitious pledge to create one million jobs in the US had been scuppered by the trade row between Beijing and Washington, Chinese state news reported Thursday. The billionaire owner of China’s largest online shopping portal made the headline-grabbing promise to Donald Trump last year, as Beijing courted the then-newly elected president. But Ma told Xinhua that his pledge had been made on the basis […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Global stocks mostly pushed higher on Wednesday as investors looked past the latest tit-for-tat tariffs by China and the United States. US President Donald Trump said he will impose 10 percent levies starting next week on another $200 billion of imports from China, prompting Beijing to target $60 billion of US goods with five to 10 percent taxes. Beijing rejected Trump’s claim that it was tailoring retaliatory tariffs goods […]
DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) — President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday blamed Israel for the downing of a Russian plane, which was accidentally hit by Syrian anti-aircraft fire while seeking to intercept Israeli missile fire. “This unfortunate incident was the result of Israeli arrogance and debauchery,” the Syrian leader said, offering his condolences in a letter to his Russian counterpart for the death of 15 people killed in the incident over Syria on Monday. © Agence France-Presse
by Nicholas Kamm with Chris Lefkow in Washington Agence France Presse CONWAY, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump toured storm-battered areas of the Carolinas on Wednesday, handing out meals to residents and promising the “100 percent” support of the federal government to victims of Hurricane Florence. “Washington is with you. Trump is with you,” the president said during a briefing at emergency operations headquarters in Conway, South Carolina. Trump began his tour of […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has returned the National Food Authority and two other agencies under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture. In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Sept. 19, Agriculture Secretary Manny Pinol said apart from the NFA, also returned were the Philippine Coconut Authority and the Fertilizer and Pesticides Authority, which had been placed under the Office of the President by then-President Benigno Aquino III. The reorganization was made possible by Executive Order […]
