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(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said he would wait for the judicial process to proceed regarding the case of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, and would want the proper issuance of the arrest warrant from the regional trial court before he could be arrested, his spokesperson said. In a press briefing in Jordan, Presidential Spokesperon Harry Roque said that President Duterte would prefer civilian court processes to proceed, rather than court martial proceedings. “He will […]
(Eagle News)– The Department of Finance on Friday, Sept. 7, released a list of measures it said would be implemented to arrest inflation. In a statement on its website, the DOF said these measures were arrived at after a meeting among members of the Economic Development Cluster of President Rodrigo Duterte’s Cabinet on Wednesday, Sept. 5. The meeting took place on the same day the Philippine Statistics Authority reported that inflation had accelerated to 6.4 percent […]
by Kyoko Hasegawa and Richard Carter © Agence France-Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP)–Japanese rescue workers with bulldozers and sniffer dogs scrabbled through the mud Friday to find survivors from a landslide that buried houses after a powerful quake, as the death toll rose to 18. Around 22 people are still unaccounted for in the small northern countryside town of Atsuma, where a cluster of dwellings were wrecked when a hillside collapsed with the force of the […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of National Defense will defer to the decision of the Supreme Court on the petition filed by Senator Antonio Trillanes against Proclamation No. 572. ” The DND respects the judicial process,” the DND said in a statement issued a day after Trillanes filed a petition or certiorari, prohibition and injunction with a prayer for the issuance of a temporary restraining order on the proclamation that declared his amnesty void ab initio. In […]
by Kerry Sheridan Agence France Presse TAMPA, United States (AFP) — Installing massive wind and solar farms in the Saharan desert could slow global warming, and also give a small but beneficial boost to rain in the dry African region, researchers said Thursday. The study in the journal Science used computer modeling to simulate the effect of covering 20 percent of the largest desert on the planet in solar panels and installing three million wind […]
by Peter Hutchison Agence France Presse MUMBAI, India (AFP) — Clickety-clack, clickety-clack, ding rings out from a home in India’s Mumbai where Chandrakant Bhide is creating his latest artwork — on a typewriter. The 72-year-old thumps the keys of the bulky, manual machine to draw portraits of famous people, all bearing an unmistakeable resemblance to their subject. From politicians and film stars to cricketers, animation characters and religious symbols, Bhide has produced around 150 pieces […]
This infograph provided by AFP shows how the ebola virus attacks the body.
BENI, DR Congo (AFP) — The death toll from an outbreak of Ebola in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 88, the health ministry said Thursday, as the virus spread to the city of Butembo, an important commercial hub of one million people. The first confirmed cases in Butembo were a woman and one of the medical staff who had been treating her, it added. The woman died on Tuesday after fleeing nearby […]
https://youtu.be/CcpAS1L3WmY RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil’s right-wing presidential front runner Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed and seriously injured while campaigning Thursday, with police saying the suspect claimed to be acting on orders from God. It was the latest bizarre twist in a presidential race in which the most popular candidate, former president and leftist hero Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is trying to run from prison. The Supreme Court disqualified Lula on Thursday. First […]
(Eagle News) — The Valenzuela Regional Trial Court has upheld its previous decision junking the charges filed against several individuals implicated in last year’s entry of P6.4-billion worth of illegal drugs from China. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said the prosecution would therefore question the ruling of Branch 284 that upheld its April 23 decision before the Court of Appeals. In the April decision, Judge Arthur Melicor granted the motions to dismiss filed by Chinese businessman Richard Tan, Customs […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Friday, Sept. 7, said the Department of Justice would seek an alias warrant and a hold departure order against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV from another court. Guevarra said the motion would be filed today before Branch 150 of the Makati Regional Trial Court, where Trillanes, who played a prominent role in the Oakwood Mutiny and the Peninsula Manila Siege in 2003 and 2007, respectively, was charged with […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Donnie Nietes, who hasn’t lost a fight in 14 years, tries to become a world champion in his fourth different weight class Saturday when he faces fellow Filipino Aston Palicte. Nietes will risk his 33-fight unbeaten streak against hard-hitting 27-year-old Palicte for the vacant World Boxing Organization super flyweight title at The Forum in Inglewood, California. Nietes, 41-1 with four drawn and 23 knockouts, has 30 wins and three […]
