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by Ivan Couronne © Agence France-Presse Seattle has become the first major US city to ban plastic straws and utensils in its eateries, a victory for environmentalists that will be tough to replicate elsewhere in the United States. After targeting plastic bags, environmentalists have set their sights on plastic drinking straws as a public enemy, highlighting the gap between their brief moment of utility and the enduring impact they have on marine creatures, which often […]
(Eagle News) — Pitong porsyento lamang ng kabuuang bilang ng mga pribadong paaralan sa buong bansa ang pinayagan ng Department of Education na magtaas ng kanilang tuition fee. Ayon kay Education Undersecretary Jesus Mateo, mayroong 14,430 na pribadong paaralan sa buong bansa para sa school year 2018-2019. Mula aniya sa kabuuang bilang, 92 percent o katumbas ng 13,266 na pribadong paaralan sa bansa ang hindi nagtaas ng matrikula. Ang 974 naman na pribadong paaralan na […]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) – A Chilean judge has convicted nine retired soldiers in the 1973 murder of one of Chile’s most beloved folk singers, Victor Jara, the judiciary said on Tuesday. Jara, 40, was arrested the day after the September 11, 1973 CIA-backed coup that overthrew Salvador Allende and installed Augusto Pinochet as dictator. Jara’s body was found days later, riddled with 44 bullets. He had been held, along with around 5,000 other political prisoners, […]
QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) – An Ecuadoran court on Tuesday ordered the arrest of Brussels-based former president Rafael Correa over alleged links to the kidnapping of an opponent in Colombia. The National Court of Justice said Judge Daniella Camacho “resolves to impose preventive detention” against Correa and has alerted Interpol. Correa, president from 2007-2017, was one of the feistiest characters in Latin American politics. He now lives in his wife’s native Belgium, but is under investigation […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has reset anew oral arguments on the consolidated petition challenging the Philippines’ withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. SC spokesperson Theodore Te said the debate on the petition filed by opposition senators Leila De Lima, Francis Pangilinan, Franklin Drilon, Bam Aquino, Risa Hontiveros, and Antonio Trillanes IV, and of the Philippine Coalition for the ICC was now scheduled on Aug. 14 from Aug. 7. They cited as a reason for […]
(Eagle News) — Nagbukas ang Philippine Airlines (PAL) ng bagong ruta via Clark International Airport sa Pampanga. Kabilang sa mga binuksang ruta ng PAL ay sa mga kilalang destinasyon sa northern Luzon, Mindoro, Palawan at Mindanao. Ayon sa PAL, ang mga byahero ay maaari nang mag-take ng flights mula sa Clark patungo sa Siargao, San Vicente sa Palawan, Cauayan sa Isabela at San Jose sa Mindoro. Ang binuksan anila na bagong flights ay inaasahang magpapalakas […]
(Eagle News) — Umaasa ang gobyerno na lalago ng 7 (%) percent ang ekonomiya ng bansa sa second quarter ng taon. Ayon kay Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia, ito ay dahil sa mas mataas na nagastos ng gobyerno sa capital equipment at sa ‘Build, Build, Build’ program’. Sa datos ng Department of Budget and Management (DBM), makikita na tumaas ng 26 % o nasa 58.1 billion pesos ang nagastos ng gobyerno sa proyektong imprastraktura noong […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – The United States has temporarily allowed Chinese telecoms company ZTE to resume some activities while it works to meet conditions set by Washington in a politically charged settlement reached last month. In a Federal Register notice released Tuesday, the Commerce Department gave ZTE until August 1 to continue supporting its existing US equipment and networks, lifting some restrictions put in place in April that had brought the company to the […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP)–A Japanese tourist has died attempting to climb Australian tourist attraction Uluru, police said Wednesday, adding to the death toll on the world’s largest monolith. Emergency services responded to a call on Tuesday afternoon, but the 76-year-old was declared dead at the scene. “This person’s believed to be a Japanese national. At this stage, we don’t believe it’s anything suspicious,” Northern Territory police Superintendent Shaun Gill told reporters. At least 36 people have […]
OSLO, Norway (AFP) – The traditional concert after the annual awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10 in Oslo will not be staged this year due to financial difficulties, the organisers said Tuesday. “There will be no Nobel Peace Prize concert” in 2018, said a statement from theNobel Institute, Warner Bros Norway and the Gyro Event company. “The decision emerges from a wish to re-think the concert format and content but also reflects […]
by Dave James Agence France Presse Maria Sharapova suffered her first opening round Wimbledon defeat and earliest Grand Slam exit in eight years on Tuesday when she was shocked by fellow Russian Vitalia Diatchenko, the world number 132. Sharapova, the 2004 champion, was joined at the exit by 2011 and 2014 winner Petra Kvitova who was stunned by Belarusian world number 50 Aliaksandra Sasnovich. However, two-time men’s champion Rafael Nadal and three-time winner Novak Djokovic […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Facebook acknowledged Tuesday it was facing multiple inquiries from US and British regulators about the major Cambridge Analytica user data scandal. The leading social network offered no details but its admission confirmed reports of a widening investigation into the misuse of private data by Facebook and its partners. “We are cooperating with officials in the US, UK and beyond,” a Facebook spokesman said in response to an AFP query. “We’ve provided […]
