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by Nova Safo Agence France Presse CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — The Michigan university where serial sex abuser Larry Nassar practiced medicine announced Wednesday it has agreed to a $500 million settlement with hundreds of former victims of the ex-USA Gymnastics doctor. The agreement with attorneys representing 332 women and girls was a “global settlement,” Michigan State University (MSU) said. It resolved claims against faculty and staff employed at the school who were also […]
Three diplomats charged over OFW rescue to return to PHL, Bello says (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, May 16, ordered the total lifting of the ban on the deployment of Overseas Workers Filipinos to Kuwait. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said it was Duterte himself who ordered Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III to totally lift the ban, upon recommendation of Special Envoy to Kuwait Abdullah Mama-o. The move comes a day after the government […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippines further intensified its ties with Russia with the holding of a bilateral meeting between Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday, May 15, in Moscow. Cayetano thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Foreign Minister for valuing better relations with the Philippines. “We thank President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for attaching great importance to our relations and for […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has denied Senator Antonio Trillanes’ bid for the dismissal of a P5-million civil suit filed against him by a businessman he had called a “dummy” owner of what he called the “Hacienda Binay” estate in Batangas. In denying Trillanes’ petition for certiorari, the High Court’s first division effectively affirmed the orders of Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 101 Judge Evangeline Castillo-Marigomen that allowed businessman Antonio Tiu to file the suit against Trillanes, who […]
(Eagle News) — Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III can probably expect another assignment from President Rodrigo Duterte. But apparently not as Ombudsman, a post Bello has said he was interested in. “I will assign him as labor attache sa Kuwait,” Duterte said when asked to comment on Bello’s application for the post, which would be left vacant with Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales’ retirement in July. The President did not elaborate. Other candidates for the post are […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte through his Special Assistant, Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go, guaranteed sari-sari store owners and other micro-entrepreneurs they had the government’s continued support. During the “TinadahaNation,” a sari-sari store convention hosted by Puregold on Wednesday, May 16, Go said that micro businesses like sari-sari stores encourage Filipinos to participate in economic activities, as this is the “easiest business that Filipinos can engage into.” Go also cited some government programs, especially those […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, May 16, suspended several government officials pending an investigation into corruption allegations against them. President Duterte identified those suspended as Atty. Ambrosi Basman; Atty. Rohani Basman; Amisa Lumontod; Amilquir Macabando; an ex-mayor of Marawi City; Atty. Samina Sanpaco Macabando Usman, Department of Justice prosecutor; Inquest Prosecutor Clemente Villanueva; Assistant Prosecutor Florenzo dela Cruz; Ninoy Aquino International Airport Customs district collector Ramon Anquilan; Justice Assistant Secretary Moslemen Macarambon […]
(Eagle News) — The House of Representatives said that it still needed to wait for the final decision of the Supreme Court on the appeal that ousted Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno planned to file on the quo warranto case before it can decide on its next move. The statement came after the Supreme Court favored the quo warranto petition, which resulted in Sereno’s ouster. In an interview with DZEC Radyo Agila, House Justice Committee […]
(Eagle News) — Eagle Broadcasting Corporation continued to strengthen its global presence as it becomes an accredited media outfit in the United Kingdom. EBC which has correspondents in various parts of the world, including in Europe, has a strong presence in the United Kingdom where it has an established bureau. The EBC UK Bureau, in fact, made its debut of its live broadcast of its reports on the historic and record-breaking Worldwide Walk Against […]
Thirteen senators have signed a draft resolution urging the Supreme Court to review its decision nullifying the appointment of Maria Lourdes Sereno as Chief Justice. The opposition senators who signed the draft resolution were Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, Senators Antonio Trillanes IV, Risa Hontiveros, Bam Aquino, Francis Pangilinan and Leila de Lima. Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III, Senators Francis Escudero, Sherwin Gatchalian, Grace Poe, Juan Edgardo Angara, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto and Senator […]
(Eagle News) –Opposition senators on Wednesday, May 16, asked the Supreme Court to declare the Philippines’ withdrawal from the International Criminal Court as “invalid or ineffective.” In a 17-page petition for certiorari and mandamus, Senators Francis Pangilinan, Franklin Drilon, Bam Aquino, Leila De Lima, Risa Hontiveros and Antonio Trillanes IV also asked the High Court to compel the executive department, through the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Philippine Permanent Mission to the United Nations, […]
(Eagle News) — Two policemen who were abducted by Abu Sayyaf bandits in Sulu have been released. Philippine National Police chief Director General Oscar Albayalde said P02 Bennie Rose Alvarez and P01 Dinah Gumahad were “on their way” to the residence of Governor Sakur Tan “at iri-release sila kay provincial director doon.” “Kaya siguro binitawan na rin sila it’s because of the pressure na ginagawa ng military and the PNP,” Albayalde said. He said that while […]
