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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Friday proposed to ban adverts for foods high in fat, salt, and sugar from the city’s transport network in a bid to tackle childhood obesity. The mayor also suggested a ban on new hot-food takeaways opening within 400 meters (yards) of schools, his office announced. “Child obesity in London is a ticking time bomb and I am determined to act,” Khan said. “It can’t be […]
TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur (Eagle News) – Arestado ang isang lalaking na tumatakbo bilang Sangguniang Kabataan chairman sa Barangay Carromata, San Miguel, Surigao del Sur matapos na mahulihan siya ng baril kamakailan. Kinalala ang suspek na si Junnel Vasquez, 21 taong gulang, residente sa nabanggit na lugar. Naaresto ang suspek sa pamamagitan ng isinagawang operation na “Oplan Kapkap Bakal” ng mga personnel ng Tandag CPS sa pangunguna ni Chief Insp. Ray Sorreda sa Nicos Garden Park. […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hundreds of people were evacuated Friday after a World War II bomb was found at a Hong Kong construction site, police said, the third such discovery in the territory this year. Police cordoned off roads and evacuated some 1,200 people from shops, restaurants, and offices in the bustling Wanchai business district as experts sought to unearth and defuse the 450-kilogram (1,000-pound) US-made bomb. The ordinance, which had laid dormant for […]
(Eagle News)– “A legal abomination.” This was how Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen described the quo warranto petition that led the Supreme Court to decide to declare nullified the appointment of Maria Lourdes Sereno as Chief Justice on Friday, May 11. In a Tweet that likely quoted his dissenting opinion hours after the High Court decision was issued, Leonen said the petition filed by Solicitor General Jose Calida “should have been dismissed outright and […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on May 8 signed Executive Order No. 53 which aimed to create a Boracay Inter-agency Task Force for the rehabilitation of the island. The President designated Secretary Roy Cimatu as the chairperson of the task force. In the six-page order, the President ordered “creating a Boracay inter-agency task force providing for its powers and functions and those of member-agencies thereof, and other measures to reverse the degradation of Boracay […]
ANKARA, Turkey (AFP) — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed it was “wrong” for the United States to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, a Turkish presidential source said late Thursday. US President Donald Trump on Tuesday defied the wishes of world powers when he announced that Washington would pull out of the historic nuclear accord and impose new sanctions on Tehran. Calling Trump’s decision “wrong,” Erdogan and Putin pointed […]
(Eagle News) – Over 60 percent of Filipinos are satisfied with the general performance of the Duterte administration, a recent Social Weather Stations survey said. According to the SWS, the 69% of Filipinos satisfied,18% neither satisfied nor dissatisfied, and 11% dissatisfied translate to a net satisfaction rating of +58. Even if this was a 12-point decline from the +70 rating the administration received in the fourth quarter of 2017, the SWS said it was “very good.” The […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — The search for survivors after a dam burst its banks in central Kenya resumed Friday with 44 confirmed dead and a further 40 still missing, the region’s governor said. Weeks of heavy rains have caused flooding and mudslides across the country that have left 175 dead. On Wednesday evening, the earthen wall of a privately owned irrigation dam in Solai, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Nakuru town in Kenya’s […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesian villagers living in the shadow of one of the world’s most active volcanoes fled to safety Friday as the crater erupted, sending a cascade of ash and smoke some 5,000 meters (16,400 feet) into the sky. The government ordered residents living within a five-kilometer (three-mile) radius of Mount Merapi on Java island to leave as ash covered surrounding communities and even reached parts of Yogyakarta, Indonesia’s cultural capital some 30 […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets built on the past week’s gains Friday following another rally in New York as traders welcomed a below-forecast US inflation read that dampened expectations for a sharp lift in interest rates. While geopolitical tensions continue to linger after Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear pact this week, dealers were buoyed by the prospect of cheaper borrowing after data showed consumer prices edged up only slightly in […]
(Eagle News) — Former President Benigno Aquino III on Friday, May 11, slammed the decision of the Supreme Court to declare the appointment of Maria Lourdes Sereno as Chief Justice nullified. “Kung ang batas at malinaw na, di na kailangan ipaliwanag pa. Klaro ang nasa Saligang Batas: ang impeachable officer, sa pamamagitan lang ng impeachment maaalis sa puwesto,” Aquino, who appointed Sereno as chief magistrate, said in a statement. According to Aquino, “kung anuman ang […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A Hawaii volcano that has been oozing lava and burping steam for days may be gearing up for a huge eruption, scientists have warned, prompting the closure of Volcanoes National Park on Friday. It is the newest threat from the Kilauea volcano, which began erupting last Thursday on the US state’s Big Island, the National Park Service said. Scientists say lava levels in the crater are going down, meaning […]
