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by Peter Stebbings © Agence France-Presse GOLD COAST, Australia (AFP) — Indian boxing star Mary Kom opened up on the heartache she faced returning to competition after having children as she captured her first Commonwealth Games title on Saturday at the age of 35. Mother-of-three Kom, the subject of a Bollywood film in 2014, won a unanimous points decision over Northern Ireland’s Kristina O’Hara in their light-flyweight final on Australia’s Gold Coast. It is […]
BELGIUM (AFP) — The head of NATO expressed his support for Western strikes in Syria on Saturday after bombings targeting Bashar al-Assad’s regime in retaliation for a suspected chemical attack. “I support the actions taken by the United States, the United Kingdom and France… This will reduce the regime’s ability to further attack the people of Syria with chemical weapons,” Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in a statement. Explosions were heard in the Syrian […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — France warned Friday that Syria’s government had reached a “point of no return” by using chemical weapons and vowed to confront the “intolerable threat” of such attacks to global security. French Ambassador Francois Delattre told a Security Council meeting that world powers must respond to the threat of repeated use of toxic gas as a weapon in Syria’s war. By “deciding once again to use chemical weapons” in the […]
UNITED STATES (AFP) — A quick series of US, French and British air strikes in Syria were designed to send a “clear message” to President Bashar al-Assad and stop his chemical weapons program, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Friday. The Pentagon chief stressed the strikes were carefully calibrated to provide a strong response to a suspected chemical attack, but avoid pulling the West into Syria’s civil war. “The targets tonight again were specifically […]
(Eagle News)–Davao Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio on Friday asked her father, President Rodrigo Duterte, to reconsider his plan to resume peace talks with the communist rebels. “If talks are revived, we are most certain that the NPAs (New People’s Army) will continue to terrorize government forces and civilians,” the Davao mayor said in a statement. For this, Duterte-Carpio cited the torching of heavy equipment vehicles by alleged NPA members during the long holiday, and the death […]
by Andrew Beatty / with AFP correspondents in Damascus © Agence France-Presse UNITED STATES (AFP) — The United States, Britain and France carried out a wave of punitive strikes against Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime on Saturday in response to alleged chemical weapons attacks that President Donald Trump branded the “crimes of a monster.” As Trump embarked on a White House address to announce the action — taken in defiance of Russia’s threat to respond — […]
GOLDSBORO, NC (Eagle News) — Smoke pours into the sky as authorities respond to a fire reported near Martin Luther King Highway in Goldsboro, North Carolina. The fire is causing major traffic delays in the area and, according to reports of local residents, is said to be burning at the Eastern Aluminium Supply building. (Eagle News Service, Bernadette Raguini, EBC Washington D.C. Bureau)
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte formally appointed National Capital Region Police Office chief Oscar Albayalde to the top Philippine National Police post. Albayalde’s appointment paper was released on Friday, April 13. He is set to take his oath of office on April 18. His predecessor, Director Ronald dela Rosa, is slated to head the Bureau of Corrections.
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Nakahanda umanong bumisita si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte sa Kuwait para saksihan ang lagdaan ng kasunduan na magpo-protekta sa Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) sa gitnang silangan. Inanunsyo ito ng Pangulo sa harap ng dalawang libong OFWs na dinalaw nito sa Hong Kong kahapon, Abril 12. Ayon sa Pangulo, nagdesisyon siyang magtungo sa Kuwait matapos sang-ayunan ng Kuwaiti government ang mga kondisyon ng Pilipinas bago alisin ang total deployment ban sa mga […]
(Eagle News) — Hindi naiwasan ng Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) na si Fahima Alagasi na maging emosyonal kanina pagdating ng Pilipinas. Si Alagasi ang Pilipina na pinagmalupitan ng kaniyang amo at binuhusan ng kumukulong tubig sa Saudi Arabia noong 2014. Bagamat tumanggi nang idetalye ang mga hirap na pinagdaanan sa loob ng nakalipas na apat na taon, masaya raw siya na nakabalik na sya sa Pilipinas. Ayon kay Ambassador Adnan Alonto, matagal na proseso ang […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) confirmed that prices of school supplies have increased. In an interview with Net 25’s, Usapang Pagbabago, DTI Undersecretary Atty. Ruth Castelo explained that the price rise was due to the increase on the prices of raw materials for pad papers and other school supplies. She said that they will ask the paper manufacturers in the country not to apply the increase in the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump accused Friday the FBI director he fired, James Comey, of leaking classified information, saying he should be prosecuted for lying to Congress under oath. In a new memoir due to hit the bookshelves Tuesday, Comey said Trump reminded him of a mafia boss who demanded absolute loyalty, saw the entire world against him and lied about everything. “James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in […]
