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INC’s worldwide walk to fight poverty starts; 5 official Guinness attempts announced

  (Eagle News) – The Iglesia Ni Cristo’s Worldwide Walk to Fight Poverty officially started at 6 a.m. on Sunday, May 6 as hundreds of thousands of participants walked simultaneously in more than 300 sites across 18 time zones around the world in a historic global charity walk. At the main site in Manila’s scenic Roxas Boulevard, organizers introduced the two official Guinness adjudicators on the stage before the walk started, Adam Brown and Lucia […]

Anger in France over Trump comments on Bataclan attacks

by Adam PLOWRIGHT Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — France on Saturday condemned remarks by US President Donald Trump about the 2015 attacks in Paris and called on him to show respect for the victims of the worst bloodshed on French soil since World War II. “France expresses its firm disapproval of the comments by President Trump about the attacks of November 13, 2015, in Paris and asks for respect of the memory of […]

Navalny, 1,600 supporters detained at anti-Putin rallies

by Anais LLOBET with Marina KORENEVA in Saint Petersburg Agence France Presse MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained along with nearly 1,600 of his supporters on Saturday during nationwide rallies against Vladimir Putin as police and paramilitary activists used force to break up rallies in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Riot police beat protesters with truncheons, dragged them along the ground and threw them into police vans in Moscow, in an […]

MSMEs in Manila benefit from the economic spur driven by charity walk

Caesar Vallejos Eagle News Service Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are thriving from the boost in economic activities in the Manila area driven by the thousands of participants of the Worldwide Walk Fight for Poverty. Joey Garcia, a mentor of Go Negosyo who now runs a chain of restaurants and a hotel. estimates that the entrepreneurs at the event will earn a combined gross income of 20 million using the carts and kiosks bu- […]

Sereno: Other gov’t employees at risk of being removed from posts if I lose quo warranto case

(Eagle News) — Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on Saturday, May 5, said other government employees were at risk of being removed from their posts if she was removed via a quo warranto petition. “Ganu’n po katindi ang pananakot na puwede nilang ipukpok sa ulo ng lahat ng mga kawani ng gobyerno. Hindi lang sa larangan ng hudikatura, hindi lang ‘yung mga impeachable officers, hindi lang sa mga abogado kundi sa milyun-milyong mga kawani sa […]