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(Eagle News) — Former Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre denied ordering his men to shred documents at the Justice department before leaving office. “If any shredding was done, I know nothing about it,” Aguirre said in a statement. In any case, in the first place, he said the shredding of documents was “regularly done in public and private offices.” “We can even surmise that it was done to get rid of unneeded … documents,” he said. […]
by Rosie Scammell © Agence France-Presse UNITED KINGDOM (AFP) — Russian government-sponsored hackers are compromising the key hardware of government and business computer networks like routers and firewalls, giving them virtual control of data flows, Britain and the United States warned Monday. The operation was “to support espionage, extract intellectual property, maintain persistent access to victim networks and potentially lay a foundation for future offensive operations,” Washington and London said in a joint statement. […]
There should be a “more partial arbiter of truth,” Roque says (Eagle News) — The Palace on Monday, April 16, cried foul over Facebook’s choice of Rappler and Vera Files as fact-checkers tasked to weed out fake news and misleading content in the platform. According to Roque, there should be a “more partial arbiter of truth” that will review stories on Facebook that have been flagged as dubious. In January, the Securities and Exchange Commission revoked […]
(Eagle News) — Members of the Liberal Party including Vice President Leni Robredo drew flak from netizens after a picture of them happily posing at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, Germany circulated online. Apart from Robredo, Senator Francis Pangilinan, Ifugao Rep. Teddy Baguilat Jr., Quezon City Rep. Jose Christopher Belmonte, Dinagat Islands Rep. Kaka Bag-ao, Marikina Rep. Miro Quimbo and former Budget Secretary Florencio Abad were seen smiling at the monument meant to honor those […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The European Union on Monday followed China in complaining to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over US tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. “Having a substantial interest as an exporter in this case, the European Union requests consultations with the United States” to agree “safeguards,” the EU said in a statement published on the world trade body’s website. US President Donald Trump sparked fears of a trade war in March when […]
CANADA (AFP) — Foreign Ministers of the Group of Seven industrialized nations on Monday called on Russia to come clean about a nerve agent attack on a former spy in Britain, calling it “a threat to us all.” “We call on Russia to urgently address all questions related to the incident in Salisbury,” they said in a joint statement. The G7 nations urged Russia to provide a “full and complete disclosure of its previously […]
GUARUJA, Brazil (AFP) — A group of homelessness activists briefly occupied Monday the seaside apartment at the heart of the corruption case that saw ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva imprisoned earlier this month. About 30 members of the Homeless Workers’ Movement and other leftist activists got into the triplex apartment in Guaruja, near Sao Paulo, hanging placards from the balcony in support of Lula. “Release Lula or there’ll be no peace,” they shouted. Lula […]
(Eagle News) — Animnapu’t pitong (67) milyong pisong halaga ng puslit na bigas mula vietnam ang nasabat ng Naval Forces Western Mindanao sa Olutanga Island, Zamboanga Sibugay. Sinabi ni Rear Admiral Rene Medina, Commander ng Naval Forces Western Mindanao, naharang ng Naval Task Force 61 ang isang Mongolian-flagged cargo ship na MV Diamond 8 na nag-diskarga ng mahigit dalawampu’t pitong libong (27,000) sako ng bigas o nasa kabuuang 1,359 metrikong tonelada. Inakala aniya ng BRP […]
Ni Ely Dumaboc Eagle News Correspondent SIRAWAI, Zamboanga del Norte (Eagle News) – Naging madugo ang linggo para sa bayan ng Sirawai, Zamboanga del Norte, matapos patayin ng isang isang lalaking lango sa shabu ang anim na miyembro ng ng isang pamilya sa Brgy. Libucon, Sabado ng hapon, April 14. Hindi agad nagsalita ang Zamboanga Peninsula PNP kauganay sa madugong atake sa Zamboanga del Norte. Sa panayam ng newsteam kay Libucon Brgy. Captain Mahari Abdullah, […]
(Eagle News) — Presidential Adviser for Political Affairs Secretary Francis Tolentino on Monday, April 16 defended the remarks of President Rodrigo Duterte that he will arrest the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) if the latter will insist in going to the country. In an interview with Net 25’s, “Sa Ganang Mamamayan,” Tolentino said the statement of the President to arrest the ICC official, Fatou Bensouda, has basis. He said that the ICC’s […]
Ni Ferdinand Libor Eagle News Correspondent PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur (Eagle News) – Arestado ang isang miyembro ng Citizen Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) matapos lumabag sa umiiral na gun ban ng Commission on Elections (COMELEC) kaugnay sa nalalapit na Barangay at Sanggunian Kabataan Election 2018 sa Purok Riverside, Brgy. Sta. Lucia, Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur. Kinilala ang suspek na si Shielvert Onido, 23 taong gulang, may-asawa at residente ng San Pablo, Zamboanga Del […]
South Korea (AFP) — South Korea’s disgraced former president Park Geun-hye will not appeal her 24-year prison sentence for corruption, reports said Monday. Park, 66, who was removed from office over a massive corruption scandal last year, was convicted of multiple criminal charges including bribery and abuse of power at a trial earlier this month. She has boycotted all court hearings since October, claiming unfair treatment. On Monday Park submitted an appeal waiver to […]
