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(Eagle News) – Muling magpapatupad ng water interruption ang Maynilad mamayang gabi hanggang Miyerkules, Abril 18 sa ilang bahagi ng Caloocan City at Quezon City. Apektado rito ang Brgy. 171 sa Caloccan City mula 11:00 ng gabi mamaya, Abril 16 hanggang 4:00 ng umaga bukas, Abril 17. Itong Martes, Abriel 17, apektado naman ng water interruption ang bahagi ng Brgy. 175 sa Caloocan City simula 10:30 ng gabi hanggang 3:30 ng umaga ng Miyerkules, Abril […]
by Kerry Sheridan © Agence France-Presse TAMPA, United States (AFP) — NASA is poised to launch a $337 million washing machine-sized spacecraft that aims to vastly expand mankind’s search for planets beyond our solar system, particularly closer, Earth-sized ones that might harbor life. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, is scheduled to launch Monday at 6:32 pm (2232 GMT) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Its main goal over the […]
by Edgar Calderon © Agence France-Presse GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AFP) — Guatemala voted Sunday on whether to send a long-running border dispute with neighboring Belize to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for final resolution. Polls closed at 6:00 pm (0000 GMT) after 11 hours of voting, which took place “without reports of security incidents,” according to Supreme Electoral Tribunal president Maria Eugenia Mijangos. But despite 7.5 million Guatemalans being summoned to the ballot box, the […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Humiling ang Commission on Elections (Comelec) kay Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na ideklarang special non-working holiday ang May 14 kaugnay ng idaraos na Barangay at Sangguniang Kabataan elections. Batay sa inilabas na Resolution 10301, sinabi ng Comelec na dapat mabigyan ng oportunidad ang mga Filipino na magawa ang kanilang karapatan na makaboto. Ang resolusyon ay nilagdaan nina Comelec Acting Chairman Commissioner Al Pareno, at mga commissioners na sina Luie Guia, […]
by Hector Velasco with Jordi Miró in Quito © Agence France-Presse BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — The kidnapping and killing of two journalists and their driver has thrown up an uncomfortable truth for Colombia and Ecuador, analysts say: that their long-neglected border has become a drug traffickers’ nirvana. The two governments sent troops into the dense jungle area to hunt for the killers and re-establish control over a region analysts say has become a key corridor […]
UNITED STATES (AFP) — President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria will meet Donald Trump in Washington on April 30 to discuss issues including “fighting terrorism” and economic growth, the White House announced Sunday. “President Trump looks forward to discussing ways to enhance our strategic partnership and advance our shared priorities: promoting economic growth and reforms, fighting terrorism and other threats to peace and security, and building on Nigeria’s role as a democratic leader in the […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Forget LeBron James making his eighth consecutive trip to the NBA Finals. The Cleveland Cavaliers star might have trouble just getting out of the opening round of the playoffs. Victor Oladipo scored a game-high 32 points to power the Indiana Pacers over the host Cavaliers 98-80 on Sunday in the opening game of their first-round NBA playoff series. “Stay calm, stay composed, play the game I have all year […]
UNITED KINGDOM (AFP) — British foreign minister Boris Johnson on Sunday said the Syrian war will inevitably continue after unprecedented Western strikes, which were limited to targeting the country’s alleged chemical weapons facilities. Britain and France on Saturday joined the US-led missile strikes, which came a week after a deadly attack on the town of Douma where civilians were hit with chlorine and sarin according to the Western powers. Despite describing the intervention as […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Durerte on Saturday, April 14, assured that the government is taking steps to end the abuse on overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the Middle East countries, after meeting with an overseas Filipino worker who was abused by her employer in Saudi Arabia. President Duterte met with Pahima Alagasi, who was scaled by the mother of her employer with boiling water four years ago. She returned home Friday, after staying […]
by Athens Zaw Zaw with Sam Jahan in Dhaka © Agence France-Presse YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Myanmar’s government said it has repatriated the first family of Rohingya refugees, among the 700,000 who fled a brutal crackdown, but the move was slammed by rights groups as a publicity stunt which ignored warnings over the security of returnees. The stateless Muslim minority has been massing in squalid refugee camps across the border in Bangladesh since the Myanmar army […]
(Eagle News) — Palarong Pambansa 2018 kicked off on Sunday, April 15, with President Rodrigo Duterte as guest of honor. In his speech at the Elpidio Quirino Stadium in Bantay, Ilocos Sur, President Duterte hailed the nationwide sports youth competition as a “training ground for future leaders and nation builders whose values and principles are founded on perseverance, discipline, teamwork, integrity and love of country.” He said it was also an event that allows […]
by Sebastien Berger © Agence France-Presse NORTH KOREA (AFP) — Thousands of North Korean devotees laid flowers before statues of the country’s founder Kim Il Sung Sunday on the anniversary of his birth. A constant stream of soldiers in brown uniforms, work unit personnel in suits, schoolchildren and families made their way to Mansu hill in the center of Pyongyang, where giant statues of Kim and his son and successor look out over […]
