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UNITED STATES (AFP) — Results from Saturday’s NBA first-round playoff games (all series best-of-seven): Eastern Conference At Toronto Toronto 114 — Washington 106 (Toronto lead series 1-0) At Philadelphia Philadelphia 130 — Miami Heat 103 (Philadelphia lead series 1-0) Western Conference At Oakland, California Golden State 113 — San Antonio 92 (Golden State lead series 1-0) At Portland, Oregon Portland Trail Blazers 95 — New Orleans Pelicans 97 (New Orleans lead series 1-0) © […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Bon Jovi, the Moody Blues, Dire Straits, the Cars, Nina Simone and Sister Rosetta Tharpe joined music royalty on Saturday as they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Richie Sambora, the original guitarist for arena-packing rockers Bon Jovi reunited with the band for a rousing set at the Public Auditorium in Cleveland that included hits “You Give Love a Bad Name and “It’s My Life.” […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — The Golden State Warriors fired a warning to their rivals as the NBA playoffs got under way on Saturday, routing the San Antonio Spurs 113-92 to serve notice they will not be dethroned easily despite Stephen Curry’s knee injury. Klay Thompson scored a game-high 27 points on 11-of-13 shooting, including 5-of-6 from 3-point range, and Kevin Durant added 24 points, eight rebounds and seven assists to power Golden State. […]
SOUTH KOREA (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un personally greeted a top Chinese official in Pyongyang and called for stronger ties with Beijing, state media said Sunday, as the traditional allies seek to heal battered relations. Kim met Song Tao, head of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee’s international department, who was leading an art troupe to a spring festival in the North’s capital. The delegation arrived just weeks after Kim made […]
SYRIA (AFP) — Inspectors from the OPCW chemical watchdog will begin their investigation Sunday at the site of an alleged chemical attack near Damascus, a senior official said. “The fact-finding team arrived in Damascus on Saturday and is due to go to Douma on Sunday,” Deputy Foreign Minister Ayman Soussan told AFP. A delegation of experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, based in The Hague, is tasked with investigating an […]
by Thomas Watkins / with Rim Haddad in Damascus Agence France Presse US President Donald Trump and his British and French allies on Saturday hailed their joint strikes in Syria in response to its alleged use of chemical weapons, warning Damascus that any repetition would be met with renewed firepower. Hours later, the allies signaled their resolve to return to diplomacy, launching a new bid at the United Nations to investigate the chemical weapons […]
(Eagle News)—Senator Richard Gordon on Sunday, April 15, said President Rodrigo Duterte has every right to order the arrest of International Criminal Court prosecutors should they come to the country. “As far as the President is concerned, he has the right to protect the country. Kapag ang mga ito ay gagawa lang ng hindi mabuti, dine-destabilize ang bayan natin, he has that right,” Gordon said in a radio interview. He also agreed with Duterte’s position […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte met with the Overseas Filipino Worker who was allegedly scalded by her employer in Saudi Arabia in 2014 on Saturday, April 14. In a social media post, Special Assistant to the President Bong Go said Duterte was happy Pahima Alagasi was able to return to the country after her 4-year ordeal. Alagasi, who arrived in the Philippines on Friday, April 13, had to be rushed to the hospital after the […]
(Eagle News)–Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade on Sunday, April 15, ordered the filing of charges against Metro Rail Transit 3 passengers who cause door problems due to their lack of discipline. Tugade gave the order after thousands of passengers had to be offloaded on Friday, April 13, because of the same reason. Prior to this, operations in the MRT3 had been running without disruptions after a weeklong maintenance of the trains during the holidays. “For the […]
(Eagle News)—-The camp of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno said Solicitor General Jose Calida only “destroyed” his quo warranto petition when he said it was he who recovered eight of her Statements of Assets and Liabilities and Net Worth and not the Chief Justice. “His submission is an admission that his petition is baseless..The recovery of most of the SALNs destroys the SolGen’s main argument that the Chief Justice should be removed from office on […]
(Eagle News)–The Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) has called on the Supreme Court (SC) to dismiss the quo warranto petition against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. “We ask them (SC) to let the right process take us to the truth. At this point, the legal and proper process is impeachment and not quo warranto,” Ateneo president Jose Ramon Villarin said in a statement on Saturday, April 14. According to Villarin, the process of impeachment, which […]
