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MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Nagtipun-tipon ang mga tagasuporta ni Dating Senador Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., sa harap ng Korte Suprema na tumatayong Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) para sa unang araw ng manual recount ng election protest laban kay Vice President Leni Robredo. Hindi bababa sa 200 tagasuporta ni Marcos ang nagtungo sa harap ng gate ng Supreme Court suot ang pulang t-shirt. Bukod sa mga tagasuporta naroon din si Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un smiled, clapped and said he was “deeply moved” by a rare performance by South Korean K-pop stars in Pyongyang, state media reported Monday. The high profile appearance of Kim and his wife, former singer Ri Sol Ju, at the concert was unusual as his authoritarian regime typically struggles to prevent any infiltration of the South’s pop culture among his isolated people. Kim, the first […]
(Eagle News) — Pinatututukan ng Philippine National Police (PNP) sa mga magulang ang mga aktibidad ng kanilang mga anak lalo na ngayong bakasyon. Sinabi ni PNP Spokesman Chief Superintendent John Bulalacao na mayroong napapaulat na student organizations na konektado sa Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA). Ginagamit aniya ng mga rebelde ang mga summer activities sa pag-recruit ng mga estudyante. Ayon sa PNP, namataan ang ilang college students na kasama ng mga miyembro […]
(Eagle News)–The State Prosecutors and Prosecution Attorneys Association Inc. (SPPAAI) expressed “alarm” over the Presidential Anti-Crime Commission’s request to place under preventive suspension the prosecutors who dismissed the charges against Kerwin Espinosa and others. In a statement, the group said the act of requesting to also file administrative charges against Assistant State Prosecutor Michael John Humarang, officer in charge-Senior Deputy State Prosecutor Rassendel Rex Gingoyon, Acting Prosecutor General Jorge Catalan, and former Assistant State Prosecutor […]
by Adam Plowright and Joseph Schmid © Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — French state railway operator SNCF warned Sunday of major disruption caused by strikes this week that analysts say will be a major test of how much weight the country’s once fearsome trade unions still carry. Train drivers and other staff are set to walk off the job from Monday night at the start of three months of planned stoppages against reform plans […]
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AFP) — Mexico’s top presidential candidates launched their campaigns Sunday vowing to take a harder line against Donald Trump, with the leftist front-runner saying his country is done being the US president’s “pinata.” Just as candidates were putting the finishing touches on their opening campaign speeches for Mexico’s July 1 elections, Trump gatecrashed the kick-off party via Twitter, accusing the country of doing “very little” to stop illegal migration and drugs, and renewing […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China on Monday imposed new tariffs on 128 US imports worth $3 billion, including fruits and pork, in retaliation to US duties on steel and aluminium, fuelling fears of a trade war. Beijing’s move, which the Xinhua news agency said was decided by the custom tariffs commission of the State Council, follows weeks of heated rhetoric and threats between the world’s two biggest economies. President Donald Trump has repeatedly railed against China’s […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Inalerto ng Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) ang mga local financial institutions kasunod ng cyber attack sa Malaysian Central Bank. Ayon kay BSP Governor Nestor Espenilla, inilabas nila ang isang general alert reminder matapos na makatanggap sila ng advisory mula sa Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) na kailangan maging mas maingat sa long holiday sa bansa. Iginiit ni Espenilla na ang “information sharing” na ito ay bahagi ng kanilang pinaigting na […]
by Laurent Thomet © Agence France-Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — A defunct Chinese space lab plunged through Earth’s atmosphere Monday, breaking apart as it headed towards a watery grave in the South Pacific, Beijing said. The Tiangong-1 “mostly” burnt up above the vast ocean’s central region at 8:15 am (0015 GMT), China’s Manned Space Engineering Office said, moments after predicting a slightly later re-entry over the Atlantic. Space officials had stressed that the craft would […]
By Vivem Soriano Eagle News Service The San Miguel Beermen scored 36 points in the 4th quarter to capture Game 3 of the Philippine Cup Finals with a crushing 111-87 rout of the Magnolia Pambansang Manok at the Araneta Coliseum on Sunday night. The game was close up until the final quarter. San Miguel led by as much as 13 points in the 1st quarter before Magnolia managed to close the gap to just 7, […]
(Eagle News)– Vice President Leni Robredo’s camp on Sunday expressed confidence the results of the manual recount that is slated to start on Monday will only affirm that she was the winner in the 2016 vice presidential elections. “Kumpiyansa kami at walang dapat ikatakot sa magiging resulta ng recount dahil walang dudang si (Robredo) naman talaga ang nanalo noong 2016 elections,” lawyer Romulo Macalintal said in a statement. He said the recount would also prove […]
By Ayee Macaraig Agence France Presse After fleeing for their lives nearly a year ago, some residents of the battle-scarred city of Marawi were allowed back Sunday for the first time — to dig through the rubble that was once their homes. Swathes of the southern city were destroyed in five months of house-to-house fighting between troops and jihadists loyal to the Islamic State group that killed nearly 1,200. The stunned and tearful residents, who once […]
