Breaking News, Latest Philippines Headlines, World, Entertainment, Politics, Weather & Video News
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) Results and standings on Friday: Cleveland 107, New Orleans 102 Portland 105, LA Clippers 96 Dallas 92, Minnesota 93 Atlanta 91, Philadelphia 101 Utah 107, Memphis 97 Houston 104, Phoenix 103 Oklahoma City 125, Denver 126 (OT) Orlando 77, Chicago 88 Standings (w l pct gb) Eastern Conference Toronto 55 20 73.3 — Boston 52 23 69.3 3 Cleveland 46 30 60.5 9 1/2 Philadelphia 45 30 60.0 10 Indiana 45 31 59.2 […]
By Caesar Vallejos Eagle News Service While it will make most of them jobless, the looming closure of Boracay will give some the breather from work in this paradise island, one of the best in the world. With seemingly no choice given to them, having a respite from their daily grind becomes the only alternative, with many of them going back to their homes in the mainland. A few though would fight it out to […]
by Adel Zaanoun © Agence France-Presse GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) — Clashes erupted as tens of thousands of Gazans marched near the Israeli border in a major protest, with 16 Palestinians killed and hundreds more wounded in the conflict’s worst single day of violence since the 2014 Gaza war. Israel’s military targeted three Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip with tank fire and an air strike after what it said was an attempted shooting […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Richard Gordon on Saturday said the “syndicate” behind the proliferation of fake medicines in the market should be “unmasked and be held accountable.” Gordon made the statement days after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the arrest of peddlers of the counterfeit substances and the filing of charges against them. He issued the order after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an advisory against fake paracetamol being sold in the market. According to Gordon, […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Paul Millsap scored a season-high 36 points as the Denver Nuggets jump started their playoff hopes with a 126-125 overtime victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday. Denver, who came into the contest two games out of the No. 8 position in the Western Conference playoff race, had lost two straight and needed to turn that around. Nikola Jokic had 23 points and 16 rebounds, and Will Barton […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — K-pop stars led a group of South Korean musicians departing for Pyongyang Saturday to take part in the latest set of cross-border cultural performances ahead of next month’s rare inter-Korean summit. The 120-member group including top girlband Red Velvet flew from Seoul’s Gimpo airport aboard a chartered civilian flight to Pyongyang via the rarely used direct air route between the two Koreas, as a rapprochement on the peninsula gathers […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — LeBron James continued his assault on the NBA record book, passing Michael Jordan for consecutive games with at least 10 points in the Cleveland Cavaliers 107-102 win over the New Orleans Pelicans on Friday. James wasted no time getting the milestone, doing it for the 867th straight time in his 15-year illustrous career when he finished off a dunk with just under six minutes left in the first […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese whaling vessels returned to port on Saturday after catching more than 300 of the mammals in the Antarctic Ocean without facing any protests by anti-whaling groups, officials said. A fleet of five whalers set sail for the Southern Ocean in November, as Tokyo pursues its “research whaling” in defiance of global criticism. Three of the vessels, including the fleet’s main ship, the Nisshin Maru, arrived in the morning at Shimonoseki […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP)–North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un has met Olympics chief Thomas Bach in Pyongyang, thanking him for helping to bring about a “dramatic thawing” of tensions on the Korean peninsula, the country’s state media said Saturday. Last month’s Winter Olympics in South Korea triggered a fast-moving rapprochement that will see Kim sit down with the South’s President Moon Jae-in in late April — with a US summit with President Donald Trump planned for […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Francis Pangilinan said the Maranaos should be allowed to “return to their homeland and repair or make new homes on the same site where they (were) situated before the siege.” “Let them rebuild from their roots,” he said, noting that their homes were where “their families converge, where their Islamic faith has been grounded, where their value systems have been established…” “They should be allowed to return to ground zero and be given assistance, […]
By Anna Smolchenko with Marina Koreneva in Saint Petersburg Agence France Presse Russia expelled diplomats from 23 countries Friday in a wave of retaliatory measures against the West in a spy row, the biggest wave of tit-for-tat expulsions in recent memory. The Russian foreign ministry said in a statement that it had summoned the heads of missions from 23 countries earlier to tell them that some of their diplomats had to leave the country. Germany […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia on Friday informed the Dutch ambassador of the expulsion of two diplomats in a tit-for-tat measure over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in Britain, TASS state news agency reported. Dutch Ambassador Renee Jones-Bos told TASS state news agency: “Two of my colleagues are leaving Moscow. But we (the embassy) are staying here.” © Agence France-Presse
