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PARIS, France (AFP) — Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy blasted what he said was a lack of evidence for the corruption charges against him over allegations that late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi funded his 2007 election campaign, in his court statement published Thursday. The morning after he was charged in one of France’s most explosive political scandals in years, the 63-year-old rightwinger said he had been in “living hell” since the allegations first emerged in 2011. […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service The policeman who died after being administered Dengvaxia did not die because of the controversial anti-dengue vaccine. According to the Philippine National Police Health Service, SP02 Vicente Arugay Jr. appeared to have died of leptospirosis instead. “Sa ER we listed two days with fever. Dun po sasabihin natin na ang manifestation ng leptospirosis medyo huli na. Wala na siyang urine output..Sa amin po, sa pagkakakita namin, sa PNP General […]
(Eagle News) — Several individuals–including left-leaning lawmakers— asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to junk the quo warranto petition seeking to have the appointment of Maria Lourdes Sereno as Chief Justice annulled. The motions for intervention and an opposition-in-intervention were jointly filed by Makabayan bloc members Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate, ACT Teachers Partylist Reps. Antonio Tinio and Francisca Castro, Anakpawis Party-list Rep. Ariel Casilao, Kabataan Party-list Rep. Sarah Jane Elago, and Gabriela Women’s Party Reps. Emerenciana […]
by Vyacheslav Oseledko Agence France Presse BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AFP) — Two astronauts, a cosmonaut and a ball set to be used in the forthcoming football World Cup in Russia blasted off Wednesday for a two-day flight to the International Space Station. NASA’s Drew Feustel and Richard Arnold lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission in a Soyuz MS-08 under the command of Russian colleague Oleg Artemyev at the expected time […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Across Japan’s capital, delicate pink and white cherry blossoms are emerging, but the famed blooms are facing a potentially mortal enemy, experts say: an invasive foreign beetle. The alien invader is aromia bungii, otherwise known as the red-necked longhorn beetle, which is native to China, Taiwan, the Korean peninsula and northern Vietnam. The beetles live inside cherry and plum trees, stripping them of their bark. In serious cases, an infestation can […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament will hold an annual session next month, state media said Thursday, with all eyes on whether it will move to bolster a diplomatic thaw with the US and South Korea. A rapid rapprochement that kicked off during last month’s Winter Olympics has seen US President Donald Trump agree to hold a summit with the North’s leader Kim Jong Un. The hermit state’s legislative body meets only […]
(Eagle News) — The Ninoy Aquino International Airport has made it to a British-based consultancy firm’s list of most improved airports. The country’s main gateway was tenth on Skytrax’s list, which was topped by the Rome Fiumicino Airport. In second place was the Perth Airport, in third Calgary airport, in fourth Taiwan Taoyuan airport, and in fifth the Athens airport. The Nadi International Airport in Fiji bagged sixth place, Montreal airport seventh place, Moscow Sheremetyevo airport eighth […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Most Asia markets rose on Thursday and the dollar extended losses after the Federal Reserve stuck to its target for interest rate hikes this year, soothing concerns it would embark on a quicker pace. After one of the most anticipated meetings in recent months, the central bank lifted borrowing costs as expected to a decade high but indicated just two more over the rest of the year, confounding forecasts of […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Internal Revenue has charged a gold trader for his alleged willful failure to pay taxes for five years. In a statement on Thursday, the BIR said the five criminal complaints were filed against Angelito Ocampo Dela Pena after he failed to pay P1,732,808,956.22 in tax deficiencies from 2005 to 2009. This was after the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, with whom Dela Pena was exclusively engaged in the buying and […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — LeBron James shrugged off five absent players and an ill coach with a virtuoso performance Wednesday, rallying the host Cleveland Cavaliers over NBA Eastern Conference leader Toronto 132-129. The three-time NBA champion and four-time NBA Most Valuable Player scored 35 points, passed out 17 assists and had seven rebounds with no turnovers, making the most assists in any NBA game by a player without losing the ball. “I’ve never […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — At least 18 people were killed and dozens wounded when a bus traveling in northeastern Thailand veered off the road and smashed into a tree, authorities said Thursday. The accident occured Wednesday evening in Thailand’s Nakhon Ratchasima province with the double decker bus carrying around 50 people returning home from a holiday. “There are 18 people killed, of these 12 women and six men including one boy,” Suthep Ruenthawil, chief of […]
(Eagle News) — “I love to see my Vice-President.” This was how President Rodrigo Duterte teased Vice-President Leni Robredo, as he greeted her at the start of his speech during the graduation ceremony of the Philippine National Police Academy in Silang, Cavite on Wednesday, March 21. “Vice President Maria Leonor ‘Leni’ Robredo, this is the third time that I have greeted you, my lady,” he said as the audience applauded. “Iyong una sa PMA […]
