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(Eagle News) — Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez has proposed the creation of a “United Nations of Asia” that he said would protect the interests of Asian nations. Alvarez made the proposal in a radio interview on Wednesday night, after slamming the United States for its intelligence group’s report that cited President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs and pronouncements on a revolutionary government and a nationwide martial law as “regional threats.” “Ngayon, ang para sa akin, ang […]
(Eagle News) — Uber Philippines has filed a petition for a fare hike before the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board. The petition, filed on Wednesday, seeks a P12 per kilometer fare instead of the P5 per kilometer fare. In their earlier petition, Grab Philippines sought a fare hike of as much as P15 per kilometer. The LTFRB has said it would hold a hearing for the two petitions. LTFRB chair Martin Delgra has also said the […]
by Deborah Cole Agence France-Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Steven Soderbergh premiered his new thriller shot on an iPhone at the Berlin film festival Wednesday, showing what little gadgets can do to push the limits of style on the big screen. The American director, who had only a few years ago declared his retirement from filmmaking, told reporters that “Unsane,” his first time using a smartphone for a full feature, had been invigorating. “This is […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia on Wednesday jailed three men and a woman for up to 8 years for embezzling state funding worth millions of dollars while working as contractors on the construction of the country’s showpiece Vostochny cosmodrome. The four, who controlled or worked for construction companies, were together found guilty of embezzling 1.3 billion rubles ($23 million) from the national prestige project, in the latest blow to Russia’s troubled space industry. Moscow’s Simonovsky […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — A team of international scientists led by the British Antarctic Survey set off on Wednesday to explore a mysterious marine ecosystem that has lain hidden under an ice shelf for up to 120,000 years. The BAS said that an iceberg known as A68 broke off from the Larsen Ice Shelf in July 2017, revealing a section of seabed measuring 5,818 square kilometers (2,245 square miles) — nearly four times the […]
by Jean-Luc Renaudie © Agence France-Presse JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) — One of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s closest confidants has agreed to testify against him in a graft probe, Israeli police said Wednesday, in a fresh threat to his long tenure. Two new corruption investigations announced this week, hot on the heels of a police recommendation that Netanyahu face charges in two other cases, have fuelled growing speculation he could be forced to step down or call […]
by Aminu Abubakar with Phil Hazlewood in Lagos © Agence France-Presse DAMATURU, Nigeria (AFP) — More than 100 girls were missing on Wednesday, two days after a Boko Haram attack on their school in northeast Nigeria that has raised fears of a repeat of the 2014 Chibok kidnapping that shocked the world. Islamist militants stormed the Government Girls Science Secondary School in Dapchi, Yobe state, on Monday evening. Locals initially said the girls and their teachers fled. […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — A double-decker bus veered off a mountain road and plunged into a ravine in southern Peru Wednesday, killing at least 44 people. The bus tumbled 80 meters (260 feet) down a jagged slope from the Pan-American highway — Peru’s main motorway — in the southern region of Arequipa. Arequipa police chief General Walter Ortiz “confirms 44 deaths,” the interior ministry said on its Twitter account, updating an earlier toll of 35. Ortiz said 45 […]
by Gilles Clarenne with Chris Lefkow in Washington © Agence France-Presse TALLAHASSEE, United States (AFP) — Angered by a shooting rampage that left 17 people dead at a Florida high school, students staged protests in several US cities on Wednesday to turn up the heat on President Donald Trump and lawmakers to take action on gun control. Holding signs reading “Never Again” and “Be The Adults, Do Something,” teenagers who survived last week’s mass shooting at Marjory […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — President Nicolas Maduro called Wednesday for snap legislative elections in Venezuela, proposing to bring them forward by nearly two years to coincide with a presidential poll set for April 22. Maduro said he was proposing the change to the all-powerful Constituent Assembly “to advance the elections.” The idea of bringing forward the legislative elections to April 22 was already mooted by the number two of Maduro’s ruling socialist party on Tuesday. He also […]
(Eagle News) — Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez on Wednesday urged the Department of Foreign Affairs to protest a United States intelligence group’s report that cited President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, among others, as a regional threat. “Kasi anong pakialam nila sa atin eh sila nga itong maraming kalokohan sa iba’t ibang bansa? Nanghihimasok sila e di naman sila kasali doon,” Alvarez said in a radio interview. Alvarez said the release of the report was indeed […]
