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The death toll from “Basyang” has risen to nine, officials said Wednesday, as some of the thousands of displaced residents returned home with floods receding. Landslides and flash floods brought by the storm struck Mindanao on Tuesday and killed eight people, the civil defense office in the region said, doubling its earlier figure of four deaths. “Most of the floods have subsided and all roads are now passable, but we have two people still missing […]
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Eagle News) – Para lalo pa umanong mapaigting ng hukbo ng Naval Forces Western Mindanao ang pagbabantay sa karagatang sakop ng Zambasulta (Zamboanga-Basilan-Sulu-Tawitawi) ay nagsanay sila ng higit 100 na bagong recruit na mga indibidwal para sa bagong batch ng Special Cafgu Active Auxiliary. Sumailalim ang 196 sa sampung araw na basic military training upang magkaroon ng kasanayan sa pagtatanggol ng buhay mula sa banta ng mga teroristang nag-ooperate sa mga karagatang […]
by Ania Tsukanova Agence France-Presse KIEV, Ukraine (AFP) – By deporting him to Poland, President Petro Poroshenko may have managed to get rid of his arch-enemy Mikheil Saakashvili for now. But the speed and brutality of the former Georgian president and current opposition leader’s arrest and exile may damage the Ukranian government’s reformist image in the West. Putting an end to the latest chapter of a high-profile, months-long saga, Saakashvili was arrested Monday by masked men at […]
(Young Voices Speak is eaglenews.ph’s blank space for the youth to share their opinions, views, and perspective on any topic, issue, or matter) QUEZON City, Philippines – All of us have little secrets. Have you ever said no to a friend when they asked if they could borrow your book? Or maybe you finished a book but you weren’t sure if you liked it or not, so you just rated it 5 stars because everybody else seemed to […]
(Young Voices Speak is eaglenews.ph’s blank space for the youth to share their opinions, views, and perspective on any topic, issue, or matter) QUEZON City, Philippines – Planning a healthy living? Try this ketogenic diet. The diet is a low-carb and high-fat diet that allows for the reduction of carbohydrates and their replacement with fats that will put the body into a metabolic state called ketosis. Rice–a staple food for Filipinos—is a type of carbohydrate that needs to […]
by Frank Zeller Agence France-Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) – Germany’s chaos-wracked Social Democrats have named Andrea Nahles as their designated next leader, meaning women will soon be in the driver’s seats of the two biggest parties and shifting a long-skewed gender balance in politics. Alongside Chancellor Angela Merkel, Nahles is set to join a growing band of women heading, or co-leading, German political parties despite the fact that female lawmakers still account for fewer than one third […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will on Wednesday use a major speech to warn that attempts to frustrate Brexit would lead to “ineradicable feelings of betrayal.” Johnson, who was one of the leading campaigners behind Brexit, will also urge those who voted to leave the European Union to make peace with those who wanted to stay in the bloc, with the issue still the cause of deep divisions in British society. During […]
“Iba naman yung exercising sovereign rights,” he says (Eagle News) — Unlike some of his colleagues, Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III sees nothing wrong with China’s naming of five undersea features at Philippine Rise. “Without reading the convention or the treaty, or the rules governing the name, common sense tells me that no one has a monopoly of the power or the right to name features on earth. Wala naman pong ganun,” he said on […]
(Eagel News) — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) reported on Wednesday that over 5,000 barangays in the country have already been declared drug-free under the administration’s anti-drug campaign since July 1, 2016 up to February 8, 2018. PDEA Spokesperson Derrick Carreon said in a press briefing that the 5,327 barangays were out of the 24, 137 drug-affected barangays which represent 57.42% of the 42,036 barangays nationwide. According to Carreon, this was the result of […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service The Indonesian police has conferred Philippine National Police Chief Ronald dela Rosa with the nation’s highest award given to security authorities. Dela Rosa, who has spearheaded the Philippines’ war against drugs, received the Bintang Bhayangkara Utama award for his contribution to the security not only of the Philippines but also of Indonesia. The PNP and the Indonesia National Police are pioneer members of the ASEAN Association of Police Chief […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — LeBron James scored 17 of his 37 points in the third quarter as the new-look Cleveland Cavaliers outgunned the Oklahoma City Thunder 120-112 on Tuesday night. Cleveland held strong in the third quarter then took command in the fourth to post their second consecutive win since trading for George Hill, Rodney Hood, Jordan Clarkson and Larry Nance. “We came in with a great game plan and we executed,” said […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine government has protested China’s naming of five undersea features at the Philippine Rise. This is according to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, who issued a statement on the matter on Wednesday. “We object and do not recognize the Chinese names given to some undersea features in the Philippine Rise. Per our Philippine embassy in Beijing, they have already raised our concern to China,” Roque said. According to Roque, the embassy was […]
