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(Eagle News) — The previous eight-kilometer danger zone around Mayon volcano has now been extended to nine kilometers because of the volcano’s continuous explosions and lava fountaining. This was the decision of the Albay provincial government as Mayon spewed more ash, smoke and even lava that signaled that hazardous eruption is “imminent.” More than 75,000 people have fled the danger areas surrounding Mayon, according to civil defense officials. Local officials are also thinking of […]
by Lachlan CARMICHAEL Agence France-Presse SOFIA, Bulgaria (AFP) – EU ministers stuck Thursday to opposing east-west camps as they started a countdown to try and overhaul Europe’s asylum rules by June when the three-year-old migration crisis could flare anew. The minister from Bulgaria, which holds the six-month rotating EU presidency ending June 30, said he would introduce proposals to “try to find a balance between the member states” split over refugee quotas. “Today we will see if […]
LIMASSOL, Cyprus (AFP) – Muscovite pensioner Svetlana Bogomilova emerges from a Russian grocery store into the Mediterranean sunshine near the Limassol beachfront in Cyprus. “It is very convenient here,” the retired teacher told AFP as a family with a pushchair strolled by chatting in Russian. “There is everything you could need.” Across the European Union’s most easterly member it is easy to spot the influence of the island’s sizable Russian-speaking community. In the seaside city of Limassol […]
by Andrew Beatty and Jitendra Joshi Agence France-Presse DAVOS, Switzerland (AFP) – The world’s political and business elite headed Thursday into a compelling encounter with President Donald Trump as the United States bids to carve out a competitive edge in trade, taxes and currency rates. A day after appearing to cast aside decades of US support for a strong currency, Trump’s Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he was relaxed about the dollar’s short-term value, doing little to […]
(Eagle News) — The government has also approved the bids of the United States, South Korea and Japan to conduct research in the Philippine Rise. ” This hopefully puts to rest the issue that the current administration is favoring China (on) the issue of Benham Rise,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a statement on Thursday. According to Roque, the latest development came from the Department of Foreign Affairs. Roque also noted that if Filipinos […]
(Eagle News) — The Office of the Solicitor General on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to reverse an Ombudsman resolution that junked the homicide charges filed against former President Benigno Aquino III and two others in connection with the botched Mamasapano operation in 2015. In its 45-page manifestation, the OSG asked the SC to direct the anti-graft body to file the 44 counts of reckless imprudence resulting in homicide against Aquino, former Philippine National Police […]
By Vivem Soriano Eagle News Service The Philippine Basketball Association on Thursday announced the appointment of former media bureau chief and officer-in-charge Willie Marcial as the new PBA commissioner . PBA Chairman and TNT Katropa Governor Ricky Vargas officially announced Marcial’s appointment via the league’s social media live broadcast. Vargas also said that all the 12 PBA teams voted unanimously in favor of Marcial, who will hold the post on a 3-year term.
by Marlowe Hood PARIS, France (AFP) — Just one cigarette a day carries nearly half the risk for heart attack and stroke as smoking a full pack of 20, according to a large-scale study published Thursday. “If someone smokes one cigarette instead of 20 per day, intuitively we’d think that the risk drops to 1/20, or five percent,” said lead author Allan Hackshaw, a professor at University College London, whose paper analysed 141 previous studies. […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed a variety of issues pertaining to trade and investment, and defense and security, an official said on Thursday. In a tweet, India Ministry of External Affairs official spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said the two leaders also discussed education and people-to-people cooperation in their bilateral meeting at Hyderabad House. In a tweet on Thursday, Modi said he was “delighted” to meet the Philippine President. “The vigor […]
DIPACULAO, Aurora (Eagle news) – A huge white female shark, about 17 feet long, was found lifeless on the shore of Brgy. Lobbot in Dipaculao, Aurora. Residents in the area were surprised because this was the first time they have seen such a big shark The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has classified this type of white shark, also known as “great white shark,” as a “vulnerable” species. Philippine laws prohibit the capture […]
by Jung Ha-Won Agence France-Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – A dozen North Korean female ice hockey players entered the South Thursday to form a unified team — the Koreas’ first for nearly three decades — at next month’s Winter Olympics. The Pyeongchang Winter Games have triggered an apparent rapprochement on the divided peninsula, where tensions have been high over the nuclear-armed North’s weapons ambitions. But the unified team has provoked controversy in the South, with accusations […]
By Vivem Soriano Eagle News Service Real Madrid’s disastrous season continued after unheralded side Leganes sent them crashing out of the Copa del Rey with a 2-2 aggregate win on away goals. This was after a shock 2-1 away win at the Bernabeu in the 2nd leg of their quarterfinal matchup. Leganes lost the 1st leg of the quarterfinals at their home pitch, 1-0, but came out firing on the 2nd leg when Javier Eraso […]
