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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Kevin Durant scored 32 points as the Golden State Warriors overpowered the Cleveland Cavaliers with a late rally to score a 118-108 win in a pulsating clash between the two NBA arch-rivals on Monday. Durant added seven assists and pulled down four rebounds as the Warriors completed back-to-back wins over the Cavs following their victory in the holiday season meeting. LeBron James and Cleveland had gone into the game at the […]
(Eagle News) — The Senate has allowed former Customs chief Nicanor Faeldon to temporarily leave his detention cell to take his oath of office as deputy administrator of the Office of Civil Defense in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City. According to Senate Sgt. at Arms, Retired General Jose Balajadia, Faeldon was allowed by Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chairperson Senator Richard Gordon to leave his detention cell from 7 a.m. to 9:30 Tuesday morning, January 16, […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A wallaby startled motorists Tuesday when it hopped across Sydney’s Harbor Bridge, closely tailed by police. Drivers spotted the marsupial, which resembles a smaller version of a kangaroo, bouncing along at the northern end of the eight-lane bridge just before 5:00 am (1600 GMT). “Never seen anything like it. That’s Australia for you,” a caller to Sydney radio station 2GB, Dean, said. Another caller, Michelle, said she was worried a car […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Stifling a sneeze can rupture your throat, burst an ear drum, or pop a blood vessel in your brain, researchers warned Tuesday. Many people — when they feel a sneeze coming on — block all the exits, essentially swallowing the sneeze’s explosive force. Just how dangerous this can be was illustrated when a 34-year-old man showed up at the emergency service of a hospital in Leicester, England recently, with a swollen […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Eight bodies have been recovered from a wrecked boat that washed ashore in central Japan, authorities said Tuesday, suspecting the vessel is the latest in a series of North Korean “ghost ships.” Coastguard rescuers found the corpses of seven men inside the wreckage of the boat that washed up in Kanazawa, central Japan, last week, senior police official Hiroshi Abe told AFP. The badly decomposed remains of another man were […]
(Eagle News) — Ash explosions continue in Mayon volcano as the residents still remaining inside thesix kilometer permanent danger zone and seven kilometer extended danger zone are encouraged to evacuate. According to Eagle News correspondent Eddy Ojano in the area, ash explosions continue in the area. Evacuations also continue as the local government of Guinobatan tried to convince the remaining residents in the area to flee as soon as possible. “Amoy na amoy […]
by Catherine MARCIANO Agence France-Presse SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — Catholic Pope Francis will hold a closely watched meeting with members of Chile’s under-fire clergy on Tuesday, the first full day of his visit to a country whose church is beset by sex abuse scandals. He arrived in Santiago Monday night and was received by leftist President Michelle Bachelet — an agnostic who has faced down the conservative opposition, including from the church, to spearhead social […]
By: Eddie Ojano Eagle News Correspondent GUINOBATAN, Albay (Eagle News) – Suspendido na ang klase sa mga sa pampubliko at pribadong paaralan sa Camalig, Guinobatan, at Ligao City. Ang abiso ay ipinalabas ng Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management na pinamumunuan ni Gov. AL Francis Bichara kaninang 9:00 ng umaga sa kaniyang Facebook account. Ang suspensyon ay kaugnay ng patuloy na katamtaman at malakas na pagbagsak ng abo at ang patuloy na paggulong ng mga pyroclastic […]
by Michel Comte © Agence France-Presse VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) — Foreign ministers from 20 nations began crisis talks Monday on North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs, though China’s absence cast doubt over the effectiveness of any deal. The two-day Vancouver meeting hosted by Canada and the United States comes amid signs of easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, after the North and South met for the first time in two years and Pyongyang agreed to […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Kinumpirma ng Malacañang ang pagdalo ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte sa gaganaping summit sa pagitan ng India at Southeast Asian Nations sa huling bahagi ng Enero. Ayon kay presidential spokesman Harry Roque, gagawin ang nasabing summit sa Enero 24 hanggang 27 na gaganapin sa New Delhi, India. Ang naturang summit ang unang summit sa ilalim ng ASEAN chairmanship ng Singapore. Si Prime Minister Narendra Modi ang magiging host ng mga ASEAN […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Aabot sa 11,000 households sa Taguig City ang makararanas ng pansamantalang water service interruption ngayong araw, Enero 16 simula mamayang alas-10:00 ng gabi. Sa anunsyo ng Manila Water Company Inc., magsasagawa sila ng improvement works sa dalawang magkahiwalay na lokasyon sa Cuasay Road na makakapekto sa suplay ng tubig sa ilang barangay. Ilan sa lugar na apektado nito ay ang Barangay Central Signal, South Signal, bahagi ng Western Bicutan (SS […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — More than 1,000 youths in Denmark are to be charged with spreading sex videos of two 15-year-olds through Facebook, Danish police said on Monday, in the nation’s largest case of its kind. Facebook had received reports of two videos and an explicit photo from 2015 being spread on its instant messaging service, showing a boy and a girl having consensual sex. The company later informed US authorities. The material was spread […]
