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(Eagle News) — The Philippines on Saturday expressed “serious concern” over the series of ballistic missile attacks against Saudi Arabia, including the recent launches that it said targeted populated areas of Riyadh. In a statement, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said “this puts innocent civilians, including many of our kababayans there, at serious risk.” Cayetano was referring to a ballistic missile fired by a Yemeni group and which was intercepted by Saudi Arabia on […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice on Saturday issued an immigration lookout bulletin against former President Benigno Aquino III, several former high-ranking government officials and six others. The lookout bulletin order against the former President, his former Health Secretary Janette Garin, former Budget Secretary Butch Abad, former Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa and Gillaume Leroy, Olivier Brandicourt, Ruby Dizon, Thomas Triomphe and Carlito Realuyo of drug manufacturer Sanofi was in connection with a complaint […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — 2017 was Mexico’s most violent year in two decades, with 23,101 murders carried out between January and November, according to official figures released Friday. The number of murders in the first 11 months of this year surpassed the previous record of 22,409 killings during the whole of 2011. In November alone, 2,212 murders were recorded — while 2,380 killings were carried out in October, making it the most violent month since the […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — A fire broke out at London Zoo early on Saturday morning, engulfing a cafe and shop near an animal petting area, and leaving one aardvark missing. Several staff were treated for smoke inhalation and shock following the blaze, which broke out in the Animal Adventure section shortly after 6:00 am (0600 GMT), the zoo said. “Duty staff that live on site at the zoo were on the scene immediately, and started moving animals […]
BRISBANE, Australia (AFP) — Japanese tennis star Kei Nishikori has withdrawn from the season-opening Brisbane International as he recovers from a wrist injury. Nishikori, 27, has been out of action for more than four months, dropping to 22 in the world rankings. “I am so disappointed to miss Brisbane this year. For years, it’s been my first tournament of the season and I always feel so at home there,” Nishikori said on the tournament’s official Twitter account. […]
(Eagle News) — Government and other rescue workers, including those from the Iglesia Ni Cristo’s SCAN International, joined together to help thousands of people affected by severe tropical storm Vinta (international name Tembin) which had killed more than a hundred people, with others still declared missing. As of Saturday, December 23, the latest death tool reached 133 in southern Philippines, as rescuers pulled dozens of bodies from a swollen river, police said. The […]
The death toll from Tropical Storm “Vinta” climbed swiftly to 133 on Saturday, as rescuers pulled dozens of bodies from a swollen river, police said. The tropical storm has lashed the nation’s second largest island of Mindanao since Friday, triggering flash floods and mudslides. Rescuers retrieved 36 bodies from the Salog river in Mindanao on Saturday, as officials reported more fatalities in the impoverished Zamboanga peninsula. The Philippines is pummelled by 20 major storms each […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) – England’s players owed under-fire skipper Joe Root their utmost to turn the tables on dominant Australia in the showpiece Boxing Day Test in Melbourne, wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow said Saturday. The Ashes has already been decided with Australia taking the first three Tests, but England is scrambling to avoid an embarrassing 5-0 series whitewash. Bairstow said captain Root was coping with the growing pressure and the England team was working hard to break their […]
MANILA, Philippines ( AFP) – The death toll from a tropical storm in the southern Philippines has risen to 74, officials said Saturday, with concerns the figure could rise as dozens remained missing. Tropical Storm Tembin struck Mindanao, the archipelago nation’s second-largest island on Friday, triggering flash floods and mudslides that have since erased a remote village from the map. The Philippines is pummelled by 20 major storms each year on average, many of them deadly. But Mindanao, […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) – At least 10,000 people were killed in the Chinese army’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, according to a newly released British secret diplomatic cable that gives gruesome details of the bloodshed in Beijing. “Minimum estimate of civilian dead 10,000,” the then British ambassador Alan Donald said in a telegram to London. The document, made public more than 28 years after the event, was seen by AFP at Britain’s […]
(Eagle News) — A whopping 71 percent of adult Filipinos are satisfied with President Rodrigo Duterte’s performance, a 10-point rise from the net satisfaction rating he got in September, the Social Weather Stations said. The 71 percent translates to a net satisfaction rating of +58, classified by the pollster as very good. Only 15 percent were undecided, and 13 percent were dissatisfied. In September, Duterte got a +48 net satisfaction rating, classified as good. Increases across all […]
(Eagle News) — “Vinta” continues to intensify as it moves toward southern Palawan on Saturday, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. In its 8 a.m. bulletin, PAGASA said the center of “Vinta,” now a tropical storm, was seen 210 kilometers west northwest of Zamboanga City, Zamboanga del Sur or 285 kilometers southeast of Puerto Princesa, Palawan. The tropical storm is packing maximum sustained winds of up to 80 kilometers per hour near the […]
