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(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima on Friday asked the Supreme Court to reverse its earlier decision dismissing her petition to nullify the arrest warrant in connection with her drug case. In a 24-page motion, De Lima said the absence of a majority vote in the SC on the nature of the charges against her “is the clearest possible indicator—coming from the Supreme Court itself—that the accusation ‘is blatantly a pure invention’ and ‘a fake […]
by Michael Mathes Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – One year on from Donald Trump’s shock election, US Democrats are still struggling to heal the wounds of Hillary Clinton’s calamitous defeat and identify a champion to challenge a deeply unpopular president in 2020. For Democrats it has been a sobering first 10 months under Donald Trump. Republicans control the White House and Congress. With Trump’s upset wins in once-liberal bastions Wisconsin and Michigan, the heartland is […]
by Daniel WOOLLS Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – This is a look at President Donald Trump’s first year in office, from A to Z: AMERICA FIRST: Trump’s most sacred mantra. BAN: As in travel. With the stated goal of keeping out terrorists, Trump decreed successive bans — always challenged in court — on arrivals of people from half a dozen mainly Muslim countries. CLIMATE CHANGE: Trump shocked the world by pulling the United States out […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) – Disney World knew it had an alligator problem long before one of the beasts killed a toddler at the famous resort last year, official data showed Friday. In the 15 months before an alligator dragged two-year-old Lane Graves underwater on June 14, 2016, 45 of the reptiles were captured on Disney property, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. From the day of the attack until September this year […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Britain’s ruling Conservatives suspended an MP Friday over unspecified “serious allegations”, as Prime Minister Theresa May announced a new party code of conduct in response to a growing sexual harassment scandal. The action was taken against lawmaker Charlie Elphicke “following serious allegations that have been referred to the police”, announced chief whip Julian Smith, who enforces Conservative party discipline in parliament. Elphicke said on Twitter: “The party tipped off the press before […]
by Rob Lever Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Twitter said it had boosted security measures Friday in response to a rogue employee’s move cutting off Donald Trump’s account, an 11-minute outage which drew mocking praise from the president’s critics but also warnings of a dangerous precedent. The US social network initially said the account had been “inadvertently deactivated due to human error” after the outage late Thursday but subsequently indicated it […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – The US conducted a pair of drone strikes against Islamic State fighters in Somalia on Friday, the first time America has hit the jihadists in the Horn of Africa nation, officials said. The strikes occurred in northeastern Somalia and killed “several terrorists,” the US military’s Africa Command said in a statement. According to Voice of America, which cited the chairman of the town of Qandala in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, six […]
US President Donald Trump has decided at the last minute to extend a marathon trip to Asia, after criticism that he was expected to miss an East Asia regional summit. “We’re actually staying an extra day in the Philippines,” Trump said on departure Friday, a decision that was confirmed by senior White House officials. President Trump departed Washington for an almost two week trip to Asia Friday. Trump left Joint Base Andrews bound for […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Friday welcomed Philippine Airlines’ settlement of its P6 billion in unpaid dues. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a statement that the paid amount which represents debt incurred by PAL from the 1970s to July 2017 will be used for the government’s “priority programs.” “The conclusion of this long-standing issue under the Duterte administration underscores our strong commitment to decisively act on matters that would greatly benefit the nation’s best […]
Close to 60,000 security personnel — or 59,276 individuals to be exact — will be deployed to ensure the safety and security of the 31st ASEAN Summit this month. Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) officer-in-charge Catalino Cuy said the troops would be deployed to key strategic areas in Metro Manila and Pampanga to ensure the safety and security of the ASEAN delegates. Cuy said the largest contingent would come from the Philippine […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte will be discussing the fight against terrorism and urge greater cooperation to battle terrorists, specifically the Islamic militancy, during the 31st Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit that will be held in the country. Following military victories in Iraq, Syria and the southern Philippine City of Marawi, Duterte will take the ASEAN Summit as an opportunity to push the fight against terrorism at the ASEAN regional level. Foreign minister […]
https://youtu.be/66jNt5KLWqI JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — A new species of orangutan has been discovered in the remote jungles of Indonesia, immediately becoming the world’s most endangered great ape, researchers said Thursday. “It’s the first declaration of a new great ape species in about 100 years,” Ian Singleton, co-author of the study and director of the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme, told AFP. The species, called ‘Tapanuli orangutan’, lives in the Batang Toru forest on Sumatra island, and […]
