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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — United States Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said Wednesday that there was still room for diplomacy in dealing with North Korea’s provocative ballistic missile launches, after President Donald Trump said negotiations were “not the answer.” “We’re never out of diplomatic solutions,” Mattis said as he went into a meeting with South Korea Defense Minister Song Young-Moo. “We continue to work together and the minister and I share responsibility to provide for […]
President Rodrigo Duterte said Wednesday a three-month battle against the Maute Group occupying parts of Marawi was in its “final stages.” Duterte gave his assessment shortly after government troops secured a vital bridge in the city, allowing them easier access into areas being held by the militants. “We are in the final stages. So let us send immediately, even air-lift, the police,” to Marawi, Duterte said. The Pro-Islamic State gunmen occupied parts of the city […]
(Eagle News) — A lawyer on Wednesday filed an impeachment complaint against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno for alleged betrayal of public trust, among others. Twenty-five members of the House of Representatives endorsed lawyer Larry Gadon’s complaint, which he earlier said would have endorsements from at least 10 lawmakers. Earlier, the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption and the Vanguard of the Philippine Constitution Inc. filed an impeachment complaint against Sereno after she allegedly violated the […]
https://youtu.be/eRJqFJ2imOU QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – The Department of Justice (DOJ) has dismissed the motion for Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre to inhibit from the investigation into Kian De Los Santos’ killing. Aguirre explained that the motion filed by student leaders was dismissed because it was the National Prosecution Service that has jurisdiction over the preliminary investigation of the case, and not the Office of the Secretary. “The Department of Justice by virtue of […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee has asked the Chinese government to cooperate in its investigation into the shabu shipment from China that passed the Bureau of Customs (BoC) without any inspection. “China must be willing to cooperate with the Philippines in investigating the PHP6.4 billion worth of shabu shipment from China that slipped through the Bureau of Customs (BOC),” Senator Richard Gordon, the committee chairman said in an interview […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China is working with other members of the United Nations Security Council on a response to North Korea’s missile launch over Japan, the Chinese foreign minister said Wednesday. Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke hours after the UN Security Council unanimously condemned Tuesday’s test and Japan’s UN ambassador suggested that a new sanctions declaration could come next. Wang said China — which is Pyongyang’s only major ally — was “now working with […]
HOUSTON, United States (AFP) — Five days after slamming into Texas as a major hurricane, Harvey made a second landfall on Wednesday, hitting Louisiana, a state which still bears deep scars from 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. Now a tropical storm, Harvey made landfall just west of the town of Cameron, the National Hurricane Center said, with “flooding rains” drenching parts of southeastern Texas and neighboring southwestern Louisiana. Harvey’s return comes after the monster storm pummeled Texas with […]
MAUNGDAW , Myanmar (AFP) — At least 18,500 Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh since fighting erupted in Myanmar’s neighboring Rakhine state six days ago, the International Organization for Migration said Wednesday. Plumes of smoke billowed from several burning villages in the worst-hit section of the state, according to an AFP reporter on a government-led trip to the area, as the violence showed little sign of abating despite security sweeps by Myanmar’s police and troops. The clashes began on […]
(Eagle News) — Like a palace. This was how President Rodrigo Duterte described the house of Iloilo Mayor Jed Mabilog, whom he announced would be subjected to a lifestyle check. “His house is like a palace. Anak siguro ito ng mayamang mayaman,” he said in a speech before newly promoted police officials on Wednesday. According to Duterte, he has asked the National Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Internal Revenue to look into the lifestyle […]
(Eagle News) — One strike and you’re out. This was the message of Isidro Lapeña to Bureau of Customs employees as he took the helm of the office from his predecessor, Nicanor Faeldon, on Wednesday. President Duterte announced Faeldon’s replacement after a P6.4-billion drug shipment entered the country via Customs express lanes in May, angering lawmakers who called for inquiries into the matter. “Just do your work, prove your worth and I will back you […]
(Video courtesy AFPTV) by Sebastien Berger Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un has promised more missile flights over Japan, insisting his nuclear-armed nation’s provocative launch was a mere “curtain-raiser,” in the face of United Nations condemnation and United States warnings of severe repercussions. The Hwasong-12 intermediate-range missile that Pyongyang unleashed on Tuesday represented a major escalation in the face of tensions over its weapons programs. In recent […]
(Eagle News) — Former Palawan governor Joel Reyes was convicted of graft by the Sandiganbayan and sentenced to six to eight years in prison. The Third Division also barred Reyes from public service after it found him guilty of granting unwarranted benefit to Olympic Mines and Development Corp. (OMDC) when he renewed its mining permit. According to the anti-graft court in its decision promulgated on Aug. 29, the permit was renewed and made valid […]
