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(Eagle News) — Paliit na raw ng paliit ang lugar na hawak ng teroristang grupong Maute sa ika-siyam-na-pu’t apat (94) na araw ng bakbakan sa Marawi City. Kahapon tuluyan na umanong nabawi ng militar ang Marawi City Police Station na kinubkob ng mga terorista noong May 23. Maituturing daw itong strategic location at malaking bagay sa patuloy na pag-usad ng militar. Bukod sa police station, nabawi na rin daw ng militar ang Grand Mosque na […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Marina Alex set the early pace, and her five-under par 66 was good for a one-shot lead Thursday after the first round of the LPGA’s Canadian Pacific Women’s Open in Ottawa. Alex, who just missed out on a berth in last week’s Solheim Cup, at least had the luxury of being well rested as she tackled the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club course. And her early tee time meant she enjoyed great scoring conditions […]
(Eagle News) — A drug-crazed 27-year-old man held hostage his uncle in Quezon City early Friday, but the police quickly subdued him during negotiations. The Quezon City Police District said charges of alarm and scandal are set to be filed against Juren Capala Amego, after he held Jerry Pisngot, 55, at knifepoint on Dangay St., Veterans Village, Project 7. The incident was reported to the police around 5 a.m. According to the QCPD, Amego, who […]
BONDO VILLAGE, BREGAGLIA, Switzerland (Reuters) — Rescue crews continued to search on Thursday (August 24) for eight people including Germans, Austrians and Swiss who have been missing for more than a day after a landslide struck a remote Swiss mountain valley near the Italian border. Authorities evacuated around 100 people from the village of Bondo and airlifted hikers from nearby huts in the eastern canton of Grisons after rocks and mud hit the area on […]
BELFAST, United Kingdom (AFP) — England captain Sarah Hunter has warned her team that New Zealand are capable of shattering the holders’ dreams in the women’s Rugby World Cup final on Saturday. The title match at Belfast’s Kingspan Stadium will see the competition’s two best sides go head-to-head, with England looking to repeat their 2014 triumph. But Hunter, who is preparing for her third consecutive World […]
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, California (Reuters) — SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket carrying an Earth-observation satellite on Thursday, August 24. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 1151 local time (1851GMT). The rocket carried the Taiwanese-made Formosat-5 spacecraft into orbit and then landed on a SpaceX drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. SpaceX said the Formosat-5 will provide detailed images of the Earth for at least five […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte visited Marawi for the third time as martial law in Mindanao entered its fourth month. A statement from the Presidential Communications Operations Office said the President made a stopover at a “temporary patrol base,” where he even “tried out a sniper rifle and fired it toward the direction of the enemies.” The media was not informed of Duterte’s visit beforehand as in his previous visits to Marawi on July […]
(Eagle News) — The Gilas cadets routed Southeast Asian Games host Malaysia in an intense game that saw players ejected on Thursday night. The Philippine team pulled away after a slow start amid tensions that boiled over in the middle of the third quarter, when players from both sides pushed and shoved each other after a play that saw Baser Amer wrapping his arms around Kuek Tian Yuan in a bid to free an entangled […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) – Thailand’s top court will rule later Friday whether ousted premier Yingluck Shinawatra is guilty of criminal negligence, a verdict that could see her jailed and risks riling her family’s significant support base. Thailand’s first female prime minister, toppled by a military coup in 2014, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted and a life ban from politics. That outcome would be a heavy blow to the Shinawatra political dynasty, […]
by Leila Macor Agence France-Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP) – The state of Florida was set Thursday to execute its first death row inmate in nearly two years, and planning to administer a lethal injection cocktail that has never been used before in the United States. Mark Asay is scheduled to be executed at 6 pm (2200 GMT). The 53-year-old white inmate was sentenced to death in 1988 for a racially motivated double murder in […]
by Charlotte Van Ouwerkerk and Sophie Mignon Agence France-Presse ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AFP) – Dutch police Thursday released a van driver arrested over a suspected terror attack plot on a Rotterdam concert venue but stepped up inquiries based on a “concrete” tip-off from Spain. “The man was freed earlier this evening and is no longer a suspect in the investigation,” Rotterdam police said in a statement. It remained unclear whether the tip-off by Spanish officials to […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) – Several United States cities began ordering evacuations Thursday as major storm Harvey was upgraded to hurricane status on its path towards hundreds of miles of coastline in Texas and Louisiana — an area that processes some 7 million barrels of oil a day. The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned that Harvey was “rapidly intensifying” and creating a potential for “life-threatening and devastating” floods. The storm’s center was due to […]
