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(Eagle News) — “Isang” intensified into a Tropical Storm on Sunday, as it continued to move westward and brought rains in parts of the country. In an 11 p.m. weather bulletin, the Philippine Atmospheric and Geophysical Astronomical Services Administration said as of 10 p.m., the eye of “Isang” was at 485 kilometers east of Basco, Batanes, bringing maximum sustained winds of up to 65 kilometers per hour near the center and gustiness of up to […]
(Eagle News) — Gilas Pilipinas took home the bacon on Sunday night after beating Thailand in a nail-biting Southeast Asian Games opener. The two national teams were neck-and-neck from the start, with Gilas gaining a slight advantage over the white shirts by the end of the first quarter. Thailand took the lead in the second quarter with good shooting, but Gilas lagged closely behind. The third quarter continued to be a close game between the […]
(Eagle News) — Gilas Pilipinas ended their Fiba Asia journey in seventh place, after beating Jordan in a nail-biting match that saw both teams fighting tooth and nail in the last seconds. The white shirts mostly had the lead in the game, but the Jordanians quickly gained their footing in the fourth quarter, as they made their shots from the paint and from the three-point line. With only one minute remaining, the red shirts led […]
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — The cell which carried out twin vehicle attacks in Barcelona and a seaside town has been “neutralized” even though one of the attackers remains on the run, the Catalan government said Sunday. “The capacity of this cell to act has been neutralized thanks to the work of the police,” regional interior minister Joaquim Forn told a news conference.
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Police said Sunday they have found more than 120 gas canisters in a house in Alcanar, where suspects of this week’s twin assaults in Spain were believed to be building bombs for “one or more” attacks in Barcelona. “We’re starting to see clearly that (the Alcanar house) was the place where they were preparing explosives for one or more attacks in the city of Barcelona,” police chief of Catalonia region Josep […]
(Eagle News) — The seventeen-year-old who was killed in a drug operation in Caloocan last week was a drug pusher, and not an innocent student. This was according to the man police said was a drug pusher, and who was presented to the media on Sunday. Renato “Nono” Loveras said he would pay Kian Loyd delos Santos two to three times every week, in exchange for shabu the 17-year-old himself handed over to him. He […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — The suspected jihadists behind Spain’s twin terror attacks are thought to have formed a cell in the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains where they allegedly planned large-scale assaults. Moroccans and a Spaniard The suspects are all youths — most of them Moroccans who lived in Ripoll, a town in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region where both of the attack sites were also located. Police have launched a manhunt for Younes Abouyaaqoub, […]
(Eagle News) — A Filipina tourist in Barcelona recalled the horror of the August 17 van attack in Las Ramblas, saying this was the first time she had ever witnessed such an event. A day after the incident, Erha Grace Ebahay Quatropani, recalled how she had heard many people shouting and at first thought it was just a case of bag snatching, in the tourist-filled area of Las Ramblas, a popular spot in Barcelona, when […]
The Philippines’ largest Muslim militant group has launched a deadly offensive against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, a splinter faction that has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, police said Saturday. The fighting between the two groups began about two weeks ago in the marshy farmlands around the southern town of Datu Salibo in Maguindanao, regional police spokeswoman Tara Leah Cuyco said. Clashes between the MILF and its offshoot took place on Friday and Saturday, […]
(Eagle News) — Gilas Pilipinas took a beating from Lebanon on Saturday, dashing hopes of finishing fifth in the prestigious Fiba Asia Cup. The Lebanese proved too physical for the white shirts, who struggled to score points in the first few minutes of the game. The Filipinos managed to reduce the lead in the next quarters, after adjusting their defensive strategy, and shooting back to back baskets. But the Lebanese proved to be quite a […]
Paris, France (AFP) — The twin vehicle attacks in Spain that left 14 dead and over 100 more injured in a bustling tourist area of Barcelona and the nearby seaside resort of Cambrils affected people of some three dozen nationalities. The dead and injured came from countries as varied as France, Venezuela, Australia, Ireland, Peru, Algeria and China. – Dead- — SPAIN Three Spaniards were killed, according to a spokesman for Catalonia’s executive. — UNITED […]
(Agence France Presse) — Malaysia has granted a last-minute stay of execution to a convicted Filipino murderer following an appeal by Manila, Philippine officials said Saturday. Ejah Jaafar, whose age was not given, was scheduled to hang on Friday after being found guilty of murder in Malaysia in 2006. But following an appeal by the Philippine mission in Kuala Lumpur, Jaafar’s case was referred back to the pardons board in Sabah state, according to a […]
