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(Eagle News) – A magnitude 5.9 quake shook Sarangani province, Saturday morning with the epicenter located eight kilometers northwest of Malapatan town and was felt at nearby cities of General Santos, Digos and Davao. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, the quake struck at 8:30 a.m., on Saturday, August 5. It was located at a depth of 74 kilometers. Phivolcs said they expect aftershocks to happen. The quake was felt at […]
SAINT-AIGNAN-SUR-CHER,France (AFP) — There was joy and pain for French zookeepers Friday as their female panda gave birth to twins, but one died soon afterwards. Huan Huan, on loan to Beauval zoo in central France from China, delivered the first cub at 10:18 pm (2018 GMT) and the second at 10:32. But soon after birth, the first, which weighed just 121 grams (4.2 ounces), began having problems breathing and died despite the best efforts of […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The San Antonio Spurs have re-signed Patty Mills, a back-up guard from Australia who connected on 41 percent of his three-point shots last season. Mills appeared in 80 games for the Spurs last season, averaging 9.5 points, a career-best 3.5 assists and 1.8 rebounds in a career-high 21.9 minutes. His 147 for 355 from three-point range ranked him 11th in the NBA in three-point field goal percentage and he […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers has been relieved of his duties as president of basketball operations, allowing him to focus on coaching duties, team owner Steve Ballmer said Friday. Ballmer said Lawrence Frank, the team’s executive vice president, will assume responsibility for basketball operations. Frank also will oversee general manager Dave Wohl. Both Rivers, 55, and Frank, 46, will report directly to the owner. “Doc knows how to […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — An extraordinarily well-preserved 110-million-year-old dinosaur found in a mine pit in Canada now has a name and evidence of a troubled past, researchers said Thursday. With fossilized skin and scales, the dragon-like creature is actually a new kind of nodosaur, coined Borealopelta markmitchelli, after the museum technician Mark Mitchell who spent more than 7,000 hours painstakingly removing rock from around the specimen. The report in the journal Current Biology described […]
President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a bill increasing the penalties for the refusal of hospitals and clinics to administer appropriate initial medical treatment in emergency or serious cases. Republic Act No. 10932, otherwise known as the Anti-Hospital Deposit Law provides that “in emergency or serious cases, it shall be unlawful for any hospital or medical clinic to request, solicit, demand or accept any deposit or any other form of advance payment as […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday promised that his government would redouble its efforts to handle the influx of migrants illegally entering the country from the United States to seek asylum. “I want to reassure Canadians that we are ensuring that the capacity to deal with these refugees is in place and our immigration system remains strong and robust,” Trudeau told a press conference. “We are an open and compassionate […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) 00 Wall Street ended the week on an emphatic high note, as the blue-chip Dow rose to its eighth consecutive record finish Friday. Investors were buoyed by rosy job creation numbers in July, as the economy added 209,000 net new positions, as well as a string of good earnings reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.3 percent to close at 22,092.81, and the broader S&P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq […]
BEDMINSTER, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump, who once asked “what’s the point” of vacations and often admonished his presidential predecessor for taking them while in office, embarked Friday on a 17-day holiday to one of his golf resorts. Arriving in Bedminster, New Jersey for an extended break, the president left behind a capital grappling with a Russia scandal and buffeted by extraordinary leaks from government officials. He has also failed to seize any major […]
by Stephanie AGLIETTI Agence France Presse KIGALI, Rwanda (AFP) — Rwandan President Paul Kagame sailed to a third term in office with a tally hovering around a whopping 98 percent of votes, partial results showed Saturday. There had been little doubt that the 59-year-old would return to the helm of the east African nation which he has ruled with an iron fist since the end of the 1994 genocide. With 80 percent of results counted, […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte showed his support for soldiers and policemen battling Islamist-inspired militants in Marawi City when he visited soldiers of the Joint Special Operation Task Force Trident in Camp Kilala during his second visit to Marawi City on August 4, Friday. “I have to be here because I want all of you to know that… Mahal ko kayo. I hope you will be able to clean up Marawi City and […]
by Francesco FONTEMAGGI Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States announced Friday it would still take part in international climate change negotiations in order to protect its interests, despite its planned withdrawal from the Paris accord on global warming. Two months after President Donald Trump announced the United States would abandon the 2015 global pact, his administration confirmed it had informed the United Nations of its “intent to withdraw from the […]
