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Says rebellion in Marawi City cannot be quelled completely by July 22 deadline (Eagle News) –- President Rodrigo Duterte is asking Congress to extend martial law in Mindanao until December 31 this year, according to Malacanang. Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella read a letter of the President addressed to Congress seeking the martial law extension until year end, saying the rebellion in Marawi City could not be quelled completely until July 22, 2017, Saturday. July 22 […]
BEIJING, China (CCTV) — Rescuers freed two men from a truck stranded in the middle of a flooded river Sunday afternoon in Chongqing Municipality of southwest China. In Fengjie County, water level increased in the rivers due to continuous heavy rainstorm. The truck got stranded when the driver tried to cross the raging river without realizing the risk involved. When firefighters arrived, they found the truck stranded one kilometer away from the shoreline, while the […]
QUEZON City (Eagle News) — Makakaranas ng lima hanggang labing-apat na oras na water interruption ang ilang bahagi ng Metro Manila at Cavite simula mamayang gabi, Hulyo 18. Batay sa abiso ng Maynilad Water Services Inc., ang Barangay 167 at 168 sa Caloocan City ay limang oras na mawawalan ng supply ng tubig simula mamayang alas-11:00 ng gabi (July 18) hanggang alas 4:00 ng madaling araw bukas (July 19). Sa Barangay 12 naman ay simula […]
by Marlowe Hood Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — It’s not quite E=mc2, but scientists unveiled Monday a simple, powerful formula that explains why some animals run, fly and swim faster than all others. Call it the “speed rule”: strength alone does not determine top velocity because land mammals, birds and fish can only accelerate for as long as they can draw from available energy stored in muscle tissue. An intermediate body size — […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Dalawampu’t-apat na barangay sa Maynila ang idineklara nang drug-free o malinis na kontra ilegal na droga. Ayon kay Manila Police District Director Chief Supt. Joel Coronel, dumaan sa masusing pagsusuri ang mga barangay para malaman kung wala na ang kalakaran ng iligal na droga sa kanilang nasasakupan. Ilang sa mga parameter na inilatag ng Dangerous Drugs Board upang madeklarang drug-free ang isang barangay ay ang kawalan doon ng drug transshipment […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck just off Peru’s southern coast Monday, the US Geological Survey said, with no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The quake hit at approximately 9:05 pm local time (0205 GMT) with a depth of 44 kilometers (27 miles). It occurred some 220 kilometers west of Arequipa, Peru’s second most populous city. Though there was no initial evidence of damage, the tremor provoked alarm among Peruvians, with the […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — The dollar sank with most Asian equities Tuesday as two Republican senators rejected their party’s bill repealing Obamacare, effectively killing it and throwing Donald Trump’s economic agenda into doubt. Global markets soared for months after Trump’s November election on hopes his big-spending, tax-cutting policies would fire the world’s top economy. But an ongoing crisis surrounding the White House has hobbled the tycoon’s presidency, with opposition to his controversial health care […]
(Eagle News) — Nasa 210 na batas ang naipasa ng House of Representatives sa pagsasara ng first regular session ng 17th Congress. Ito ang bilang na naipasa mula sa 1,247 na mga panukalang batas na nai-proseso. Pero kung isasama ang mga panukalang batas na naaprubahan sa second reading at mga resolusyong in-adopt, aabot sa kabuuang 290 measures ang nailusot sa ilalim ng unang taong pamumuno ni House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez. Ibig sabihin, asa labintatlong bills […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo stocks ended Tuesday morning in negative territory as a strong yen hit exporters and banks following a three-day weekend in Japan. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index fell 0.63 percent, or 127.00 points, to 19,991.86 by the break, falling below the key 20,000 level, while the Topix index of all first-section issues was down 0.56 percent, or 9.14 points, to stand at 1,616.34. © Agence France-Presse
ASPEN, United States (AFP) — His first company became the world’s largest maker of personal computers. Now Michael Dell says he is building a broader technology firm with similar ambitions. Dell Technologies is the result of the private buyout of the original Dell computer firm, bolstered by the massive $67 billion deal for computer storage firm EMC and other software and services acquisitions. Interviewed at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference Monday in Aspen, Colorado, Dell […]
by Fiachra Gibbons Agence France Presse DUNKIRK, France (AFP) — The path from pop to screen stardom is strewn with the wreckage of a thousand broken dreams but British singer Harry Styles may have pulled it off first time in wartime epic “Dunkirk.” If initial reactions to the big-budget wartime epic — which is released this week — are anything to go by, Styles may be about to join a select club that includes David […]
FRANKFURT MAIN, Germany (AFP) — German sporting goods firm Puma raised its sales and profits forecasts for the full year Monday, saying it enjoyed strong second-quarter performance and was confident for the second half. The Bavaria-based firm now expects to increase sales between 12 and 14 percent, adjusting for currency effects — up from “a low double-digit percentage” increase previously. That would mean growth up to twice as fast as last year’s, when high-profile sponsorships […]
