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SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) – Facebook on Tuesday said that advertisements will begin popping up on Messenger home screens globally after promising tests with users in Australia and Thailand. “Messenger ads are going global,” the Facebook-owned mobile messaging service said in an online post. “People will see Messenger ads in the home tab of their Messenger mobile app.” Facebook enticed businesses to take advantage of a new tool for creating ads for Messenger, which […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Drug manufacturer Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals was fined $35 million Tuesday for supplying and not reporting suspicious massive orders of its highly addictive oxycodone, helping to fuel the United States addiction crisis. The Justice Department said the company agreed to pay the amount to settle allegations that it did not meet obligations to report to the Drug Enforcement Administration suspect orders from pharmacies in Florida and elsewhere. Mallinckrodt, which manufactures drugs in […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Washington on Tuesday invited cancer-stricken Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo to come to the United States for medical treatment, renewing its call for Beijing to free him. “We continue to call on the Chinese authorities for his full parole, and also for the release of his wife,” US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said. “We continue to call on China to release him so that he can receive medical treatment wherever […]
COATZACOALCOS, Mexico (AFP) – A Honduran journalist who sought asylum in Mexico after a colleague he collaborated with was murdered has been killed in the violent state of Veracruz, authorities and activists said. Edwin Rivera Paz was followed by gunmen and shot dead in broad daylight Sunday in the eastern city of Acayucan, said local authorities and the media rights group Reporters Without Borders. The TV news cameraman is the seventh journalist killed this year […]
EL NIDO, Palawan (Eagle News) – Nasunog ang isang bahagi ng munisipyo ng El Nido, Palawan noong Martes ng gabi, July 11. Ayon sa mga guard on duty na sina June Ebangelyo at Brit Acot, bigla na lamang silang nakakita ng usok na lumalabas mula sa bahagi ng treasury department bandang 11:30 ng gabi. Nang kanila itong alamin ay nakumpirmang nasunog ang bahaging iyon ng opisina, kung kaya dali-dali nila itong sinubukang apulahin sa tulong ng […]
(Eagle News) — A majority of Filipinos back President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of martial law in Mindanao, based on a recent Social Weather Stations survey. Of the 92% of Filipino adults who know about Duterte’s declaration, 57% agreed it was the right decision, 29% said that martial law should have been declared only for Marawi City and Lanao del Sur, and 11% said that it should have been declared only for Marawi City, Lanao del […]
(Eagle News) — Let the people judge for themselves. This was the reaction of Manny Pacquiao to the World Boxing Organization’s decision to award the welterweight title victory to Australian boxer Jeff Horn rather than to himself. The WBO reviewed the fight between the Australian and the Filipino on July 2 after Pacquiao, backed by the Philippine government’s sports regulatory body, criticized the referee and the judges and demanded a review. Horn was declared the […]
(Reuters) — Brazilians burnt effigies of President Michel Temer in a Sao Paulo street on Monday (July 10) to denounce moves by the conservative government to push through with reforms that protesters say will take away work and pension rights. Temer replaced impeached leftist President Dilma Rousseff just over a year ago with a vow to turn around the economic fortunes of Brazil’s flailing economy via austerity measures. But allegations of corruption have dogged his administration […]
Also calls on public to report any “insinuation” of graft by any govm’t employee, official (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte surmised on Tuesday that the war in Marawi would be over in “10 to 15 days,” noting that there were certain things that he had missed out on, like the enemies’ arsenal that appeared to not run out. “Di naman sa nahirapan tayo .Ang di ko talaga ano, namiss namin is, karami ng armas. […]
Gold Coast, Australia (Reuters) — A white humpback whale was spotted swimming off Australia’s Gold Coast on Tuesday (July 11). Authorities believe it may be a white whale called “Migaloo,” making its annual migration towards the Great Barrier Reef. Migaloo’s name is an indigenous word meaning white person, Australian media reported. Up to 5,000 humpbacks migrate north up Australia’s east coast between April and August each year from waters in the Antarctic to feed and breed […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of New Zealand Tuesday, officials said, with minor shaking in the South Island but no damage reported. The quake beneath the ocean was estimated at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), more than 475 kilometers south of the mainland, the United States Geological Survey said. No tsunami threat was issued. “Based on the information we have there could be light to moderate shaking […]
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — The oil industry must accept that global demand for crude may fall by 2050 but rich potential remains in hydrocarbons, especially gas, the head of French energy giant Total said Tuesday. Total Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanne said climate policies and electric cars would affect demand for oil in the next three decades. “It is possible that by 2040-2050 oil demand will not be as high as it is today,” he told […]
