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QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Maute Group is continuing to lose ground in Marawi City. Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff General Eduardo Año said that only a small part — about one to two square kilometers — of the city is under the control of the terrorist group. The AFP records show that only 100 to 120 members of the Maute remain fighting on the ground. In a report […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) spokesman Brigadier General Restituto Padilla said that the weapons donated by China will be of great help in their fight against the Maute Group in Marawi City. Padilla said that the weapons from China are easier to handle because they are similar to what Philippine soldiers are already using. The weapons donated by the Chinese government include 300 rifles, five million live ammunition […]
Jeff Horn “looks like a pumpkin” after fight, noted a former Australian heavyweight champ (Eagle News) — International sports celebrities including basketball star Kobe Bryant, football quarterback Aaron Rodgers, and two former boxing heavyweight champs hit the score of boxing judges after Filipino boxing great Manny Pacquiao lost his World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight title in a controversial unanimous decision to Australia’s Jeff Horn on Sunday, July 2. Bryant posted a tweet with the […]
STAMMBACH, Germany (Reuters) – Thirty-one people were injured, some seriously, when a coach burst into flames after colliding with a lorry on a motorway in the German state of Bavaria on Monday (July 3), police said. There were 48 people on the bus at the time of the crash, according to a police Twitter. A police spokesman told broadcaster n-tv that 17 people were unaccounted for and he expected several had died.
by Laurent Thomet, with Laurent Barthelemy in Washington Agence France Presse BEIJING, China — Chinese President Xi Jinping told United States counterpart Donald Trump on Monday that Sino-US relations have been hit by “negative factors” in a phone call following days of US actions that have vexed Beijing. Trump held separate calls with Xi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that focused on tensions on the Korean peninsula, but China’s foreign ministry said Xi also […]
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party suffered a historic defeat in an election in the Japanese capital on Sunday (July 2), signalling trouble ahead for the premier, who has suffered from slumping support because of a favouritism scandal. On the surface, the Tokyo Metropolitan assembly election was a referendum on Governor Yuriko Koike’s year in office, but the dismal showing for Abe’s party is also a stinging rebuke of his […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said that 3,677 of the total 42,036 barangays in the country have been cleared of illegal drugs. According to PDEA Director General Isidro Lapeña, the barangays who have been given the “Drug-cleared status” were certified by the members of the Oversight Committee on Barangay Drug-clearing Program. Before a barangay can be declared drug-free, it should pass the probe of the committee which checks if a certain […]
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reuters) – A United States Senate delegation headed by Senator John McCain met Pakistan’s army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Sunday (July 2). The army’s media wing said in a press release that the officials and delegates discussed the regional security situation including Afghanistan and security cooperation between Pakistan and the US. McCain has said there could be “no peace” in Afghanistan or the rest of the region without Pakistan’s cooperation, as […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) – The Supreme Court is expected to release its decision on the petition questioning the legality of President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of martial law in Mindanao tomorrow. But according to sources, Associate Justice Mariano del Castillo had made an 83-page draft decision clearing Duterte from charges that he abused his authority when he made the declaration on May 23. They said the High Court had found “sufficient factual basis” for the […]
(Eagle News) — Oil companies announced a price increase in their petrol products this week. Thirty to 40 centavos per liter will be added to the present rates of gasoline, while 60 to 70 centavos will be added to diesel prices. Fifty to 60 centavos will be added to kerosene prices. This is the first oil price increase since the three-time rollback last month.
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) – North Korea has a last chance to engage in dialogue with the outside world, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Monday (July 3) during a meeting with former United States president Barack Obama, Moon’s office said. Obama is visiting Seoul this week to speak at a forum hosted by South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper, where, earlier on Monday, he said North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons had “done nothing […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte called on the New People’s Army (NPA) to stop attacking and waging war on government forces if its leaders are serious in pursuing peace talks with the government. The President expressed his frustration over the continuing attacks by the NPA on government forces despite the ongoing peace talk which leaders of the National Democratic Front (NDF) and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) led by Jose Maria Sison […]
