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(Reuters) — Both the United States and Russia have made clear that they have been trying to avoid getting drawn deeper into the Syrian conflict, a Syrian analyst said Tuesday. Despite the efforts to reach a political settlement for the Syrian crisis, the situation on the ground has grown increasingly complex over the past few months. In mid-March, Syrian government forces and the opposition engaged in the most intense fighting in almost a year in […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Senator Grace Poe on Wednesday, June 28 advised the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to first conduct proper consultation with the affected sectors before it implements its expanded number coding scheme. “Naiintindihan natin ang malaking hamon na kinakaharap ng MMDA sa pagresolba ng traffic sa Metro Manila. Subalit sa paghahanap ng solusyon, hindi dapat magpadalus-dalos,” Poe said in a statement. “The plan to implement an expanded number coding scheme […]
(Reuters) – Top experts kept a close eye on a major global cyber attack that swept the world, as they gathered on Wednesday (June 28) in Tel Aviv for an annual cyber security conference. The attack disrupted computers at Russia’s biggest oil company, Ukrainian banks and multinational firms with a virus similar to the ransomware that infected more than 300,000 computers last month. The rapidly spreading cyber extortion campaign, which began on Tuesday (June 27), […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said that the frequent trips abroad of President Rodrigo Duterte has brought home large investments. Andanar said that just under a year in office, President Duterte already brought in about $35 billion worth of investments, as well as the accompanying good relations with other countries. “Ang mahalaga po doon sa biyahe ng Pangulo na halos umabot tig-P380 million doon sa isang pahayagan ay yung […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III gave the Duterte administration’s performance in its first year high marks. Pimentel gave the President a rating of 8.5 to 9, saying that the administration’s successful war on drugs lowered the crime rate in the country. Pimentel also said that he has no complaints against Duterte and that he had also fulfilled his campaign promise, “Change is coming.” “Yung slogan ni Pres. Duterte […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – The health department said that 27 evacuees have now died in the ongoing Marawi City crisis, with the newest addition being a newborn infant. With a diet limited to canned sardines and instant noodles, many of the evacuees now have weakened immune systems. According to the Department of Health (DOH), some of the health problems that evacuees have are skin disease, lung-disease, hypertension and water-borne disease like diarrhea and […]
BRISBANE, Australia (Reuters) – Manny Pacquiao said on Wednesday (June 28) that he has trained hard and is ready to defend his WBO welterweight belt against former schoolteacher and rank outsider Jeff Horn in Brisbane on Sunday (July 2). The 38-year-old Filipino, who is seeking a dominant win over Horn to try to coax Floyd Mayweather Jr into a re-match, said his trainers Freddie Roach and Justin Fortune have had to stop him from working […]
(Reuters) — Five decades since it heralded a transformation in the way people obtained and used cash, the world’s first automated teller machine was turned into gold for celebrations of its fiftieth anniversary. The brainchild of Scottish inventor Shepherd-Barron, the first ATM was opened on June 27, 1967 at a branch of Barclays bank in Enfield, north London, the first of six cash dispensers commissioned by the bank. English actor Reg Varney, who starred in […]
(Eagle News) — She walked down the streets like she was a model. While the Filipino boxing champion, Manny Pacquiao was busy preparing for his upcoming bout against Jeff Horn on July 2, his wife Jinkee appeared to have already nailed a modeling competition as she walked down the streets of Australia in high fashion and style. Jinkee Pacquiao’s OOTD (outfits of the day) posted on her Instagram account instantly became blockbusters as netizens showered […]
by Joanna Chiu Agence France Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — The new United States ambassador to Beijing, known for his friendship with China’s president, said Wednesday he wanted terminally-ill dissident Liu Xiaobo to get treatment abroad, as Taiwan offered to care for the Nobel laureate. Ambassador Terry Branstad arrived in Beijing on Tuesday, one day after Liu’s lawyer revealed that prison authorities granted the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate medical parole after diagnosing him with […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Six suspected members of the Islamic State group were arrested in Spain, Britain and Germany on Wednesday in an operation led by Spanish authorities investigating a jihadist recruiting network, the Spanish interior ministry said. Raids were continuing Wednesday morning targeting the group, based on the island of Majorca and led by an Islamist imam, who was arrested in Britain, the ministry said in a statement. The imam, 44, was the target […]
(Eagle News) — The Chinese government donated around P15 millon for the relief operations and rehabilitation of the besieged city of Marawi Chinese Ambassador, H.E. Zhao Jianhua presented to President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, June 27, “the P15-million check donation that will significantly augment the resources of the Department of Health (DOH) and Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD),” according to a Malacanang release. “The said donation from China to the Philippines is an […]
