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PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur (Eagle News) – Nasa 13 katao ang sumailalim sa profiling at paraffin test matapos mai-report sa mga awtoridad na may naka-confine sa isang pagamutan sa Pagadian City na galing sa Marawi City. Ayon kay PSupt. Kiram Jimlani, Hepe ng PNP-Pagadian, agad niyang pinaimbestigatihan ng matanggap ang report na may naka-confine sa Zamboanga del Sur Medical Center na galing sa Marawi City. Isa sa 13 katao ay kritikal na kinilalang si Junaid Ampaso Dimarogong. Dagdag […]
by Marianne Barriaux and Thomas Cabral Agence France Presse PEDROGAO Grande , Portugal (AFP) — More than 1,000 firefighters were on Monday battling to get control of a massive forest fire that swept through central Portugal at the weekend, as the nation mourned the 64 killed in the flames. Many victims were burnt as they were trapped in their cars around the epicentre of the blaze in Pedrogao Grande, in what is the deadliest such […]
ILO-ILO CITY, Iloilo (Eagle News) – Mas lalo pang hinigpitan ang seguridad sa Iloilo City matapos ang insidente ng pagkakadakip sa tatlong miyembro ng Maute Group. Noong Linggo ng hapon, Hunyo 18, nang madakip ang tatlo–dalawang lalaki at isang babae—sakay ng M/V St. Therese of Child Jesus ng 2Go Travel. Nadakip ang mga ito ng dumaong sa Iloilo City ang barko na patungong Maynila. Ayon sa Coast Guard, napansin nila na tugma sa itsura ng […]
by Jim SLATER Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert announced Monday that general manager David Griffin is out as general manager of the NBA club when his contract expires at the end of June. The move came exactly one year after LeBron James led the Cavaliers to an NBA crown, the first by any major Cleveland sports team since 1964, and one week after the Cavaliers were dethroned […]
TARAKAN, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines began joint naval patrols in their region Monday as threats from extremist groups increase. The “trilateral coordinated maritime patrol” was launched amid continuing battles between Philippine troops and Islamist gunmen loyal to the Islamic State group, who have seized part of the city of Marawi in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Indonesia’s military chief Gatot Nurmantyo said the patrols are timely as his country tries […]
by Roland JACKSON Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain’s economy will slow in the coming years, the CBI business lobby warned Tuesday, blaming domestic political turmoil — and the impact of Brexit one day after EU divorce talks began. The economy will expand by 1.6 percent this year before slowing to 1.4 percent in 2018, according to upgraded forecasts from the Confederation of British Industry, after 1.8-percent growth in 2016. The CBI, […]
(Eagle News) — One of the seven US sailors killed in the sea mishap between a US destroyer and a Philippine flagged container ship was a Filipino-American from Chula Vista, California who felt that serving in the Navy was his “calling.” Fire Controlman 2nd Class Carlos Victor Ganzon Sibayan, 23, was among the US sailors recovered after a severely damaged USS Fitzgerald returned to a US Navy base in Yokosuka, Japan aided by tugboats. […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Climate change will sharply boost the frequency of lethal heatwaves even if humanity caps global warming at two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the core goal of the Paris Agreement, scientists said Monday. Fulfilling that 196-nation pledge would, by 2100, still leave nearly half the world’s population exposed at least once a year to bouts of heat and humidity that have proven deadly in the […]
LE BOURGET, France (Reuters) — The idea may seem far-fetched but with self-flying drones available for less than $1,000, the technology of pilotless planes has real possibilities says Mike Sinnett, Boeing’s vice president of product development. Airlines are among those backing the idea, in part to deal with a projected need for 1.5 million pilots over the next 20 years as global demand for air travel continues to grow. “I see a need for 41,000 […]
By: Alex Tejada, EBC Sports International, Las Vegas Bureau We are closer to the announcement of the roster for the new NHL team in Las Vegas, called the Golden Knights. Sunday June 18, 2017 was the last day for the other NHL teams to submit their protection lists to the Golden Knights. During this expansion draft process, the Golden Knights will need to pick one player from each of the other 30 NHL teams. The […]
by Agnès PEDRERO Agence France Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Devastating conflicts, violence and persecution in Syria, South Sudan and elsewhere left a record 65.6 million people uprooted from their homes by the end of 2016, the UN said Monday. That number marks a jump of just 300,000 from the end of 2015, but is more than six million higher than at the end of 2014, according to a report published by the UN refugee […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump on Monday denounced North Korea as “a brutal regime” after the death of a 22-year-old US student released by the reclusive country in a coma last week. Speaking moments after news of Otto Warmbier’s death was announced publicly, Trump hit out at Pyongyang. “It’s a brutal regime,” the president said during a White House event. “Bad things happened but at least we got him home to his […]
