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(Eagle News) — Mahigit 22 milyong estudyante sa pampubulikong paaralan ang nagbalik-eswela ngayong araw sa opisyal na pagbubukas ng klase para sa School Year 2017-2018. Ngayong school year din ang pagsisimula ng first official batch ng Grade 12 senior high school students at ng Grade 11 students. Ayon sa Department of Education (DepEd), ang pagbubukas ng klase para sa mga pampublikong paaralan ay tuwing unang Lunes ng Hunyo. Sa mga pribadong paaralan ay maaaring […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The security guards of the Resorts World Manila are now under investigation by the Philippine National Police after the June 2 attack by a gunman who set fire to gambling tables and equipment, including carpets, which resulted in the deaths of 37 hotel employees and guests. The investigation by the Supervisory Office for Security and Investigation Agencies aims to answer if there are lapses on the part of the security of […]
PENRYN, United Kingdom (Reuters) – The African penguin joins the list of species said to be threatened by climate change – and overfishing. Researchers from the United Kingdom and South Africa say penguin numbers in the Benguela upwelling ecosystem have halved in just 30 years. The sardines and anchovies they feed on have moved eastwards, due to changes in water temperature and salinity. Scientists tagged juvenile penguins and found them traveling fruitlessly to their old […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte has offered a P10-million bounty on the alleged “Emir” of ISIS in the Philippines and Abu Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon. “The President is offering P10 million reward money for the neutralization of Isnilon Hapilon who is believed to be leading the terrorist Maute-ISIS group in attacking Marawi City,” Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief General Eduardo Año said Monday. Año said the President also offered P5 million each for […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police has released the close-circuit television (CCTV) camera footage from Resorts World Manila to prove that the attack on the casino last week was not part of a terror attack. After indiscriminately firing his gun and setting fire to various casino properties, the suspect identified as Jessie Carlos, a former employee of the Department of Finance who was deep in debt due to gambling, allegedly committed […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Department of Finance on Sunday, June 4, confirmed that Resorts World Manila gunman, Jessie Carlos, was a former employee, working as Tax Specialist 1. DOF said that it dismissed the gunman for failing to properly declare his assets in his Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth. “Carlos, whose total income from 2001 to 2011 grossed P2,460,156.00 was found by the Ombudsman to have purchased, in cold cash, two (2) […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte visited the wake of some of the victims of the Resorts World Manila tragedy late Saturday night (June 3). The presidential convoy was spotted in two memorial houses in Pasay City as well as in Taguig City. The president came to visit the wake of victims after he visited wounded soldiers in Cagayan de Oro City. Duterte visited the Veronica Memorial Chapel past 11 p.m., where […]
BAREILLY, India (Reuters) – At least 22 people died and 15 others injured in India’s northern Bareilly city on Monday (June 5), after a bus collided with a truck and immediately caught on fire. The bus belonged to Uttar Pradesh State Transport Corporation (UPSRTC) and was on the way to Gonda from New Delhi. Authorities have not been able to identify any of the bodies. According to local media, the truck was seized but the […]
(Reuters) – China’s home-made FTC-2000 Mountain Eagle (Shanying) fighter trainer has rolled off the final assembly line in southwest China’s Guizhou Province. The Shanying is a supersonic fighter trainer, developed by the Guizhou Aviation Aircraft Co.Ltd., under the Aviation Industry Corporation of China. It is capable of undertaking many combat and training missions and conducting air-to-air and air-to-ground operations. “It is an export variant of airplanes. The biggest difference is that the export plane is positioned […]
by James Pheby Agence France Presse Police carried out fresh raids and arrested “a number of people” on Monday after the Islamic State group claimed an attack by three men who mowed down and stabbed revellers in London, killing seven people before being shot dead by officers. Saturday night’s rampage at a popular nightlife hub around London Bridge by men wearing fake suicide vests was the third deadly terror attack in Britain in less than […]
WASHINGTON DC, United States (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Sunday (June 4) called the London attacks an “evil slaughter” and said the United States would do everything it could in its power to assist the United Kingdom to bring those responsible to justice. “This bloodshed must end. This bloodshed will end,” Trump said in brief remarks after a gala event at Ford’s Theater in Washington. On Saturday night, attackers killed at least seven people […]
(Eagle News)– Retired policeman Arturo Lascañas is facing murder and frustrated murder charges stemming from the two attempts on broadcaster Juan “Jun” Pala’s life and his killing in 2003. The cases were filed at the Davao City Regional Trial Court last Thursday (June 1), this after the Davao City Prosecutor’s Office found probable cause for the criminal charges filed against him over the attempts on Pala’s life in June 2002 and April 2003, and his killing in […]
