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Korean boyband BTS wins Top Social Artist Billboard award; Canadian rapper Drake nets 13 awards

(Eagle News) — The Korean boy band group, Bangtan Boy Scouts or “BTS” makes its legendary moment after winning the Top Social Artist from the 2017 Billboard Music Awards presented by ION360 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday night. BTS also makes history as the first Korean-Pop band to be nominated, invited and to win a Billboard award. The seven-member South Korean boy band was able to beat pop superstars like Justin […]

Tatlong miyembro ng NPA, sumuko sa 8th Infantry Battalion

IMPASUG-ONG, Bukidnon (Eagle News) – Tatlong miyembro ng New People’s Army (NPA) ang kusang loob na sumuko sa himpilan ng 8th Infantry Battalion sa Impasug-ong, Bukidnon noong Lunes, Mayo 22. Isinuko rin nila ang kanilang iba’t-ibang uri ng mga armas. Nahikayat anila sila ng mga dati nilang kasamahang rebelde na sumuko na at nagbalik-loob sa gobyerno. Ipinaunawa rin sa kanila ang kahalagahan ng pagpili sa tamang landas patungo sa kapayapaan. Gov Segovia – EBC Correspondent, Impasug-ong, […]

Google AI program beats top-ranked Go player

SHANGHAI, China (AFP) – Google’s computer program AlphaGo beat the world’s top-ranked player in the ancient Chinese board game Go on Tuesday, re-affirming the arrival of what its developers tout as a ground-breaking new form of artificial intelligence. AlphaGo took the first encounter in a three-game series against brash 19-year-old Chinese world number one Ke Jie, who before the game called the program a “cold machine” and vowed never to play it again after this week. […]

Merkel voices ‘sorrow and horror’ over Manchester attack

BERLIN, Germany (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday expressed her “sorrow and horror” over the bomb attack in Manchester, vowing that Germany will stand by Britain in the fight against terror. “This suspected terrorist attack will only strengthen our resolve to work with our British friends against those who plan and execute such inhuman acts. I assure the people in Britain: Germany stands by your side,” she said in a statement. © Agence […]

North Korea-linked hackers ‘highly likely’ behind WannaCry: Symantec

SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — The Lazarus hacking group, widely believed to be connected to North Korea, is “highly likely” responsible for the WannaCry global cyberattack that hit earlier this month, US anti-virus firm Symantec said. North Korea has angrily dismissed earlier reports linking its isolated regime to the worm that crippled hundreds of thousands of computers, demanding payment in Bitcoin to return control to users. But Symantec said the ransomware had many of […]

Tumakas na inmate ng Laguna Provincial Jail, balik kulungan uli

BIÑAN CITY, Laguna (Eagle News) – Pagkaraan ng halos isang linggong pagtatago ay muling naibalik sa kulungan ang isang inmate ng Laguna Provincial Jail. Kinilala ang inmate na si Eugene L. Edlagan, na may kasong murder. Nahuli ito sa isinagawang operasyon sa J. P. Rizal, Paete, Laguna, noong Linggo, ika-21 ng Mayo, o mga anim na araw matapos ito tumakas mula sa kaniyang selda. Sa kasalukuyan ay nakakulong na muli si Edlagan.   Willson Palima – EBC […]

Putin ready to boost UK anti-terror links after ‘inhuman’ attack

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was ready to boost anti-terror cooperation with Britain in a condolence message to Prime Minister Theresa May over the “inhuman” attack in Manchester, the Kremlin said Tuesday. “We firmly condemn this cynical, inhuman crime. We expect that those behind it will not escape the punishment they deserve,” Putin said in a statement published by the Kremlin. “The Russian head of state confirmed his readiness to […]

Trump arrives for talks with Palestinian leader in Bethlehem

BETHLEHEM, Palestinian Territories (AFP) — President Donald Trump arrived for talks with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday as they seek ways to renew Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. Trump arrived at the presidential palace in the West Bank city, located only about a 20-minute drive from Jerusalem but across Israel’s controversial separation wall. On Monday, Trump held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.

Death toll rises to 22, while 59 people injured in terror blast at UK pop concert

by Edouard Guihaire Agence France Presse MANCHESTER, United States (AFP) — Twenty-two people, including children, were killed and dozens injured when a man detonated a bomb at a pop concert by US star Ariana Grande, in Britain’s deadliest terror attack in 12 years. Screaming fans, many of them teens, fled the venue in panic after the bomb blast at the end of the concert in the northern English city of Manchester on Monday evening. “There was […]