Breaking News, Latest Philippines Headlines, World, Entertainment, Politics, Weather & Video News
by Dave Clark Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Presidents Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan stood side by side at the White House on Tuesday and promised to strengthen strained ties despite the Turkish leader’s stern warning about Washington’s arming of a Kurdish militia. Fresh from securing his grip on Turkey with a referendum to enhance his powers, Erdogan came to the Oval Office with complaints about US support for Kurdish fighters […]
BALAYAN, Batangas (Eagle News) – Patay ang isang pulis habang sugatan naman ang anim na katao matapos pagbabarilin ang mga ito ng apat na lalaki sa Batangas kamakailan. Namatay habang ginagamot sa ospital si SPO1 Brian de Jesus. Nakatalaga ito sa Balayan Municipal Police Station. Sugatan naman ang anim pang iba na di pa nakikilala, na tinamaan ng ligaw na bala. Ayon sa awtoridad, nanonood ng live band ang pulis nang paulanan ito ng bala […]
SINTANGKAI, Tawi-tawi (Eagle News) – Hindi na nakakuhang tumakas ng isang miyembro ng Abu Sayyaf matapos itong akusahang miyembro ng grupong bandido ng kaniyang kapitbahay sa Tawi-tawi. Sinabi ni Capt. Joan Petinglay, tagapagsalita ng Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Forces, Western Mindanao Command (Wesmincom), na umamin si Sahidul Jikiri, na inaresto kamakailan sa Sintangkai, na kasama siyang nagpaplano sa kidnapping at cross border sea highjacking ng mga foreign national vessel. Nasa ilalim diumano siya sa pamumuno ni […]
ROME, Italy (Reuters) — Triple champion Maria Sharapova retired injured from her second round match with Croatia’s Mirjana Lucic-Baroni at the Italian Open on Tuesday (May 16), ending her hopes of qualifying on merit for Wimbledon’s main draw. The 30-year-old Russian, playing her third tournament back after a 15-month doping ban, was leading 2-1 in the deciding set but was unable to continue after apparently injuring her left thigh which was heavily strapped. It completed […]
PANAMAO, Sulu (Eagle News) – Patay ang tatlong sibilyan, at sugatan naman ang isa matapos pagbabarilin sila ng mga miyembro diumano ng Abu Sayyaf sa Sulu. Kinilala ng Philippine National Police-Sulu ang mga nasawi na sina Manan Hamidi, Al-hapid Hamidi, at Immok Hamjani na kapuwa taga-Talipao. Ang sugatan naman ay kinilalang si Julasan Abuhasan. Kagagaling lang sa isang kasalan ang apat sakay ng isang jeep ng paulanan sila ng bala gamit diumano ang isang high-powered […]
By Dexter T. Manglicmot WASHINGTON D.C. (Eagle News Service) — Minister of the Iglesia Ni Cristo, Matt Talens, would have never guessed that answering his phone one Saturday morning in October 2015 in his chapel office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, would eventually lead to the first-ever baptism of the Iglesia Ni Cristo in Monrovia, Liberia, Africa. On the other end of the line was Joseph Crusoe who picked up a magazine of the Church at […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) — Two dazzling pink and blue pear-shaped diamonds have together sold for 57,118,000 Swiss Francs ($57,425,000) to a private buyer at Sotheby’s auction house on Tuesday (May 16). Sotheby’s said the Apollo and Artemis stones are “by far the most important pair of earrings ever offered at auction.” They were offered to buyers separately at the auction house’s Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels sale in Geneva, but were purchased by the same […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi has pushed back against isolated calls from within her party to impeach United States President Donald Trump following allegations he disclosed top secret information to top Russian officials. The minority leader in the House of Representatives was responding to calls by at least two congressional Democrats for Trump to be impeached in the wake of Monday’s explosive Washington Post report. “I don’t subscribe to that,” […]
AMMAN, Jordan (AFP) – Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Tuesday formally launched an international research center whose members include experts from around the world including arch-rivals Iran and Israel. The International Center for Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East, known by the acronym SESAME, “is the first research center of its kind in the region,” said the royal court. SESAME council president Chris Llewellyn Smith said the center, located in Balqa […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Accident and emergency units in England were nearly back to normal on Tuesday, the National Health Service (NHS) said, after the last restrictions put in place following the global cyber attack were lifted. “Patients are no longer being diverted away from hospital accident and emergency units,” Anne Rainsberry, NHS England’s national incident director, said in a statement. “While there is still some disruption in a small number of areas, most […]
BOSTON, United States (AFP) — LeBron James believes Cleveland’s regular-season rout of Boston will count for nothing as the two teams prepare to clash in the opening game of the Eastern Conference finals here Wednesday. The Cavaliers dismantled the Celtics on April 5 in a crushing 114-91 blowout at the TD Garden, completing a 3-1 record over Boston over the 2016-2017 campaign. But James insists the Cavaliers’ dominance of their opponents over the regular season […]
by Carole Landry Agence France Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The United Nations Security Council met behind closed doors on Tuesday to discuss tightening sanctions on North Korea after it fired its latest ballistic missile. United States Ambassador Nikki Haley said the US was working with China, Pyongyang’s main ally, on a new sanctions resolution and warned that all countries must step up action against North Korea or face measures themselves. “We all […]
