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ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Turkey on Friday detained 57 people in an operation that is part of an investigation into the failed July 15 coup, state media said. The 57 were detained in six different provinces, with over 100 arrest warrants issued, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. Efforts to detain the remaining suspects are in progress, it added. The suspects are believed to have links to the group of Fethullah Gulen, the United States-based preacher Ankara accuses […]
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Eagle News) — Patuloy na nagbabala si Zamboanga City Agriculturist Dr. Diosdado Palacat tungkol sa paghuli, pagbebenta at pagkain ng isdang barracuda dahil sa taglay nitong kemikal na nakalalason sa tao. Dahil dito, naglilibot ngayon ang mga tauhan ng Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources upang inspeksyunin ang mga ibinebentang isda sa palengke. Ginawa ito matapos ang isang isolated incident umano, kung saan mayroong namatay na isang pusa pagkatapos makakain ng isda na galing sa […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) – The fate of the captain of the doomed Costa Concordia cruise liner hung in the balance Friday as his defense lawyers prepared to sum up and Italy’s highest court readied its ruling. Schettino, dubbed “Captain Coward” by the press for abandoning the stricken ship during the 2012 nighttime disaster that killed 32 people, will be jailed if the court upholds his 16-year and one month sentence. His lawyers were set to […]
(Eagle News)– The Office of the Ombudsman released on Friday what it said was President Rodrigo Duterte’s Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth. Based on the statement, Duterte’s net worth was pegged at P27,428,862.44 as of December 31, 2016. The president’s basic monthly salary increased from P165,752 to P222,278 starting January 2017.
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News)– A huge whale was found on Thursday on the shores of a beach in Cavite, its mouth filled with plastic bottles and other wastes. The clincher—the whale isn’t real. The 15-meter-by-three-meter “creature” was actually only an art installation made to send a strong message against water pollution, and its detrimental effects on living sea creatures. The installation was placed at the Sea Side Beach Resort in Naic for Association of Southeast Asian Nation leaders, in […]
(Eagle News)– The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) office in Manila received a bomb threat Friday (May 12) afternoon. Work was disrupted as employees and people inside the office were evacuated out of the building. The security personnel reportedly received a phone call at about 11 a.m. that informed a bomb would supposedly explode inside edifice. A bomb squad from Manila Police District (MPD) is now conducting an inspection. Nicanor Reyes and Paredes Streets where the […]
May 15 is World Families Day Infographics by Dex Magno Research by Jodi Bustos, edited by Jay Paul Carlos
(Eagle News) — The camp of alleged pork barrel scam queen Janet Lim Napoles has formally asked the Sandiganbayan for her transfer to the National Bureau of Investigation. In a very urgent motion to transfer place of detention filed before the fifth division, where she faces a plunder case in connection with the alleged scam, her lawyers argued it would be very “improper and unjust” for her to “continue her detention” at the Correctional Institute for Women in […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The San Antonio Spurs humiliated the Houston Rockets Thursday with a 114-75 game six closeout win that brought James Harden’s MVP-worthy season to a dramatic end. LaMarcus Aldridge paced the offense by scoring 34 points for the short-handed Spurs, who routed the Rockets despite the absence of top scorer Kawhi Leonard and star guard Tony Parker. San Antonio won the second-round series in six games and punched their ticket to […]
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday (May 11) received an award for the promotion of women in society by the Global Summit of Women held in Tokyo. The event in Tokyo hotel was attended by Vice President of Philippines Leni Robredo, and Vice President of Vietnam, Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh, and other high ranking women in Asia and Abe’s “Womenomics” was acclaimed as a positive movement in a country that […]
by Ali Noorani Agence France-Presse TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) – In a working-class district of Tehran teeming with porters, motorbikes and pickup trucks, residents have little enthusiasm about next week’s presidential election. Iranians have tried it all — reformists, establishment figures, rabble-rousing populists, and for the past four years a moderate cleric, President Hassan Rouhani, who struck a historic deal to reintegrate Iran into the world. But residents of Molavi, in capital’s south, say their lives […]
Factfile on the Zika virus. Brazil’s government on Thursday declared an end to a national emergency over the Zika virus.
