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By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Sinampahan na ng patong patong na kasong kriminal sina SPO2 Raul Nadera at PO3 Anthony Tecson na pawang nakatalaga sa traffic enforcement unit ng Quezon City Police District (QCPD). Kinasuhan ang dalawa matapos mahuli sa akto na nangongotong sa mga motorista sa Quezon City kasama mga tauhan ng anti-smoke belching unit. Kabilang sa isinampa sa kanila ang robbery extortion, anti graft and corrupt practices act […]
By Earlo Bringas Eagle News Service SAN JUAN CITY, Quezon City (Eagle News) — Nasunog ang nasa higit labinlimang kabahayan sa F . Manalo Street Barangay Kabayanan sa San Juan City, pasado alas nuebe kagabi. Umabot sa 4th alarm ang sunog, kung saan mabilis na kumalat ang apoy dahil gawa sa light materials halos lahat ng kabahayan. Tinatayang aabot sa higit 900 thousand pesos ang naging halaga ng nasunog sa lugar. Higit tatlumpung pamilya ang […]
by Paulina Abramovich ESTACION YUNGAY, Chile (AFP) — Chile’s Atacama desert may seem to contain little besides red-grey rocks and sand — but scientists are busy searching here for clues to life in a place it much resembles: Mars. This desert in northern Chile, like the red planet, is hot, dusty and extremely dry. Yet life exists here: tiny algae and bacteria that have evolved to survive in the parched earth on little more than […]
Inilunsad ang 2nd championship karate event ng (PKTS) Philippine Karatedo Traditional and Sports sa Marikina Sports Complex sa Marikina. Ang nasabing championship ay pinamunuan ni Rudy Ochoa na coach din ng Marikina Karatedo Club sa Marikina na matatagpuan sa Marikina Sports Complex.
(Eagle News) — Inatasan ng Malacañang ang Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) na pag-aralan ang panukalang magkaroon ng flexible time sa pagpasok ng mga empleyado ng gobyerno. Layunin ng panukala na hindi sabaysabay na papapasukin ang mga kawani ng pamahalaan para mabawasan ang volume ng trapiko sa mga pangunahing lungsod ng bansa partikular sa Metro Manila. Sinabi ni Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella na hindi tumitigil ang pamahalaan sa paghahanap ng solusyon kung papaano mapapagaan ang […]
(Eagle News) — Posibleng tumagal pa umano ng isang linggo ang mararanasang mga aftershock kasunod ng nangyaring 5.5 magnitude na lindol sa Batangas. Ayon sa Philippine Institute of Volcanoloy and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), umabot na sa animapu’t- apat na aftershocks ang kanilang naitatala. Pinabulaanan naman ng PHIVOLCS ang balitang tsunami alert na kasunod ng 5.5 magnitude na lindol. Nilinaw rin ng ahensya na walang katotohanan ang mga kumakalat ngayon sa social media na mga babala kung […]
(Eagle News) — Nakahanda ang Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) at Philippine National Police (PNP) na sumunod sa utos ng Pangulo na ipaubaya na sa grupong Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (KADAMAY) ang mga bahay sa Pandi, Bulacan na puwersahang inokupa ng grupo noong nakaraang buwan. Katunayan, kinakausap na raw ng AFP ang kanilang mga sundalo para ipaliwanag ang utos ng Pangulo at ibalita. Gayunman, hindi na raw pahihintulutan ng PNP na okupahin din ng […]
by Marlowe Hood PARIS, France (AFP) — The percentage of men and women who use tobacco every day has dropped in most nations since 1990, but the total number of smokers and tobacco-related deaths has increased, a consortium of researchers reported Thursday. Mortality could rise even further as major tobacco companies aggressively target new markets, especially in the developing world, they warned in a report, published in the medical journal The Lancet. One in four men […]
by Lachlan Carmichael STRASBOURG, France (AFP) — The European Parliament on Wednesday overwhelmingly adopted tough “red lines” for negotiations over a Brexit deal, on which European Union lawmakers will have the final say in two years’ time. The parliament largely followed EU President Donald Tusk’s draft guidelines issued last week after British Prime Minister Theresa May formally triggered the historic Brexit process. But they omitted any mention of the flashpoint issue of Gibraltar, unlike Tusk’s […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States may soon expand its ban on air passengers carrying computers on board on US-bound flights, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Wednesday. The threat of a terror group trying to blow up an aircraft mid-flight is constant, he told a Senate hearing on border security, suggesting that the current ban might not have gone far enough. “It’s real, I think it’s getting realer,” he said of the […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (Reuters) — Swedish scientists have discovered that the malaria parasite in infected humans sends out a signal to attract mosquitoes to feed from them and continue the cycle of infection. Together with their colleagues, Professor Ingrid Faye of the Department of Molecular Biosciences and Noushin Emami, post-doctoral researcher at the Wenner-Gren Institute at Stockholm University, discovered that the system helps the malaria parasite to spread and survive without killing the hosts. In a […]
by Richard Ingham PARIS, France (AFP) — The beast goes by the Latin monicker of Acanthaster planci, but it is known to us as the crown-of-thorns — a venomous starfish that is ravaging our precious coral reefs. One of many threats to coral, the large, spine-studded species is capable of chewing through kilometers (miles) of reefs when large numbers of it gather and spawn. In desperation, guardians of reefs in the Indian Ocean and Pacific […]
