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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – The Trump administration’s top trade advisor said Monday US trade deficits are a threat to national security that could cause the loss of American freedom and prosperity. Outlining an unapologetically aggressive trade policy, Peter Navarro, director of the White House National Trade Council, accused economists and the media of ignoring the risk posed by trade deficits and embracing an “antiquated view of the world.” Navarro singled out China and Germany […]
by Andrew BEATTY Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States – US President Donald Trump on Monday signed a revised ban on travelers from six Muslim-majority nations, scaling back the order to exempt Iraqis and permanent US residents. After his first wide-ranging and controversial restrictions were slapped down by the federal courts, Trump signed an order freezing new visas for Syrians, Iranians, Libyans, Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese citizens. The White House said Trump signed the order behind […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse PARIS, France – There’s good and bad news for people, and polar bears, threatened by the Arctic’s vanishing sea ice, scientists said Monday. First the good news: summer ice cover is “virtually certain” to survive if average global warming does not rise more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial era levels, according to a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. “We estimate there is less […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has approved a national broadband program, and is poised to sign an executive order prohibiting smoking in public places on Tuesday. In a Facebook post, Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol said the President made the approval for the national broadband program on Monday, during the 13th Cabinet meeting in Malacañang. He said during the meeting, Department of Information and Communications Technology Secretary Rodolfo Salalima made a presentation for the program […]
(Eagle News) — Two people have now been reported killed, and 41 others were injured after a 5.9-magnitude aftershock jolted Surigao del Norte on Sunday. In an interview over Radyo Agila DZEC’s “Feedback,” Surigao City Vice Mayor Alfonso Casurra said the two fatalities suffered a heart attack. Casurra said 41 were injured, and properties also destroyed. In fact, he said many of the buildings that were partially damaged in a 6.7-magnitude earthquake on Feb. 10 were now […]
(Eagle News) — Russian ambassador to the Philippines Igor Khovaev expressed how important it is for Filipinos and Russians to discover more about each other, stressing how both have common values. In a previous interview with Eagle News Service, Khovaev stressed the importance of Filipinos and Russians being open to each other, and for the Philippines to see Russia as a “new reliable partner and close friend.” It’s time for Russia to discover the […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Alan Peter Cayetano called the Human Rights Watch a biased source of information on Monday, saying the group concluded drug suspects were being executed extrajudicially even if it only interviewed 24 of the 7,000 drug cases in the country. “HRW did not interview any of the (Philippine National Police officials),” the senator added during the Senate inquiry into the alleged killings of the so-called Davao Death Squad. Cayetano was referring to the 80-page report titled […]
INDIA (Reuters) — A gold rush in India. Jewellers across the country seeing a massive surge in people wanting to spend big on the country’s favourite precious metal, despite New Delhi’s recent shock cash crunch. Imports surged 82 percent in February, compared to the same time last year. That translates to 50 tonnes of gold. Reuters Euan Rocha explains what’s leading the turnaround. “Big factors in the Indian market without a doubt is wedding season. […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News)– Self-proclaimed Davao Death Squad (DDS) and former SPO3 Arturo Lascañas on Monday, March 6 apologized to Senate for his false testimony during the previous Senate hearing regarding the DDS conducted last year. “First, I’d like to ask for an apology and understanding of what I had said when I was invited (by) this honorable committee,” the retired cop said. Lascañas take back his October testimony and alleged that the DDS […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Senator Alan Peter Cayetano revealed that the anti-Duterte group allegedly plans to engineer a mass resignation in the Cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte before the President’s second State of the Nation Address. The plan aims to paralyze the government and oust President Duterte. The group is said to be targeting those in holdover capacities or those who were appointed by former President Aquino, to join the mass resignation to […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo dismissed the “Lascañas Journal” as a mere invention, adding that retired SPO3 Arturo Lascañas does not have a hand in its creation. “As I have previously stated, the so-called journal is a fabrication,” Panelo said in a statement. “The fact alone that it was not presented at the first opportunity is already a giveaway that it is an obvious and a no-brainer afterthought,” […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — Five nuns and a doctor are on the run in India after being accused of concealing the birth of a baby to a teenager who alleges that a priest raped her, police said Sunday. Arrest warrants have been issued for the six and for two hospital staff. They are accused of conccealing the 16-year-old’s delivery from authorities and hiding the baby in a Catholic orphanage at Kunnur in the southern […]
