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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Gordon Hayward scored a game-high 30 points as the Utah Jazz handed the Washington Wizards a rare home loss at the Verizon Center arena with a 102-92 victory on Sunday. The Jazz led by as many as 24 points en route to their third consecutive win in the battle between the two first place NBA teams. Rudy Gobert finished with 15 points and 20 rebounds and George Hill tallied 21 […]
ILOILO CITY, Feb. 27 (PIA6) – – The Department of Health 6 (DOH) is calling on the public anew to practice healthy lifestyle to reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like cardiovascular diseases as the country celebrates Philippine Heart Month this February. Data obtained from DOH 6 showed that Hypertensive Cardiovascular diseases and cerebrovascular accidents are the first and eight leading causes of mortality in Western Visayas in 2015. Furthermore, hypertension was the third leading […]
A training institute in Surigao del Norte has received an-almost half-a-million-peso development grant for the upgrading of its facilities. The development grant amounting to P497,850 was provided by MASHAV, Israel’s agency for international development cooperation, to the Sogbohan Agri-Training Institute on Dinagat Islands. MASHAV’s main objective is to help MASHAV course graduates to develop their existing ideas to a level of sustainability and maturity on an economic basis. In SATI, the only agriculture training center in […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa said that the German hostage being held captive by the Abu Sayyaf has already been beheaded based on initial unconfirmed reports that they have received. While Dela Rosa claimed they were still trying to verify this, he admitted that the PNP had indeed received intelligence reports on the beheading of the Abu Sayyaf’s German captive Juergen Gustav Kantner. Based on the intelligence reports […]
HOLLYWOOD, United States (AFP) — Viola Davis won an Oscar on her third try on Sunday, for her acclaimed supporting role in Denzel Washington’s big screen adaptation of August Wilson’s searing play “Fences.” The 51-year-old, a nominee in 2009 and 2012, bested a field that included two past Oscar winners — Nicole Kidman (“Lion”) and Octavia Spencer (“Hidden Figures”) — as well as Michelle Williams (“Manchester by the Sea”) and Naomie Harris (“Moonlight”). “O captain! […]
Reuters — Former world champions Red Bull unveiled their 13th Formula One car on Sunday, applying an innovative tweak to the nose and laughing in the face of superstition. “Stroke that rabbit’s foot, grab that four-leaf clover, fling that horseshoe and crank up the Stevie Wonder, because after a long winter’s wait our 2017 challenger, the RB13, is here,” the team said in a short video on their website. (www.redbullracing.com) Wonder had a hit with […]
by Frankie TAGGART Agence France-Presse Hollywood’s elite gathers at the Dolby Theatre for the 89th annual Academy Awards on Sunday to reward the best in acting, writing and filmmaking talent. Almost every ceremony has thrown up surprise winners, sensational snubs and other memorable moments since the first of around 3,000 statuettes was given out in 1929. Here are some fun facts and figures to help you navigate Sunday’s show: – Youngest to oldest – – […]
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) — Cold weather greeted celebrities on the Oscars red carpet on Sunday (February 26), but cloudy skies and the threat of rain failed to dampen spirits ahead of the movie industry’s biggest night. Best animated feature nominees were among the early arrivals in Hollywood, where temperatures were some 15 degrees Fahrenheit (8 degrees Celsius) below normal for late February. The Academy Awards get underway torn between escapism and reality. […]
(Eagle News) — The Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court on Monday ordered the former Bureau of Corrections head who admitted to giving “millions” of drug money to Senator Leila de Lima detained at the National Bureau of Investigation. Branch 204 Judge Juanita Guerrero issued the order a day after Rafael Ragos surrendered to the authorities. The former BuCor officer in charge and former NBI deputy director is a co-accused of De Lima and her alleged bagman […]
Five of the 13 drug suspects who escaped from the detention facility of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency over the weekend have surrendered, the drug agency said on Monday. The PDEA said the five inmates surrendered in Balagtas town in Bulacan. It did not provide other details and asked that the names of the inmates who surrendered be withheld in the meantime. Manhunt operations for the remaining eight escapees are still ongoing. Derrick Arnold Carreon […]
by Sara Hussein Agence France Presse MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) — Iraqi forces battled jihadists in west Mosul on Sunday, aiming to build a floating bridge across the Tigris to establish an important supply route linked to the recaptured east bank. A week into a major push on the western side of the city, where an estimated 2,000 holdout jihadists and 750,000 civilians are trapped, government forces made steady progress. But after relatively easy gains on […]
by Daniel SILVA / Erwan LUCAS Agence France-Presse China’s Huawei, LG and other phone firms unveiled new smartphones on Sunday as they tried to capitalize on Samsung’s withdrawal of its flagship device after faulty batteries led several of the handsets to catch fire. Samsung, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, had no device of its own to show at the week-long Mobile World Congress, the phone industry’s largest annual trade fair, in Barcelona in northeastern […]
