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(Eagle News) – “He stays as chief of police. Bato has my complete trust.” With this declaration, President Rodrigo Duterte stressed that Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa will stay on as the head of the national police amid calls by House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez for him to resign. The President erased any uncertainty regarding the position of Dela Rosa who had earlier spoken to the President asking him directly […]
(Reuters) — At least 32 people were killed and dozens more injured on Saturday (January 21) night when nine coaches of a passenger train derailed in India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh, in the latest disaster to hit the vast and accident-prone state railways, officials said. The express train from Jagdalpur to Bhubaneswar derailed near Kuneri station, around 30 km (18 miles) outside the town of Raigarh. District collector of Raigarh district in India’s […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A major 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea Sunday, but a tsunami alert intially issued for the Pacific island nation and its neighbours was later cancelled. The tremor struck 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Panguna on Papua New Guinea’s Bougainville island at a depth of 153 kilometres at 3:30 pm local time (0430 GMT), the US Geological Survey said. Its preliminary assessment added that light to moderate damage […]
https://youtu.be/YR05zUwdo5c LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — More than two million people flooded the streets of US cities on Saturday in a peaceful day of women-led protests a day after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, according to estimates from march organizers. At the main “Women’s March on Washington” organizers told AFP they estimated the turnout at half a million, with huge crowds joining sister marches around the country — and tens of thousands more […]
w by Michael Mathes WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Perched atop a high metal fence to escape the crush of a massive crowd, Erica Orr surveyed the sea of pink-clad women that had converged on downtown Washington and shook her head in pride and disbelief. “It’s an indescribable feeling,” the 20-year-old college student from Michigan said of finding herself on Saturday in the midst of one of the largest demonstrations in recent memory in the […]
https://youtu.be/Mzkb1gHt8-A WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump Saturday accused the media of downplaying the turnout at his inauguration by focusing on empty spots on Washington’s National Mall, insisting against all evidence that he drew 1.5 million people. “I made a speech. I looked out, the field was, it looked like a million, million and a half people,” he told CIA staff during a visit to the agency’s headquarters on his first full […]
PENNE, Italy (AFP) — Emergency workers on Saturday pulled four more survivors from the ruins of an Italian hotel buried under an avalanche three days ago, after the “miracle” rescue of a woman and four children on Friday. Two women and a man were pulled out around 3:00 am (0200 GMT) and another man was extracted soon after dawn from the ruins of the Rigopiano hotel in the mountains of central Italy. The latest operations […]
Three Indonesian fishermen have gone missing in waters off the southern Philippines, Manila said Saturday, an area that has seen repeated kidnappings for ransom by Islamist militants. Authorities said the three Indonesians went missing on Wednesday in waters bordering the Philippines and Malaysia but the circumstances of their disappearance were still unknown. “They are missing but we don’t have confirmation yet on who took them and where they were taken,” regional military commander Major General […]
(Eagle News) — Ipinagpaliban na muna ang nakatakdang pagpapatupad ng “zipper lane” traffic scheme sa EDSA na dapat sana ay magsisimula na sa Lunes. Matatandaang umani ng iba’t-ibang reaksyion mula sa mga motorista nang magsagawa ng experimental implementation sa EDSA ang MMDA Ayon kay MMDA General Manager Tim Orbos, naibsan man ng scheme ang bigat ng daloy ng trapiko sa southbound lane ng Edsa apektado naman aniya ang trapiko sa northbound lane. Kaya kinakailangan pa […]
(Eagle News) — Dalawang bayan ng Agusan Del Sur kabilang na ang mga bayan ng La Paz at Esperanza ang isinailalim sa state of calamity. Ayon kay AFP Spokesman Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla, hindi pa rin madaanan ng anomang uri ng sasakyan ang mga daanan sa mga nasabing bayan kahit pa humupa na ang baha. Ayon sa report, may kabuuang animnapu’t-dalawang (62) baranggay sa nasabing lugar ang apektado ng baha. Mahigit sampung libong pamilya naman […]
QUEZON CITY, January 21 (PIA) — Reigning Ms. Universe Pia Wurtzbach this Saturday is set to visit the Integrated Watershed Management for Climate Resilience in Coastal Communities Project, run by the Catholic Organization for Relief and Development Aid (Cordaid) today. Before Pia, Miss Universe 2013 Gabrielle Isler made a similar visit organized by Cordaid in 2014. The project, supported by the National Secretariat for Social Action (NASSA)/Caritas Philippines, Apostolic Vicariate of Taytay-Social Action Center (AVT-SAC), […]
A compilation of the best images from 20 January at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon. https://youtu.be/ToHAnlIoVJw
