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MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Tiger Woods said Thursday he was impressed with how far US President-elect Donald Trump can hit a golf ball at age 70 in his first public comments about the December 23 round. The two played at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach about three weeks after Woods, a 14-time major champion and former world number one, made his comeback from a 16-month layoff following back surgery. “What most […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Kakalampagin ni Senador Leila De Lima ang Committee on Justice and Human Rights sa Senado upang pa-imbestigahan ang naganap na riot sa New Bilibid Prison na ikinamatay ng isang high profile inmate at pananaksak at tangkang pagpatay kay convicted drug trader na si Jaybee Sebastian. Ayon kay De Lima, sa pagbabalik sesyon sa Enero 16, kakausapin niya si Senador Richard Gordon para ipaki-usap na bigyan pansin ang resolution at agad […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Nahaharap sa panibagong reklamo ukol sa iligal na droga si Senadora Leila De Lima sa Department of Justice (DOJ) dahil sa pagkakasangkot nito sa operasyon ng sindikato ni Kerwin Espinosa sa Eastern Visayas. Kinumpirma ni Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre na naihain na ng NBI sa DOJ ang ikalimang reklamo laban kay De Lima. Kasama sa sinampahan ng kaso ng NBI ang dati driver-lover-bodyguard ni De Lima na si Ronnie Dayan […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — LeBron James and Kyrie Irving, who sparked the Cleveland Cavaliers to their first NBA crown last year, were the top vote-getters in the first preliminary NBA All-Star Game balloting results announced Thursday by the league. With 138 percent more votes cast than last year over the first week of All-Star balloting, 11.1 million compared to 4.6 million, last season’s runner-ups setting the Western Conference pace with the public as […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US health authorities recommended Thursday feeding infants foods containing peanuts as a way to prevent an allergy to them. The guidelines were issued by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) on the basis of a clinical study sponsored by the same organization. The study showed that eating peanut-containing foods from the age of four months to five years reduces by 81 percent the risk of peanut allergy […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Kinuwestyon ni Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Andres Bautista ang pasya ng National Privacy Commission (NPC) na kasuhan siya dahil sa nangyaring data breach o hacking sa Comelec noong nakalipas na taon. Naniniwala aniya siya na may “misappreciation of facts” ang NPC na kanilang pinagbatayan sa kanilang desisyon. Nilinaw rin ni Bautista na marami ring pribadong IT company sa bansa at maging sa abroad ang nagkakaroon ng data breach o […]
IPIL, Zamboanga Sibugay (Eagle News) – Nagsagawa ng Oplan-Galugad ang Ipil District Jail na pinamumunuan ni Jail Supt Allan Vargas sa bayan ng Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay. Pinagsamang puwersa ng provincial police, K9 ng PPO at Provincial Public Safety Company ang search operation na isinagawa sa labing-isang (11) selda nito. Ayon kay Vargas, mga minor lamang na ipinagbabawal na gamot o kontrabando gaya ng kutsara, tinidor, pako, shaver, at panlinis ng kuko ang nakuha mula sa mga […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — NBA scoring leader Russell Westbrook of Oklahoma City and assists leader James Harden of Houston are leading the league on a record-shattering pace for triple-doubles in a season. So far this season, there have been 42 triple-doubles — double-digit production in three statistical categories in a single game. That’s on pace for 97 for the full season, well ahead of the NBA record of 78 set in the 1988-89 […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States added Hamza bin Laden, son and heir of the late global jihadist leader Osama bin Laden, to its terrorist blacklist on Thursday. Hamza, who is in his mid-twenties, has become active as an Al-Qaeda propagandist since his father’s death at the hands of US special forces in 2011. According to letters found in the Navy SEAL raid on Osama’s hideout in Pakistan, Hamza wrote to the Saudi-born […]
JERUSALEM, Israel (AFP) — Police questioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday for a second time as part of a probe into whether he illegally accepted gifts from wealthy supporters, police said. According to a statement, investigators questioned Netanyahu for five hours at his Jerusalem residence as part of a corruption probe, the second such interrogation in four days. The questioning dealt with another affair as well, police said in a statement, adding that a […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump has chosen for his director of national intelligence someone who could provide a counterweight to the president-elect’s alleged soft spot for Moscow: a former senator banned by Russia. Dan Coats, 73, will be nominated by Trump to serve as the powerful coordinator of 16 intelligence and security agencies, according to multiple US media reports Thursday. Coats, who served as a Republican senator from Indiana from 1989 to 1999, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US Vice-President Joe Biden has a blunt suggestion for President-elect Donald Trump: It is time to “grow up.” Asked about a few of Trump’s controversial remarks and tweets since winning the November election, Biden had some intemperate comments of his own. “Grow up Donald, grow up, time to be an adult, you’re president,” he told television station PBS in an interview broadcast Thursday. “Time to do something. Show us what […]
