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Typhoon Nina left the country Tuesday night, leaving in its wake at least six people dead and 18 others missing as government assessed the damage left by the year-end typhoon. As of 11:40 PM on Tuesday, December 27, is already out of the Philippine Area of Responsibilty (PAR). The unusually late storm first hit the eastern provinces on Sunday,December 25, flooding roads and farms, destroying homes and damaging ships as it crossed the archipelago, though the highly-populated Philippine […]
by Stuart WILLIAMS / Clotilde GOURLET Agence France-Presse ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) – Twenty-nine Turkish police officers went on trial Tuesday accused of failing to defend President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the military’s failed coup in July, the first such case in Istanbul. The hearings follow a massive crackdown on alleged putschists — 41,000 are under arrest in a national state of emergency and the trials are set to be the most far-reaching legal process in […]
by Jerome CARTILLIER Agence France-Presse HONOLULU, United States (AFP) -Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe travels Tuesday to Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor, the site of a sneak attack by his country that provoked America into entering World War II, to reinforce what the leader calls “the power of reconciliation.” Abe, who will be hosted by US President Barack Obama, would be the first Japanese premier to visit the wreckage of the USS Arizona, which lost 1,177 crew […]
by Vasily MAXIMOV with Gabrielle TETRAULT-FARBER in Moscow Agence France-Presse SOCHI, Russia (AFP) – Russian rescuers working round the clock have found the main black box from the Syria-bound military plane that crashed into the Black Sea with 92 people on board, authorities said Tuesday. The defence ministry said the box, which could provide vital clues as to why the Tu-154 jet crashed, was discovered early Tuesday only 1,600 metres from the shore and 17 […]
(Eagle News) — Dalawang residente ng Biliran ang kumpirmadong nasawi, habang 40 iba pa ang isinugod sa ospital matapos makakain ng mga lamang dagat na apektado ng red tide. Ayon sa mga opisyal ng Department of Health (DOH), isang 81 anyos na lola at 13 anyos na binatilyo na pawang mga residente ng Brgy. Cabucgayan at Brgy. Kawayan ang nasawi matapos malason. Nakaranas umano ng pananakit ng tiyan, diarrhea at pagsusuka ang mga biktima matapos […]
(Eagle News) — Binasura ng sandiganbayan ang kasong graft laban kay dating Bataan Governor Leonardo Roman. Ito ay may kaugnayan sa pagpapagawa nito ng mini theater na nagkakahalaga ng Php 3.66 million noong 2004. Sa 13 pahinang desisyon, kinatigan ng Special Second Division ng anti-graft court ang motion to quash ni Roman kung saan isinaad nito ang karapatan para sa mabilis na pagresolba ng kaso. Ayon sa Sandiganbayan, nalabag ng Ombudsman ang nasabing karapatan ng […]
MANILA, Dec.27 (PIA) — The ongoing peace process between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) got a much-needed gain after President Rodrigo Duterte’s envoys were able to touch base with an alleged MILF renegade commander. Ernesto A. Alcanzare, lead organizer of a peace education and advocacy campaign Yes for Peace, shared the positive news through an email sent to PIA-NCR, which detailed the mission undertaken […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A man has died a week after being bitten by one of the world’s deadliest snakes in his living room in Australia’s tropical northeast, officials said Tuesday. The 77-year-old, named in local media as David Pitt, was at his home in Cairns when he was bitten between his toes as he tried to kill the snake with a spade last Tuesday, Queensland Ambulance said. Paramedics performed CPR and gave Pitt anti-venom […]
Cocoa arrived in Madagascar in the 1900s and is still a low-volume export yet the country’s cocoa pods are destined to become some of the most expensive chocolate in the world. https://youtu.be/O7rPuK4rBpU
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — An Indian plane carrying 161 passengers and crew skidded off the runway at Goa airport early Tuesday, injuring 15 people. The Indian Navy, which runs the airport in western India, said it was not yet clear what caused the Jet Airways plane to veer off the runway. The incident happened at the height of the tourist season in Goa, whose palm-fringed beaches attract thousands of holidaymakers every year. “There are […]
by Anne KAURANEN Agence France-Presse HELSINKI, Finland (AFP) — On the crowded morning metro in Helsinki, silence prevails. Everyone is hunched over their smartphone screens, reading the news, checking emails or watching videos. A loud “yeah!” breaks the quiet, along with delighted screech from a toddler whose mother has just handed him her smartphone to calm him down with a video. Finland, once a world leader in mobile telephony with Nokia, is in a class of […]
MICHIGAN, United States (AFP) — A giant sinkhole formed underneath a house in Fraser, Michigan on Saturday (December 24) forcing families to interrupt their Holiday plans and evacuate the neighborhood. Signs of damage could be seen to the bottom half of the house’s exterior brick wall as the house slowly settled into the hollow ground underneath its foundation. “The bricks fall from the side of the house. We saw the separation at the front of […]
