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by Hui Min NEO Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) – The fall of Aleppo has unleashed a mixture of outrage and impotence in the West, in which fury at the relentless carnage has mingled with guilt over the failure to stop it. Even the European public — who marched in the millions over the siege of Sarajevo or against the Iraq War — stayed at home as the Russian-backed Syrian regime smashed the country’s […]
by Maureen COFFLARD Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – From trains and planes to parcels, British workers are gearing for the festive season with a string of strikes, rounding off a year of action that began with an unprecedented walkout by doctors. Hundreds of thousands of commuters were on Friday left stranded for the third day this week after staff on Southern Rail, which runs trains from southern England into London, stopped work. […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said he would fire two ranking government official upon his return from his two-day state visit in Singapore. Speaking to the Filipino community in Singapore on Friday night (December 16) before his flight back to Philippines, the President assured the overseas Filipino workers there that he would stop corruption in government while he is the President of the land. “I will assure you, I will assure you, […]
(Eagle News) — Retired police official Wally Sombero filed a graft complaint before the Office of the Ombudsman against two deputy commissioners of the Bureau of Immigration for allegedly extorting money from Chinese gambling tycoon Jack Lam. Sombero filed the graft complaint against immigration commissioners Al Argosino and Michael Robles for bad faith, manifest partiality and gross inexcusable negligence for causing undue injury to government, punishable under Section 3(e) of the Ant-Graft and Corrupt […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Malacañang allayedfears of the business sector regarding the interest rate hike implemented by the United States Federal Reserve. According to Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez, the country’s macroeconomic fundamentals remain strong and that the Duterte administration has many massive infrastructure projects that will bring in needed cash.
ROROGAGUS, Marawi City (Eagle News) — Sugatan ang apat na sibilyan at isang sundalo matapos sumabog ang isang improvised explosive device o IED sa kahabaan ng barangay Rorogagus, Marawi City. Nangyari ang pagsabog ilang metro ang layo mula sa lugar kung saan tinambangan ang convoy ng Presidential Security Group nitong November 29. Bandang alas singko y medya ng hapon (5:30 pm) kahapon ng sumabog ang bomba. Ang oras kung kailan, dumaraan ang convoy ng sampung […]
STO. TOMAS, Pangasinan (Eagle News) — Upang lalong mapangalagaan ang kalusugan ng mga Ministro at Evangelical workers ng Iglesia Ni Cristo sa Pangasinan East, nagsagawa ng EVM Cup ang mga kaanib ng INC na ginanap sa public auditorium ng bayan ng Sto. Tomas sa nasabing lalawigan. Masayang binuksan ang aktibidad sa pamamagitan ng parada ng mga manlalaro na kinabibilangan ng mga ministro at evangelical workers mula sa apat na sub-districts. Nagbigay din ng mensahe ang District […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Lawmakers criticized Senator Leila De lima for claiming that President Duterte can be impeached for his statement before business leaders recently that hinted he had personally killed a criminal while still the Davao City Mayor. According to House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, the President cannot be impeached by the alleged statement because there is no evidence backing it. https://youtu.be/7Ui_4-STyaU Alvarez even called De Lima ”stupid” for claiming that the President […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Four alleged money launderers, collectors and financiers of big time drug lords were caught in a drug raid on Thursday (December 15) in Caloocan. The four suspects were identified as Charles Shi, a Chinese national; Arthur Sy, a Filipino-Chinese; and Glen and Maricar Bernardo, both Filipino citizens. Through a search warrant, policemen from the Northern Police and the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) caught the suspects inside the two condominium units in Grace […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte called for unity among the members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) while also promoting innovation and synergy. In his speech during his state visit in Cambodia, he also said that ASEAN should exert efforts to strengthen cooperation between members and that the association itself should be strong, relevant and responsive especially at this time when strong foreign powers are influencing regional politics. […]
The United States has not renewed a major aid package to the Philippines because of “significant concerns” about the rule of law under President Rodrigo Duterte, the US embassy said on Thursday. “This decision reflects the Board’s significant concerns around rule of law and civil liberties in the Philippines,” embassy spokeswoman Molly Koscina said in a statement emailed to AFP after the country was not selected for a new Millennium Challenge Corporation grant. The […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Around 50,000 people, the majority civilians, were still trapped in eastern Aleppo even as an evacuation deal was under way, the UN peace envoy for Syria and French foreign minister said on Thursday. “There are 50,000 people, including 40,000 civilians unfortunate enough to live in that part of the city. The rest are fighters, numbering between 1,500 and 5,000, and their families,” the UN’s Staffan de Mistura told reporters in Paris, […]
