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NORTH Koreans on Tuesday (December 6) welcomed their national women’s soccer team who returned to the country after beating France in the U-20 Women’s World Cup final in Papua New Guinea. Footage filmed by North Korea’s state media KCNA, which could not be verified by Reuters, showed families and other athletes greeting the team at Pyongyang International Airport. The video also showed Pyongyang residents lining up the streets, waving and cheering as a bus covered with […]
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach hailed the Rio Olympics a success on Tuesday (December 6) saying that the 2016 Games were the most consumed ever. The Games may not have been perfect but organisers exceeded expectations given the political and economic situation in the South American country, organisers said. Rio, the first Olympic host city on the continent, had to grapple with a protracted political crisis, the worst recession in more than 80 […]
GLORIA, Oriental Mindoro (Eagle News) – Limang daang pamilya at mahigit isandaang drug surenderees ang tumanggap ng mga gamit para sa pagsasaka. Ito ay sa ilalim ng programa ng National Anti-Poverty Comission na Community Production (NAPC). Ang programa ay may temang “Pagkain ni Boss” na kung saan ang mga benepisaryo ay nabilalang sa pamilyang nakararanas ng kahirapan at may malnourished na mga anak. Layunin ng programa na makapagtanim ng gulay na nasa kantang ‘Bahay Kubo.’ Makapag-alaga din ng […]
ALEPPO, Syria (AFP) — A seven-year-old Syrian girl whose Twitter account from Aleppo gained international attention has fled her home amid heavy fighting, but she and her family are safe for now, her father told AFP Tuesday. With her mother’s help, Bana al-Abed had been posting heart-rending tweets in English on life in the besieged eastern districts of Syria’s Aleppo. But as Syrian government forces edged closer to their home in recent days, the Abed […]
ESSEN, Germany (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday it was a “disgrace” that the international community had been unable to alleviate the suffering in Syria’s besieged city of Aleppo. “Aleppo is a disgrace,” she said in a speech to her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, slamming Russian and Iranian support for the bombardment by Bashar al-Assad’s regime. “It is a disgrace that we have been unable to establish humanitarian corridors, but we […]
by Mariëtte Le Roux PARIS, France (AFP) — The climate-friendly electricity generated by solar panels in the past 40 years has all but cancelled out the polluting energy used to produce them, a study said Tuesday. Indeed, by some calculations, the so-called “break-even point” between dirty energy input and clean output may already have arrived, researchers in the Netherlands reported. “We show strong downward trends of environmental impact” of solar panel production, the team wrote […]
by Chaideer Mahyuddin Agence France Presse BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AFP) — At least 25 people died and dozens were feared trapped in rubble after a strong earthquake struck off Aceh province on Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Wednesday, officials said. The shallow 6.5-magnitude quake struck Pidie Jaya district at dawn, as some in the predominantly Muslim region prepared for morning prayers. Mosques and shops were flattened in the small town of Meureudu, where the force of the […]
MANILA, (Eagle News) — Inihayag ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na hindi na kailangang magpaliwanag pa kung bakit ibinalik sa puwesto si CIDG Region 8 Chief na si Superintendent Marvin Marcos. Aniya, bilang chief executive nasa ilalim ng kaniyang kapangyarihan ang pulisya.
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Ronnie Dayan, the controversial driver-bodyguard of Senator Leila de Lima, is now back in Pangasinan after the Senate lifted its order citing him for contempt for humanitarian reasons. Senator Panfilo Lacson who talked to Dayan before he was allowed to leave the Senate premises Monday night said Dayan had promised he would attend the next Senate hearings. “After listening to him [Dayan], for purely humanitarian reason, and his commitment to be just […]
by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France ( AFP ) – Polar bear numbers could drop a third by mid-century, according to the first systematic assessment, released Wednesday, of how dwindling Arctic sea ice affects the world’s largest bear. There is a 70 percent chance that the global polar bear population –- estimated at 26,000 -– will decline by more than 30 percent over the next 35 years, a period corresponding to three generations, the study found. Other assessments have […]
TAGUIG, Metro Manila (Eagle News) – Nagsagawa ng Blood Letting Program sa SAF Covered Court, Camp. Bagong Diwa, Bicutan, Taguig, noong Martes, Disyembre 6,sa ganap na alas 8 ng umaga. Nakipagkaisa sa nasabing aktibidad ang mga pulis ng Taguig at Parañaque. Ang mga naipon na dugo ay mapupunta sa UP-Manila-PGH na naglunsad ng nasabing programa. Ang aktibidad ay may temang “Lets make love by giving blood this holiday”. Em dela Cruz – EBC Correspondent, […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor triggered the United States to join its European allies in World War II. With Prime Minister Shinzo Abe due later this month to become the first Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor, AFP looks at the sequence of events that led to the US changing the course of the war. Japanese expansionism Japan’s policy of territorial expansionism, launched in the late 19th […]
