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TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan (PIA) – – Philippine National Policer (PNP) Director General Ronald ‘Bato’ Dela Rosa recently warned all police officers in the Cagayan Valley region who are involved in the illegal drugs trade to save their career and lead a better life. “If there are those among you who are engaged in illegal drugs trade, better stop now, otherwise, you will face the consequences of your criminal acts,” Dela Rosa told Cagayan Valley cops […]
ST. LOUIS, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump on Sunday accused former president Bill Clinton of being “abusive to women” in a presidential debate, shattering the last vestiges of political decorum in a hypercharged campaign season. After apologizing for “locker room talk” in which he bragged about groping women, Trump said those were just words, whereas “Bill Clinton was abusive to women.” © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
ANKARA, Turkey (AFP) — Eighteen people were killed Sunday when a van packed with five tonnes of explosives blew up in Turkey’s restive southeast, the prime minister said, in an attack blamed on Kurdish militants. The bombing, which killed 10 soldiers and eight civilians, was one of the deadliest attacks on Turkish security forces since the attempted coup of July 15 when a rogue military faction tried to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “The attack […]
by Ivan Couronne ST.LOUIS, United States (AFP)– Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton head into a crucial presidential debate Sunday with the Republican’s White House campaign in chaos over his lewd boasts about groping women. With the US election less than a month away, Republican lawmakers and governors abandoned Trump in droves, despite a rare televised apology by the candidate, whose sexually aggressive remarks were caught on a hot mic in 2005. Trump himself was defiant, […]
PARIS, France (AFP) – by Guy JACKSON Europe’s leaders have vowed no compromise on the terms of their divorce with Britain as a free-falling pound on Friday dramatically underscored the perils ahead for Prime Minister Theresa May’s government. French President Francois Hollande sent one of the strongest warnings yet that Britain will have to pay a heavy price for leaving the European Union, while European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said the bloc must be “unyielding” […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) – by Kerry Sheridan with Leila Macor in Jacksonville Hurricane Matthew unleashed torrential rains and up to 120 mile-an-hour winds as it hugged the Florida coast Friday, after a blast through the Caribbean that reportedly left more than 300 dead in Haiti. Matthew was downgraded to a Category Three storm early Friday by the National Hurricane Center, as its wind speed dropped slightly. But Florida still faced its most dangerous hurricane […]
OSLO, Norway (AFP) – by Hazel WARD Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for his “resolute” efforts to end more than five decades of war in his country, despite voters’ shock rejection of a historic peace deal. The award was unexpected after voters rejected the terms of a landmark accord Santos clinched last month with FARC leader Rodrigo Londono, alias Timoleon “Timochenko” Jimenez and some observers expressed surprise the rebel […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – by Dario THUBURN British UKIP MEP Steven Woolfe is being kept in hospital until Sunday after he collapsed following a bust-up in the European Parliament that threatens to bring down a key driving force behind Brexit. UKIP colleague Nathan Gill said on Friday that Woolfe, favourite to take over from Nigel Farage as party leader, was asked to stay in Strasbourg “for observation in the hospital’s neurological ward for the […]
BUSAN, South Korea (Reuters) — The 21st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) opened in South Korea’s southeastern port city on Thursday (October 6) a day after Typhoon Chaba hit the region, leaving at least five people dead. Celebrities dazzled on the red carpet for the start of the film festival, one of Asia’s largest film events. Movie stars including Japanese actor Watanabe Ken, K-pop boy band SHINee’s member Minho, and Hong Kong actress Kara Wai walked […]
CAMP AGUINALDO, Quezon City (Eagle News)–Government authorities presented three members of the Maute Group who are allegedly behind the Davao City bombing last month. In a press conference on Friday afternoon, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana detailed the involvement of the three suspects whom he labeled as terrorists. “The three terrorists have direct participation on the September 2 Davao bombing,” said Lorenzana. The suspects were identified as Musali Mustapha, Wendel Apostol Facturan, and TJ Tagadaya Macabalang. […]
A whopping 1,013,340 hectares covering both the coastal and offshore waters of Cagayancillo, plus 80,000 hectares of Aborlan in the Philippine province of Palawan were recently declared as Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). This is part of a two-country initiative by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Fondation Segré to rebuild the fish stocks of the Coral Triangle by changing the way people view protected areas. MPAs are portions of the sea which […]
MARIVELES, Bataan (Eagle News) – Pinag-iingat ng mga awtoridad ang mga motorista na dumadaan sa Zigzag Road na pangunahing kalsada pagpasok at paglabas ng Bayan ng Mariveles, Dahil sa patuloy na nararanasang pag-ulan sa lalawigan lalo na sa Mariveles nagdudulot ito ng pagdulas sa nasabing kalsada na kalimitang naging sanhi ng aksidente. Mapapansin din ang maraming butas ng kalsada dahil kasalukuyan itong ginagawa na nagdudulot din ng abala sa mga motorista. Kaya patuloy na pinapayuhan ang […]
