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Arraignment ng aktor na si Mark Anthony Fernandez, nasuspinde

ANGELES CITY, Pampanga (Eagle News) – Pansamantalang nasuspinde ang nakatakdang arraignment kahapon ng tanghali, Ocotber 6 sa kasong kinahaharap ng aktor na si Mark Anthony Fernandez. Ang pagbasa ng sakdal sa kasong kaniyang kinahaharap ay nakatakda sanang isagawa sa MTC Branch 1112 ng Angeles City, Pampanga. Kasalukuyan pa rin itong nakakulong sa Station 6 ng Philippine National Police-Angeles City. Matatandaan na nahulihan kamakailan ang aktor ng isang kilo ng tuyong Marijuana sa loob ng kaniyang kotse sa isang […]

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Brazil’s biggest dinosaur found after passing 60 years in cupboard

by Sebastian Smith RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil just found its biggest ever dinosaur — in a storage cupboard. In its prime, more than 66 million years ago, this long necked herbivore was 25 meters (82 feet) long — longer than an articulated bus — and could chomp through trees at a terrifying rate. By the time the creature was found by renowned Brazilian paleontologist Llewellyn Ivor Price in 1953, only a few […]

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Battleground states in the US presidential election

by Brigitte DUSSEAU WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A dozen or so states are particularly important in the US presidential election — states where the race is tight and the outcome could throw the contest one way or the other. As their campaigns progress, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump spend increasing amounts of time in these battlegrounds, all but ignoring the rest of the country. The United States has an indirect electoral system in which […]

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The US presidential election: a how-to guide

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The American presidential election falls this year on November 8. The quadrennial exercise always takes place on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November, as prescribed by the US Constitution. How the voting system works The vote, by universal suffrage, is conducted in a single round in all 50 states and the District of Columbia (the city of Washington, which is not part of any state). Voters choose among […]

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Antonio Guterres, refugee champion to UN chief

by Thomas Cabral LISBON, Portugal (AFP) — Former Portuguese prime minister Antonio Guterres, nominated Thursday to be the next UN secretary-general, is a self-described man of action who earned his stripes as the world body’s refugee chief, tirelessly pressing rich nations to do more. An engineer by training and fervent Catholic, Guterres, 67, fought unflaggingly for migrants’ rights over a decade as UN High Commissioner for Refugees from June 2005 to December 2015. He repeatedly […]

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New York plans new museum for Statue of Liberty visitors

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The 4.3 million annual visitors to the Statue of Liberty — that most recognizable symbol of American freedom — will be greeted by a modern multimedia museum in future, New York officials said Thursday. The celebrated statue, designed by sculptor Auguste Bartholdi and built by Gustave Eiffel — donated by France on the 1876 centenary of US independence and inaugurated on Liberty Island in 1886 — has not had […]

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NBA: Woman testifies in rape lawsuit against Derrick Rose

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A woman accusing NBA star Derrick Rose and two friends of rape took the stand in her $21.5 million lawsuit against the New York Knicks guard, who arrived in court during her testimony. The 30-year-old woman paused when Rose, wearing a black suit and diamond earring, entered the US District Court in Los Angeles. She became emotional as she described Rose and two other men entering her apartment uninvited […]

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Hurricane toll in Haiti soars to 264: local media

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) — The death toll in Haiti from Hurricane Matthew has risen to at least 264, local media Radio Television Caraibes reported on Thursday. The devastation in the poorest country in the Americas is concentrated in the southwest, which remains cut off two days after the Category Four storm hit. The previous official death toll stood at 108. © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse

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Florida shelters quickly reach capacity, turning some away

by Leila MACOR JACKSONVILLE,United States (AFP) — Shelters along the eastern coast of Florida were jammed Thursday amid a frantic race to protect people and pets from the “potentially catastrophic” effects of Hurricane Matthew as the deadly storm barrels in from the Caribbean. The largest shelter in the quaint beach city of St. Augustine — founded in the 16th century by Spanish explorers — had reached its capacity of 500 people, and authorities were refusing […]

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Creepy clown sightings spook America

by Jocelyne ZABLIT LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A series of creepy clown sightings across the United States has caused a wave of hysteria, forcing police and schools to scramble to contain spreading jitters, and even the White House to weigh in. The spooky sightings were first reported in August in South Carolina when police were called in to investigate what turned out to be bogus accounts of men dressed as clowns trying to […]

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