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MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Senator Leila De Lima on Thursday describes Jaybee Sebastian, who had been accused as the one who help the lady senator to raise money inside the New Bilibid Prison for her 2016 senatorial bid as a government asset. This is the senator’s response to the revelation of General Benjamin Magalong in the hearing at the House Committee on Justice yesterday, September 23. That’s why she said Jaybee is not included […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A high-level international meeting on the crisis in Syria broke up Thursday without agreement on a way to revive a collapsed US and Russian-brokered truce. US Secretary of State John Kerry said his Russian counterpart had not been able to promise to ground Syria’s bombers and to halt the bombardment of its cities. “The question now is whether there remains any real chance of moving forward, because it is […]
(REUTERS) A strong undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 struck southeast of Tokyo on Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. There was no tsunami warning issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii. Japan’s weather agency said there could be slight changes in the sea level but no damage to Japan. The quake’s epicenter was 226 kms (138 miles) southeast of the Japanese capital at a shallow depth of 10 […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A strong earthquake struck off the coast of eastern Japan on Friday, though there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The shallow 6.4 magnitude quake hit at 09:14 am (0014 GMT), about 150 kilometres (90 miles) east-southeast of Katsuura city, the US Geological Survey said. There was no threat of a tsunami, added the Japan Meteorological Agency, which measured it at a slightly higher 6.5 magnitude. Japan sits at […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Presidential Communication Secretary Martin Andanar on Thursday, September 22 said that the administration’s campaign against illegal drugs is gaining ground as more people attest to safer streets in Metro Manila. “Marami tayong mga kaibigan na nagtratrabaho sa gabi. Meron din tayong mga kasama sa opisina na sila mismo nagkukwento sa atin na hindi na sila nangangamba ngayon pag umuuwi sila late at night. It’s safer at kahit sino naman sa […]
(REUTERS) Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe became the first Japanese leader to visit Communist-ruled Cuba on Thursday, landing in Havana to hold talks with Cuban President Raul Castro on topics from boosting trade to curbing North Korea’s nuclear program. Abe’s visit to the Caribbean island is one of a slew by western leaders since it began normalizing ties with the United States nearly two years ago. U.S. President Barack Obama visited Cuba in March. […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during the International Syria Support Group meeting at the Palace Hotel in Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 22, 2016. REUTERS/Darren Ornitz (REUTERS) The United States and Russia failed to agree on how to revive a short-lived ceasefire in Syria during what the U.N. Syria mediator called a “long, painful, difficult and disappointing” meeting on Thursday. The International Syria Support Group, including […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Greenland’s highly unstable ice sheet is melting more than seven percent faster than previously thought, scientists said this week after discovering a hotspot beneath the Earth’s crust that was distorting their calculations. The study in the journal Science Advances raises concern about the increasing impact of melting ice on sea level rise, since Greenland is the second largest ice sheet in the world after the one in Antarctica. From 2003-2013 […]
by Brigitte DUSSEAU WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton square off Monday for their first presidential debate, a hotly anticipated cage match between a political veteran and an inveterate showman that seems likely to smash US television records. The 90-minute, primetime debate pits the two White House contenders — ideological opposites on most issues and separated by just a handful of points in most opinion polls — in a duel that […]
CHARLOTTE, United States (AFP) – by Michael Mathes Hundreds of National Guard troops and police reinforcements converged on Charlotte Thursday to help keep the peace, officials said, after a second night of violent protests over the police shooting of a black man. The tense southern city was under a state of emergency amid growing complaints that authorities had been slow to respond to crowds protesting the shooting Tuesday of Keith Lamont Scott, a 43-year-old African […]
By Caesar Vallejos Millennials change how the world travels. With their constant connection and love for technology, these digital natives have shaped new desires and expectations that redefine how the hospitality industry creates unique, shareable and memorable experiences that impact even on the mainstream travellers. In Boracay, the freshest change has come. Not necessarily the influx of younger visitors in the Philippine’s top tourist draw, but the new rule of a millennial in one […]
ROSETTA, Egypt (AFP) – by Haitham El-Tabei Rescuers brought more bodies to shore on Thursday a day after a boat crowded with migrants capsized off the coast of Egypt, drowning at least 51 people. Survivors said up to 450 migrants were on board the fishing vessel when it sank about 12 kilometres (eight miles) off the coast of Rosetta, an Egyptian Mediterranean port city, on Wednesday morning. The military has said 163 survivors have been […]
