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QUEZON City, Philippines – In an exclusive live coverage of the Eagle News Service, the House of Representatives conducted a hearing on the alleged illegal drug trade in the New Bilibid Prison. Said illegal drug trade was conducted with the alleged involvement of Senator Leila De Lima. The Department of Justice (DOJ) presented witnesses and the House of Representatives granted immunity to said witnesses.
by Mariëtte Le Roux PARIS, France (AFP) — Whenever the “widow” spider is mentioned, people tend to sympathise with the hapless male — best known for its tendency to end up as a post-coital snack. Well, pity them no more. Widow spider males have developed a rather gruesome method of saving their own skins, scientists revealed on Wednesday. To avoid becoming the lunch of adult females, some males have taken to inseminating juveniles which have no […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) – by Carole LANDRY UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon used his farewell address to the General Assembly on Tuesday to urge world leaders to end the war in Syria and bring the Paris climate deal into force this year. With just three months to go before he steps down as UN chief, Ban also made a final plea to end the “madness” of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and gave world leaders advice on […]
PARIS, France (AFP) – by Marlowe HOOD A protein unique to a miniscule creature called a water bear, reputedly the most indestructible animal on Earth, protects human DNA from X-ray damage, stunned researchers reported Monday. Human cells cultivated with the newly-discovered protein, dubbed “Dsup” for “damage suppressor”, experienced half as much decay as normal cells when blasted with radiation. “We were really surprised,” said lead author Takuma Hashimoto, a biologist at the University of Tokyo […]
KINSHASA, DR Congo (AFP) – by Marthe BOSUANDOLE Several people died in a second day of violence in DR Congo Tuesday, with three opposition HQ buildings torched in fresh clashes between police and opponents of President Joseph Kabila. The violence came after a bloody day on Monday during which opposition groups said more than 50 people had died in protests calling for Kabila’s resignation. The national secretary of the main opposition group blamed a “commando” […]
KIRKUK, Iraq (AFP) – by Hassan al-Obeidi Iraqi forces launched an operation on Tuesday to retake a northern town from the Islamic State group in the latest move to prepare a broad offensive on jihadist bastion Mosul. Army and tribal forces pushed towards Sherqat, which IS fighters captured more than two years ago when they swept across Iraq’s Sunni Arab heartland. The town lies on the west bank of the Tigris river in Salaheddin province, 260 […]
by Glenn Chapman SQUAW Valley, United States (AFP) — GoPro took to the sky Monday with a much-awaited drone called Karma in the hope of lifting profits which have been battered by competition from all sides. The launch of the Karma drone, tailored for its first-person-action mini-cameras, and of improved Hero5 cameras comes on the cusp of the important year-end holiday shopping season which last year was a huge disappointment. In the fourth quarter of 2015, […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Philippine National Police Chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa admitted that President Rodrigo Duterte is looking for the right time and opportunity to reveal the third and last “narco-list”. Dela Rosa said that it is hard to gauge the right time in revealing the list as it contains the names of more high officials of the country, including barangay chairmen, mayors, governors, congressmen and even members of the PNP.
(Eagle News)– National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Intelligence Agent 1 Jovencio Ablen Jr. recounted on Tuesday (September 20) the two instances how he and his superior former Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) officer-in-charge Rafael Ragos used to deliver P10 million cash to then Justice Secretary now Senator Leila De Lima. In his testimony, Ablen said that it was on November 24, 2012 when he and Ragos first delivered ‘inmate commissions’ to De Lima’s house in Parañaque. […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Philippine National Police Chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa is currently in Colombia to learn from the said country’s victory in its own war against illegal drugs. According to Dela Rosa, he plans to study and observe the methods used by the Colombia to totally suppress the illegal drug trade. Colombia was notorious during the ’80s for its illegal drug cartels supplying 90% of the world’s cocaine, thereby gaining the tag “narco-state”.
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) – Speaker of the House of Representatives Pantaleon Alvarez has granted immunity to the six witnesses presented by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on the alleged illegal drug trade at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP). With the grant of immunity, no case may be filed against the witnesses based on any of their statements made during the House hearing.
QUEZON City, Philippines – Senator Richard Gordon asked for the support of his fellow senators after being voted as the new chair of the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights. This was after majority of the senators voted to oust Senator Leila De Lima as chair of the powerful senate committee, with a 16 – 4 vote. Senator Gordon is also the chair of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee.
