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Remember 9/11 (The Empty Sky Memorial in Jersey City)

NEW JERSEY, United States — Eagle News revisits the Empty Sky Memorial, the official New Jersey September 11 memorial to the state’s victims of the September 11 attacks, on Saturday (September 10, 2016) a day before the 15th anniversary of the deadly attacks that killed 746 New Jersey residents at the World Trade Center in 1993. Located in Liberty State Park in Jersey City, it was dedicated for the 746 New Jersey victims whose names are etched […]

South African Ambassador greets INC Executive Minister on 7th year of dynamic leadership

  (Eagle News) — South African Ambassador to the Philippines Martin Slabber congratulated Iglesia Ni Cristo Executive Minister Brother Eduardo V. Manalo on the seventh anniversary of his dynamic leadership in the Church. In his personal greetings, the South African envoy relayed his request to the INC members and also to the people of the Philippines to “pray for Brother Manalo so that he will always have wisdom to lead the Church in the manner […]

Airstrikes kill scores in Syria after new truce deal

  by Rana Moussaoui with Dave Clark in Geneva BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — A barrage of airstrikes on rebel-held areas in Syria have killed scores of people, just hours after the government in Damascus approved a US-Russian plan to halt fighting in the country’s suppurating civil war. It was not immediately clear who carried out the raids, which hit the key northern cities of Idlib and Aleppo. But they came as a new ceasefire, agreed […]

United States marks 15th anniversary of 9/11

  NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The United States marks the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on Sunday with solemn services to commemorate the victims of the deadliest terror strikes on US soil, which changed the world forever. Nearly 3,000 people were killed on September 11, 2001 when 19 Al-Qaeda suicide bombers hijacked four passenger jets, crashing them into the Twin Towers in New York, the Pentagon in Washington and a field in […]

Duterte vows to pursue an “independent foreign policy”

  (Eagle News) — Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte vowed to pursue an independent foreign policy in dealing with other countries, as he stressed that he is doing this to protect the interests of the Filipino people. Arriving from his first state visit in Indonesia, the President said that time-honored principles of sovereignty, non-interference and the commitment to a peaceful settlement of disputes will be observed by his administration. “In our relations to the world, the […]

Zumba inilunsad ng Sigma PNP, Capiz para sa mga sumuko sa ilalim ng Oplan Tokhang

     Capiz City, Philippines  – Kaugnay ng Philippine National Police Anti-Drug Campaign Plan: PROJECT DOUBLE BARREL, ay nagsagawa ang Sigma PNP sa lalawigan ng Capiz ng isang “Zumba Dance” para sa mga surrenderees ng Oplan Tokhang. Ito ay pingunahan ni Police Senior Inspector Hilbert Gervero, ang acting chief of police ng Sigma Police Station. Nilalayon ng aktibidad na ito na suportahan ang kampanya kontra sa “iligal na droga” at hikayatin ang mga surrenderees ng […]

Psycho-social Intervention para sa sugatang biktima sa Davao City blast, ibibigay ng DSWD

DAVAO CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) – Biibigyan ng psycho-social intervention ng Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and mga nagkaroon ng trauma na mga saksi at mga sugatang biktima ng pagbobomba sa Roxas City night market dito sa lungsod ng Davao. Pinangunahan nina DSWD Undersecretaries Mateo G. Montaño at Vilma B. Cabrera, kasama ang kanilang DSWD team, ang pag-alam sa kondisyon ng mga naging biktima ng pagsabog sa Roxas night market. Inalam rin nila ang mga […]

Kerry, Lavrov concerned after latest North Korea nuclear test

  (Reuters) — Speaking to media after talks on the crisis in Syria in the early hours of Saturday (September 10) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also spoke of their worries over North Korea and its latest nuclear missile test, which took place on Friday (September 9). John Kerry said he expected President Barack Obama to address the issue and said there would be discussions at the United […]

Ilang parte ng solar street lights sa Sto. Domingo, Nueva Ecija, ninakaw

STO. DOMINGO, Nueva Ecija (Eagle News) – May mga bahagi ng solar street lights ng bayan ng Sto. Domingo dito sa Nueve Ecija ang nawawala at posibleng ninakaw. Personal na nagtungo sa Sto Domingo Police Station noong Huwebes, September 8, 2016 si Crispin Juan y Garcia, Chief Provincial General Services Office (PGSO) para upang ireport na nawawala ang apat na solar batteries at apat na solar controllers sa kahabaan ng Maharlika Highway sa bayang ito. Nadiskubre ito nitong […]

UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie visits Syrian refugee camp in Jordan

  (Reuters) — The United Nations Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) Special Envoy Angelina Jolie called on world leaders gathering in New York later this month to put the “root causes of the Syrian conflict and what it will take to end it” at the centre of their discussions. During a visit to the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan on Friday (September 9), Jolie said all of the camp’s 60,000 residents had suffered loss and trauma, yet […]

South Koreans protest against the North’s nuclear test

  (Reuters) — South Korean conservative protesters held an anti-North Korea rally in Seoul on Saturday (September 10) to denounce Pyongyang’s recent nuclear test. About 100 protesters gathered in central Seoul, and chanted anti-North Korea slogans while holding up placards bearing a portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un . Protesters also burned an effigy of Kim Jong Un at the rally. “South Korean people strongly urge the United Nations and the international community […]