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MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Canadian singer Celine Dion will release Friday her first album produced without direct input from her longtime manager and husband Rene Angelil, who died in January. Dion has sold more than 220 million albums worldwide since 1981 when Angelil discovered her powerful voice and helped a young girl to launch one of the most successful music careers ever. After guiding Dion’s career for more than a decade as her manager, Angelil […]
EUROPE (AFP) — Advice for elderly people, children and adults for avoiding heatstroke and dehydration as parts of Europe face a heatwave.
(Eagle News)– Both Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Philippine National Police (PNP) received directives from President Rodrigo Duterte to ‘destroy’ the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) after the beheading Patrick Almodovar on Wednesday. The President was informed of the incident during an early morning press conference in Davao City. “Yung bata? That’s why i’m sending the troops there and tell them to destroy. My orders to the police and to the armed […]
by Ella IDE with Angus MACKINNON in Rome ACCUMOLI, Italy (AFP) — The death toll from a powerful earthquake that shook central Italy rose to 247 on Thursday, officials said, as rescuers desperately searched for survivors in the rubble of devastated mountain villages. Hundreds of others were injured, some critically, and an unknown number were trapped under the ruins of collapsed buildings after Wednesday’s pre-dawn quake. Amid scenes of carnage, dozens of emergency services staff […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte took his first step for his first foreign trips by acquiring his diplomatic passport. A mobile registration booth was set up by the Department of Foreign Affairs at his study room in Malacañang on Tuesday. Duterte is scheduled to visit Brunei in September 4, then head to Laos for the ASEAN Summit on September 6, and end his trip in Indonesia on September 8.
by Mushtaq MOJADDIDI KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — At least nine people were killed after militants stormed the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, officials said Thursday, in a nearly 10-hour raid that prompted anguished pleas for help from trapped students. Explosions and gunfire rocked the campus after the attack began Wednesday evening, just weeks after two university professors — an American and an Australian — were kidnapped at gunpoint near the school. No group has so […]
(Eagle News)– Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II said on Wednesday that they already assembled witnesses, composed of New Bilibid Prison guards and inmates to testify against Senator Leila de Lima and former Justice Undersecretary Francisco Baraan III for their alleged connection to narcotics trade inside New Bilibid Prison. Four to six witnesses are being prepared by Department of Justice. “It is proceeding (gathering of evidence against De Lima, Baraan) very good. There are […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte on early Thursday defended his war on drugs was not anti-poor. “Just because you are poor, you are excused from apprehension…? Rich or poor, I do not give a s**t. My order is to destroy” the President said. Duterte said that majority of shabu users are poor and sold in not so well-off communities, compared to cocaine and heroin which was sold in exclusive subdivisions. “Mahihirap ang marami kasi they […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has declared a recent submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test the “greatest success”, Pyongyang’s state media said Thursday. The results of Wednesday’s launch proved the North had joined the “front rank of the military powers fully equipped with nuclear attack capability” and that the US mainland and the operational theatre in the Pacific were now “within the striking range” of the North’s army, KCNA news agency […]
(Eagle News)– Senator Leila De Lima on Wednesday refused to attend House of Representatives’ own investigation of narcotics trade inside National Penitentiary, and cited ‘interparliamentary courtesy’ as her right to snob the probe. “Alam naman nila iyan, ni Congressman Harry. Abugado rin siya. Interparliamentary courtesy,” De Lima said. The senator issued this statement after Kabataan Party-list Representative Harry Roque challenged her to attend the lower House inquiry. Interparliamentary courtesy is a tradition of both houses […]
ROMBLON, Philippines (Eagle News) – Nailigtas na ng mga tauhan ng Bantay Dagat ang dalawang mangingisda na naiulat na nawala noong Lunes, August 22 2016, matapos maabutan ng paglakas ng alon sa laot dulot ng habagat. Nailigtas ang dalawang mangingisda na sina Roger Culas at Mario Baile sa dagat na nasasakupan ng Cabrador Island, Romblon. Sa kasalukuyan ay naiuwi na sa kani-kanilang pamilya sa Barangay Alad Romblon, Romblon. Courtesy: Renand Pastor – Romblon Correspondent
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) – Kinokonsidera ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na bumisita sa China para isulong ang bilateral talks sa overlapping claims sa South China Sea at ruling ng Arbitral Court na pumabor sa Pilipinas. Sinabi ng Pangulo na nais niyang isagawa ang bilateral talks sa China bago matapos ang 2016. Ayon sa Pangulo, kailangang talakayin ng Pilipinas at China ang arbitration ruling. Naatasan na rin ng Pangulo ang Special Envoy sa China na si […]
