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SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Vanishing message app Snapchat on Wednesday began giving users the option of storing images as “Memories” they can look back on or share anew. Snapchat described the new feature as a personal collection of favorite moments kept safe below the smartphone camera screen. “You can use Memories to create new Stories from Snaps you’ve taken, or even combine different Stories into a longer narrative,” the California-based company said in […]
MANILA, July 7 – New Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno, 68, plans to reprise his role as a keen guardian of the government’s purse, vowing to correct past spending habits as he heads the agency that formulates and releases the annual budget under the Duterte administration. Diokno headed the budget department during the Estrada administration, but stepped down in 2001 when then Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo took power. He then […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama agreed during a telephone call Wednesday to “intensify” military coordination between their two countries in Syria, the Kremlin said. “The two parties have confirmed their desire to intensify coordination between the Russian and American militaries in Syria,” the Kremlin said in a statement. Putin also called on Obama to help aid the separation of moderate opposition groups from “terrorist groups like the […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — At least one policeman was killed and five others wounded Thursday following an explosion and a gunbattle near a mass prayer gathering to celebrate Eid in northern Bangladesh, police said. Only days after 20 hostages were murdered by suspected Islamists in Dhaka, police and local media reported a new attack by jihadists near a prayer ground where at least 200,000 people were marking the end of Ramadan in the northern Kishoreganj […]
by Nasir JAFFRY ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AFP) — Pakistan’s lonely elephant Kaavan has become the subject of a high-profile rights campaign backed by music icon Cher, but efforts to improve the pachyderm’s lot appear limited. The 32-year-old Asian elephant is suffering from “mental illness”, and without a better habitat his future is bleak even if a long-promised new mate finally arrives, experts told AFP. Outrage over Kaavan’s treatment went global — with a petition garnering over […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan cancelled dozens of flights and shut schools and offices Thursday as the island braced for a direct hit from Super Typhoon Nepartak, the first major tropical storm of the season. The typhoon was packing gusts of up to 245 kilometers an hour (152 miles an hour) as it rumbled towards the eastern county of Hualien, where it is due to make landfall early Friday, according to Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau. […]
The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said, typhoon “Butchoy” (International name: Nepartak) is expected to exit the Philippine area of responsibility on Friday, as it continues to move northwest to Taiwan at a slower pace of 25 kph. PAGASA said the typhoon was last eyed at 330 km east of Basco, Batanes which was placed under signal no. 1. Aside from Batanes, nearby Calayan and Babuyan group of islands will experience rains […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Interior and Local Government said it would conduct a fair probe of the five police generals linked to illegal drug operations by President Duterte. DILG Secretary Mike Sueno said that they have already completed the members of this investigating panel. Sueno also assured the DILG probe would hear the sides of the police generals, two of whom have already retired from the service. The retired Philippine National Police […]
by Hiroshi HIYAMA TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese voters are suspicious of the government’s economic policies and don’t trust controversial plans to change the pacifist constitution — but they are still expected to hand Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s coalition victory in parliamentary elections. Analysts predict the ageing and conservative electorate will back Abe as the only viable choice faced with an opposition widely criticised as ineffectual. “The others are horrible,” said Tokyo resident Akira Hachinohe, […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Just one week. That’s the time given by the National Police Commission (NAPOLCOM) within which it would finish its investigation of the five generals tagged by President Duterte in the illegal drug operations NAPOLCOM Vice Chair Rogelio Casurao said that after one week, they would know whether to proceed with summary dismissal proceedings for the three active Philippine National Police generals named by the President in his speech during the […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Dwyane Wade, a three-time NBA champion with Miami, and Ray Allen, the NBA’s all-time 3-point shooter who retired in 2014, were pondering moves to title contenders Wednesday. In the final hours before Thursday’s start of NBA teams being able to sign contracts with free agents, 2013 NBA championship teammates Wade and Allen were looking at rich deals and contending teams and considering their options. NBA clubs can agree to […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Natapos na ang isinagawang Executive Crash Course on Legislation para sa mga bagitong kongresista. Hinati sa tatlong batch ang mga baguhang kongresista na sumalang sa crash course. Kasama sa last batch na sumalang sa crash course sina Batangas Rep. Vilma Santos-Recto, Cavite Cong. Strike Revilla, Tarlac Rep. Geraldine Roman, Makati Rep. Monsour Del Rosario at iba pa. Ayon kay House Secretary General Marilyn Barua Yap, sa kabuuan ay mahigit isandaang kongresista […]
