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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A 19-year-old man arrested over the weekend for trying to kill Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Las Vegas is a British citizen, US authorities said Monday. Natalie Collins, a spokeswoman for the US Attorney’s Office in Las Vegas, told AFP that Michael Sandford was ordered held without bond following his arrest on Saturday at the Trump rally. He had tried to grab a police officer’s gun in an […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — At least four people have died from the blistering heat that has gripped the western United States and sparked wildfire warnings across the region, authorities said Monday. The dead were three hikers and a mountain biker who succumbed to the heatwave in Arizona on Sunday, where record-breaking temperatures were reported in some areas. Larry Subervi, spokesman for the Phoenix fire department, said one of the victims was an experienced […]
New Philippine President Rodrigo “Rody” Duterte
(Reuters) Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights that the government will avoid using the term “Rohingya” to describe a persecuted Muslim minority in the country’s northwest, an official told Reuters on Monday. Members of the 1.1 million group, who identify themselves by the term “Rohingya” and live in apartheid-like conditions, are seen by many Myanmar Buddhists as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. The term is […]
PHNOM PENH / AFP- Cambodian Premier Hun Sen lashed out Monday at claims his government had bowed to Chinese pressure to help scupper a joint statement by Southeast Asian nations on the South China Sea. In an angry speech Hun Sen also accused an international court of political bias as it prepares to rule on a sea dispute between the Philippines and China. The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration is widely expected to rule […]
(REUTERS) The gunman who slaughtered 49 people at a gay nightclub in Florida said he had a car rigged with bombs outside and threatened to strap hostages into explosive vests, according to partial transcripts of 911 calls he made released on Monday. Omar Mateen, 29, paused during a three-hour siege to telephone emergency dispatchers three times and to post internet messages from inside the Pulse nightclub professing his support for Islamist militant groups. “You […]
(EAGLE NEWS)–Former Senate President Ernesto Maceda passed away at 8:58 p.m. Monday (June 20) because of multiple organ failure, his family said. He was 81. Maceda served as a senator from 1971 to 1972 and again from 1987 to 1998. He also served as a Senator from 1971 to 1972 and again from 1987 to 1998. He served as Senate President from 1996 to 1998. The former senator, who also served as Philippine Ambassador to the United […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) supports the campaign of the government against the Abu Sayyaf Group after it beheaded two Canadian hostages. CHR Chairman Jose Luis Gascon, the CHR condemns the killing and other terrorist acts done by the ASG. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) faction led by Nur Misuari stated that they are ready to support steps that will be taken by incoming President Rodrigo Duterte for the achievement of peace. Atty. Manuel Fontanilla, spokesperson of said faction of the MNLF, said that the group also supports Duterte’s plan to change the government system of the Philippines to federalism. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is still looking for the body of slain Canadian hostage Robert Hall, one week after he was beheaded. The AFP is exerting all efforts to recover the body so that it could be returned to Hall’s family in Canada. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/YNDc8cKHbjs
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Commission on Elections Campaign Finance Office Head Commissioner Christian Robert Lim plans to file his resignation on Monday, June 20 due to the decision of the COMELEC en banc to extend the deadline of the filing of the Statement of Contribution and Expenditures until June 30 which in turn is due to the request of the Liberal Party and its standard-bearer Manuel “Mar” Roxas to extend the deadline for the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Bureau of Customs (BOC) Intelligence Chief Jessie Dellosa filed his resignation several days before incoming President Rodrigo Duterte officially assumes office to give way for the appointment of the new BOC chief. Earlier, Duterte’s camp said that Captain Nicanor Faeldon was chosen by Duterte to be the new BOC chief. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
