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QUEZON City, Philippines – The Iglesia Ni Cristo conducted a clean-up drive in Tandang Sora, Quezon City. As part of the clean-up drive, members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo also conducted the cleaning of the sidewalks near the Iglesia Ni Cristo compound in Tandang Sora. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing and Uploaded by Vince Alvin Villarin)
(REUTERS) The Afghan-born father of Omar Mateen, the man police identified as the gunman who killed 50 people at a packed gay nightclub in Florida on Sunday, is a fringe political commentator who rails against Pakistan and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. Seddique Mateen, who public records indicate is the father of Omar Mateen, had an occasional television show on a U.S.-based Afghan satellite channel for about three years, and has continued to post political commentaries […]
(REUTERS) The photo from Omar Mateen’s high-school yearbook is hardly remarkable – a toothy, dimpled smile with a peach fuzz mustache below a mop of black hair. But his transformation from high-school football player to perpetrator of America’s worst mass shooting raises questions over whether authorities, and the security company where he worked, missed red flags over the depth of his apparent sympathies with Muslim extremists and whether the United States has a clear […]
MANILA, June 13 (PIA) – Beep cards in buses are currently undergoing a testing phase, and its concessionaire says that if no problems arise, they will be fully operational by the third quarter of 2016. To recall, beep card concessionaire AF Payments Inc. (AFPI) last month signed agreements with bus operators Froehlich Tours, Citylink Coach Services and HM Transport to incorporate the tap payment system. Froelich Tours covers the Trinoma to Makati and SM North […]
(Reuters) President Barack Obama on Sunday described the worst mass shooting in U.S. history as “an act of terror” and “an act of hate,” saying the massacre of 50 people at a packed gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida was an attack on all Americans. “Today as Americans we grieve the brutal murder, a horrific massacre of dozens of innocent people,” he said in a statement at the White House. “Although it is still early […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Husar, a 400-kilogram male manatee, arrived at his new home in the Paris Zoo Thursday morning after travelling from Italy. https://youtu.be/DORpJSOy-vo
MANILA, June 13 — The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) is deploying inspection and enforcement teams in various schools to check if school service vehicles have complied with the phaseout order for vehicles over 15 years old. LTFRB said that this inspection is part of their efforts to ensure the safety and convenience of students returning to schools. Among the schools that will be inspected on the first day of classes on Monday are […]
MANILA, June 13 – To make the national celebration of Independence Day more meaningful, Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz sid that the DOLE mounted 24 job fairs nationwide on Sunday, 12 June, with 119,425 job vacancies available for interested job-seekers. “The DOLE job fairs was our contribution to make our commemoration of the nation’s 118th Independence Day more significant and relevant. The jobs we will offer in these 24 job fairs are “tickets to better lives and […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP)–The IndyCar race at Texas Motor Speedway in Forth Worth was cancelled on Sunday after heavy rain halted the event after 71 laps, organizers said. The race — which had been postponed on Saturday because of torrential rain — will be completed on August 27, IndyCar chiefs confirmed. The 248-lap race will resume on lap 72 when it is held in August. It will also feature a single practice session on the […]
Reuters — In the wake of the deadliest shooting in U.S. history, likely Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he was “right on radical Islamic terrorism” and called for toughness and vigilance. Trump made the statement on Twitter after the attack in an Orlando, Florida nightclub which 50 killed people and wounded 53. “Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don’t want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance,” Trump tweeted. “We […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Horror movie “The Conjuring 2” topped the box office in its debut, according to industry estimates released Sunday, breaking a run of underperforming big budget sequels. The supernatural fright-fest, starring Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as a paranormal-investigating couple, took in $40.4 million on its opening weekend, almost matching the $41.9 million take of the 2013 original in 2013. Its success follows the recent disappointments of a number of […]
by Michael Mathes WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — White House hopeful Donald Trump appeared bent on exploiting Sunday’s massacre in Orlando to boost the argument that he can be trusted to tackle terrorism over rival Hillary Clinton. With many victims of the carnage yet to be identified, and police still probing the suspected Islamist ties of the slain gunman, Trump wasted no time in harnessing the assault to his political advantage. The presumptive Republican nominee […]
