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Various elementary and secondary students from different schools all over the country gathered at the Aquino Convention in Tarlac City for the Youth Science Camp 2016. The students participated in team-building activities and seminars as well as contests, quiz bees and dance performances. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Aimee Mendoza and Uploaded by Vince Alvin Villarin)
QUEZON City, Philippines – The officials of the Commission on Elections personally inspected the COMELEC’s command center in the Philippine International Convention Center where the COMELEC will serve as the National Board of Canvassers. The complaints and queries of voters will also be received in the COMELEC Command Center. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Aimee Mendoza and Uploaded by Vince Alvin Villarin)
QUEZON City, Philippines – Manila mayoralty candidate Amado Bagatsing denied that there will be members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo that will attend his “miting de abanse” while wearing bonnets to remain unidentified. Bagatsing added that he respects the decision of the Iglesia Ni Cristo leadership on who the Church will vote for in the May 9 elections. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Aimee Mendoza and Uploaded by Vince […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The legal team of the Poe-Escudero camp revealed that the Commission on Elections fired hundreds of vote-counting machine technicians, arousing the Poe-Escudero camp’s suspicion that this is a sign of the alleged plan to cheat on the coming elections. The COMELEC and Smartmatic both denied the allegations. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Aimee Mendoza and Uploaded by Vince Alvin Villarin)
QUEZON City, Philippines – The issue of who will penalize the various black propaganda that appeared during the campaign period still remains unresolved. According to the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board, it is the Commission on Elections that has the power to regulate political ads as provided by the Fair Elections Act. On the other hand, the COMELEC said that it can only regulate the length of political ads and not the content. […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) – The EU won’t sacrifice its high food safety standards for better US auto market access in a transatlantic trade deal being negotiated, a German minister said Friday. The comments by Agriculture Minister Christian Schmidt were the latest criticism of the thorny negotiations toward sealing a wide-ranging pact that would create a free-trade zone covering 850 million people. Washington and Brussels want the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) completed this year […]
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) – by Damian Wroclavsky A special committee in Brazil’s Senate was to vote Friday on whether to recommend starting an impeachment trial against President Dilma Rousseff who faces being suspended from office in less than a week. The committee’s decision is non-binding but marks the last formal stage before the full Senate votes Wednesday on whether to put the leftist leader on trial. With a ‘yes’ almost certain, Rousseff is preparing to […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – by Paul HANDLEY US employers cut back hiring in April in the wake of the economy’s sharp downturn, raising worries of a protracted slowdown in the world’s largest economy. Net new jobs fell unexpectedly to the lowest level in seven months, with just 160,000 additional jobs generated, over 40,000 less than economists predicted, the Labor Department reported Friday. That was still a strong enough pace to continue absorbing new entrants to […]
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AFP) – by Simon MARTIN Kim Jong-Un opened North Korea’s first ruling party congress for nearly 40 years on Friday, with a defiant defence of the “magnificent” strides made in the country’s nuclear weapons programme. Hailing the historic test of what North Korea claims was a hydrogen bomb in January, the isolated state’s young leader said it had shown the world it would not be cowed by sanctions or outside pressure. Dressed […]
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) – Spanish health authorities say they have detected the country’s first known case of the microcephaly birth defect in the foetus of a pregnant woman infected with the Zika virus. “A pregnant woman was infected by Zika and dengue and the foetus has shown various defects,” the health authority of the Catalonia region said in a statement late Thursday. This was Spain’s first case of Zika-related microcephaly, a severe form of brain […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Seven big banks, including Bank of America, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank, have agreed to pay a total of $324 million to settle a lawsuit accusing them of market manipulation of interest rates. The settlement Tuesday followed a federal judge’s ruling in March admitting the class action lawsuit brought by investors and pension funds against the banks. In all about 15 banks were named in the suit […]
https://youtu.be/ykzGXeQ2Eck Tens of thousands of people are evacuated from the Canadian city of Fort McMurray as forest fires rage in Alberta’s oil sands region. (courtesy AFPTV)
