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(Eagle News) — The Commission on Elections proclaimed today, Wednesday, May 18, the senatorial bets who made it to the top 12 of the May 9, 2022 national and local elections. Leading the 12 senators is actor and TV personality Robin Padilla who got 26,612,434 votes based on the Comelec canvass of votes. The Comelec, sitting as the National Board of Canvassers, has finished canvassing 172 out of the 173 local and overseas Certificates of […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has extended his condolences to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government over the death of UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. According to the Office of Presidential Protocol and Office of Presidential Assistant on Foreign Affairs, the President “conveys the Filipino nation’s solidarity with the UAE in this period of great loss and bereavement.” The office, quoting the President, also called the UAE leader “a bold visionary whose […]
(Eagle News) – Media personality Ramon “Mon” Tulfo was arrested for cyber libel on Wednesday morning, May 18, and detained at the Manila Police District headquarters. Tulfo, a radio broadcaster and newspaper columnist, was arrested at around 10:30 a.m. According to the police, the arrest order was issued by Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 24 Judge Maria Victoria Soriano-Villadolid for the violation of Section R (C) (4) of Republic Act No. 10175 or the Cybercrime […]
(Eagle News) — A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck Masbate on Wednesday, May 18. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake hit at 9:38 a.m. The epicenter was 7 kilometers northeast of Mobo. The depth of focus was five kilometers. The following intensities and instrumental intensities were reported: Intensity Intensity V – Masbate City Instrumental Intensities: Intensity V – Masbate City Intensity I – Passi City, Iloilo No damage to property nor aftershocks were […]
Miami, UNITED STATES (AFP) — Jimmy Butler scored 41 points as the Miami Heat produced a devastating comeback to defeat the Boston Celtics 118-107 in their opening Eastern Conference finals series clash on Tuesday. Butler led a revitalized Miami second-half display as the Heat transformed an eight-point half-time deficit into a double-digit lead against a depleted Celtics side at Miami’s FTX Arena. Trailing 62-54 at the break, Miami outscored the Celtics 39-14 in the […]
by Yussel Gonzalez © Agence France-Presse Mexico City, MEXICO (AFP) — More than 100,000 people are now listed as missing in violence-wracked Mexico, a grim milestone that the United Nations rights chief on Tuesday called “a tragedy of enormous proportions.” Rights groups appealed for urgent action to tackle disappearances that have skyrocketed during years of spiraling drug-related violence. The National Registry of Missing Persons, which has been tracking disappearances since 1964, said that as […]
Cannes, FRANCE (AFP) — Tom Cruise jets into Cannes on Wednesday for the first time in 30 years to launch “Top Gun: Maverick”, and much has changed in the film industry since his last visit — except his continued box office power. That kind of longevity is a rare thing in Hollywood where superhero franchises have become far more financially important to studios than individual actors and actresses. When Cruise was last in Cannes for […]
San Francisco, UNITED STATES (AFP) — Netflix on Tuesday said it laid off about two percent of its staff in a belt-tightening move after growth slowed at the once-booming streaming television service. “These changes are primarily driven by business needs rather than individual performance, which makes them especially tough, as none of us want to say goodbye to such great colleagues,” a spokesperson told AFP. About 150 employees have been laid off, most of […]
(Eagle News) — The frontal system is affecting extreme Northern Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Batanes, Babuyan Islands, and Ilocos Norte will have cloudy skies with rains as a result. Flash floods or landslides due to moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Metro Manila, meanwhile, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms. Extreme Northern Luzon, PAGASA said, will have moderate to strong […]
Kyiv, UKRAINE (AFP) — Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine: – Hundreds of Mariupol defenders surrender – Russia says that 265 of the Ukrainian fighters who had been holding out at a steelworks in the city of Mariupol for weeks have surrendered under a deal struck with Kyiv. Russia’s defense ministry says 51 of them were heavily wounded and were taken to a hospital in a part of the eastern Donetsk […]
by Marc Preel with Elias Huuhtanen in Helsinki © Agence France-Presse Stockholm, SWEDEN (AFP) — Finland and Sweden announced they will submit their bids to join NATO together Wednesday, despite Turkey’s threat to block the military alliance’s expansion. “I’m happy we have taken the same path and we can do it together,” Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said Tuesday during a joint press conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto. Finland, which shares a 1,300-kilometre […]
by Nicholas Kamm with Sebastian Smith in Washington © Agence France-Presse Buffalo, United States (AFP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday called out what he branded the “poison” of white supremacist ideology behind a deadly mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, and said that racism is being stoked for political gain. Speaking in the city where a white teen is accused of murdering 10 African Americans in a neighborhood supermarket, Biden said, “What […]
