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(Eagle News) — The Philippines joined the international community in condemning the terrorist attack in Barcelona on Thursday that left at least 13 people dead and injured more than 100 others including two Irish citizens of Filipino descent. Malacanang and the Department of Foreign Affairs issued separate statements condemning the attack. “Our hearts and prayers go out to the families and loved ones of the innocent victims who perished and those who got injured […]
(Eagle News) – Two Filipinos have been injured in the deadly van attack in Barcelona, according to the country’s Consul General in Spain. Dr. Emmanuel Fernandez, the Deputy Chief of Mission and Consul General on the Philippines in Spain, did not identify the two Filipinos who were injured but said that they were a Filipino father and his child who just visited Barcelona, with the rest of their family. Fernandez however stressed that there […]
Police authorities from Spain’s Catalonia region said it has arrested a man in the Barcelona van attack and is “treating him as a terrorist”, denying earlier reports that the police has a suspect cornered in a local bar. This came about as the Islamist State’s Amaq news agency claimed the attack that killed at least 13 people. Spain’s royal palace has condemned the deadly van attack in Barcelona, calling the perpetrators “assassins, simply […]
(Eagle News) — The Sandiganbayan has ordered the arrest of Senator Gringo Honasan and six others over their alleged misuse of almost P30 million in pork barrel funds. The 2nd division of the anti-graft court issued the order against the senator and political affairs and project coordinator chief Michael Benjamin; National Council of Muslim Filipinos Secretary Mehol Sadain; acting chief accountant Fedelina Aldenese; Olga Galido; and Focus officers Giovanni Manuel Gaerlan and Salvador Gaerlan. Of the ten–including […]
BOGOTA, Columbia (Reuters) – Eight people from a little-known urban guerrilla group have been arrested in connection with a bombing last week at an upscale mall in the Colombian capital Bogota, the police said on Saturday (June 24). Three people were killed and eight wounded when an explosive detonated in a women’s restroom at the Andino shopping center on June 17. Four men and four women, members of The People’s Revolutionary Movement (MRP) rebel group, […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — A man with a knife has been arrested outside the British parliament on Friday, police said, adding that there were no reports of any casualties. “The man — aged in his 30s — was arrested on suspicion of possession of a knife,” London’s Scotland Yard police headquarters said in a statement. © Agence France-Presse
SEMUTPRAKAN, Thailand – A British journalist was charged with arms possession on Tuesday (May 30) after he was arrested at an airport in the Thai capital for checking in body armor plates and gas masks as load luggage. Anthony Cheng, 46, had been detained at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport on Monday (May 29) night for carrying three gas masks and four plates for safety vests, said Somchart Maneerat, a police investigator at the airport. Thailand’s Arms Control […]
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom (Reuters) – British police arrested a man on Friday (May 26) in the Manchester suburb of Moss Side, the tenth person to be taken into custody in connection with Monday night’s attack. Television images aired on Friday showed the aftermath of a raid conducted earlier in the week in the same suburb. Greater Manchester police said in a tweet that eight men are now in custody after a man and a woman […]
by Kiki Siregar Agence France-Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) – Indonesian authorities have arrested three suspects over a twin suicide bombing on a Jakarta bus terminal that killed three policemen and which has been claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group, an official said Friday. The elite anti-terror squad working with regular police Thursday detained two men in Bandung on Java island and a third in the nearby area of Cimahi, and their houses were now […]
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — A suspected member of the Islamic State group who was arrested in the Philippines last month has confessed to plotting attacks on targets in Kuwait, including the United States military and a Shiite religious hall, local media reported Wednesday. Judicial sources said Hussein al-Dhafiri, whose wife was also arrested, confessed to planning suicide attacks on a US military convoy and a Shiite hall, the Al-Rai daily reported. Kuwait’s […]
(Eagle News) — A Muntinlupa court on Friday denied the prosecution’s request to consolidate the three drug cases Senator Leila de Lima is charged with. In a resolution, Regional Trial Court Juanita Guerrero said she found no merit in consolidating the cases lodged in her sala, Branch 204, and in Branches 205 and 206. She said the cases involve different incidents. She added that consolidating the cases would only prolong the trial. In filing the motion to consolidate […]
(Eagle News) — Detained Senator Leila de Lima has admitted that she did not sign the petition she filed before the Supreme Court before a notary public, contrary to her earlier claim. In a memorandum submitted to the High Court, De Lima, through her lawyers, admitted that the “act of signing” her petition seeking to nullify the arrest order issued against her on February 23 “was not done face to face with the notary.” The order issued by […]
