Tag: Bid

Sandiganbayan junks Argosino’s bid for plunder case vs him to be dismissed

(Eagle News) — The Sandiganbayan’s sixth division has denied the appeal of former immigration deputy commissioner Al Argosino for the plunder case against him to be dismissed. In a 13-page resolution, the division said it denied Argosino’s motion to quash the case stemming from the P50-million bribery scandal in 2016. The P50 million Argosino and fellow immigration deputy commissioner Michael Robles allegedly extorted from Chinese businessman Jack Lam were supposedly in exchange for the release of […]

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White House doctor withdraws bid for cabinet job

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) –Presidential doctor Ronny Jackson withdrew his nomination to head the Department of Veterans Affairs on Thursday following allegations he improperly handed out drugs and was drunk at work. The move marked the latest upset in an administration rocked by a series of firings and resignations in a little more than a year since Trump took office. “I am regretfully withdrawing my nomination to be Secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs,” […]

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Defiant Fillon says ‘no one’ can stop France election bid

by Guy JACKSON Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Embattled French presidential hopeful Francois Fillon vowed that “no one” could force him to quit as he dug in despite calls to withdraw over an expenses scandal, with party leaders heading for a crisis meeting Monday over his candidacy. The conservative was in a defiant mood after holding a rally in Paris attended by tens of thousands of flag-waving supporters. “No one today can prevent […]

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Citizen rage puts Rome on track for first female mayor

by Olivier BAUBE Angus MACKINNON ROME, Italy (AFP) — “Bread and circuses” was the formula that ancient Rome’s rulers hoped would keep the restless natives happy. Two millennia later, residents of the Eternal City just want their buses to turn up on time, holes in the roads filled and garbage collected and dealt with safely. Virginia Raggi says that is why she put her legal career on hold in a bid to become the Italian […]

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