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(Eagle News) – The Philippine Embassy in Myanmar is urging all Filipinos there to “remain calm and to stay at home” after a military coup on Monday, Feb. 1, 2021 that saw the country’s State Counsellor and de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi being detained, along with other top civilian officials. As the military announced a state of emergency for 12 months, civilian government was effectively replaced by military rule headed by Myanmar […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Myanmar’s military has detained the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an apparent coup, her ruling party’s spokesman said Monday. The military, which ruled the country for nearly five decades, had this week refused to rule out seizing power over its claims of voter fraud in November’s elections, won by Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party. Myo Nyunt, the spokesman for the NLD, said Suu […]
by Serge Daniel and Malick Konate BAMAKO, Mali (AFP) — Army colonel Assimi Goita on Wednesday introduced himself as Mali’s new military strongman a day after a coup that was condemned by the international community but won support from the country’s opposition. The African Union, European Union, the United States and the UN Security Council have all demanded the junta free President Ibrahim Boubacar, Prime Minister Boubou Cisse and others taken captive in Tuesday’s coup […]
(Eagle News) – The National Democratic Front of the Philippines chief political consultant Jose Maria Sison said that the United States could easily overthrow President Rodrigo Duterte and install Vice-President Leni Robredo as the country’s new leader. In a statement in reaction to President Duterte’s challenge to the US to be the first to fire a shot in the South China Sea dispute, Sison said that there was “no need for the US to […]
The United States on Tuesday threw its full weight behind Venezuela’s self-proclaimed acting president Juan Guaido, as the opposition leader said troops had joined his campaign to oust President Nicolas Maduro. “Today interim President Juan Guaido announced start of Operacion Libertad,” or “Operation Freedom,” tweeted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, as Maduro’s government vowed to put down what it called an attempted coup. “The U.S. Government fully supports the Venezuelan people in their quest for […]
by Alexander MARTINEZ Agence France Presse Venezuelan opposition leader and self-proclaimed acting president Juan Guaido said on Tuesday that troops had joined his campaign to oust President Nicolas Maduro as the government vowed to put down what it called an attempted coup. Hundreds of people, many waving Venezuelan flags, flocked onto a highway near a Caracas military base, and police responded with tear-gas as some of the demonstrators broke away to throw rocks at security […]
by Sippachai KUNNUWONG / Joe Freeman Polls opened Sunday for the first Thai election since a 2014 coup, with a high turnout expected among a public who received a cryptic last-minute warning from the Thai king to support “good” leaders to prevent “chaos.” All television stations repeated the rare statement by King Maha Vajiralongkorn moments before polls opened across the politically turbulent country. Thailand is a constitutional monarchy and the palace is ostensibly above the […]
(Eagle News) – Senator Antonio Trillanes IV was indicted anew, this time, for inciting to sedition raps because of his remarks over President Rodrigo Duterte’s issuance of a proclamation voiding his earlier amnesty. Assistant City Prosecutor Reynaldo Ticyado from the Pasay City Prosecutor’s Office, in a resolution dated Jan. 29, 2019, said there was probable cause to file sedition charges against Trillanes. The resolution which was recently released said that the evidence against the […]
(Eagle News) – Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that there is no “double jeopardy” yet on the criminal case of coup d’etat previously filed against senator Antonio Trillanes since the hearing had not yet reached trial on its merits, and was dismissed because of the grant of amnesty in 2010. Roque, a former human rights lawyer, also claimed that the grant of amnesty by former President Benigno Aquino III to Trillanes was just “political accommodation” […]
By Earlo Bringas Eagle News Service (Eagle News) – Senator Antonio Trillanes IV spent the night inside the Senate building after news about the voiding of his amnesty came out Tuesday, September 4. Trillanes maintained that he will stay at the Senate premises until his lawyers have completed and filed the legal remedies needed to prove the validity of the amnesty granted to him by former President Benigno Aquino III. About 20 of his supporters […]
(Eagle News) – “The past finally caught up with Senator Trillanes.” This was how Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque described the recent turn of events on the voiding of the 2010 amnesty granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV by former President Benigno Aquino III. Roque, who had also served as legal counsel before for Trillanes himself and other mutineers, said the senator had never admitted guilt to the crime of coup d’etat. What will now […]
(Eagle News)—-The “quirks of politicians” in the House of Representatives are damaging the institution as the fight for posts under a new leadership in the House of Representatives continues, Rep. Edcel Lagman said on Saturday, July 28. According to Lagman, for instance, while the “pertinent rule of the House of Representatives explicitly provides that those who vote for the winning Speaker constitute the majority,” members of the group of Rep. Danilo Suarez, who voted for Rep. […]
