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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is slated to meet with King Abdullah II during his official visit to Jordan from September 5 to 8. The Department of Foreign Affairs said the President, who will become the first Philippine leader to visit Jordan, will discuss with the king “a wide range of issues of mutual concern..” “(The) President will hold talks with King Abdullah II on broadening cooperation in key areas to advance shared aspirations for […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday, April 28, urged Filipinos in Kuwait to come home after the Middle Eastern country expressed outrage over the rescue of abused Overseas Filipino Workers there. But the President, in a speech before the Filipino community in Singapore, noted that he harbored no hatred toward Kuwait, to which he said he “owed a debt of gratitude.” “Salamat to the government of Kuwait. Thank you for your generosity in the […]
(Eagle News)—-The Philippine government has assured Kuwait that it respects the “sovereignty” of the state and the “dignity of the Kuwaiti people.” The renewed assurances were given in a meeting between President Rodrigo Duterte and the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the Philippines Saleh Ahmad Althwaikh in Davao on Monday night, April 23. The meeting comes days after Philippine ambassador to Kuwait Renato Villa was sent protest notes by the Kuwaiti government over remarks made by Foreign […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP)–North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un has met Olympics chief Thomas Bach in Pyongyang, thanking him for helping to bring about a “dramatic thawing” of tensions on the Korean peninsula, the country’s state media said Saturday. Last month’s Winter Olympics in South Korea triggered a fast-moving rapprochement that will see Kim sit down with the South’s President Moon Jae-in in late April — with a US summit with President Donald Trump planned for […]
By Anna Smolchenko with Marina Koreneva in Saint Petersburg Agence France Presse Russia expelled diplomats from 23 countries Friday in a wave of retaliatory measures against the West in a spy row, the biggest wave of tit-for-tat expulsions in recent memory. The Russian foreign ministry said in a statement that it had summoned the heads of missions from 23 countries earlier to tell them that some of their diplomats had to leave the country. Germany […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Thursday announced the appointments of special envoys to China, the United States and Australia. The reappointment papers of Wallie Lee, Carlos Chan, Ferdinand Borja, Cheng Yong, William de Jesus Lima as special envoys to China were signed by President Rodrigo Duterte himself on January 3. The new term of office of Lee, Chan, Borja and Lima runs from January 1 to June 30, 2018. Yong will also serve for six […]
