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(Eagle News)–Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana is in a hospital due to “stress-related fatigue.” Lorenzana, 70, himself confirmed he was at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center as he denied reports he had been hospitalized due to cardiac arrest. He called the reports an “exaggeration.” “The doctors are just forcing me to rest. rest,” he said, noting that he was “undergoing executive checkup.” “I will be out in a day or two,” he said. “Thanks for your […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte was not at the Philippine Amusement Gaming Corp. event in Malacanang on Wednesday, Oct. 3, because he decided to rest instead. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the statement, effectively belying rumors the President had been hospitalized on that day. According to Roque, the President stayed at Bahay Pangarap. “He had a schedule almost every day. He did not really have a day off. So the President decided to have […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Former president George H.W. Bush was being treated for a blood infection on Monday, hours after laying his wife Barbara to rest, his office said. A statement stressed that Bush, 93, was responding to treatment. He was admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital early Sunday, just a day after bidding a final farewell to his wife of 73 years during her funeral. Barbara Bush had died on Tuesday. The 41st president greeted […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru’s jailed ex-leader Alberto Fujimori was taken to a hospital Friday after showing signs of hypertension and irregular heartbeat, his doctor said. The hospital trip comes on the same day that Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said a potential pardon for Fujimori would not be immediate, as had been speculated, but depended on a medical report that will likely be issued by the end of the year. Fujimori — who turns […]
CHIHUAHUA STATE, Mexico (Reuters) – At least 26 people were dead or hospitalized after a shootout in the northern Mexican border state of Chihuahua on Wednesday (July 5), the state attorney general’s office said, as drug violence surges in one of Mexico’s bloodiest years on record. The shootout took place near the mountainous community of Las Varas, in the heart of one of Mexico’s drug trafficking regions, and it involved two armed groups. It was […]
