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(Eagle News) — Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio confirmed on Saturday, Oct. 23 that she and presidential aspirant former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., met today in Cebu. “Confirmed po na nagkita kami ngayon lang ni Presidential aspirant at former Senator BBM sa masayang pagdiriwang ng birthday ni Cong. Yedda, maybahay ni House Majority Leader Martin Romualdez sa Cebu,” Duterte-Carpio said in her official Facebook post on Saturday, Oct. 23. She also posted several […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will host a closed-door meeting of world leaders Monday on the sidelines of the General Assembly in New York to boost climate commitments. The roundtable comes less than six weeks before a major United Nations climate meeting, COP26, in Glasgow, aimed at ensuring the world meets its goal of holding century-end warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. “UNGA is the […]
Sotto says Congress special session postponed, Cayetano says it will push through (Eagle News)–The special session of Congress for the passage of a supplemental budget against the coronavirus disease 2019 has been “converted” to a meeting instead, Senate President Tito Sotto said. Sotto said he, the Palace and his House of Representatives counterparts will discuss today “how to empower and give the govt the flexibility to address the present crisis.” In a Facebook post, Speaker […]
(Eagle News)—-President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, Feb. 25, met with Moro National Liberation Front’s Nur Misuari. This was after Duterte revealed there ”rumblings” within the group which had complaints about the Bangsamoro Transition Authority being composed of members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. The meeting in Malacañang lasted for 15 minutes. On Tuesday, the Sandiganbayan allowed Misuari, who is facing graft and malversation cases, to attend the 48th Session of the Organization of Islamic […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) – Canada will host the next meeting of the Lima Group on the Venezuela crisis, a senior government official told AFP Thursday. No date has been set for the talks, but the official said on condition of anonymity that “sooner would be better given the escalating crisis in Venezuela.” Most members of the Lima Group — a bloc of 14 Latin American powers and Canada — has urged Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is slated to meet the newly crowned Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray on Thursday, Dec. 20. Gray will make the courtesy call on the chief executive at the Villamor Airbase at 5:30 p.m. Gray is the fourth Filipina to win the crown, after Pia Wurtzbach in 2015, Margie Moran in 1973, and Gloria Diaz in 1969. In a previous statement, the Palace hailed Gray’s victory as “set(ting) the bar high in […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte and United States Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim had a meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 11. In a Twitter post, Kim said he and Duterte had an “excellent” meeting on “shared goals including defense priorities and economic partnership.” “Our alliance remains strong and iron-clad,” Kim said. The meeting between the President and Kim took place after Duterte lambasted US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs Randall Schriver […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, Aug. 16, met with Qatar Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani on Wednesday night. There are so far no details about the meeting, which took place in Malacanang. A picture released by the Palace showed, however, that apart from Duterte, Special Assistant to the President Bong Go, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano, […]
by Michelle Fitzpatrick © Agence France-Presse VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — Iran’s oil minister walked out of a key meeting with OPEC peers on Thursday, as a rift deepened with regional rival Saudi over its push to ramp up the cartel’s oil output. “I do not think we can reach an agreement,” Bijan Namdar Zanganeh told reporters at his Vienna hotel after quitting talks with a group of ministers on the eve of a crucial OPEC […]
by Joseph Sotinel © Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — OPEC ministers gather in Vienna Tuesday for crunch talks on a landmark pact curbing oil output, with Saudi Arabia and Russia hoping to persuade their peers to increase production again. The upcoming June 22-23 meetings of OPEC and non-OPEC energy ministers are expected to be contentious, with several countries bristling at the thought of reversing a deal that has been in place for 18 months […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte will meet Congress leaders and members of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission to discuss ways on how to reconcile contentious provisions in the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law. According to House Majority Leader Rodolfo Fariñas, apart from him, Congress leaders to be present in the meeting later on Monday, May 28, were Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, Senate President Tito Sotto III and Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri. “Yung mga contentious portions, we agreed […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — The top decision-making body of South Africa’s ruling ANC will meet on Monday following days of talks over President Jacob Zuma’s expected departure from office, a party spokeswoman said Sunday. “An NEC (national executive committee) meeting is scheduled for tomorrow in Pretoria,” ANC spokeswoman Khusela Diko told AFP, declining to reveal the meeting’s agenda. South Africa’s president-in-waiting Cyril Ramaphosa has said negotiations should be concluded within days. But Zuma, whose presidency has […]
