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Eagle News — With the continuous lockdown of Luzon and basically the entire world, EBC Films wants to make your quarantine days, “Hapi” days. For the remaining days for the month of April, EBC Films will premiere “Walang Take 2” and “Hapi Ang Buhay” on EBC Films’ YouTube and Facebook page. Check out the dates below and mark them on your calendar: April 20 -GUERRERO DOS Tuloy Ang Laban After his brother, Ramon, was tragically […]
Reuters — Oil prices held near multi-month lows on Wednesday (June 21) as investors discounted evidence of strong compliance by Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries and non-OPEC oil producers with a deal to cut a global output. Global benchmark Brent was unchanged at $46.02 barrel at 0651 GMT after falling nearly 2 percent in the previous session to its lowest settlement since November. United States crude futures for August were trading up 4 cents at $43.55, after spending […]
by Amelie BARON Agence France Presse PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) — Jovenel Moise was sworn in Tuesday as Haiti’s 58th president, ending a protracted electoral crisis that created a power vacuum in the impoverished Caribbean nation. Moise, a 48-year-old banana exporter who has never held political office and is not well known to the general public but ran as the candidate of the center-right Tet Kale Party (PHTK), took the oath at a ceremony at the […]
by Rim Haddad and Karam al-Masri Agence France Presse ALEPPO, Syria (AFP) — Syrian rebels announced a new evacuation deal for Aleppo civilians and the injured on Wednesday, after shelling and air strikes sent terrified residents running through the city’s streets. However a source close to Syria’s government denied the development, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said hostilities were ongoing after an earlier agreement collapsed. Under the initial plan, thousands of civilians and […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn will be proclaimed the new king of Thailand later Thursday, his office said, opening a new chapter for the powerful monarchy in a country still mourning the death of his father. Vajiralongkorn, 64, who inherits one of the world’s richest monarchies as well as a politically troubled nation, will ascend the throne 50 days after King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s death. In complex protocols, the prince will on Thursday […]
by Jerome TAYLOR BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — After spending much of his life outside the public eye, Thailand’s next monarch Maha Vajiralongkorn has been catapulted into the limelight as future king of a politically fractured nation still grieving for his revered father. The 64-year-old inherits one of the world’s richest monarchies, an opaque institution shielded by a notoriously tough royal defamation law. Yet the untested heir has enormous shoes to fill following the October 13 […]
