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(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said he would require the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to state its purpose before allowing any of its investigators to come to the country. “Let them state their purpose and I will review it,” Duterte told reporters on Thursday. This was before the 47-member council voted on the controversial Iceland authored resolution pushing for a comprehensive review and report on the Philippine drug war. He said […]
Foreign affairs chief says PHL will be “Friend to friends, enemy to enemies, and a worse enemy to false friends.” (Here is the full text of the statement of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., on the adoption by the United Nations Human Rights Council of the Iceland resolution pushing a comprehensive review and report of the drug war under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.) In 1945, the Philippines, along with 50 other states, […]
14 states , including Philippines, reject Iceland-authored resolution (Eagle News) – The Philippines, along with 13 other countries, rejected a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution pushed by Iceland and other Western nations that sought a comprehensive written report on the Philippine drug war under President Rodrigo Duterte. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr was scathing in his statement read after the UN human rights body voted in favor of a draft resolution pushed by […]
The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday, July 11, narrowly approved a resolution mandating a “comprehensive” international review of the drug war in the Philippines, with 18 states in the 47-member council backing the resolution first pushed by Iceland. Activists said they had initially hoped the UN would demand a formal “inquiry”, but compromised on calling for a “report” to win a majority. The text, proposed by Iceland, was backed by 18 states in […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte’s strong stand against Canada on the issue of returning its trash back to its shores has inspired other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to also take a strong stand on saying no to wastes being dumped into their countries. This was relayed by Commissioner Rey Leonardo Guerrero of the Bureau of Customs to Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III. Guerrero, who came from the 28thmeeting […]
(Editor’s note: In the latest development, the US Embassy has denied that US State Department deputy assistant secretary Mina Chang is being eyed as the next US Ambassador to the Philippines. See story here: https://www.eaglenews.ph/us-embassy-says-not-true-that-us-state-dept-official-mina-chang-would-be-replacing-ambassador-kim/) (Eagle News) – The next ambassador of the United States in the Philippines could be the current US State Department deputy assistant secretary Mina Chang. If appointed, Chang will be the second female US ambassador to the country after […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Prominent rights lawyer Amal Clooney has said she will join the legal team defending Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, whose news site has repeatedly clashed with President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa, who was named a Time Magazine “Person of the Year” in 2018 for her journalism, faces several criminal charges along with her website Rappler, in what press freedom advocates have branded an act of “persecution”. “Maria Ressa is a courageous journalist […]
(Eagle News) – A low pressure area was spotted some 40 kilometers east of Zamboanga City, Zamboanga del Sur, as of 3 a.m., Friday, July 5, PAGASA said. This LPA, however, is not likely to develop into a tropical depression within the next 24 hours. It will weaken and dissipate in the next few days, forecasters said. Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated […]
(Eagle News) – Tropical cyclone warning signal number 1 is up over Batanes and the Babuyan Group of Islands as Tropical Depression Egay maintained its strength as it moved towards extreme Northern Luzon. In its 8 a.m. weather bulletin, PAGASA said that the center of tropical depression Egay was estimated as 165 kilometers east of Aparri, Cagayan. It is moving northwest at 35 kph with maximum sustained winds of 45 kph near the center […]
by Alia Dharssi Agence France Pressee VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) — Tons of Canadian garbage left in the Philippines for years arrived back home Saturday, putting an end to a festering diplomatic row that highlighted how Asian nations have grown tired of being the world’s trash dump. A cargo vessel loaded with about 69 containers of rubbish docked in a port on the outskirts of Vancouver, according to an AFP reporter at the scene. The […]
(Eagle News) – The low pressure area east of Virac, Catanduanes, which developed into a Tropical Depression early this morning, has maintained its strength while moving generally northwestward, PAGASA’s latest advisory said. The eye of tropical depression named “Egay” was estimated based on all available data at 585 km East Northeast of Virac, Catanduanes (15.7 °N, 129.2 °E ) as of 10 a.m. Sunday, June 30. It is moving west northwest at 20 kilometers […]
BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada (Eagle News) — The Philippines returned tons of garbage left in its ports years ago by Canada. The trash which caused tensions between the two countries entered the Deltaport container terminal in Tsawwassen, British Columbia, Canada on the cargo ship Anna Maersk. According to Canadian officials, the trash will be incinerated by a local waste-to-energy facility putting an end to the controversial garbage that even incited Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte […]
