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(Eagle News)—The guilty verdict meted out on Maia Deguito for money laundering only proves that RCBC “is the victim in this situation” and that she is a “rogue employee.” This is according to Thea Daep, RCBC spokesperson, who issued a brief statement after the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 149 sentenced Deguito to four to seven years in prison for each of the eight counts of money laundering she was convicted of in connection with the […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany’s justice minister has fallen victim to the rules he himself championed against online social media, as one of his tweets was deleted following several complaints, Bild daily reported Monday. The tweet dated back to 2010, when Heiko Maas was not yet a minister. In the post, he had called Thilo Sarrazin, a politician who wrote a controversial book on Muslim immigrants, “an idiot.” Maas told Bild on Monday that he […]
HOUSTON, United States (AFP) — The Houston Rockets have donated $4 million to help the victims of Tropical Storm Harvey which has caused devastating flooding in the city, the NBA team announced on Monday. “Our hearts are heavy seeing the devastation that so many of our friends, family and neighbours are experiencing,” the Rockets said in a statement. “Please stay safe, Houston.” Recently acquired Rockets point guard Chris Paul donated $50,000 to a fund created […]
by Daniel Bosque with Hui Min Neo in Madrid Agence France Presse BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Spanish authorities hoped Monday to identify all 14 victims of the deadly attacks in Catalonia and the members of the terror cell behind it, as a manhunt deepened for one suspect still at large. With the 12-person cell dismantled, police were hunting a 22-year-old Moroccan man, Younes Abouyaaqoub, suspected of driving the van used in Barcelona. They warn he […]
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) – Japanese Chief Cabinet Suga Yoshihide on Monday (June 19) offered condolences to seven sailors found dead in flooded compartments of the USS Fitzgerald, which collided with a container ship off Japan on Saturday (June 17). A significant portion of the crew was asleep when the collision occurred, tearing a gash under the warship’s waterline and flooding two berthing compartments, the radio room and the auxiliary machine room. The U.S. Navy on […]
Six people were confirmed dead in a massive fire that engulfed a London tower block before dawn on Wednesday and the number is expected to rise, police said. “I can confirm six fatalities at this time but this figure is likely to rise during what will be a complex recovery operation over a number of days,” police commander Stuart Cundy said in a statement. London’s fire commissioner earlier said there have been some fatalities in the […]
PARIS, France (Reuters) – Lights were switched off at Paris’ Eiffel Tower just before midnight (2200GMT) on Wednesday (May 31) in honor of the victims of a truck bomb in Kabul, Afghanistan. A powerful bomb hidden in a sewage tanker exploded in the morning rush hour in the center of Kabul, killing at least 80 people, wounding hundreds more and damaging embassy buildings in the Afghan capital’s unofficial “Green Zone.” The victims of the explosion […]
BURY, United Kingdom (Reuters) – The mother of a Manchester bombing victim asked for unity on Wednesday (May 24). Charlotte Campbell, who was visibly emotional, urged people to “stay together” after giving thanks for the support she received following Monday’s (May 22) suicide attack which killed 22 concert-goers, including her 15-year-old daughter Olivia. In a last conversation, Campbell had been thanked by Olivia for allowing her daughter to go to the Ariana Grande concert. The […]
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom (AFP) — Twenty-two people were killed in Monday’s suicide attack on a Manchester pop concert, including an eight-year-old girl, teenagers and several parents who had come to collect their children. Here are the victims named so far in what was the deadliest terror attack in Britain since the 2005 London bombings: ‘Beautiful little girl’ Eight-year-old Saffie Rose Roussos from Leyland in Lancashire, northwest England, is the youngest victim among those named so […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (Reuters) – European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and members of the college of Commissioners observed a minute of silence on Wednesday (May 24) in solidarity with the victims of an attack in Manchester that killed 22 people. Guenther Oettinger, European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources said Europeans “mourn with the British people.” The minute of silence was held on the sidelines of the weekly commissioners meeting, while EU flags hung at half-mast […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Lights on the Eiffel Tower will be switched off at midnight (2300 GMT) on Wednesday in solidarity with those killed and injured in a terror attack outside Britain’s parliament. The decision was taken by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo following the deadly attack in which a man ploughed his car into pedestrians on London’s Westminster Bridge then leapt out and stabbed a policeman, killing three people and wounding more than 20. Hidalgo […]
by Nova Safo Agence France Presse CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — The families of three Orlando nightclub shooting victims have filed suit against Facebook, Twitter and Google accusing them of providing “material support” to the Islamic State group by allowing the spread of extremist propaganda that inspired the attack. The assault by gunman Omar Mateen, who pledged allegiance to IS, left 49 people dead and 53 injured at the Pulse nightclub in June, in the deadliest mass […]
