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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said he would “personally invite” the Human Rights Commissioner of the United Nations to set up a satellite office in the country. Duterte made the announcement amid repeated criticisms from some affiliated with the Catholic church and the opposition that there were human rights violations in the conduct of police operations in line with the President’s war against illegal drugs. It also came after the House of […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday declared Sept. 21 a “national day of protest.” “Lahat ng gustong magprotesta laban sa government, pumunta kayo,” he said in an ambush interview with reporters. Noting that work and classes were suspended on that day, he said even communists fighting a war in the mountains could attend the protests. He said the “Red Army” would not be arrested, noting that the police and the military would all […]
(Eagle News) — Civilians being held hostage by terrorists in Marawi are being made to dress like their captors and hold guns so they would look like they were part of the group being hunted down by government forces. Catholic priest Teresito “Chito” Suganob, 51, shared this information with government security forces after he was rescued from the hands of the terrorists led by Omar Maute in Barangay Sangkay on Saturday, Armed Forces of […]
(Eagle News) — Former Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon formally filed on Monday an ethics complaint against Senator Panfilo Lacson, who accused him of receiving a P100-million “pasalubong” when he was the newly installed Customs chief. Faeldon, who has been detained at the Office of the Sergeant at Arms since his surrender days ago after being cited in contempt by the Senate for his refusal to attend subsequent Senate blue ribbon committee hearings into the P6.4-billion […]
(Eagle News) — Malacanang said that President Rodrigo Duterte would still have to consult with “members of his security cluster” before he could decide to resume peace talks with the National Democratic Front (NDF). In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella Jr., said that the President would also have to “confer with the other branches of government” which would have to agree with the resumption of peace talks. The statement was issued Sunday, September 17, […]
(Eagle News) — More than two hundred policemen may soon face the ax after the National Police Commission found they may have cheated in the entrance examination and submitted fake documents to enter the police service. In a radio interview, Napolcom vice chairman Rogelio Casurao said more than 200 policemen had the same right and wrong answers, a “statistical improbability.” Others who have been serving for “10 years, 15 years” submitted fake documents to enter the force […]
(Eagle News) – A Catholic priest who was taken hostage by the ISIS-inspired Maute rebels at the start of the Marawi siege was among the hostages rescued by government troops on Saturday night, September 16, according to a facebook post of presidential peace adviser Jesus “Jess” Dureza. In his post, Dureza said he got the information that the priest Chito Suganob was with another hostage rescued by the government troops near Bato mosque at “162300hsept2017.” […]
(Eagle News) — A 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck Eastern Samar on Saturday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. The quake struck 39 kilometers southwest of Guiuan at 11 a.m. No aftershocks were reported.
The military said Sunday it had captured the command center of Islamic State group supporters who have besieged Marawi for nearly four months. Security forces have engaged in ferocious street to street combat and launched airstrikes in their efforts to expel the fighters from the city, in a conflict that has raised fears that IS is looking to establish a Southeast Asian base in the Philippines. The military said it had captured the militants’ control […]
The Philippine economy should continue to grow robustly in the short term despite threats, Moody’s Investors Service said. In a report, the credit ratings agency said the “re-emergence of conflict in the southern Philippines, as well as the Duterte administration’s focus on the eradication of illegal drugs,” are an “unlikely risk of a deterioration in economic performance and institutional strength” despite them being “rising” threats. According to Moody’s, sound economic and fiscal policies including a focus […]
The Department of National Defense announced that the ongoing rebellion in Marawi City is nearing its end, with only less than two barangays left with the presence of Maute terrorists. “Konti na lang ‘yung natitira rito. This is just one and a half barangay-wide. The area is just one and a half barangays. That’s why I’ve been told by our ground commanders that malapit na raw,” Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said during the Mindanao […]
(Eagle News) — The lawyers of Jinggoy Estrada on Saturday posted P1.33 million in bail for the former senator, paving the way for his eventual temporary release. This was after the Sandiganbayan fifth division granted Estrada’s second petition for bail after years in detention in Camp Crame over his alleged malversation of Priority Development Assistance Funds to fake nongovernment organizations owned by Janet Lim Napoles. Voting 3-2, the fifth division pegged bail at P1 million […]
