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(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said that the International Criminal Court (ICC) “will never ever acquire jurisdiction” over him. In a speech during the 145th Founding Anniversary and the 2nd Kanlahi Festival at the Bulwagang Kanlahi in Tarlac City, Duterte stressed how the ICC which is currently investigating alleged crimes against humanity in the Philippines has no jurisdiction over him. “They want me hailed before the ICC. Ayaw ko lang sabihin ngayon, but […]
WASHINGTON DC (Eagle News) — High wind warnings were announced by the National Weather Service (NWS) for the Baltimore/Washington D.C. region of the US starting Friday, March 2 until Saturday morning at six o’clock. Winds from 25 to 40 mph (40 kph to 64 kph) with wind gusts from 55 to 70 (89 kph to 113 kph) are expected to cause widespread damage and power outages, the NWS website said. According to the NWS, the […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Grace Poe on Friday revived her call for Congress to pass a bill that would grant President Rodrigo Duterte emergency powers to address vehicular congestion in Metro Manila. Poe did this after the Japan International Cooperation Agency said around P3.5 billion per day were lost due to traffic in the country, a figure that was higher than the P2.4 billion JICA estimated was lost per day in 2012. According to Poe, the […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Rockets fired by Syrian regime forces killed at least 13 civilians in the besieged rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus on Thursday, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 13 people were killed in Douma, the main town in Eastern Ghouta, three of them children. “It was raining on the area so there are no warplanes but it seems the regime chose to use rockets instead,” Rami […]
(Eagle News)–The Senate committee on ethics junked on Tuesday the cases filed by former Customs Chief Nicanor Faeldon against Senators Panfilo Lacson and Antonio Trillanes IV. Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon moved to dismiss the ethics cases that were filed after Lacson and Trillanes accused Faeldon of being linked to corruption in the Bureau of Customs. Drilon said Faeldon’s move against Lacson was a “clear case of forum shopping” since the Lacson’s allegations the former […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night reiterated the country had sovereign rights over its claims in the South China Sea. The President made the assertion before the Chinese ambassador Zhao Jianhua and Filipino-Chinese businessmen, among others. “It has been the claim of the Republic of the Philippines na atin ‘yan… which we call before the China Sea, now the West Philippine Sea,” Duterte said. He also noted that the Philippine Rise was ours. “So […]
by Greg Heakes © Agence France-Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — LeBron James finished with 29 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists to capture his third career NBA All-Star Game MVP as Team LeBron stormed from behind to beat Team Stephen 148-145. James, who was also MVP in 2006 and 2008, made 12 of 17 field goal attempts in 31 minutes of playing time at Staples Center arena in downtown Los Angeles. “I need to continue […]
The Philippines and China are discussing joint mineral exploration in the South China Sea despite an ongoing territorial conflict over the strategic waterway, the foreign secretary said on Friday. The two countries, long embroiled in a dispute over their competing claims to the area, are hoping talks will open the door for them to jointly tap its resources, Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said. “We are pushing it aggressively because we need it,” Cayetano told […]
(Eagle News) — The government is about to ink an agreement with China to allow for the deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers there. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III made the revelation in an interview over dzbb on Saturday, a day after a visibly angry President Rodrigo Duterte said the ban on the deployment of Filipino workers to Kuwait would stay. This was after the body of a Filipina was discovered in an apartment freezer in […]
The US Treasury on Friday placed three men–including a Filipino—it said were part of the Islamic State’s global financial network on its sanctions blacklist, as it seeks to shut down the flow of funds to the group. The Treasury said Abdulpatta Escalon Abubakar of the Philippines, Yunus Emre Sakarya of Turkey, and Mohamed Mire Ali Yusuf of Somalia all provided financial, material or technological support for the Islamic State group. Abubakar is alleged to have been […]
President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday pledged government help to evacuate Filipinos wanting to leave Kuwait, blasting the Gulf state for “inhuman” treatment of migrant workers after reports of a gruesome killing in the country. Duterte, who last month temporarily banned citizens from traveling to Kuwait to work, said 120 workers had died in the country last year and that the body of one Philippine woman had been found stuffed into a freezer in recent days. […]
