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(Eagle News) — Police presented on Wednesday (December 6) a third suspect in the foiled bombing attempt near the United States Embassy in Manila. The suspect was identied as Muhammad Jumao-as, a resident of Sta. Ana, Bulacan, Bulacan and an x-ray technician at a hospital. Chief Supt. Oscar Albayalde, head of the National Capital Region Police Office of the Philippine National Police said Jumao-as was also seen in the CCTV footage in Luneta along […]
(Reuters) — Heavy metal rockers Metallica soared to the top of the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 album chart on Monday (November 28), edging out new records from R&B singer Bruno Mars and country singer Miranda Lambert. “Hardwired… to Self-Destruct,” Metallica’s 10th studio album, sold 282,000 albums, 34,000 songs and was streamed 9.3 million times, totaling 291,000 album units according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan for the week ending Nov. 24. Billboard said “Hardwired,” driven by […]
HAARLEM, The Netherlands (Reuters) — A poem that Anne Frank sent to a girlfriend in 1942, shortly before her family went into hiding from the Nazis, was sold for 140,000 euros ($147,700) at an auction in the Netherlands on Wednesday (November 23). Frank was twelve years old when she sent the short poem, at least part of which was copied from a magazine, for her friend’s poetry album. Auction house Bubb Kuyper had initially […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – by Edouard GUIHAIRE James PHEBY A far-right extremist was sentenced on Wednesday to life imprisonment without the possibility of release for murdering British MP Jo Cox a week before Britain’s EU referendum in a “politically motivated” attack. “Because she was a member of parliament your crime has an additional dimension that calls for particular punishment,” judge Alan Wilkie told Thomas Mair, 53, as he issued the rare “whole life term” […]
(Eagle News) — A magnitude 6 quake hit New Zealand, with its epicenter located east northeast of Castlepoint, a small beachside town on the Wairarapa coast of the Wellington Region, according to the US Geological Survey. (USGS) The quake was measured with a depth of 10 kilometers. It occurred at 12:19 p.m. New Zealand time, or 7:19 a.m. Philippine time.
QUEZON CITY, Nov. 21 — The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) held its second and last of its two annual meetings, dubbed as National Management Development Conference (NMDC). This second meeting was held in Baguio City, and is attended by all the national and regional officials of the DSWD from all over the country, including the program and bureau directors. Role in fighting poverty DSWD Secretary Judy M. Taguiwalo shared with members of the media […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat was punched in the face and sprayed with tear gas by masked attackers in an upmarket area of Paris, police said Thursday. The 40-year-old star and her partner were attacked by three masked men who tried to steal her handbag. The couple told police the men had ambushed them in the lobby of the apartment building where they were staying in the chic 16th arrondissement of the […]
TORONTO, Canada (AFP) — Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant had 30-point games to fire the Golden State Warriors to a fifth consecutive victory on Wednesday in a 127-121 win over the Toronto Raptors. Reigning NBA MVP Curry finished with 35 points and seven assists after the Warriors held off a furious late fightback from Toronto to claim the win. The Warriors appeared to be cruising to victory after opening up an 18-point lead in the […]
