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Bicameral panel strikes down anti-political dynasty provision in proposed BBL

By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service The bicameral conference committee tasked to reconcile Congress versions of the Bangsamoro Basic Law has dropped the provision against political dynasties. According to Senator Francis Escudero, the joint panel dropped Article VII Section 15 of the Senate’s version of the BBL. The provision says that “no party representative should be related within the second (2nd) civil degree of consanguinity or affinity to a district representative or another party representative […]

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Senator Ejercito expresses hope Universal Health Care bill is passed when session resumes

(Eagle News) — Senator JV Ejercito on Tuesday, July 10, expressed hope the Universal Health Care bill will be passed when Congress resumes in July. This was after President Rodrigo Duterte certified as urgent the measure, which aims to provide healthcare coverage, including in-patient and out-patient services, and emergency services, among others,  to all Filipinos. The House has passed a measure seeking for the same. A counterpart measure is pending before the Senate. According to […]

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Taiwan shuts down for Typhoon Maria

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) – Schools and offices in Taiwan will close Tuesday and flights have been cancelled as Typhoon Maria churns towards Taiwan bringing torrential rains and powerful winds. Maria was 500 kilometers (310 miles) east of the northeastern coastal town of Yilan with gusts of up to 190 kilometres an hour as of 10 am local time (0200 GMT), the weather bureau said. Its impact was expected to be the strongest from late Tuesday […]

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LeBron signs Lakers NBA deal for four years at $154 million

LOS ANGELES, United States(AFP)–LeBron James signed his new four-year NBA contract worth $154 million with the Los Angeles Lakers on Monday, with Lakers president Earvin “Magic” Johnson calling it a “huge step” for the team. The Klutch Sports Group, agents for James, tweeted a photo of the four-time NBA Most Valuable Player on Monday night with “officially signed with the Lakers” as the caption. The agents revealed July 1, hours after the start of free agency, […]

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Sterilized mosquito trial slashes dengue-spreading population in an Australian town

SYDNEY, Australia (AFP)–More than 80 percent of a dengue fever-spreading mosquito has been wiped out in an Australian town during a landmark trial scientists said Tuesday offered hope for combating the dangerous pest globally. Researchers from Australia’s national science body CSIRO bred millions of non-biting male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in laboratory conditions at James Cook University (JCU) in a project funded by Google parent company Alphabet. The insects were infected with the Wolbachia bacteria, which […]

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President Duterte approves proposed P3.757 trillion nat’l budget for year 2019

  (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte approved the proposed P3.757 trillion national budget for 2019 in a cabinet meeting on Monday night, the Palace spokesperson said Tuesday, July 10. Presidential spokesman Harry Roque disclosed that the President approved the national budget during the 27th Cabinet meeting in Malacañang on Monday, July 9, 2018. “Kahapon din po ay na-approve po ng Gabinete ‘yung ating budget for 2019. At ang ating budget po ay P3.757 trillion […]

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Eight boys rescued from Thai cave in good mental, physical state: officials

MAE SAI, Thailand (AFP) – The first eight boys rescued from a Thai cave are in good mental and physical health and are asking for chocolate, officials said Tuesday, although two were on antibiotics after being tested for pneumonia. “Everyone is in a good mental state,” Jesada Chokedamrongsuk, permanent secretary of the public health ministry, told reporters at Chiang Rai hospital. “None of the eight boys has fever today,” he added in the clearest update […]

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Stan Lee drops $1bn lawsuit against company he started

Comic book legend Stan Lee has terminated a $1 billion lawsuit alleging that the entertainment company he co-founded had tricked him into signing away his image rights. The complaint, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in May, accused POW! Entertainment CEO Shane Duffy and co-founder Gill Champion of failing to disclose fully to Lee details of the firm’s 2017 sale to Camsing International. The entertainment icon contended that they took advantage of him at a […]

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Drake crushes streaming record for top US album of year

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – Hip-hop superstar Drake’s latest album “Scorpion” has crushed the record for streaming to post the biggest week so far this year on the US chart. “Scorpion” was streamed nearly 746 million times in the United States on audio platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music in the week through Thursday, tracking service Nielsen Music said. The tally easily surpassed fellow rapper Post Malone’s “beerbongs and bentleys” which set an […]

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Emmy nominations set to be a race between old favorites

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) – Television industry watchers are expecting past winners to relive old glories Thursday as Hollywood’s awards season kicks into high gear with the announcement of the Emmy nominations. The Television Academy’s 22,000-plus members were given two weeks in June to sift through a crowded field of several thousand entries for the small-screen equivalent of the Oscars. Critics agree that it hasn’t been a vintage year for new TV, with very […]

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Paulit-ulit na pag-landing ng Chinese military aircraft sa Davao City, pinaiimbestigahan sa Senado

(Eagle News) — Pinaiimbestigahan na rin ng oposisyon sa Senado ang paulit-ulit na pag-landing ng Chinese Military Aircraft sa Davao City. Naghain na ng Senate Resolution 779 ang oposisyon para imbestigahan kung labag sa constitutional prohibition para sa presensya ng mga foreign troops ang umano’y technical stops sa Davao. Tinukoy sa resolusyon ng limang senador na taga-oposisyon ang Article 18, Section 25 ng saligang batas kung saan ipinagbabawal ang foreign military bases, tropa o pasilidad […]

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UPDATED: Japan rescuers go house to house as flood toll hits 156

by Hiroshi Hiyama  Agence France-Presse KURASHIKI, Japan (AFP) — Rescue workers carried out house-to-house searches Tuesday in the increasingly unlikely hope of finding survivors after days of deadly floods and landslides that have claimed 156 lives in Japan’s worst weather-related disaster for decades. The record downpours that began last week have stopped and receding flood waters have laid bare the destruction that has cut a swathe through the west of the country. In the city […]

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