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Philippine Red Cross boosts leptospirosis prevention campaign amid outbreaks in NCR

The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) heightened its information drives nationwide to safeguard the community from being infected with leptospirosis and is on full standby to provide medical assistance should the number of leptospirosis cases in the National Capital Region (NCR) continues to spike. PRC is closely coordinating with its partner hospitals in Metro Manila to augment medical provisions as the Department of Health (DOH) declared leptospirosis outbreaks in Quezon City, Taguig, Parañaque, and Pasig and […]

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Morales: Batacan “digging her own grave” in JBC interview

(Eagle News) — Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales on Monday, July 9, said lawyer Edna Batacan was “digging her own grave” in her Judicial and Bar Council interview. “She was digging her own grave because she said she was a victim, she was participant to a payoff so I said if you’re party to corruption, you are corrupt yourself,” Morales said in a television interview. She was apparently making reference to Batacan’s admission she was a party […]

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Shinzo Abe cancels overseas trip as rain toll hits 100: local media

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has canceled a four-country foreign trip as the death toll from flooding and landslides caused by record rains hit 100, local media said Monday. Abe had been expected to visit Belgium, France, Saudi Arabia and Egypt from Wednesday. His office declined to comment on the reports. Abe reportedly told the deputy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party that he had “no choice but to cancel” […]

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Albayalde orders implementation of security measures ahead of 2019 polls to prevent “election-related violence”

(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde on Monday, July 9, ordered the implementation of “early security measures” for the 2019 elections to prevent “election-related violence.” Albayalde gave the order following the killings of three high-ranking local government officials, Tanauan, Batangas Mayor Antonio Halili; General Tinio, Nueva Ecija Mayor Ferdinand Bote; and Trece Martires, Cavite Vice Mayor Alex Lubigan. The police are looking at politics as a possible motive in the killing of […]

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Toll in record Japan rains hits 100: gov’t spokesman

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The toll in days of devastating rains in Japan has risen to 100, the government’s top spokesman said Monday, as search-and-rescue operations continued. Yoshihide Suga said 87 people had been confirmed dead from the severe floods, with another 13 found with no vital signs, adding that more than a dozen people were still missing. © Agence France-Presse

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Tokyo stocks open higher with yen stable against dollar

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo stocks opened higher on Monday, extending rallies in New York with the cheaper yen also supporting the market. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index edged up 0.23 percent, or 51.08 points, to 21,839.22 in early trade while the broader Topix was up 0.34 percent, or 5.75 points, at 1,697.29. “After gaining in early trade, the Tokyo market today could lose a sense of direction” as positivity generated by rallies last week […]

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Members of Senate, House meet to reconcile versions of BBL

  (Eagle News) — Members of the House of Representatives and of the Senate met in a bicameral conference committee meeting on Monday, July 9, to reconcile their versions of the Bangsamoro Basic Law. Twenty-nine senators and congressmen trooped to a hotel in Ortigas to attend the five-day meeting aimed at ensuring the passage of the law President Rodrigo Duterte has said would bring lasting peace in Mindanao. “Napag-agreehan naman na yung mga madaling provisions […]

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Mahigit 78% ng mga barangay sa Pangasinan, drug-cleared na ayon sa PDEA

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan (Eagle News) – Aabot na sa mahigit 78% sa buong lalawigan ang drug-cleared na ayon sa Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Regional Office 1. Ayon kay Bismarck Bengwayan, Public Information Officer at Chief Preventive Education and Community Involvement Section, sa inilabas na pinakahuling drug clearing statistics sa Pangasinan ng PDEA, mula sa kabuuang 1,271 na drug affected sa lalawigan, 78.36% nito ay drug cleared na. Nasa 275 na lamang aniya ang bilang ng […]

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PNP: Trece Martires mayor among those to be invited for questioning in Lubigan slay probe

By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Trece Martires, Cavite Mayor Melandres De Sagun will be among those to be invited for questioning in the investigation into the killing of Vice Mayor Alexander Lubigan on Saturday, July 7. Chief Supt. Edward Carranza, Calabarzon regional director, noted, however, that De Sagun, who is abroad, was not considered a person of interest and that it was but natural he be invited. “Incumbent mayor siya kaya..inherent na makunan ng […]

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Landslide warnings as Japan digs through rain devastation

by Hiroshi Hiyama Agence France-Presse Desperate relatives braced for bad news Monday as rescuers dug through landslides in the wake of severe floods that have killed 75 people and left swathes of central and western Japan under water. As floods receded, emergency workers were able to reach previously cut-off places where authorities fear they could find more bodies in the wreckage of homes devastated by rivers of mud and debris. “I have asked my family […]

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Treacherous Thai cave rescue bid enters day two

by Thanaporn Promyamyai and Richard Sargent Agence France Presse MAE SAI, Thailand (AFP) — A treacherous rescue bid to free a youth football team trapped in a flooded Thai cave entered its second day Monday, with nine of the “Wild Boars” still inside after elite divers guided four out. Looming rain was one of the main enemies of the operation, threatening to flood the cave complex in mountainous northern Thailand, although a bewildering array of […]

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