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QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Sa loob lamang ng halos tatlong araw na pagpapatupad ng panghuhuli ng mga tambay sa atas ng Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte. Aabot na sa halos isanlibo katao ang mga nahuli ng Quezon City Police District sa kanilang pinaigting na Oplan Galugad sa lungsod. Ayon sa otoridad, malaki ang maitutulong ng nasabing kampanya sa pagpapababa ng krimen sa lipunan. At dahil sa pagpapatupad ng disiplina ay maiiwasan ng mga kabataan ang […]
by Joseph Sotinel © Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — OPEC ministers gather in Vienna Tuesday for crunch talks on a landmark pact curbing oil output, with Saudi Arabia and Russia hoping to persuade their peers to increase production again. The upcoming June 22-23 meetings of OPEC and non-OPEC energy ministers are expected to be contentious, with several countries bristling at the thought of reversing a deal that has been in place for 18 months […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US Senate defied President Donald Trump by voting Monday to overrule his administration’s deal with Chinese telecom firm ZTE and reimpose a ban on high-tech chip sales to the company. Senators added an amendment targeting ZTE into a sweeping, must-pass national defense spending bill that cleared the chamber on an 85-10 vote. The company has been on life support ever since Washington said it had banned US companies from selling […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The first draft of music Mozart wrote for the last act of his opera “The Marriage of Figaro” is expected to sell for half a million euros ($578,000) when it goes under the hammer in Paris. The “exceptional” manuscript from 1786 which will be auctioned on Wednesday in the French capital comes from the peak of the composer’s career in Vienna, the auction house Ader Nordmann said. Called “Scena con Rondo”, Mozart […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump escalated a growing trade war with China by unveiling plans Monday to impose 10 percent tariffs on an additional $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. With the world’s two largest economies already engaged in a confrontation long feared by markets and industry, Trump said he was pushing forward with fresh punitive measures over Beijing’s “unacceptable” move to raise its own tariffs. “Further action must be taken to […]
by Daniel Hicks © Agence France-Presse VOLGOGRAD, Russia (AFP) — Harry Kane grabbed a dramatic late winner for England on Monday, powering home a header in injury time of their World Cup opener after Belgium had earlier swept past Panama. Kane’s second goal of the game secured a 2-1 victory after it looked as if England had squandered their chance to take all three points after being rocked by a Tunsian equaliser which followed a bright […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The US and South Korean militaries confirmed Tuesday they have called off upcoming joint exercises, after President Donald pledged to halt the drills in the wake of his summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Seoul, which has tens of thousands of US troops on its soil to help protect it from its hostile northern neighbour, said the suspension would affect the large-scale Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercises slated for August. […]
By Malou Francisco EBC Europe correspondent Eagle News Service BONN, Germany (Eagle News) — The former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai proposed ways of establishing lasting peace and stability in his country, making it a place of international cooperation and not confrontation. He made it clear that success can only happen if the Afghans are the ones truly in-charge of the peace process and their internal affairs. “Peace can come only when the United […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice has nullified the orders earlier issued by the Bureau of Immigration which forfeited the missionary visa of Australian nun Patricia Anne Fox, declaring the bureau’s actions as “without legal basis.” In a resolution issued on Monday, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra explained that while Philippine immigration laws give broad powers to the Bureau of Immigration (BI) regarding the entry and stay of foreigners in the country, “visa forfeiture is […]
(Eagle News) – Some 250,000 metric tons of rice imported by the National Food Authority (NFA) have already arrived in the country which pushed the prices of commercial rice lower. Some of the rice prices became lower – at P36 and P38. “The Department of Agriculture, commercial rice is now at P36-P38 as a result of the arrival of the 250,000 metric tons of NFA rice from Subic,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a […]
(Eagle News) — The water elevation at La Mesa Dam, the water source of most households in Metro Manila, rose by two meters following almost a week of heavy rains. State weather bureau PAGASA reported that the dam’s reservoir water level reached 72.66 meters on June 15 from the recorded 70.51 meters on June 8. Despite the significant rise, however, the said water level was still considered “a low critical level,” being below its standard operating […]
(Eagle News) — The remains of a Filipino financial analyst who was fatally mauled in Slovakia last month will arrive in the Philippines on Tuesday, June 19, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs said In a statement posted on Sunday, the DFA said that “the remains of Henry John Acorda will be repatriated from Bratislava on Monday on board a Slovak government aircraft that is expected to arrive in Manila at 11 a.m. […]
