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by Lucy ADLER Agence France Presse ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy’s caretaker prime minister was Tuesday assembling a cabinet lineup despite almost certain rejection by the populists whose bid for power collapsed at the weekend. Fresh elections are now looming as the most likely outcome of the long-running political saga sparked by inconclusive elections in March. Carlo Cottarelli, a former IMF economist, was tasked with naming a technocrat government on Monday after President Sergio Mattarella […]
(Eagle News) — Isang advocacy fun run ang inilunsad ng TV actress na si Ara Mina na may layong makatulong sa mga may down syndrome. Ang nasabing fun run ay isinagawa sa Philippine Arena nitong Linggo, Mayo 27 na nilahukan din ng mga batang may down syndrome. Ang isinagawang aktibidad ay may kinalaman din sa nalalapit na pagdiriwang nang kaarawan ng kapatid ni Ms. Ara Mina na si Batching na may down syndrome. Ayon kay […]
by Sebastian Smith and Carola Sole Agence France Presse RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil’s deeply unpopular President Michel Temer insisted Monday that a truck strike crippling the country will end within hours, even as drivers paralyzed fuel, goods and food deliveries. Temer said he had “absolute conviction that between today and tomorrow” the crisis, which stretched into its eighth day, would finally end. In a tweet, Temer gave a slightly longer horizon of […]
by Jed Court Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Three-time champion Serena Williams will make her eagerly-awaited return to Grand Slam tennis on Tuesday with a French Open first-round match against Kristyna Pliskova on Court Philippe Chatrier. The 36-year-old last played a major tournament in a victorious 2017 Australian Open campaign while two months pregnant, before taking time out of the game to give birth to her daughter. Serena has since crashed to 453 […]
(Eagle News) — Pinapaaral na ng Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) sa mga Regional Wage Board kung napapanahon na ba ang pagtaas sa minimum wage sa lahat ng rehiyon sa bansa. Ito’y sa harap na rin ng pagtaas sa presyo ng mga bilihin. Pero agad dumipensa ang kagawaran na maliit na porsyento lang ang epekto ng Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law. Paliwanag ng National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC), ang inflation […]
ASUNCION, Paraguay (AFP) — Paraguay will have a woman president for the first time in its history, at least temporarily, after outgoing leader Horacio Cartes stepped down Monday ahead of schedule. Vice President Alicia Pucheta, 68, will complete Cartes’s mandate after he resigned to become a senator. On August 15, fellow conservative Mario Abdo Benitez, elected in April 22 polls, will begin his five-year term as president of one of Latin America’s poorest countries. The parliament […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Chris Paul will miss Houston’s Western Conference finals decider against Golden State on Monday after losing his battle to be fit, Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni confirmed. Paul, 33, was injured in the final seconds of game five on Thursday and missed game six on Saturday when the Warriors scored a series-leveling 115-86 victory. The Rockets ace had been hoping to recover from a sore right hamstring but has now […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed Monday that it is “imperative” to completely dismantle North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program, the White House said. The US and Japanese leaders will meet ahead of a much-anticipated summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un back on schedule for June 12 in Singapore just days after Trump announced he was canceling it. The American president said the […]
by Ambre TOSUNOGLU / Clare BYRNE Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — A Malian migrant who scaled a Paris apartment block to save a four-year-old child was hailed Monday as an “example” by President Emmanuel Macron, who welcomed him to the presidential palace and offered him citizenship. Two days after his daring rescue — viewed millions of times online — Mamoudou Gassama, nicknamed “Spiderman” by French media for his astonishing climbing ability, met Macron […]
Also signs measure seeking to convert Davao Oriental State College of Science and Technology into a state university into law (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, May 28, signed into law Republic Act No. 11032 or the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery Act. The Palace has yet to release a copy of the law, but Duterte said in a speech it is hoped that the measure will “solve the perennial problem of bureaucratic […]
(Eagle News)– Puspusan na ang ginagawang pagbabantay ng Philippine National Police (PNP) bilang paghahanda sa nalalapit na pasukan sa susunod na Lunes, Hunyo 4. Ayon sa direktiba ni PNP Chief Dir. Oscar Albayalde, dalawang PNP personnel aniya ang dapat na naka-deploy sa bawat eskwelahan at isang police assistance desk ang nakalagay sa bawat school clusters. Simula pa lamang sa Sabado, Hunyo 2, ay naka-alerto na ang mga kapulisan upang tiyakin ang seguridad ng mga estudyanteng magbabalik […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has fired government corporate counsel Rudolf Philip Jurado. Duterte made the announcement after the signing of the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery Act on Monday, May 28. “May I call the Government Corporate Counsel now? Are you in this (room)? Nandito ka? Kasi kung nandito ka, lumabas ka. You are fired,” Duterte said. “So you are just (like) Pagcor operating an independent entity with the same powers. […]
