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Four dead, 100 injured in northeast India earthquake
A powerful earthquake struck north-eastern India before dawn on Monday (January 4), killing at least four people and injuring nearly 100, though the toll was expected to rise, with rescue efforts hampered by severed power supplies and telecommunication links. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake of magnitude 6.8 was 57 km (35 miles) deep and struck 29 km (18 miles) west of Imphal, the capital of the Indian state of Manipur bordering Myanmar. “This […]
Cuba receives record number of visitors in 2015
Cuba received a record high number of tourists in 2015, a year after the U.S. President announced to normalize the U.S.-Cuba relations. Over 3.1 million foreign tourists had visited the island country in the first 11 months of the year, 17.6 percent more than the previous year, according to the Cuban National Office of Statistics. The number of visitors, many coming from Canada and the US on cruise ships, had surpassed 3.5 million by the […]
Tokyo stocks start the year down
Japanese stocks began 2016 on a lower note on Monday (January 4), playing catch-up to falls in U.S. stocks in the last two sessions during Japan’s market holidays. The Nikkei benchmark started the first trade of the year down 1 percent at 18818.58. The Nikkei gained around 9 percent last year. In May last year, the Nikkei average surpassed 20,000 for the first time in 15 years, and in August the total value of the […]
Iglesia Ni Cristo breaks 6 Guinness world records for the year 2015
The Iglesia Ni Cristo broke six Guinness world records in 2015. This is in the face of challenges and attempts to sow disunity in the church from its expelled members. The Iglesia Ni Cristo all the more became strong and united in the face of the false accusations from its detractors. Bro. Edwil Zabala, INC spokesperson said, these Guinness world records are not to mean to brag — but to show the true unity of […]
The Greatest Hits with CHICAGO Live in Manila
Considered one of the longest running and most successful pop/rock ‘n’ roll in history, Chicago is the highest charting American band in Billboard Magazine’s list of Top 100 artists of all time, coming in at #13, and they are coming to Manila for their Greatest Hits Tour on January 20, 2016 at the Araneta Coliseum. Lifetime achievements include a Grammy Award, multiple American Music Awards, elected as Founding Artists to the John F. Kennedy Center […]
Military remains on alert after foiled NPA attack—Palace
As the unilateral declaration of suspension of military operations concludes before midnight, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) shall remain on alert, especially after a foiled attack by communist rebels in Camarines Sur last Friday. Malacañang issued the statement Sunday following reports that 10 members of the New People’s Army (NPA) broke the 12-day holiday truce and launched a deliberate yet unsuccessful attack against the military amid the New Year observance. Citing an account […]
Clinton says Saudi beheading of Shiite cleric will inflame tensions
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Sunday (January 3) criticized Saudi Arabia’s beheading of a prominent Shiite cleric. She told a campaign rally in Derry, New Hampshire that the beheading “was not a smart decision”, and that the beheading “will inflame the region even more.” Cleric Nimr al-Nimr was among the 47 killed on Saturday (January 2) in the kingdom’s biggest mass execution for decades. Most were Sunnis convicted of al Qaeda attacks in […]
Earthquake measuring 6.8 magnitude strikes India: USGS
(Reuters) An earthquake measuring 6.8 struck northwest of Imphal in India, near the Myanmar border, on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The USGS said the quake was 57 kms (35 miles) deep, and initially reported it had struck inside Myanmar.
Armed protesters occupy Oregon wildlife refuge as dispute over Western range flares
A group of self-styled militiamen occupied the headquarters of a U.S. wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon to protest the imminent jailing of two ranchers, officials said on Sunday, in the latest skirmish over federal land management in the West. The occupation, which began on Saturday, followed a march in Burns, a small city about 50 miles (80 km) north of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, in support of Dwight Hammond Jr. and his son, Steven Hammond. […]
Saudi Arabia cuts ties with Iran as row over cleric’s death escalates
Saudi Arabia cut ties with Iran on Sunday, responding to the storming of its embassy in Tehran in an escalating row between the rival Middle East powers over Riyadh’s execution of a Shi’ite Muslim cleric. Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told a news conference in Riyadh that the envoy of Shi’ite Iran had been asked to quit Saudi Arabia within 48 hours. The kingdom, he said, would not allow the Islamic republic to undermine its security. […]
INC conducts Lingap Sa Mamamayan in Culiat Muslim community
(Eagle News) — On Saturday, January 2, 2016, the Iglesia Ni Cristo conducted its “Lingap sa Mamamayan” in the Culiat Muslim Community in Quezon City. Through the Felix Y. Manalo Foundation, the INC gave away some 2,000 bags containing four kilos of rice each in the area on the occasion of the birth anniversary of the late INC Executive Minister Eraño G. Manalo. The INC provided medical services to the Muslim community and served […]
