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APRIL 29 (Reuters) — Ambulances carrying the remains of executed drug convicts left the Indonesian prison island of Nusakambangan on Wednesday (April 29). The eight people, including nationals of Australia, Nigeria, Brazil and Indonesia, were executed by firing squad after midnight. But a Filipina who was on the same execution list was not executed as part of the group. A spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office said it had delayed the execution of Mary Jane […]
AUSTRIA on Tuesday (April 28) called for banning nuclear weapons because of their catastrophic humanitarian effects, an initiative it said now has the backing of 159 countries. Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz was speaking at the five-year review conference of the 1970 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). “The only way to guarantee that nuclear weapons will never be used again is through their total elimination,” Kurz told the 191 parties to the treaty, the world’s benchmark arms […]
APRIL 29 (Reuters) — Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Wednesday (April 29) he was recalling the nation’s ambassador to Indonesia in protest against the execution of two Australian drug smugglers. Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan were executed by firing squad along with six other drug convicts from several countries shortly after midnight on Wednesday, local media said. “These executions are both cruel and unnecessary. Cruel because both Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran spent some […]
APRIL 29 (Reuters) — Activists outside the Indonesian Embassy in Manila erupted in cheers on Wednesday (April 29) after learning about Indonesia’s decision to delay the execution of a Filipina on death row. A spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office in Indonesia said the execution of Mary Jane Veloso, a mother of two who was arrested in 2010 after she arrived in Indonesia with 2.6 kg of heroin hidden in her suitcase, had been delayed. […]
MANY residents of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu tried to leave the city on Tuesday (April 28) amid continuous tremors and after losing their homes in the weekend quake. People tried to get out of the city by every possible means. The surging demand has led transport prices to shoot up drastically. “We are not getting tickets in any vehicles. All the operators say whenever the vehicle moves, we’ll place you in that. They want 2,000 to […]
Eight drug convicts were executed by an Indonesian firing squad early on Wednesday but a Filipina who was on death row with the Australians, Nigerians, a Brazilian and an Indonesian was unexpectedly not among them, local media reports said. The execution of Mary Jane Veloso by an Indonesian firing squad was delayed at the last minute after one of her recruiters surrendered to police in the Philippines, the attorney general’s spokesman said on Wednesday. “The execution […]
NINE drug traffickers held emotional farewell meetings with their families at an Indonesian prison on Tuesday, after Jakarta rejected last-ditch pleas from around the world for clemency and ordered their mass execution to proceed within hours. “I won’t see him again,” said Raji Sukumaran, the mother of an Australian who will go before a firing squad along with a fellow countryman and convicts from Nigeria, Brazil, the Philippines and Indonesia. “They’re going to take him […]
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard late on Monday (April 27) as firefighters battled blazes set by looters. Baltimore erupted in violence as hundreds of rioters looted stores, burned buildings and injured at least 15 police officers following the funeral of a 25-year-old black man who died after he was injured in police custody. The riots broke out just a few blocks from the funeral of Freddie Gray […]
Activists and supporters gathered outside the Indonesian Embassy in Manila on Tuesday (April 28) in a last-minute appeal for clemency for a Filipina facing execution. Filipina migrant Mary Jane Veloso, a mother of two children, was arrested with 2.6 kilograms of heroin at Yogyakarta Airport in 2010. Hundreds of supporters marched to the embassy gate, carrying placards and banners urging Indonesia to stop the executions. “We’re very sad, we’re very outraged that the execution is […]
APRIL 28 — Pinanugunahan ng mga opisyales ng iba’t-ibang Barangay at lokal ng pamahalaan ang paglagda sa isinagawang kasunduan ukol sa pagiging sisterhood ng bayan ng Basud at siyudad ng Davao sa lalawigan ng Camarines Norte. Ang nasabing kasunduan ay upang palawigin ang pagdadamayan at pagpapalitan ng kaalaman sa good governance at best pictures sa pamamahala sa pagitan ng dalawang Local Government Units (LGUs). (Agila Probinsya Correspondent Orlando Encinares, Eagle News Service MRFaith Bonalos)
APRIL 28 — Sa pangunguna nina Governor Ramil Hernandez at Vice-governor Karan Agapay ay muling isinagawa ang ika-labing isang Serbisyo Tama Caravan sa lalawigan ng Laguna. Layunin ng programang ito na mailapit sa mga mamamayan ang tulong ng gobyerno kagaya na lamang ng medical at dental service, libreng salamin, libreng gupit at masahe, legal assistance at feeding program. Humigit kumulang sa anim na libong tao ang nabigyan ng iba’t-ibang medical na serbisyo. Nagkaroon din ng […]
APRIL 28 — Nais hikayatin ng Department of Agriculture (DA) ang mga magsasaka sa lalawigan ng Aurora na umayon sa organikong pamamaraan ng pagsasaka alinsunod sa Organic Agriculture Act of 2010 ng Pamahalaan. Kaugnay nito, ay nakikipag-ugnayan ang Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPA) sa isang pribadong kumpanya na nagsusulong ng Bio-Nutri Green Procedure. Ang Bio-Nutri Green Procedure ay mayroong hatid na iba’t-ibang teknolohiyang pansakahan gamit ang organikong pamamaraan ay ginagarantiyahan ang mataas na ani […]
