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(Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday that he would call an early election to seek a fresh mandate for his economic policies, and postpone an unpopular sales tax rise, a day after data showed the economy had slipped back into recession. The world’s third-biggest economy unexpectedly shrank for a second consecutive quarter in July-September, a sign the pain from an initial rise in the sales tax to 8 percent from 5 percent in April was […]
(Reuters) – Two Palestinians armed with a meat cleaver and a gun killed four people in a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday before being shot dead by police, the deadliest such incident in six years in the holy city amid a surge in religious conflict. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to respond with a “heavy hand”, and again accused Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of inciting violence in Jerusalem. Abbas condemned the attack, which comes […]
Senator Tito Sotto is asking that Acting Health Secretary Janet Guarin and AFP Chief Gen. Pio Catapang Jr. be quarantined as precautionary measure when they visited the soldiers in Caballo Island while not wearing hazard suits.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology recorded new activity in the Mayon Volcano including two volcanic quakes and crater glow. Alert level 3 remains raised in the vicinity of the volcano.
The Senate Blue Ribbon Sub-Committee continued its investigation on the allegedly overpriced Makati City Hall Building II. Also included in the investigation is the overpriced Makati Science High School Building.
(Reuters) – A Frenchman is believed to have appeared in a video of Islamic State jihadists beheading Syrian soldiers and displaying the severed head of U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig, but a British man denied earlier reports that his medical student son was there too. Sunday’s announcement of Kassig’s death, the fifth such killing of a Western captive by Islamic State, formed part of the video which also showed the beheadings of at least 14 […]
(Reuters) – Hong Kong on Tuesday started to clear part of a protest camp in the heart of the city that has been occupied by pro-democracy demonstrators for nearly two months, leaving most of the main protest site intact. About 30 court bailiffs arrived at the 33-storey Citic Tower in Admiralty, next to government buildings, to enforce an injunction against street barricades after a request from the building’s owners, witnesses said. Authorities stood by as […]
Senator Jinggoy Estrada asked the Sandiganbayan to allow him to undergo physical therapy in the Cardinal Santos Medical Center in San Juan.
The private sector is asking the government to appoint a “port czar” to resolve the issue of port congestion.
Although there is no low pressure area spotted near the Philippines, the country will experience cloudy skies and scattered rain showers due to the northeast monsoon.
The President of France, Francoise Hollande will visit the Philippines in 2015. One of his agenda will be about climate change. He is the first French head of state and first European head of state to officially visit the Philippines.
BY COLLEEN JENKINS (Reuters) – A surgeon who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone died early on Monday of the disease at a Nebraska hospital, medical officials said, the second death from the virus out of 10 known cases treated in the United States. Dr. Martin Salia, a native of Sierra Leone and a permanent U.S. resident, had been in very critical condition when he arrived at the Nebraska Medical Center on Saturday afternoon, […]
