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The Filipino security forces, who have just returned from Ebola-stricken Liberia, remained healthy and active even as the World Health Organization announced that the outbreak had topped 5,000 deaths from around 14,000 since December last year. But Navy Captain Luzviminda Camacho, commander of Task Group Liberia, said Thursday the 133 United Nations peace keepers, who are now under quarantine on Caballo Island at the mouth of Manila Bay, have begun to undergo 21-day medical monitoring […]
(Reuters) – U.S. stock prices rose on Thursday, hovering near record highs, while crude fell below $80 a barrel for the first time in four years on further signs of a slowdown in China’s economy. Brent crude has fallen more than 30 percent since June, and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said demand for its members’ oil could drop by about a million barrels per day in 2015 due to the U.S. shale boom. […]
(Reuters) – A European probe that landed on a comet in a first for space exploration is resting on the surface despite technical problems, pictures beamed half a billion kilometers (300 million miles) back to Earth showed on Thursday. The lander, named Philae, was launched from its mothership Rosetta on Wednesday as it orbited comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the climax of a 10-year-odyssey for the European Space Agency (ESA). But during Philae’s seven-hour descent to the comet, […]
Placido Del Mundo Elementary School conducts simultaneous contests in celebration of the school’s English month. Let’s join John Paul Rosales and Gabrielle Felimer as they share with us the report. Follow @EagleNewsPH Catch Students on the News in Mata ng Agila, weeknights at 6pm and Eagle News International Edition, weeknights at 9pm!
(Reuters) — More than 100 Philippine peacekeepers arrived at an airbase in Manila on Wednesday (November 12) after staying for almost a year in Liberia. Family members were not allowed contact with the Filipino soldiers and had to watch their arrival in front of monitors set up inside the air force museum, which was around a kilometre away from the peacekeepers. Social workers from the Health Department assisted in debriefing the families with a psycho-social session to help them understand […]
In his opening statement, Senate President Franklin Drilon denied his involvement in the alleged overpriced Iloilo Convention Center.
In the ASEAN summit in Myanmar, President Aquino once again proposed a code of conduct to resolve the territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea.
Filipino peacekeepers arrived from Liberia on Wednesday, and are now being readied for a three-week quarantine in Caballo Island.
Acting Health Secretary Janet Garin said that she is ready to step down if it is proven that she is involved in the PDAF scam.
(Reuters) — The Philae probe on Wednesday (November 12) released a close-up image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as the European Space Agency (ESA) said on-board instruments are working despite the anchors not working as planned. The picture, taken with the lander’s ROLIS camera, was taken 3km away from the target during the craft’s descent. Philae’s landing marks a first in space exploration and the climax of a decade-long mission to examine up close the remnants of the birth […]
Here is Eagle News reporter Juliet Caranguian for an update on the Senate hearing on the allegedly overpriced Iloilo Convention Center.
The Senate will start its hearing on the allegedly overpriced Iloilo Convention Center, which is the source of the plunder complaint against Senate President Frankln Drilon and others.
