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(Reuters) – South Korean special forces joined a manhunt on Sunday for a soldier who killed five comrades in a grenade and gun attack at a base near the North Korean border, and once dawn broke military helicopters began scouring the forested hillsides. The soldier shot dead five of his fellow unit members and wounded seven others late on Saturday at a outpost in the base at Goseong county, a mountainous region that borders the […]
(Reuters) – One of the assailants who carried out an attack in western China that injured four people has apologized and said other members of his group had convinced him to participate in a “holy war”, state media said late on Saturday. The knife attack occurred last Sunday in a crowded chess hall in the city of Hotan in troubled Xinjiang, the traditional home of ethnic Muslim Uighurs. Two of the attackers died from serious injuries, while […]
MANILA, June 22 (PNA) — Operatives from the Coast Guard District Northeastern Luzon (CGDNELZN) and the Aparri-Philippine National Police confiscated P40,000 worth of illegal drugs during operations in Cagayan province on Friday. In a statement on Sunday, Cmdr. Armand Balilo, Coast Guard spokesperson, said the prohibited narcotics were detected in an LBC package claimed by Paulalyn N. Magtalas, 21, a resident of Barangay Macanaya, Aparri. The drugs were sniffed by Coast Guard K-9 units. Investigation […]
MANILA, June 22 (PNA) — Floods and landslides caused by 10 days of continuous rains in Northern Mindanao caused nearly P2.5 million in damage to property while more than 4,000 people were affected, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said on Sunday. In its report, the NDRRMC said continuing rains from June 1 to 10 caused several landslides and flash floods in Kibawe, Bukidnon which affected a total of 906 families or […]
(Reuters) – On a Friday afternoon in March, Jose Luis Zamora pulled into a Lexus dealership in Dallas to test-drive a new car with his wife. Ready to pay, Zamora instead waited more than two hours before being informed his name had popped up on a government watchlist that blocks those linked to money launderers, groups alleged to have committed terrorist acts and other enemies of the United States from doing business in the country. […]
(Reuters) – Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Saturday voiced limited support for Ukraine’s unilateral ceasefire in its conflict with pro-Russian separatists, but told President Petro Poroshenko there had to be talks with the rebels to prevent the truce collapsing. The Kremlin set out Putin’s view after overnight fighting in Ukraine’s east in which pro-Russian separatists, according to Ukrainian government forces, attacked military bases and customs posts within hours of the ceasefire coming into force on Friday […]
SEÚL (Reuters) – A South Korean conscript soldier shot and killed five of his fellow unit members and injured five others late on Saturday at a guard post near the heavily armed border withNorth Korea, a South Korean official said. The exact circumstances of the incident at the remote guard post were not immediately clear and the official could not provide further details, although there was no indication that North Korea was involved in the incident. The […]
(Reuters) – Sunni fighters have seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier, security sources said, smashing a line drawn by colonial powers a century ago in a campaign to create an Islamic Caliphate from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran.The militants, led by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), first moved into the nearby town of al-Qaim on Friday, pushing out security forces, the sources said on Saturday. Once border guards heard that al-Qaim had […]
MANILA, Philippines — Six individuals were elevated to the pinnacle of artistic glory as President Benigno S. Aquino III declared them National Artists of the Philippines in their respective fields, Malacanang announced. They are Cirilo Bautista (Literature), Alice Reyes (Dance), Francisco Feliciano (Music), Ramon Santos (Music), Francisco Coching (Visual Arts), and Jose Maria Zaragoza (Architecture, Design, and Allied Arts). Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma, Jr. said the declaration was made by virtue of […]
United States President Barack Obama is sending up to 300 military advisers in Iraq to help in the battle against an Al-Qaeda-inspired insurgency.
The Sandiganbayan dismissed Senator Jinggoy Estrada’s bid for oral arguments on his motion for determination of probable cause, with the 5th division saying that having oral arguments will be redundant.
Malacañang said that the issuance of warrants of arrest against Senator Revilla and his co-accused in the pork-barrel scam is a step forward to the country’s judicial process.
