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Stakeholder meeting regarding coconut pest
Presidential Assistant on Food Security and Agricultural Modernization Secretary Francisco Pangilinan is going to hold a meeting of stakeholders regarding the coconut pest or “cocolisap”
LPA enters Philippine area of repsonsibility
A low pressure area enters the Philippine area of responsibility, with a possibility of becoming a storm in 1-2 days.
More than 60 people killed in wave of car bombs across Baghdad
By Kareem Raheem and Kamal Naama (Reuters) — A wave of car bombs exploded across Baghdad on Saturday, killing more than 60 people, and militants stormed a university campus in western Iraq, security and medical sources said. In total, there were a dozen blasts in mainly Shi’ite districts of the capital, the deadliest of which occurred in Bayaa, where a car bomb left 23 people dead, many of them young men playing billiards. “I was about […]
Gov’t won’t respond to China’s provocative actions, Palace maintains
By Azer N. Parrocha MANILA (PNA) — Malacanang on Saturday maintained that the Philippine government would not respond to provocative actions by China following reports of movements by Chinese ships in two reefs in the disputed West Philippine Sea (South China Sea). “The chosen track that we have taken is that we do not respond to provocative action,” said deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte in an interview over state-run dzRB radio. “We always exhaust the […]
Ukraine’s new leader stands up to Moscow over Crimea and Europe
(Reuters) – Ukraine’s new president Petro Poroshenko said his country would never give up Crimea and would not compromise on its path towards closer ties with Europe, spelling out a defiant message to Russia in his inaugural speech on Saturday. The 48-year-old billionaire took the oath of office before parliament, buoyed by Western support but facing a crisis in relations with Russia as a separatist uprising seethes in the east of his country. Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula in […]
China sends more ships to Vietnam waters
HANOI (PNA/VNS) — Vietnamese Fisheries Surveillance Department (VSFD) staff has reported high-capacity Chinese vessels in waters around the Haiyang Shiyou-981 rig, which is illegally standing in Vietnam’s waters. They said the vessels had bulbous bows and were accompanied by two Chinese coast-guard ships. Together with Chinese fishing vessels, they kept on hampering Vietnamese vessels, occasionally throwing stones and bottles. China still has a fleet of between 110-115 ships around the rig, including about 40 coast-guard […]
At least 58 people die in flash floods in Afghanistan
(Reuters) — At least 58 people have been killed and many more are missing in flash floods that hit parts of northern Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai’s office said on Saturday (June 7). The floods were caused by heavy rain that fell overnight in the Gozargah-e Noor district of the northern Baghlan province. Residents of the flooded area said many people have lost their homes. “Some 500 houses were destroyed in these floods and nearly 60 people have been killed also […]
Dozens killed in massacre in eastern Congo; pregnant women among victims
(Reuters) – Up to 37 people including women and children were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern province of South Kivu on Saturday in an attack that government officials blamed on a dispute over cattle. The victims, who included several pregnant women, had been shot, stabbed or burned inside their homes. A Reuters cameraman on the scene in the village of Mutarule counted 37 bodies, some of them lying inside a village church. Residents […]
Calzado appointed as new OWWA chief; 4 new ambassadors named
MANILA, Philippines — President Aquino officially appointed Rebecca Calzado as the new OWWA chief, at the same time also naming four new ambassadors. Calzado’s appointment was announced Friday (June 6) by deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte at a press briefing in Malacañang. She replaced Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) administrator Carmelita Dimzon who decided to leave the agency. Dimzon retired from government service after turning 65, the mandatory retirement age for government workers and officials, last […]
1 student killed, 3 injured in Seattle college shooting
One student was killed and three were injured when an unidentified suspect entered a college in Seattle and began shooting. Said suspect was subdued with the help of other students.
Maria Sharapova enters finals of French Open
After her third try, Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova entered the finals of the French open after beating her Canadian opponent.
