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(Reuters) – The San Antonio Spurs will be looking to avenge last year’s agonizing loss to the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals when the two teams return for a best-of-seven showdown that Hall of Famer Jerry West compares to an all-out brawl. “It’s going to be a knockdown, tough battle for both teams,” the former Los Angeles Lakers guard and 14-time All-Star told Reuters. “It’s just a remarkable effort by both teams to get […]
(Reuters) – Dina Lohan, the mother of actress Lindsay Lohan, was sentenced to 100 hours of community service on Tuesday and will lose her driver’s license for a year after police caught her speeding on New York’s Long Island while drunk. Lohan, 51, was sentenced in Nassau County District Court after pleading guilty to the charges in April. She had initially pleaded not guilty after state police pulled her over last September and said she […]
(Reuters)– China defended the bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Tuesday (June 3), the eve of the 25th anniversary, saying it had chosen the correct path for the sake of the people. For the ruling Communist Party, the 1989 demonstrations that clogged Tiananmen Square inBeijing and spread to other cities remain taboo after the government termed the protests “counter-revolutionary”. The anniversary of the date on which troops shot their way into central Beijing in 1989 has never been publicly marked […]
By Jelly F. Musico MANILA, June 3 (PNA) — Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago on Tuesday stepped down as judge of the prestigious International Criminal Court (ICC) due to her health problem. ”Pursuant to my commitment, I hereby confirm that the Court should proceed on the basis that I am stepping down as elected judge,” Santiago said in her letter to ICC president Sang-Hyun Song dated June 3. ”Since I was elected in December 2011, I have […]
MANILA, June 3 (PNA) — The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday dismissed the petition questioning the legality of the creation of the office headed by Rehabilitation Czar Secretary Panfilo Lacson. During the en banc session, the SC dismissed the petition filed by taxpayer Louis Biraogo ruling that there was no grave abuse of discretion on the part of President Benigno S. Aquino III when he issued Memorandum Order No. 62 creating the Office of the […]
Malacañang said that the United States and Australia were not trying to shame China when officials of said countries spoke against Beijing’s aggressive claims in the West Philippine Sea.
Senate president Franklin Drilon has rejected the proposed creation of an independent commission to investigate the pork barrel anomaly, saying that the power to investigate anti-graft cases belong to the Ombudsman.
India’s rural affairs minister died in a car accident in New Delhi.
A party-list representative asked the House Committee on Education and Culture to look into the alleged computer and textbook scams during the Arroyo administration.
Citizens of Thailand expressed confidence in the military’s attempt to solve the country’s economic problems when the military came up with a list of emergency measures to tackle recession.
(Reuters) – Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone will be adapting the story of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden for the big screen, from a book written by Guardian journalist Luke Harding, the British newspaper said in a statement on Monday. Stone, 67, with his production partner Moritz Borman, bought the film rights to Harding’s “The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man,” that delved into the events surrounding Snowden leaking […]
Certain areas in Albay may expect a return to normalcy regarding their electric supply with the arrival of a new transformer.
