Oil firms cut prices again

Credit to Author: THE MANILA TIMES| Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 03:25:02 +0000

MOTORISTS are in for another treat as oil companies will again lower their pump prices for the sixth consecutive week. Cleanfuel was the first to implement the price rollback on Sunday, cutting the cost  of diesel by 25 centavos per liter and gasoline and kerosene by 10 centavos per liter. Petro Gazz, Petron, Phoenix Petroleum, […]

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3.9 quake jolts Cotabato

Credit to Author: THE MANILA TIMES| Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 03:16:27 +0000

A magnitude 3.9 earthquake hit Cotabato anew on Sunday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. The quake was recorded 22 kilometers (km) west of Makilala at 8:19 a.m. It had a depth of 4 km and was tectonic in origin. Intensity 2 was felt in Kidapawan City. No major damage was […]

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Trump to welcome military working dog Conan to White House

Credit to Author: THE MANILA TIMES| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:29:04 +0000

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Every dog has his day, just not at the White House. President Donald Trump tweets that the military working dog injured in the raid last weekend that killed the Islamic State leader will leave the Middle East for the White House sometime next week. And the president appears to have declassified the dog’s […]

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Duterte to push for sea code at Asean meet- DFA

Credit to Author: THE MANILA TIMES| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 05:06:14 +0000

President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to push for the completion of the long-delayed code of conduct in the South China Sea when he attends the Association of Southeast Asian Nations  (Asean) meeting in Thailand this week, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Monday. In a pre-departure briefing in Malacañang, Foreign Affairs Assistant Secretary […]

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Trump: US forces cornered IS leader in dead-end tunnel

Credit to Author: THE MANILA TIMES| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 02:59:15 +0000

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , the shadowy leader of the Islamic State group who presided over its global jihad and became arguably the world’s most wanted man, died after US special operators cornered him during a raid in Syria, President Donald Trump said on Sunday. “Last night, the United States brought the world’s No. 1 terrorist leader to justice,” Trump […]

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Trump dismisses worries of recession, says economy is strong

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 00:40:17 +0000

Trump dismisses worries of recession, says economy is strong

BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J.  – President Donald Trump dismissed concerns of recession on Sunday and offered an optimistic outlook for the economy after last week’s steep drop in the financial markets. “I don’t think we’re having a recession,” Trump told reporters as he returned to Washington from his New Jersey golf club. “We’re doing tremendously well. […]

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‘Walang monopoly ng husay’: Robredo remembers Jesse on his death anniversary

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 06:20:17 +0000

‘Walang monopoly ng husay’: Robredo remembers Jesse on his death anniversary

MANILA, Philippines — “Parati niya sa aming sinasabi na una, walang monopoly ng husay, na dapat iyong lahat nabibigyan ng pagkakataon.” This is how Vice President Leni Robredo remembered her late husband, Jesse Robredo, and his leadership on Sunday, seven years after the untimely plane crash that took the life of the then interior secretary.  […]

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3 Filipino senior citizens on their way home from US now ‘missing’ in China

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 05:51:17 +0000

From left to right: Erlinda Varela Guce, Pacita Varela De Guzman, and Josefina Varela Baysic had been missing for a week after their flight from the United States landed in China for their connecting flight to Manila last August 10. Their families still have no information on their whereabouts. Photo from: John Florencio Gace.

MANILA, Philippines — Three senior citizens who were on their way home to the Philippines from the United States are reportedly missing after making a stopover in China.  John Florencio Guce, son of one of the missing senior citizens, said that 77-year old Pacita Varela De Guzman, 72-year old Erlinda Varela Guce, and 71-year old […]

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Iceland commemorates first glacier lost to climate change

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 02:45:42 +0000

This combination of Sept. 14, 1986, left, and Aug. 1, 2019 photos provided by NASA shows the shrinking of the Okjokull glacier on the Ok volcano in west-central Iceland. A geological map from 1901 estimated Okjökull spanned an area of about 38 square kilometers (15 square miles). In 1978, aerial photography showed the glacier was 3 square kilometers. in 2019, less than 1 square kilometer remains. (NASA via AP)

REYKJAVIC, Iceland — Iceland on Sunday honors the passing of Okjokull, its first glacier lost to climate change, as scientists warn that some 400 others on the subarctic island risk the same fate. A bronze plaque will be unveiled in a ceremony starting around 1400 GMT to mark Okjokull — which translates to “Ok glacier” — in […]

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