Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 03:56:02 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Oscar Albayalde on Tuesday urged lawyers who have received death threats to promptly report the matter to the police to prevent a repeat of the recent murder of lawyers in Negros Oriental and Bukidnon.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 23:18:49 +0000
GILROY, Calif. – Before a 19-year-old gunman opened fire on a famed garlic festival in his California hometown, he urged his Instagram followers to read a 19th century book popular with white supremacists on extremist websites, but his motives for killing two children and another young man were still a mystery Monday.
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Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:32:36 +0000
Francis Tolentino’s baptism of fire as a senator came in the form of a verbal tussle with his colleagues when he tried to defend President Rodrigo Duterte’s supposedly unwritten agreement with China letting Chinese fishermen inside Philippine waters, which Tolentino said was a valid exercise of the President’s powers to enter into executive agreements.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 06:39:26 +0000
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) on Sunday reported that nearly 3,000 people were affected by the twin quakes that hit Batanes on Saturday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 05:10:05 +0000
HONG KONG – Protesters and police prepared Sunday for a likely showdown in central Hong Kong, one day after clashes led to 11 arrests and left at least two dozen injured in an outlying district toward the border with mainland China.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 03:03:03 +0000
MEXICO CITY – The presidents of Honduras and Mexico signed a letter of intent Saturday for cooperating on ways to stem the tide of Central American migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 02:04:13 +0000
BASCO, Batanes – The province’s musicians are gathering on Sunday night (July 28) to hold a benefit show for Itbayat town residents, who bore the brunt of last Saturday’s series of earthquakes and aftershocks.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 22:41:13 +0000
WASHINGTON – America’s much-maligned health care system is covering 9 out of 10 people, a fact that hasn’t stopped the 2020 presidential candidates from refighting battles about how to provide coverage, from Bernie Sanders’ call for replacing private insurance with a government plan to President Donald Trump’s pledge to erase the Affordable Care Act and start over.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 23:00:50 +0000
DENVER – A Colorado school district trying to stop people obsessed with the shooting at Columbine High School won’t demolish the building as a way to deter intruders, officials said in a letter released Wednesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 22:41:18 +0000
BERLIN – Europeans cooled off in public fountains Wednesday as a new heat wave spread across parts of the continent and was already breaking records.
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