Month: March 2017

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The Prince Edward Island School Athletic Association 200-metre record holder is working on getting out of the blocks quicker. The 20-year-old Ten Mile House native has been training indoors this winter and recently won the 60-metre dash at the Atlantic University Sport championship in Moncton.

PC Association of P.E.I. holds town hall meeting to tap into concerns

Charlottetown’s Mary Lou Griffin-Jenkins finds the Opposition’s ongoing grilling of government on issues from proposed school closures to e-gaming to be praiseworthy. Griffin-Jenkins was among a couple dozen people attending a town hall meeting Tuesday night, sponsored by the Charlottetown Area Districts of the PC Association of P.E.I. Griffin-Jenkins became a member of the PC Party two years ago.

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Until the end of 2016, 11,613 medical visas and 8,491 medical attendant visas had been issued by the Indian embassy in Muscat. Until the end of 2016, 11,613 medical visas and 8,491 medical attendant visas had been issued by the Indian embassy in Muscat.

More flights out of Cebu

CEBU. AirAsia officials, along with Department of Tourism-Central Visayas Director Catalino Chan III , launch new routes for Cebu in time for the summer. LOW-COST carrier AirAsia Inc. has committed to add more domestic flights to various Philippine destinations moving forward, said a company official.

Ex-NFLer Jarryd Hayne finding life difficult back Down Under

In recent weeks, former 49er Jarryd Hayne has faced allegations that he’s got a bad attitude, is overweight and missed a training session for his current rugby league club in Australia . Hayne was an undrafted free agent when he surprisingly made the 49ers’ 53-man roster as a running back and kick returner in 2015, but decided to retire from the NFL in May of last year.

4 cops ambushed by suspected NPA rebels in Davao del Sur

FOUR policemen were killed Wednesday morning in an ambush staged by suspected members of the New People’s Army in Bansalan, Davao del Sur. Commander of 39th Infantry Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Harold Argamosa, said the policemen were ambushed by still unidentified members of the NPA while en route to a shooting incident.

Ledesma: Of extrajudicial killing & extramarital affair

I SHOULD not be the one writing this but it behooves upon me to do so. As a community journalist who witnessed and survived the vicious cycles of martial law era, the reign of terror of the CPP/NPA and its deadly “Sparrow” liquidation squads that ruled over Davao City with impunity I owe it to my young readers to write about certain events in the past that have something to do with the present.

Priests joining anti-drug ops – awkward’

CATHOLIC priests joining the police anti-illegal drug operations would be “awkward,” a priest of the Diocese of Bacolod said. Fr. Felix Pasquin, rector of San Sebastian Cathedral, said the priests and the religious can cooperate with the drug campaign of the Philippine National Police , but in some other ways and not to join Oplan Tokhang.

Pontevedra forms team to monitor river pollution

THE Municipal Government of Pontevedra has formed a team that will monitor activities that may cause pollution to its rivers following the recent fishkill which affected three barangays in the southern Negros Occidental town. The creation of the monitoring team came after the Environmental Management Bureau released Tuesday the results of the water sample analysis conducted by a private laboratory in Bacolod City last week.

BIR targets P12-B tax collection in Negros

THE Bureau of Internal Revenue targets to collect P12.07 billion in taxes in Negros Island Region this year, which is 16 percent higher than last year’s collection of only P10.4 billion. BIR Revenue Region 12 Director Eduardo Pagulayan Jr., who spoke at the 2017 Tax Campaign Kick-Off Ceremony at the L’Fisher Hotel in Bacolod City Tuesday, said there are still many “potential” taxpayers the agency is looking for.

Manny Pacquiao now looks set to take on Jeff Horn. Photo: AP

A potentially money-spinning bout between Philippine boxing icon Manny Pacquiao and Britain’s Amir Khan has collapsed, The Los Angeles Times reported. Pacquiao’s long-time promoter Bob Arum told the newspaper that the proposed US$38 million fight staged by the United Arab Emirates in April had proven to be “pie in the sky.”

Police say terror suspect killed in gunbattle in north India

Police say they have killed a man suspected of masterminding the bombing of a passenger train that injured eight people this week in India. Senior Police official A. Satish Ganesh said Wednesday that an anti-terrorist police squad engaged the suspect in an 11-hour gunbattle overnight after tracking him down at the home of a Muslim cleric in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

Sinn Fein cut talks with James Brokenshire short because of ‘waffle’

Sinn Fein have blasted Northern Ireland Secretary of State James Brokenshire for delivering nothing but “waffle, waffle, waffle” to the Stormont crisis talks. Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein leader Michelle O’Neill are pictured outside Stormont Castle in Belfast Photo: Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne Sinn Fein have blasted Northern Ireland Secretary of State James Brokenshire for delivering nothing but “waffle, waffle, waffle” to the Stormont crisis talks.

Puerto Rico freezes tax credits, $1.8B in funds amid crisis

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico’s government announced Tuesday that it is freezing all future tax credits and nearly $2 billion in funds for special assignments to help improve cash flow and balance the budget for a U.S. territory mired in a decade-long recession. They are the latest measures taking effect as a federal control board that oversees the island’s finances gets ready to approve a fiscal plan many believe will be amended to include severe austerity measures.

Mexico concerned by US plan to separate detained families

The Mexican foreign minister says Mexico’s government has informed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of its concern over a proposal to separate immigrant parents from their children in detention. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Monday that it was being considered as a way to dissuade families from making the dangerous journey from Central America to the U.S. with children.

6 dismembered bodies found in bags left in southern Mexico

Authorities in the southern Mexico state of Guerrero have found six dismembered bodies in 13 bags in a mountain town. State security spokesman Roberto Alvarez Heredia says state police and soldiers responded to a 911 call Tuesday and found the bags on the side of a road in Chilapa township near a wastewater treatment plant.

Report: African women ahead as lawmakers, but face violence

A report on women’s rights in Africa praises significant progress including female participation in many African legislatures outpacing Britain and the United States. But it also points to what it calls “daunting” challenges such as high rates of sexual violence, maternal mortality and HIV infections among women.

Mexico’s criminal and political worlds are shifting, and 2017…

Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party, in one form or another, ran Mexico as a de facto one-party state from the 1930s until 2000, when Vicente Fox interrupted the PRI’s hold on the presidency. But that restoration of power appears to be on shaky ground, and the political shifts that the PRI and Mexico are seeing come as the country’s criminal underworld appears to be undergoing its own upheaval.

WikiLeaks CIA data breach could expose Canada’s vulnerabilities: ex-analyst

A former national security analyst says the federal government should be concerned about the WikiLeaks publication of secret CIA files that describe its ability to break into computers, mobile phones and smart TVs. Stephanie Carvin of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University says Canadian material risks being exposed, since Canada and the U.S. are members of the “Five Eyes” international intelligence sharing group.

Up Ats operation: Terrorist linked to Ujjain train blast killed as Lucknow encounter comes to an end

One terrorist was killed as anti-terror operation in Lucknow’s outskirts ended after almost 12 hours of security operation in the wee hours of Wednesday. The terrorist has been linked with the Bhopal-Ujjain train blast and is said to be responsible for injuring at least 10 people-three are in critical condition- in the IED blast near Jabdi station in Shajapur district of Madhya Pradesh early on Tuesday.

Lawsuit suggests electrical failures led to Flight 370 crash

A series of catastrophic electrical and other failures may have led to the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 over the Indian Ocean, according to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. on behalf of the families of 44 people on board the still missing plane. The lawsuit, filed Friday against Boeing in U.S. District Court in South Carolina, names seven malfunctions, from an electrical fire to depressurization of the plane’s cabin, that could have led to the crew losing consciousness, the plane’s transponder stopping its transmission and the plane flying undetected until it crashed after running out of fuel.

Man who killed couple, grandson hospitalized after attack at federal prison

Edmonton police and federal corrections officials say they are investigating an attack on an inmate who has been identified by his lawyer as convicted triple murderer Douglas Garland. Edmonton Police Service spokeswoman Cheryl Sheppard says a man was taken to hospital just after 9 p.m. on Monday after an assault at Edmonton Institution, a federal maximum security prison.

From pay equity to child care, advocates say ‘feminist’ PM has much work to do

Aygadim Majagalee, a young woman from the Nisga’a Nation in northern B.C., said she wants to look beyond past struggles and into the next century of possibility, where she imagines a revolution led by women. “I envision a Canada that is fierce in its leadership and shows just how much every person is equal,” the 22-year-old, who also goes by her English name, Teanna Ducharme, told MPs who had gathered Tuesday to hear her address the House of Commons committee on the status of women.

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Over the last few years, Anushka Sharma has gone from strength to strength. As an actress, she has blockbusters like PK and Sultan.

Saudi energy minister keeping close eye on US oil producers

Saudi Arabia’s energy minister says OPEC production cuts are working to bolster crude prices and his country will look at whether other oil-producing nations are living up to their promises to curtail pumping before deciding whether to extend the cutbacks beyond this summer. Khalid Al-Falih expressed no great alarm Tuesday about the recovery in American oil output since crude prices began rebounding in early 2016.

a A nightmare:a UN chief urges help for Somalia hunger crisis

Visibly shocked by the suffering of malnourished Somalis and cholera victims during an emergency visit, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday urged international support to alleviate Somalia’s worsening hunger crisis. “Every single person we have seen is a personal story of tremendous suffering.

Turkish, US, Russian military chiefs discuss Syria tensions

The top generals from Turkey, the United States and Russia met Tuesday in Turkey to discuss mutual suspicions over northern Syria military operations, as Russia’s military announced a two-week long cease-fire between rebels and the government in the suburbs of the Syrian capital, Damascus. The Russian military said a cease-fire has been in place since Tuesday, March 6, and will extend until March 20, for the Eastern Ghouta region outside Damascus, but activists reported a number of airstrikes and artillery strikes by government forces, killing two civilians.