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PSG men ‘bemedaled’ prior to QC rob raps

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‘FALLEN’ SOLDIERS  Their heads covered, Presidential Security Group members Sgt. Marvin Gaton (left) and Cpl. Bobby Ates are brought to Camp Karingal for questioning on Friday following their arrest in connection with a Quezon City car shop robbery. MARIANNE BERMUDEZ

Corporal Bobby Ates and Sgt. Marvin Gaton had “clean records” and even earned combat medals through the years in the Army, on top of being members of the elite Presidential Security Group (PSG).

Posted: May 24th, 2013 in Featured Gallery,Headlines,Metro,Photos & Videos | Read More »

PH lits up Guinness for most sky lanterns flown simultaneously

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More than 15,000 sky lanterns are released within 10 minutes at the University of the Philippines Visayas campus in Miag-ao town in Iloilo to call for world peace by cultivating inner peace. GUIJO DUEÑAS/INQUIRER VISAYAS

Filipinos on Friday evening lit their way into a new world record in the most number of sky lanterns flown simultaneously.

Posted: May 24th, 2013 in Featured Gallery,Headlines,Latest News Stories,Photos & Videos,Regions,Regions | Read More »

Polls solidify LP hold in most of Visayas

ILOILO election supervisor Jessie Suarez (center) proclaims as winners in the May 13 elections reelectionist Iloilo Gov. Arthur Defensor (right) and Vice Governor-elect Raul Tupas (left). COntributed photo

Some political families in the Visayas lost in the May 13 elections while others maintained or strengthened their hold on power.

Posted: May 24th, 2013 in Featured Columns,Featured Gallery,Headlines,Photos & Videos,Regions | Read More »

Chinese group seeks to convert Cebu building into museum

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GOTIAOCO building . photo: Edison A. delos Angeles

A 99-year-old building in downtown Cebu City has just been given another lease on life. A year after Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama condemned the Gotiaoco Building, the city council declared it as a historical landmark.

Posted: May 24th, 2013 in Featured Columns,Featured Gallery,Headlines,Photos & Videos,Regions | Read More »

Obama defends drones, sees narrower terror threat

President Barack Obama talks about national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. Declaring America at a "crossroads" in the fight against terrorism, the president revealed clearer guidelines for the use of deadly drone strikes, including more control by the U.S. military, while leaving key details of the controversial program secret. AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

President Barack Obama sought to move the U.S. beyond the war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror threat from smaller networks and homegrown extremists rather than the grandiose plots of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida.

Posted: May 24th, 2013 in Latest News Stories,Photos & Videos,World | Read More »

Highway bridge collapses in US; no deaths reported

A portion of the Interstate 5 bridge is submerged after it collapsed into the Skagit River dumping vehicles and people into the water in Mount Vernon, Wash., Thursday, May 23, 2013. AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Rick Lund

The major highway bridge linking Seattle with Canada and the rest of the Pacific Northwest region collapsed Thursday evening, dumping a handful of vehicles and people into a river, the Washington State Patrol said. Authorities said there were no deaths, and three people were taken to hospitals.

Posted: May 24th, 2013 in Latest News Stories,Photos & Videos,World | Read More »

Police make new arrests in London soldier killing

Police officers guard a flat as it is being searched at Greenwich, southeast London, Thursday, May 23, 2013. British police made two further arrests Thursday and raided houses across London following the brutal murder of a serving soldier who survived a tour of duty in Afghanistan.  AP PHOTO/SANG TAN

British police made two further arrests Thursday and raided houses across London following the brutal murder of a serving soldier who survived a tour of duty in Afghanistan.

Posted: May 24th, 2013 in Latest News Stories,Photos & Videos,World | Read More »

Japanese, 80, is oldest to scale Everest

NEVER TOOOLD The 80-year-old Japanese Yuichiro Miura (right), poses with his son, Gota, before he scaled Mt. Everest, five years after his first conquest of the world’s highest peak. AP

An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer on Thursday became the oldest person to reach the top of Mount Everest—although his record may last only a few days. An 81-year-old Nepalese man, who held the previous record, plans his own ascent next week.

Posted: May 24th, 2013 in Latest News Stories,Photos & Videos,World | Read More »

Psst! It’s now PST, not ‘Filipino time’

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Will a new law scheduled to take effect on June 1 finally put an end to the Filipino habit of tardiness?

Posted: May 24th, 2013 in Editors' Picks,Featured Gallery,Headlines,Nation,Photos & Videos | Read More »

NCRPO urged to explore MPD water debt woes

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PNP spokesperson Chief Supt. Generoso Cerbo Jr. INQUIRER.NET FILE PHOTO

The National Capital Region Police Office should look into the particular reasons why the debts for the water supply of the Manila Police District grew to millions to the point that it was cut off by its utility service provider, a Philippine National Police spokesman said.

Posted: May 23rd, 2013 in Latest News Stories,Metro,Photos & Videos | Read More »

Proclamation of winning party-list groups to be finished Monday—Comelec

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Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has yet to proclaim the winning party-list groups Thursday after Comelec chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. announced they would issue a resolution on the proclamation of winners Friday.

Posted: May 23rd, 2013 in Latest News Stories,Nation,Photos & Videos | Read More »

‘British soldier’ butchered in suspected Islamist attack

This image taken from video made available by The Sun newspaper shows what appears to be one of the attackers speaking to the camera after a brutal attack in broad daylight Wednesday, May 22, 2013 near a military barracks in London. The attack just a few blocks from the Royal Artillery Barracks in the Woolrich neighborhood of London left one man dead and two suspects hospitalized after a shootout with police. British Prime Minister David Cameron said the attack appeared to be terror related. There was no immediate way for The Associated Press to verify who the cameraperson was. AP/The Sun

British counter-terrorism police were Thursday investigating the murder of a man thought to be a soldier, who was butchered and beheaded on a busy London street by two men shouting Islamist slogans.

Posted: May 23rd, 2013 in Latest News Stories,Photos & Videos,World | Read More »

Pacquiao still the richest congressman

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Sarangani Representative Manny Pacquiao. FILE PHOTO

Boxing icon and Sarangani Representative Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao is still the richest among the members of the House of Representatives, his statements of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN) filed in 2012 showed.

Posted: May 23rd, 2013 in Latest News Stories,Nation,Photos & Videos | Read More »

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