3 charged with Boston bombing cover-up
Three 19-year-old students—two Kazakhs and an American—were charged Wednesday with covering up for the suspected Boston marathon bombers, the US Justice Department said.
Three 19-year-old students—two Kazakhs and an American—were charged Wednesday with covering up for the suspected Boston marathon bombers, the US Justice Department said.
A suspected component of a bomb used in the deadly Boston marathon attack was found by accident on the roof of a city hotel, the owner told AFP on Wednesday.
The Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) will come up in two weeks’ time with its preliminary findings on the offshore trust of Ilocos Gov. Imee Marcos and her three sons in the British Virgin Islands.
The Vatican said Monday that a secret report on a leaks scandal in 2012 had revealed human “imperfections” in the running of the Church and would be shown exclusively to the future pope, not to voting cardinals.
A Senate joint probe committee has recommended that the Ombudsman investigate former National Food Authority (NFA) Administrator Lito Banayo and other NFA officials for possible graft in connection with the alleged use of NFA licensed rice importers as dummies by certain moneyed individuals who cornered state rice import quotas worth millions of pesos.
The National Bureau of Investigation will investigate the leak to the press of its report on the police killing of 13 alleged criminals in Atimonan, Quezon, on Jan. 6.
Reacting to reports that the illegal numbers game “jueteng” had something to do with the alleged shootout in Quezon province on Sunday, which killed 13 persons including three policemen and three soldiers, the highest police official of Quezon province said Tuesday that he had no idea of the angle.
A fact-finding team has been created to conduct a “thorough and proper” investigation into the alleged shootout in Quezon province that led to the death of 13 people, three of whom were policemen and three others were soldiers, police said Tuesday.
The president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) believes the computerized voting machines successfully used in the 2010 elections are flawed and he wants them thoroughly examined before these are used in next year’s midterm elections.
The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) stands to lose some P114 million a year in revenues when it implements a highly questionable contract that privatizes the operations of its Baligatan mini-hydropower plant in Ramon town, Isabela, documents received by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee have showed.
President Benigno Aquino III placed the entire Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency under investigation for alleged anomalies in connection with the recent dismissal of one of its officials, said PDEA Director General Jose Gutierrez Jr.
At least 12 government officials and resource persons have confirmed their attendance in the Senate investigation except for resigned Interior Undersecretary Rico Puno, who is the subject of the probe.
Acting Governor Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) has ordered a thorough investigation into the recent shooting that rocked the state-owned Mindanao State University in Marawi City and left at least seven people.
