breitbart.com reported…The Department of Transportation of the Philippines is under fire after more than 20 people have come forward claiming airport officials planted bullets in their luggage to prevent them from boarding flights unless they paid a bribe.
Quartz reports that the cases have occurred in the capital city’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport. Foreign passengers are claiming that airport security staff intentionally planted bullets in their luggage, which are illegal to carry onboard a plane, and either levied a large fine or requested bribes to absolve them of their supposed violation of the law. The outlet notes that some of those detained were delayed from traveling for days and only those who paid extra fines were let out expeditiously. Read Article
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breitbar.com reported that terrorists from the Abu Sayyaf Philippines-based jihadi group, an affiliate of the Islamic State, have demanded over $60 million dollars for three Western hostages who were kidnapped at the country’s resort island of Samal. Two Canadians and one Norwegian citizen have been taken into the jungles of the southern Philippines, where the […]
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channelnewsasia.com reported according to a UNAIDS report, new incidents of HIV infections around the world halved between the years 2001 and 2011. But in the Philippines, the number of new infections has risen by 25 per cent. Official data from the Philippines’ Department of Health also shows that the number of reported cases has ballooned […]
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theguardian.com reported Philippines charges US marine with murder in transgender killing Pentagon press secretary said US military had was cooperating closely with local law enforcement on the case Police in the Philippines filed murder charges on Wednesday against a US Marine over the death of a transgender Filipino he met in a bar outside the […]
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Ransom deadline nears for German hostages in Philippines A German hostage in the Philippines says Islamists have threatened to execute him on Friday if his ransom of over 4 million euros isn’t paid. The man was captured with his wife in the western Pacific in April. Stefan Okonek, aged 74, told a local radio station […]
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According to the Japan News, a Japanese resident in his 40s has been kidnapped by two armed men in the suburbs of Manila, the Philippine National Police said Monday. The victim is Hayato Sumi, a secondhand goods dealer in the city of Paranaque, the police said. A Philippine relative of Sumi received a phone call […]
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As reported by Dailymail.co.uk, two Americans are among the more than 1,700 victims killed when Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines, but the U.S. State Department has warned it expects the figure to rise. As the U.S. prepares to send in aid equipment on three warships, the Marine General leading the relief effort has said the […]
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According to Al Jazeera, the Philippine Red Cross has estimated that more than 1,000 people have been killed in the coastal city of Tacloban and at least 200 in hard-hit Samar province when one of the strongest typhoons slammed into the country. Gwendolyn Pang, secretary general of the Philippine Red Cross, said on Saturday that […]
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Thespec.com reported that, the world’s strongest typhoon of the year slammed into the Philippines early Friday. It had been poised to be the strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded at landfall, a weather expert said. “There will be catastrophic damage,” said Jeff Masters, a former hurricane meteorologist who is meteorology director at the private firm Weather […]
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Yahoo News reports that a powerful earthquake killed at least 93 people in the Philippines Tuesday as it generated landslides that buried homes, triggered stampedes of terrified people, and destroyed historic churches. Fifteen of the confirmed fatalities were in Cebu, the country’s second most important city and a gateway to some of its most beautiful […]
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