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THE HAGUE, Netherlands --- The Dutch government is taking Russia to the European Court of Human Rights for its alleged role in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine six years ago, the foreign minister announced Friday. The move is intended to support individual cases being brought to the European court by relatives of some of the 298 people who were killed when a Buk surface-to-air missile fired from territory controlled by pro-Moscow Ukrainian rebels blew the Amsterdam-to-Kuala Lumpur flight out of the sky on July 17, 2014. "Achieving justice for 298 victims of the downing of Flight MH17 is and will remain the government's highest priority," For...

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WASHINGTON --- Donald Trump isn't just changing the presidency during his first term in office. He's also changing Congress. More than perhaps any president in modern history, Trump has been willing to ignore, defy and toy with the legislative branch, asserting power and breaking norms in ways his predecessors would hardly dare. Republicans shrug it off as Trump being Trump, leaving Democrats almost alone to object. While the Democratic-run House took the extraordinary step of impeaching the president, the GOP-controlled Senate acquitted. Over time, there's been a noticeable imbalance of power, a president with few restraints drifting toward what the founders warned against. ...

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MANILA, Philippines --- Although she is not a talent of the Kapamilya network, GMA actress Jennylyn Mercado lashed at to people who are happy about the closure of ABS-CBN. https://www.facebook.com/JennylynMercadoOfficial/posts/10159770029743942?__xts__[0]=68.ARDXiVPaB8u_wQIivbRRPKr2LvgrpLFK6AYR48hQWpfdAbuZpGsfmGsR140oXrYD29dRVthMpuAXOrogu9aGbEyeH3RytZvsgEBefQ-FAzRoCEw-rzyRNQ9tkjCAzYULGyP9fEx1tURZ2ikHAKEtpWJjWEWNyENKMV77kFs6AF1J2BPH5zUyyetyxgj30ZMXBOmo1O_q31Wh5H6VOHBDbIZ_UDA7nsvYDzArfx5cqGyL1POtK00dfRqePKHOvAUha4YB_cyWeEPVvqEDWwr0EHOrJJ9RnQbcT11LAXD7EgfGS39CsYFe-Bl3Jq4F60LU4oXNG81ucSg0xqug&__tn__=-R "Sa mga taong tuwang tuwa sa mga pangyayari, huwag niyo sana danasin ang lumuha din ...

Keep on reading: Jennylyn Mercado to people rejoicing ABS-CBN’s closure: ‘You are cruel’

Actress Gretchen Barretto reaffirmed her allegiance to President Rodrigo Duterte and denied being the handler of a social media page that called for his removal in Malacaang. "I AM PRO DUTERTE," Barretto wrote in all caps in her Instagram page yesterday, July 10. The actress addressed her political leanings after a Twitter account with the handle @realgretchenb posted: "The hashtag is the tweet. #OustDuterteNow." Barretto said the page was fake and that she did not have an account on Twitter. She showed a screengrab of the "fake" Twitter account that used her name and her photo. The account also had a link to her real Instagram account @gretchenbarretto on its profile page. ...

Keep on reading: ‘I am pro Duterte’: Gretchen Barretto disowns account criticizing Duterte, Congress

OAKLAND, California --- Friday's widespread crashes of popular apps running on the iPhone's iOS operating system --- including Tinder, Spotify and Pinterest --- serve as a reminder that Facebook is still tracking you through your phone using sophisticated software, even if you're not browsing the social network. Early Friday, users of the apps reported crashes when they tried to open them up. Facebook attributed the problem, which was quickly fixed, to a bug in its software development kit, or SDK, a tool developers use to integrate their apps with Facebook. The integration allows people to use their Facebook credentials to log in to apps for dating, music or anything else. Goo...

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MANILA, Philippines --- A security staffer of the House of Representatives has tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), House Secretary-General Jose Luis Montales revealed Saturday. The new case is the 13th overall in the House of Representatives. Montales said that the employee who tested positive is a member of the security staff assigned at the office and barracks of the Legislative Security Bureau. "He last reported for work on July 6," Montales said. "He is presently on home quarantine. Contact tracing is ongoing." Previously, the House Secretary-General announced that a contractual employee in the House's Internal Audit Department also tested positive for...

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https://www.facebook.com/ltfrb.central.office/posts/2659303474311564?__tn__=K-R MANILA, Philippines --- The central office of the Land Transportation and Franchising Regulatory Board in Quezon City will be closed the whole week next week after five of its employees contracted the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In a statement on Saturday, LTFRB Chairman Martin Delgra III said that the temporary closure from July 13 to 17 would give way for the disinfection of the central office. Delgra said the five employees tested positive for the coronavirus after undergoing RT-PCR testing. "Nangyari po lahat 'yan habang mahigpit na sinusunod ng ahensya ang mga public safety protocols tula...

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LEGAZPI CITY --- A 60-year-old man from this city died on Saturday morning with symptoms related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a report from the Albay Interagency Task Force for the Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF-EID) said. The latest death brings to seven the reported COVID-19 related fatalities in Bicol. Four of the deaths were recorded in Albay while the provinces of Camarines Sur, Camarines Norte and Sorsogon have recorded one each. The latest fatality, tagged as Bicol #209, died from pneumonia and severe acute respiratory distress syndrome according to Dr. Antonio Ludovice, Albay provincial health officer. Ludovice said the patient from Barangay Victory Village ...

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LUCENA CITY -- Two new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, two recoveries, and the death of one suspected virus carrier, were recorded in Quezon province on Saturday. The two new COVID-19 patients are from the towns of Lopez and Atimonan, the Quezon public information office (QPIO) said in its 8 a.m. bulletin on Facebook. One of the two latest recovered patients is also from Atimonan while the other one is from Lucena City. The QPIO also reported the death of another suspected virus carrier. No added details were given by the QPIO in its report. The death toll among those suspected of coronavirus infection but have yet to get confirmation has risen to 67 from April 14 to...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDVbxvDuxy4 MANILA, Philippines --- Most parts of the country will have cloudy skies with a chance of rains on Saturday, the state weather bureau said. In its 4 a.m. live weather update, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said that the inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ) continues to affect Southern Mindanao. "Sa kasalukuyan, patuloy pa rin nakakaapekto ICTZ dito nga sa katimugang Mindanao na siya pa ring nagdadala ng mga pag-ulan sa malaking bahagi ng Mindanao," weather specialist Meno Mendoza said in the live weather update. (At present, the ITCZ continues to affect Southern Mindanao, ...

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MANILA, Philippines --- A magnitude 5.2 earthquake jolted a large swath of Mindanao in the early hours of Saturday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. The inland quake, which struck at 2:16 a.m. beneath Davao Region, centered 11 kilometers southeast of Kiblawan town in Davao del Sur. There were no immediate reports of damage or injury from the tremblor that was of tectonic origin and occurred at a 19-kilometer depth of focus. Phivolcs said that the quake was also felt in the following areas: Reported Intensity V - Bansalan and Magsaysay, Davao del Sur Instrumental Intensity IV - Kidapawan City; Tupi, South Cotabato; Malungon, Sara...

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President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of his longtime friend Roger Stone, who was convicted of crimes that included lying to Congress in part, prosecutors said, to protect the President. The announcement came just days before Stone was set to report to a federal prison. CNN's Kaitlan Collins has more.

Roughly five hours after an internal email went out to employees telling them to delete the popular video app TikTok from their phones, Amazon appeared to backtrack, calling the ban a mistake. "This morning's email to some of our employees was sent in error. There is no change to our policies right now with regard to TikTok," Amazon emailed reporters just before 5 p.m. Eastern time. Spokeswoman Jaci Anderson declined to answer questions about what happened. The initial internal email, which was disseminated widely online, told employees to delete TikTok, a video app increasingly popular with young people but also the focus of intensifying national-security and geopolitical conc...

Keep on reading: Amazon says email to employees banning TikTok was a mistake

President Donald Trump, for the first time, confirmed the US conducted a covert cyberattack in 2018 against Russia's Internet Research Agency. The Internet Research Agency is a troll farm blamed by the US for helping to facilitate interference both in the 2016 presidential election and the 2018 midterms.

President Donald Trump commuted the prison sentence of his longtime friend Roger Stone, who was convicted of crimes that included lying to Congress in part, prosecutors said, to protect the President. CNN's Jeffrey Toobin and Preet Bharara weigh in on the decision.

HAVANA --- The COVID-19 pandemic is sweeping through the leadership of Latin America, with two more presidents and powerful officials testing positive this week for the new coronavirus, adding a destabilizing new element to the region's public health and economic crises. In Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro, 65, announced his illness Tuesday and is using it to publicly extol hydroxychloroquine, the unproven malaria drug that he's been promoting as a treatment for COVID-19, and now takes himself. Bolivian interim President Jeanine Aez, 53, made her own diagnosis public Thursday, throwing her already troubled political propects into further doubt. And in Venezuela, 57-year-old ...

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The Philadelphia Eagles announced on Friday that the team has "penalized" wide receiver DeSean Jackson for conduct detrimental to the team after Jackson shared a series of anti-Semitic Instagram posts.

Nations and companies around the world are being sucked into a running battle over the future of technology between the United States and China, forcing them to choose sides in a conflict that is fracturing global supply chains and pushing businesses out of lucrative markets.