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Mega Millions winning numbers for May 17 drawing: Jackpot rises to $393 million

Mega Millions players, are you feeling lucky? The winning numbers are in for the May 17 drawing.

2024-05-18T01:02:43Z

BSP awaits opportunity to cut reserve requirement

MANILA, Philippines — A day after hinting at an interest rate cut in August, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Eli Remolona Jr. suggested that the economy might be in need of a further shot of liquidity as he recognized that financial conditions are tighter than necessary. In an interview with Bloomberg on Friday, Remolona reiterated his wish to reduce banks’ reserve requirement ratio (RRR) to 5 percent from 9.5 percent, still higher...

2024-05-17T18:35:32Z

Fierce fighting in northern Gaza as aid starts to roll off US-built pier

By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli forces battled Hamas fighters in the narrow alleyways of Jabalia in northern Gaza on Friday in some of the fiercest engagements since they returned to the area a week ago, while in the south militants attacked tanks massing around Rafah. Residents said Israeli armour had thrust as far as the market at the heart of Jabalia, the largest of Gaza's eight

2024-05-18T05:10:21Z

North Korea confirms missile launch, vows bolstered nuclear force

North Korea has test-fired a tactical ballistic missile equipped with a "new autonomous navigation system", state media said Saturday, with leader Kim Jong Un vowing to boost the country's nuclear force. "The accuracy and reliability of the autonomous navigation system were verified through the test fire," Pyongyang's KCNA said Saturday, adding leader Kim expressed "great satisfaction" over the launch.

2024-05-18T02:48:01Z

Zubiri hits China bid to detain ‘trespassers’ in disputed waters

MANILA, Philippines — China’s new rule that would supposedly grant its coast guard the power to detain foreigners deemed “illegally crossing” its borders without trial is a violation of international laws, Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri said on Friday. In a radio interview, Zubiri said the South China Sea, including the West Philippine Sea “are freedom of navigation lanes.” “Clear violation of United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea...

2024-05-17T15:24:14Z

Rights groups slam conviction of activist tied to NPA

LUCENA CITY—Human rights advocates denounced the conviction of a children and women’s rights activist of the alleged crime of rebellion, saying that the court ruling contradicted a recent landmark decision by the Supreme Court against Red-tagging. In a statement on Friday, the Salinlahi Alliance for Children’s Concerns assailed the decision on Thursday by the Regional Trial Court Branch No. 266 in Taguig City, saying that its ruling against...

2024-05-17T21:46:33Z

The Slovak assassination attempt photo that nearly got away

(Reuters) - It's every amateur photographer's nightmare: you spy a once-in-a-lifetime picture, and you forget to change your camera settings. But it can happen to a seasoned professional, too. Reuters stringer Radovan Stoklasa was one of the few people left in a makeshift press centre in the Slovakian town of Handlova about 40 minutes after Prime Minister Robert Fico had briefed reporters on a

2024-05-17T22:08:46Z

DA regains control of crop insurance agency

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Agriculture (DA) has regained control of state-run Philippine Crop Insurance Corp. (PCIC), boosting its capacity to assist farmers and fisherfolk in case of natural calamities and diseases. President Marcos signed Executive Order No. 60, which transferred the supervision and control of PCIC back to the DA nearly three years after becoming an attached agency of the Department of Finance (DOF). “The PCIC is...

2024-05-17T18:35:34Z

British Army sinks the Americans in bridge-building war game triumph

Faced with the daunting task of crossing an 156-metre stretch across the Drawa River in the west of Poland, the British troops created a makeshift ferry crossing in just 18 minutes.

2024-05-18T01:06:50Z

PH to get $10-M ‘green climate’ grant

MANILA — The Philippines is set to bag a $10-million grant from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to support the government’s capacity to address climate hazards, the Department of Finance (DOF) said. The GCF is an international fund under the global climate treaty, the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The fund was created to support low-emission development and climate resilience projects in developing...

2024-05-17T18:35:33Z

Australians stranded in New Caledonia 'running out of food' amid civil unrest

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australians stranded in New Caledonia are rationing food as they wait for a way out of the troubled Pacific island territory, after riots that killed four people, a traveller from Sydney said on Saturday. "The kids are definitely hungry because we don't really have much option of what we can feed them," Joanne Elias said from a resort in the capital Noumea, where her family has

2024-05-18T03:24:43Z

‘Overkill’, PCG says of China Coast Guard deployment for ‘Atin Ito’ convoy

MANILA, Philippines — Describing it as “overkill,” the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on Friday said the deployment of China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels in Scarborough (Panatag) Shoal which was visited by a civilian convoy the other day was the biggest one so far. Commodore Jay Tarriela, PCG spokesperson for the West Philippine Sea, said there were 10 CCG vessels monitored during the entire duration of Atin Ito’s convoy in Panatag Shoal. “They were...

2024-05-17T17:09:33Z

Comelec urges 'delisted voters' to register for reactivation

Commission on Elections (Comelec) chair George Garcia urged those who were delisted from the poll body's list of voters to take advantage of the ongoing registration so they could participate in the next elections. "Meron po tayong ongoing registration, meron tayong tinatawag na "reactivation"... Ang ibig sabihin ng reactivation kahit sila ay natanggal, hindi ibig sabihin hindi na sila botante. Botante pa din sila, andiyan ang record pero ang...

2024-05-18T05:00:27Z

DND chief, 3 senators visit remote village in West PH Sea

PAG-ASA ISLAND—Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. accompanied three senators to this small island outpost to take stock of the situation in and around the West Philippine Sea (WPS). Teodoro, Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri, Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva, Sen. JV Ejercito were onboard a private plane that flew them here on Thursday when they received radio challenges from Chinese naval forces. “It’s so sad that while we are...

2024-05-17T21:55:22Z

Lotto Draw Results, May 17, 2024 | Ultra Lotto 6/58, Mega Lotto 6/45, 4D, 3D, 2D

Here are the winning lotto combinations of the lotto draw results for the 9 p.m. draw on Friday, May 17.

2024-05-18T04:31:07Z

'Educate children about tombstoning' - coastguard

There has been an increase in people jumping into the water from structures in Southend-on-Sea.

2024-05-18T05:34:52Z

Biden Border Patrol officials probed for connections to tequila heir

President Joe Biden 's top Border Patrol officials attended booze-filled parties in the U.S. and Mexico on behalf of a tequila tycoon and international trade broker.

2024-05-17T21:36:36Z

Bank of America employee, 25, dies suddenly weeks after 35-year-old colleague's death

Two Bank of America employees under 40 years old -- Adnan Deumic, 25, and Leo Lukenas, 35 -- have died suddenly this month within weeks of each other.

2024-05-18T02:11:00Z

Cebu Province declares state of calamity due to El Niño

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Cebu Provincial Government has declared the entire province under a state of calamity. This decision follows the submission of initial reports to the provincial government, detailing the damage and losses to crops and livestock in several areas of the province caused by the ongoing drought from the El Niño phenomenon earlier this year. Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia announced that, based on the extent of the damage...

2024-05-17T23:14:48Z

Woman mourns 'bubbly' sister who died after fire

Krystyna Chalastra says she is struggling to find closure following the death of her sister Izabela.

2024-05-18T06:49:35Z

How this man's killer got 79 blades delivered to his door

Omar Khan's murderer was able to buy dozens of blades from an online store. What went wrong?

2024-05-18T05:19:34Z

Aklan power rate hike seen to hurt Boracay

An impending increase in electricity rates by the power distribution utility in Aklan province is expected to hurt both households and businesses that are already reeling from rotating power outages and a drop in the number of tourist arrivals. The Aklan Electric Cooperative (Akelco) announced plans to raise its rates by P5 per kilowatt hour (kWh) in the province, including Boracay Island, in May, just a month after the power cooperative...

2024-05-17T21:16:27Z

Visayas Grid under yellow alert on Saturday evening — NGCP

The Visayas Grid will be placed under yellow alert status for the sixth straight day on Saturday, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) said. In an advisory issued at 8 a.m. Saturday, the NGCP said that the yellow alert would be implemented between 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., indicating that the operating margin is not enough to meet the transmission grid's contingency requirement. The grid's available capacity is at 2,681 megawatts, but...

2024-05-18T04:10:16Z

Gunmen kill three Spanish tourists in Afghanistan's central Bamyan province

By Mohammad Yunus Yawar, Charlotte Greenfield and Ana Cantero KABUL/MADRID/DELHI (Reuters) -Three Spanish tourists were killed and at least one Spaniard was injured in an attack by gunmen in Afghanistan's central Bamyan province, Spain's foreign ministry said on Friday. Earlier on Friday, Taliban interior ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qaniee had said that three foreign tourists and one Afghan

2024-05-18T03:30:12Z

Marcos, Sotto parties to forge alliance for 'genuine unity'

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP) will forge an alliance with the Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC), led by former Senate president and party chairman Vicente Sotto III today, Saturday. Sotto said the NPC would ally with PFP in the run-up to the 2025 midterm elections. Sotto said the partnership was grounded on the two parties' desire for genuine unity, strength, and continued positive...

2024-05-18T02:53:31Z

College Tensions Reignite With Arrests at Penn, Chicago Campuses

Police removed protesters who were attempting to occupy buildings at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Chicago Friday night, as tensions over the Israel-Hamas War once again flared up across college campuses.

2024-05-18T04:10:45Z

Ex-Aurora officials cite SC ruling vs Ombudsman

Former Aurora province officials Gerardo Noveras and and his son Christian Noveras continued to assail the Ombudsman’s recent ruling against them despite a Supreme Court ruling on the need for “substantial evidence.” The father and son cited the 2018 Supreme Court decision on the case of Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group vs Police Supt. Ermilando Villafuerte. The ruling stated that “conspiracy as a means of...

2024-05-17T22:01:34Z

Anger, anxiety, acrimony: Slovaks weigh what led to Fico shooting

By Boldizsar Gyori, Kuba Stezycki and Jan Lopatka HANDLOVA, Slovakia/BRATISLAVA (Reuters) -Slovak opposition party leader Michal Simecka, who described an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Robert Fico this week as an attack on democracy, said on Friday that he, his wife and child had received death threats. His experience is not uncommon, a measure of the extreme political and personal

2024-05-18T06:10:31Z

Fifty dead in heavy rain, floods in central Afghanistan, official says

KABUL (Reuters) - At least 50 people are dead following a fresh bout of heavy rain and flooding in central Afghanistan, an official said on Saturday. Mawlawi Abdul Hai Zaem, the head of the information department for the central Ghor province, told Reuters that there was no information about how many people were injured in the rain spell that began on Friday, which had also cut off many key roads

2024-05-18T06:40:50Z

Mayor Guo suspension recommended to Ombudsman

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) recommended to the Office of the Ombudsman the issuance of a preventive suspension order against Bamban Mayor Alice Guo after the seven-man task force created to investigate her alleged links to the illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGO) in her town found "serious illegal acts which may have severe legal implications." "The DILG does not have the power...

2024-05-18T04:23:48Z

MMDA stays jeepney apprehensions

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will wait for guidelines from the Department of Transportation before making any apprehension of unconsolidated public utility vehicles (PUVs). The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) earlier said that the apprehension of unconsolidated PUVs will be by the Land Transportation Office, MMDA and Philippine National Police starting on Thursday. But as of Friday, the LTFRB...

2024-05-17T21:16:26Z

'My animals were culled and I had severe sadness'

Challenges in agriculture range from soaring feed, fuel and fertiliser costs to an ageing population.

2024-05-18T06:34:58Z

When the US nearly detonated an atomic bomb on the Moon

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the surface of the Moon. The Americans had managed to put a human being on the surface of Earth's natural satellite and history was made. The Moon was completely untouched back then, but if America's Project A119 had gone ahead a few years prior, things would have been very different. 'A Study of Lunar Research Flights,' better known as Project A119, was a top-secret plan developed by the US Air Force in 1958. The goal was to detonate an atomic bomb on the Moon. But why did the US want to nuke the Moon, and why didn't they go ahead with the plan? Click through the following gallery to find out.

2024-05-14T15:08:24Z

‘End of an era’: Ayala exits Manila Water

MANILA, Philippines — After a 27-year investment in a highly regulated utility, the Ayala conglomerate is unloading its remaining economic interest in Manila Water Co. (MWC) to tycoon Enrique Razon Jr.-led Trident Water Company Holdings Inc. for P14.5 billion. Building up group-wide cash reserves, Ayala Corp. and subsidiary Michigan Holdings Inc. are collectively selling their nearly 578 million common shares for P22.36 each. The price shows a...

2024-05-17T18:35:33Z

Man charged in random assault on actor Steve Buscemi in New York

NEW YORK (AP) — A man wanted in connection with the random attack on actor Steve Buscemi on a New York City street earlier this month was arrested on an assault charge Friday, police said. The 66-year-old star of “Boardwalk Empire” and “Fargo” was walking in midtown Manhattan on May 8 when a stranger punched him in the face, city police said. He was taken to a hospital with bruising, swelling and bleeding to his left eye, but was otherwise OK,...

2024-05-17T20:56:35Z

Ang See: Tougher visa rules for Chinese not right solution

Tightening visa rules for Chinese tourists will not stop the influx of undesirable visitors if immigration officers can be bribed anyway, civic leader Teresita Ang See said on Thursday. “We already have a proper visa application process in place in our consular and embassy office abroad. That system ain’t broke,” said Ang See, a longtime anticrime crusader from the Filipino-Chinese community. “Instead, the problem lies with our bureaucrats here...

2024-05-17T21:40:21Z

House bill creating Manila Bay Council passed on third reading

MANILA, Philippines — The House of Representatives passed on third reading a bill creating an agency to supervise the conservation of waters and fishery resources in Manila Bay. Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez said House Bill 10158, which was passed before the plenary on Wednesday, seeks to establish the Manila Bay Aquatic Resources Management Council that would "manage, control, and supervise all plans, programs, and initiatives to conserve...

2024-05-18T04:08:48Z

Philippines to vigorously defend territory, president says

MANILA (Reuters) -Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Saturday the country will "vigorously defend what is ours", in a thinly veiled reference to mounting tensions with China over maritime disputes. The conduct against intruders disrespecting Philippine territorial integrity will be guided by law and the responsibility as a rules-abiding member of the international community, Marcos

2024-05-18T04:25:23Z

Roughly 1400 buildings, structures destroyed in Rafah since beginning of May

Some 1400 buildings have been destroyed in Rafah since May 4, ABC Go reported on Saturday morning. The figure of 1400 damaged buildings was based on an analysis of data by the radar-enabled Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite operated by the European Space Agency. From May 4 to May 8, the researchers estimated that 895 buildings were likely damaged or ...

2024-05-18T06:12:10Z

Marcos: Better transport, infra mean more tourists

Boasting that “there is no place in the Philippines that is not beautiful,” President Marcos on Friday said he was eyeing a tenfold increase in the number of “balikbayan” tourists visiting the country. At the inauguration of a tourist rest area on the pristine beach at Barangay Saud in Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte, the President said the government would continue improving travel, transportation and tourist infrastructure to turn the country into...

2024-05-17T21:16:28Z

PH buying 5 patrol boats from Japan for Coast Guard

The government has agreed to buy five coast guard patrol ships from Japan, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Friday, as the country faces increasing Chinese aggression in the West Philippine Sea. Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo and Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Endo Kazuya on Friday signed a P23.85-billion ($413.3 million) loan package under Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA), for the purchase of the boats as...

2024-05-17T21:40:20Z

It’s official: Carlos out as chief of Wescom

PUERTO PRINCESA CITY—Vice Adm. Alberto Carlos, who supposedly confirmed that a “new model” arrangement to ease tension between the Philippines and China during the resupply of the troops at Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal, has been removed as chief of the military’s Western Command (Wescom). Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. on Thursday disclosed in a speech to Philippine Navy personnel stationed on Pag-asa Island that Carlos was officially...

2024-05-17T21:46:32Z

PISTON insists unconsolidated jeepneys not 'colorum'

Transportation group PISTON (Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Opereytor Nationwide) on Saturday maintained that those who failed to consolidate their public utility vehicles (PUV) into cooperatives should not be considered "colorum" and should not be flagged down. "Ang ating mga jeepney ay hindi po colorum sapagkat eto ay may lehitimong mga prangkisa. Ang ano lang dito, expired ang kanilang prangkisa sa kadahilanan na ayaw i-renew ng...

2024-05-18T05:00:27Z

David Miliband 'wants to be British ambassador to the United States'

Many in Westminster think David Miliband could do a David Cameron and become Sir Keir's foreign secretary in the Lords. But his ambitions are said to lie stateside.

2024-05-18T00:36:48Z

Toilet garden planters become village landmark

Floral displays created in old toilet bowls make their creator the talk of the village.

2024-05-18T05:34:47Z

Has India’s Muslim population really exploded?

A new government report claims that India’s Muslim population share has grown 43 percent since 1950. What’s the truth?

2024-05-18T03:28:21Z

GP circumcised second boy without parent's consent

A doctor is being investigated for circumcising a second child without full parental consent.

2024-05-18T06:34:34Z

Ukraine's young soldiers voice support for mobilisation law

For "Mammoth", a military drone pilot on the Ukrainian front, a new mobilisation law aiming to increase troop numbers that comes into force on Saturday cannot come soon enough. The new law coming into force on Saturday lowers the minimum age of mobilisation from 27 to 25 in an effort to boost recruit numbers.

2024-05-18T05:33:29Z

MMDA advisory: Some Metro Manila roads to undergo reblocking, repairs

MANILA, Philippines — Some roads in Metro Manila will be closed from Friday evening until next week due to reblocking and repair works, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) said. The works will be carried out by the Department of Public Works and Highways in the following areas starting at 11 p.m. on May 17 to 5 a.m. on May 20: Caloocan City Regalado Avenue (northbound), going to North Caloocan Regalado Avenue (northbound), Outer...

2024-05-17T14:00:13Z

What Happens When You Take Street Art Out of the Street?

The Banksy Universe exhibit is now open in BGC.

2024-05-18T06:10:20Z