Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 01:42:24 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Wednesday appealed to colleagues to stop invoking religion and the name of Jesus in the discussions on the proposed reimposition of the death penalty.
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A 61-year-old cancer patient has become the first person in over two decades to die under controversial assisted dying laws in Australia.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2019 06:19:43 +0000
“Divorce? Over my dead body,” Senator Joel Villanueva said on Monday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:54:41 +0000
It was a comedy of errors seemingly inappropriate for a somber occasion on June 25, 1999 at the National Penitentiary—convicted child rapist Eduardo Agbayani was about to be executed by lethal injection.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 06:56:46 +0000
Get your act together and don’t make legislators look stupid.This was how senators dared members of President Duterte’s Cabinet on Friday
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 10:17:24 +0000
More than 13 or the majority of 24 senators would vote if the proposed reimposition of the death penalty would be limited to drugs only, Senator Manny Pacquiao said on Wednesday.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 03:10:57 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III rejected on Wednesday the proposal to impose death penalty either by firing squad or hanging for being unconstitutional.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 21:16:57 +0000
An official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Friday urged the candidates leading in the senatorial race
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 00:34:26 +0000
LONDON, United Kingdom – The British government said on Monday it will explore making social media executives personally liable for harmful content published on their platforms, in a raft of new online safety proposals.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 23:28:45 +0000
Business and human rights groups are expressing concern over proposed changes to Hong Kong’s extradition law that would allow suspects to be sent to mainland China, where they could be subject to torture and unfair prosecution.
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