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Member-states of the United Nations defy pressure from United States President Donald Trump to reject America’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The vote is delivered after Trump threatened to cut funding to countries that would vote in favor of the motion put forward by Yemen and Turkey and thus go against the US position.
While the vote was a clear majority, there are 34 countries that abstain, among them the Philippines.
In the Philippines, Vinta (Tembin) makes a landfall in Davao Oriental – not Surigao del Sur, as predicted based on its earlier track – but first intensify into a severe tropical storm. It has passed through several provinces in the Visayas and Mindanao that are prone to heavy flooding and landslides.
President Rodrigo Duterte announces a sweeping change in policy governing travels of public officials: stop foreign travels or you’re out.
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The 193-member General Assembly adopted the resolution by 128 to 9 with 35 abstentions, in what Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour called a “massive setback” for the United States.
Over two dozen areas in Mindanao and the Visayas are under signal numbers 1 and 2 early Friday morning, December 22. Vinta (Tembin) made landfall in Cateel, Davao Oriental, before 2 am. Rains still expected in the Visayas and Mindanao, and sea travel remains risky.
The Philippine Coast Guard says 7 passengers remain missing while 240 others have been rescued.
The case against all 4 commissioners stems from the delayed implementation of a competitive bidding process that allegedly allowed Meralco to enter into sweetheart deals.
President Rodrigo Duterte says officials who travel every month should quit. “I do not need you in the executive department.”
Singapore bans a jailed banker from working in its financial services industry for life over his links to the international money-laundering scandal involving neighboring Malaysia’s state fund 1MDB.
The so-called “2G spectrum scam” came to light in 2010, when a government auditor estimated it cost the treasury as much as $39 billion in lost revenues.
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