INQToday: Missing Philippine Air Force fighter jet found in Bukidnon mountain; two pilots dead
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Missing Philippine Air Force fighter jet found in Bukidnon mountain; two pilots dead
The missing FA-50 fighter jet of the Philippine Air Force was found in the Kalatungan mountain range in Bukidnon province.
Lt. Col. Salvacion Evangelista, spokesperson of the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ Eastern Mindanao Command, gave journalists this news in a press briefing in Davao City on Wednesday morning.
‘No amount of signatures’ can make Escudero rush VP’s impeachment trial
Senate President Francis “Chiz” Escudero is standing firm against rushing the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, saying that “no amount of signatures will amend the law nor convince me to violate it.”
He was reacting to the reported one million signature campaign initiated by the People’s Impeachment Movement which is composed of various religious groups and sectoral representatives.
Article continues after this advertisementThe Philippines completed another rotation and reprovisioning (RORE) mission to the BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin Shoal on Tuesday, according to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
Article continues after this advertisementAFP public affairs office chief Col. Xerxes Trinidad said the March 4 RORE mission marks the fifth consecutive troop mission in the region “without any untoward incident.”
Pope Francis passed a calm day in hospital Tuesday with no repeat of the previous day’s respiratory crises, but the 88-year-old will wear an oxygen mask overnight, the Vatican said.
The head of the Catholic Church has been in Rome’s Gemelli hospital since February 14 for treatment of double pneumonia in both lungs.
Inflation slowed to 2.1 percent in February from 2.9 percent in January on the back of easing price pressures from food, utilities and transportation, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Wednesday.
The latest reading was better than the median estimate of 2.6 percent in an Inquirer poll of economists last week. It was likewise lower than the 2.2 percent to 3 percent forecast range of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).
