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Man behind UK parliament attack charged with attempted murder

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 15 10:31 PM

A British man accused of a terror attack after driving into a barrier protecting the Houses of Parliament faces investigation for attempted murder, police said Wednesday.   Read more »

Car crash outside British parliament

Henry Nicholls, Reuters
Posted at Aug 15 04:56 PM

A sliver Ford Fiesta sideswiped cyclists and pedestrians, in what police are calling a terrorist incident.  Read more »

Police search addresses after suspected terrorist attack at UK parliament

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 15 03:30 PM

Police searched three addresses in central England as part of an investigation into what they said appeared to be a terrorist attack outside Britain's parliament when a man drove a car into pedestrians and cyclists. Read more »

Police probe 'terrorist' car attack outside UK parliament

Robin Millard, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 15 07:17 AM

A car swerved into passers-by then slammed into a barrier protecting Britain's Houses of Parliament in a suspected terror attack on Tuesday.   Read more »

Car hits pedestrians in suspected terrorist attack at UK parliament

Reuters
Posted at Aug 15 12:35 AM

LONDON - A man deliberately drove a car into London pedestrians and cyclists on Tuesday before ramming it into barriers outside Britain's parliament in what appeared to be the second terrorist attack at the building in just under 18 months, police said. Read more »

EU legislator tells De Lima: Your case personally touched me

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 20 11:47 PM

A member of the European Parliament has given his support to detained Sen. Leila de Lima and condemned the government's "political persecution" of the critics of its anti-narcotics campaign. Read more »

EU Parliament to phase out plastic water bottles

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 13 08:55 AM

Strasbourg, France - The European Parliament has told its lawmakers and staff to set an example for EU citizens by no longer drinking water from plastic bottles by next year. Read more »

I'm sorry', Facebook boss tells European lawmakers

Lachlan Carmichael, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of May 23 08:55 AM

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg apologized to the European Parliament on Tuesday for the "harm" caused by a huge breach of users' data and by a failure to crack down on fake news.   Read more »

Facebook boss faces European Parliament over data scandal

Lachlan Carmichael, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 22 08:03 PM

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg faces tough questions later Tuesday at the European Parliament over the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal.   Read more »

Albayalde, nais tumutok sa pagdidisiplina sa mga pulis

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 20 09:12 PM

Pagdidisiplina sa kapulisan ang pangunahing programa ng bagong hepe ng Philippine National Police na si Oscar Albayalde. Read more »

Philippines decries European Parliament's 'interference'

Reuters
Posted at Apr 20 10:02 AM

MANILA - The Philippines decried what it said was interference in its internal affairs by the European Parliament, which urged the Southeast Asian nation in a resolution to end "extrajudicial killings" and abandon plans to reintroduce death penalty. Read more »

Cayetano slams European Parliament resolution seeking end of drug war

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 20 12:39 AM

MANILA - Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano on Thursday lashed out at the European Parliament's latest resolution that called on the Philippines to halt its anti-narcotics campaign. Read more »

EU urges Facebook to 'cooperate fully' in data scandal

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 13 09:21 AM

The European Commission on Thursday called on Facebook to "cooperate fully" with investigators into the scandal over the harvesting of personal data of millions of users which were then shared with the British political consultancy, Cambridge Analytica.   Read more »

Four artworks vanish from French parliament

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 04 08:11 PM

Four works of art have vanished from the walls of France's national assembly, parliamentary officials said Wednesday, prompting a police investigation to track them down. Read more »

British PM's party suspends MP over 'serious allegations'

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 04 10:48 AM

LONDON - Britain's ruling Conservatives suspended an MP Friday over unspecified "serious allegations", as Prime Minister Theresa May announced a new party code of conduct in response to a growing sexual harassment scandal. Read more »

Palace: No directive for EU envoys to leave PH

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 13 06:54 PM

Malacañang on Friday clarified that there is no order expelling European Union ambassadors from the Philippines despite an earlier statement by President Rodrigo Duterte himself.   Read more »

Abe dissolves Japan parliament, calls snap elections

Hiroshi Hiyama and Richard Carter, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 28 02:58 PM

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe officially dissolved parliament Thursday, effectively kicking off a national election campaign where he faces an unexpected and formidable challenge from the popular governor of Tokyo. Read more »

EU welcomes offer to monitor drug war ops: PH envoy

Danny Buenafe, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 26 09:02 PM

The European Union is open to the Duterte administration's offer to install an independent monitoring center in the Philippines to track human rights violations, Manila's special envoy to the international bloc has said. Read more »

'Big Ben' bell to fall silent for four years

Reuters
Posted at Aug 14 05:14 PM

LONDON - The "Big Ben" bell in the British parliament's famous clock tower will cease its regular bongs at noon on Aug. 21, falling silent for most of the next four years while renovation works are carried out, the House of Commons said on Monday. Read more »

EU lawmakers raise concerns on 'deterioration' of human rights in PH

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 21 04:11 PM

European Union parliamentarians who visited the Philippines have raised the alarm over what they claim was a "recent deterioration" of the human rights situation in the country. Read more »