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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates,, The Emirati Police Support Team initiated its mission to assist French Police in securing the Paris 2024 Olympics, launched on Friday by French President Emmanuel Macron. The UAE participation in securing the Olympic Games, dubbed as ‘the biggest sporting event ever’, underscores its commitment to international cooperation and support for large scale events, to ensure security, safety, and stability of global communities. It also marks a strategic pillar in the UAE’s vision to advancing international peace and security. Emirati police team members underwent extensive training ahead of their deployment to Paris, as they assist French

LAOAG CITY: Some 100 selected stunted children from this city on Wednesday received nutribun and pasteurised milk while their parents underwent nutrition counselling and got food packs and kitchen garden kits. “For 120 days, these children aged 0-5 years old will be supplied with nutribun and pasteurised milk as part of the continuing supplementary feeding program of the provincial government,’ Provincial Nutrition Action Office head Elma Irapta said during the culmination activity of the 50th nutrition month celebration at the Laoag Centennial Arena. The provincial government partnered with a local enterprise being assisted by the Department of Science and Technology’s

MANILA: Former senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Wednesday filed drug smuggling charges before the Department of Justice against Davao City 1st District Rep. Paolo Duterte, former Customs chief Nicanor Faeldon, lawyer Mans Carpio and others over the PHP6.4-billion shabu shipment seized in Valenzuela City in 2017. In a 47-page complaint, Trillanes cited the legislative inquiry held in 2017 at the Senate which led to the filing of criminal charges against Chen Ju Long, aka Richard Tan, and Mark Taguba in connection with the shipment of shabu inside the vessel Guang Ping Voyage No. 1719S which arrived at the Manila International

MANILA: Members of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) nabbed two Chinese nationals during an anti-human trafficking operation inside a suspected illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) facility in Pampanga province on Tuesday. In a report on Wednesday, CIDG chief Maj. Gen. Leo Francisco said the suspects, with aliases “Tiago” and “Tian Zhu” were arrested during the service of seven search warrants issued by the Guagua, Pampanga Regional Trial Court inside a village at the Clark Freeport Zone in Mabalacat City at about 5:30 a.m. Rescued from the operation were 13 Chinese nationals, including two females and three minors.

PARIS, The first big shock of the tennis Olympic tournament occurred in the third round of the women’s singles when a tearful Coco Gauff was beaten 7-6 (9-7), 6-2 by Wimbledon semi-finalist Donna Vekic. Gauff, a US flag-bearer in the opening ceremony, had led 5-2 in the opening set but Croatian Vekic fought back and then broke for 4-2 in the second on a contentious point, the German news agency (dpa) reported. The referee over-ruled a Vekic shot that had been called out and awarded her the point after deciding Gauff, who subsequently missed her shot, had not been affected