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SCHOOL YEAR 2025-2026 OPENS AMID BUDGET, CLIMATE CHALLENGES By Vince Lopez and Janos Barbero
READY FOR CLASSES. All is set for today’s classes in the classrooms of Matias A. Fernando Memorial School, left photo, in Angat, Bulacan as school boys get a free haircut, right photo, courtesy of the Las Pinas Host Lions Club 301 in partnership with Pamblings Barbershop in barangay Talon. Edwin Manayao, Dennis Abrina
TRUMP FLEXES US MILITARY MIGHT
NEA RESTORES SIQUIJOR POWER
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AROUND 27 million students are expected to start the new school year today, and the Department of Education (DepEd) has spared no effort to ensure the trouble-free opening of classes, Secretary Sonny Angara said yesterday. “We’re just going to welcome the students, [and] hopefully they’re excited to learn. We’re going to be monitoring them,” the sducation secretary noted. “For the first time, classes are starting again in June. We saw how hard it is when school starts too late, that’s why President Marcos ordered that on June 16th, schools are to be opened. He’ll also be with us as we monitor the
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VOL. XXXIX • NO. 121 • 3 SECTIONS 16 PAGES • P20 • MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2025
Iran missile strike hurts 4 Pinoys Gov’t mulls repatriation efforts as war escalates
By Rex Espiritu, Ram Superable and Vito Barcelo
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OUR unnamed Filipinos were hurt in intense retaliatory bombardment launched by Iran against Israel over the weekend, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported yesterday. In a television interview, DFA Undersecretary Eduardo De Vega said the incident took place in Rehovot City, located some 20 kilometers south of Tel-Aviv. He noted that a group of Filipinos were in a public park when Iranian missiles started falling from the skies, injuring four of them. The DFA official said that 12 other Filipinos were also in the area but were unhurt. Next page
More casualties as Iran-Israeli war further intensifies ISRAEL and Iran traded fire for a third straight day on Sunday, with rising casualties and expanding targets marking a sharp escalation in the conflict between the longtime adversaries. Overnight Iranian strikes killed at least ten people in Israel, adding to the growing toll in both countries since Friday when Israel launched a massive wave of attacks targeting Iranian nuclear and
TIT FOR TAT. Fire blazes on Sunday in the oil depots of Shahran (top
photo), northwest of Tehran, as rescue teams (inset) clear rubble in a neighborhood in the northern Israeli town of Tamra, following an overnight missile attack from Iran, where four people, including a child, were reported killed. Iranian missile fire on Israel killed at least 10 people overnight, authorities said, as the foes exchanged new waves of attacks in their most intense confrontation in history. AFP
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Risa denies she and other colleagues quit Senate Pinoys join ‘No Kings’ demos despite advice by DFA official By Pot Chavez and Ram Superable that “multiple” senators had abruptly edly catching Senate President Francis
stepped down. Escudero off guard. When asked by SENATOR Risa Hontiveros on Sunday The disinformation, which circu- reporters, Escudero neither confirmed firmly denied online rumors that she lated widely on social media, claimed nor denied the rumor. had resigned, rejecting as false news that several senators resigned during The fake report described a dramatic the viral social media claims alleging a supposed political upheaval, allegNext page
FL Liza, sons laud PBBM for being ‘calm in our chaos’
SOME members of the Filipino-American communities joined the “No Kings” demonstrations in the United States on Saturday in support of relatives and friends held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities, according to reports.
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By Vince Lopez, Rio Araja, and Ram Superable FIRST Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos on Sunday shared a photo collage of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. with their children in celebration of Father’s Day. Next page
MEMORIES OF DAYS WITH PBBM. First Lady Liza Marcos-Araneta posted photos of times spent by the President with his three sons Joseph Simon, William Vincent, and Rep. Ferdinand Alexander ‘Sandro’. Liza Marcos/Instagram
‘NO KINGS’ PROTEST. A 20-foot (6m)-tall balloon of US President Donald Trump in a diaper is seen among people taking part in a ‘No Kings’ protest in Los Angeles, California, on June 14, 2025 as Trump presides over a military parade in Washington, DC. AFP