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By Rob Lever and Anuj Chopra, with Tommy Wang in Hong Kong WASHINGTON, March 4, 2024 (AFP) – Coined by the World Health Organization to denote a hypothetical future pandemic, “Disease X” is at the center of a blizzard of misinformation that American conspiracy theorists are amplifying — and profiting from. The falsehoods, including that the unknown pathogen indicates an elitist plot to depopulate the earth, appeared to originate in the United States but spilled […]
DHAKA, Feb 29, 2024 (AFP) – At least 44 people were killed and dozens injured after a fire blazed through a seven-storey building in an upscale neighbourhood in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka late Thursday, authorities said. “So far 43 people have died from the fire,” Bangladesh’s health minister Samanta Lal Sen told AFP after visiting the Dhaka Medical College Hospital and an adjoining burn hospital. Police inspector Bacchu Mia said one more person died […]
By Chris Lefkow WASHINGTON, Feb 28, 2024 (AFP) – The execution by lethal injection of a convicted serial killer in Idaho was halted on Wednesday after a medical team was unable to insert an intravenous line. Thomas Creech, 73, was strapped to a table in the execution chamber for an hour as repeated attempts were made to establish an IV line to deliver the lethal drugs, prison officials and witnesses said. Idaho Department of Corrections […]
By Kyoko HASEGAWA TOKYO, Feb 27, 2024 (AFP) – Japanese inflation slowed less than expected to two percent in January, data showed Tuesday, hitting the central bank’s target and firming expectations of an end to its outlier negative rates policy. Other major central banks including the US Federal Reserve have hiked borrowing costs because of rising prices since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine two years ago, and may soon start cutting again. But haunted by […]
(Eagle News)–Fourteen more Filipinos have arrived in the Philippines from Gaza, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. According to the DFA, its Office of the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers’ Affairs, together with the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) and the Manila office of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), welcomed the repatriates on Wednesday, Feb. 21. “Welcoming the repatriates is the last part of the DFA-OUMWA’s assistance regularly extended to distressed Filipinos and their families […]
Nvidia on Wednesday said its profit soared to $12.3 billion in the recently ended quarter on record high revenue driven by demand for its chips to power artificial intelligence. The Silicon Valley chip titan reported record revenue of $22.1 billion in the quarter than ended late January and record high revenue of $60.9 billion for the fiscal year. Profit in the same quarter a year ago was $1.4 billion, while revenue in the same three […]
By Qasim Nauman An international law enforcement operation has taken down dozens of servers and disrupted LockBit, “the world’s most harmful cyber crime group” according to British authorities. LockBit and its affiliates caused billions of dollars in damage and extracted tens of millions in ransom from their victims. Their targets have included banks, mail services and even a children’s hospital. How does LockBit operate? Rather than conduct an entire criminal operation itself, LockBit developed the […]
By Frankie TAGGART WASHINGTON, Feb 14, 2024 (AFP) – Republicans impeached US President Joe Biden’s immigration chief on Tuesday, the culmination of months of attacks on the Democratic administration as they seek to make border security a key issue in November’s election. Conservatives in the House of Representatives, which is narrowly controlled by Republicans, blame Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for a surge in illegal entries from Mexico that they have called a “humanitarian catastrophe.” […]
By Issam AHMED WASHINGTON, Feb 13, 2024 (AFP) – A private Houston-based company is set this week to lead a mission to the Moon which, if successful, will mark America’s first lunar landing since the end of the Apollo era five decades ago. Reputation will be on the line when Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C spaceship will launch atop a SpaceX rocket on Wednesday, following recent completed touchdowns by China, India and Japan. So why entrust such […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 8, 2024 (AFP) – Five agents of an environmental protection body were killed in clashes with police near the Haitian capital Wednesday, as the country is seized by violent protests calling for the ouster of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Haiti has been engulfed in unrest since Monday, with thousands of people in Port-au-Prince and across the country demanding that Henry step down in line with a political agreement forged in 2022. A police […]
By Dylan GAMBA, Ammu KANNAMPILLY NAIROBI, Feb 2, 2024 (AFP) – A truck laden with gas canisters exploded in a densely populated area of the Kenyan capital, setting off a huge blaze that killed three people and injured 280, the government said Friday. The blast ignited a huge ball of fire in a residential area in the southeast of Nairobi, ravaging many properties and vehicles and sending local residents running for their lives. Firefighters managed […]
(Eagle News)–The National Economic Development Authority is eyeing to achieve a 6.5 to 7.5 percent full-year GDP growth rate this year in a bid to ultimately elevate the Philippines to “upper-middle-income-country” status by 2025. Based on World Bank data, the Philippines is currently classified as a lower middle-income country. As of 2022, it had a gross national income per capita of USD3,950. According to NEDA Secretary Arsenio Balisacan, the growth will be supported by “low […]
