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(Eagle News) — Around P374,000 worth of illegal drugs were seized in a buy-bust operation in Bacolod City, the Philippine National Police said on Tuesday, March 15. According to the PNP, also arrested in the buy-bust operation in Purok Tinagong Paraiso, Zone 3, Barangay Banago was Carlo Jordan Arevalo, 24. The PNP said apart from the more or less 55 grams of suspected shabu, one coin purse, one digital weighing scale, one notebook, one box […]
by Dmitry ZAKS / Dave CLARK Agence France Presse KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) –A series of powerful explosions rocked residential districts of Kyiv early Tuesday killing two people, just hours before talks between Ukraine and Russia were set to resume. At least three large blasts were heard from the centre of the capital, sending columns of smoke high into the sky. As dawn broke the damage became clear, with one strike hitting a large 16-storey […]
(Eagle News) — Metro Manila will remain under Alert Level 1 until March 31, Malacanang said on Tuesday, March 15, which also declared 47 other areas under Alert Level 1 until the end of the month. The Inter-Agency Task Force made the decision on Tuesday, March 15. Aside from the National Capital Region, also under Alert Level 1 are the following: For Luzon- Cordillera Administrative Region: Abra, Apayao, Baguio City and Kalinga; Region I: […]
NABLUS, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – Israeli troops killed two Palestinians in separate shootings in the occupied West Bank Tuesday, the latest in a flurry of deadly clashes as a US envoy tours the region seeking to ease tensions. A 16-year-old died in an exchange of fire with troops carrying out an arrest raid outside the northern city of Nablus, the Palestinian health ministry and Israeli security forces said. Separately, a Palestinian in his twenties was […]
by Beiyi SEOW Agence France Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — China does not want to be impacted by Western economic sanctions on Russia, state media reported Tuesday, as pressure grows on Beijing to withdraw support from an isolated Moscow. Beijing has refused to condemn its close ally Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, while blaming the United States and NATO’s “eastward expansion” for worsening tensions. Moscow and Beijing have grown closer in recent times, […]
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — The Brazilian government on Monday assured the United States it will increase its oil production, a decision that could help ease concerns over global crude supply after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Bento Albuquerque, Brazil’s minister of Mines and Energy, said he had spoken with his US counterpart, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, and confirmed that Brazil would seek to increase its oil output. “She asked me if Brazil could be […]
Davao City mayor Sara Duterte leads VP surveys, while Manila Mayor Isko Moreno is top “second choice” presidential bet (Eagle News) – Former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., led the latest Pulse Asia Survey among the 2022 presidentiables, while his running mate, Davao City mayor Sara Duterte topped the vice-presidential bets in terms of current voter preference. Marcos Jr., got 60 percent of the country’s registered voters who participated in the survey conducted from February […]
SHANGHAI, China (AFP) – A Shanghai pedestrian swarmed by hazmat-clad health officials, police tape wrapped around entire blocks, and panic buying at a Shenzhen shopping centre: China is returning to virus controls many hoped it had long left behind. The country is facing its worst Covid-19 outbreak since the first wave of the pandemic emerged in Wuhan in late 2019. While the daily caseload is comparatively small, around 5,300 were recorded on Tuesday, the Omicron […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) – Strikes on residential areas in Kyiv killed at least two people early on Tuesday, emergency services said, as Russian troops intensified their attacks on the Ukrainian capital. Two bodies were pulled from the rubble after a strike on a 16-storey building in the Sviatoshynsky district, the emergency service said in a Facebook post, adding that 27 people had been rescued from the site. Another residential building in the Podilsk area also […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A three-year-old American child accidentally shot and killed his mother while playing with a gun in the suburbs of Chicago, police said Monday. The tragedy, all too common in the United States, took place on Saturday evening in the parking lot of a supermarket in Dolton, a suburb of the Midwestern city. The young boy was sitting in the child-seat in the back of a car, with his parents in […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Coast Guard on Tuesday, March 15, announced a minor reshuffle in the organization. According to the PCG, CG Commodore Nelson B Torre is the new Deputy Commander of the PCG’s Maritime Security and Law Enforcement Command. Torre was replaced by CG Commodore Allen J Dalangin as CG K-9 Force commander. Prior to his new designation, Dalangin served as the Deputy Chief of Coast Guard Staff for Intelligence, CG-2. During the […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Nearly 30 million people were under lockdown across China on Tuesday, as surging virus cases returned mass tests and hazmat suited health officials to city streets on a scale not seen since the start of the pandemic. China reported 5,280 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, more than double the previous day’s tally as the highly-transmissible Omicron variant spreads across a country that has tethered tightly to a ‘zero-Covid’ strategy. That approach, […]
