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SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) – Chile said Saturday it is creating a vast national park to protect hundreds of glaciers that are melting due to climate change. The new National Glacier Park will cover 75,000 hectares of Andes mountain land about 60 kilometers (40 miles) from the capital Santiago, President Sebastian Pinera said at a ceremony announcing its creation. “We are managing to protect 368 glaciers,” the president said. These masses of permanent ice hold 32 […]
FRANKFURT, Germany (AFP) – Germany’s finance and foreign ministers cautioned Sunday against banning Russian energy imports as the West searches for ways to tighten the screws on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine. With his country fighting for its existence two weeks since the incursion, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky has urged his Western allies to levy additional sanctions against Moscow, including boycotting its lucrative oil and gas sector. Earlier Sunday, chief US diplomat Antony Blinken said […]
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AFP) – Two subsidiaries of Swiss mining company Solway Investment Group hid reports of pollution in an indigenous area of northeastern Guatemala, an international consortium of media companies said Sunday. The “Mining Secrets” investigation — in which 65 journalists from 15 countries participated — also accused Solway subsidiaries Guatemalan Nickel Company (CGN) and PRONICO of intimidation and influence peddling. The investigation run by the Forbidden Stories NGO “reveals the strategies that Solway […]
(Eagle News) — Authorities seized P6.4 million worth of shabu in a buy-bust operation in Naga, the Philippine National Police said. According to the PNP, also arrested in the operation on C5 Road, Barangay Mabolo, on Friday, March 4, were Hiroji Tesorero, 39; and Froilan Teves, 41. The 900 grams of shabu worth P6,420,000, the PNP said, were contained in a backpack. “Tuloy-tuloy ang matagumpay na operasyon ng ating kapulisan upang wakasan ang iligal na […]
(Eagle News) — A 4.0-magnitude earthquake struck off Davao Oriental early Monday, March 7. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, the quake hit at 3:09 am. It had its epicenter 80 kilometers southeast of Tarragona. The depth of focus was nine kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
by Chris Stein Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (AFP) – Bill Suan bought his family’s cattle farm in the mountains of West Virginia a decade-and-a-half ago with little thought for the two gas wells drilled on the property — but then they started leaking oil onto his fields and sickening his cows. After taking the operator to court, Suan was successful in plugging one well, but the company has since disappeared, leaving him to […]
(Eagle News) — Cloudy skies and rains are expected in parts of the country on Monday, March 7. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, the cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms will be experienced, in particular, in Bicol Region, Visayas, Caraga, Northern Mindanao, Zamboanga Peninsula, Davao Region, Marinduque, and Romblon. PAGASA said this was due to the low pressure area located 135 kilometers east northeast of Hinatuan in Surigao […]
JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel’s premier said Sunday his country had a “moral obligation” to help stem fighting in Ukraine even if chances of success were “not great”, after shuttle diplomacy that saw him visit the Kremlin. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met for three hours with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Saturday, before flying to Berlin to meet Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The Israeli premier, acting after Kyiv requested him to launch a […]
“I just pray to God that this will not really go out of control,” says 76-year old PHL leader (Eagle News) – Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte stressed the delicate situation the world faces due to the threat of nuclear war in case tensions further escalate between Ukraine and Russia that could spill over to the rest of Europe and the world. Duterte said he is just praying that things would not go out of […]
(Eagle News)–COVID-19 cases in the Philippines rose to 3,667,542 on Sunday, March 6, after the Department of Health reported 870 additional cases. According to the DOH, of the 870 new cases, 799 occurred within the recent 14 days. The top regions with the most additional COVID-19 cases in the recent two weeks were Metro Manila, with 212; Region IV-A with 126; and Region 6 with 80. Of the total detected COVID-19 cases in the Philippines, […]
ORAN, Argentina (AFP) — A retired Argentine bishop seen as close to Catholic Church’s Pope Francis was sentenced on Friday to four and a half years in prison for sexually abusing two seminarians. A court in the northwestern town of Oran, where Gustavo Oscar Zanchetta was bishop from 2013 to 2017, ordered his immediate detention. The 57-year-old Zanchetta, who had traveled from the Vatican for the trial, was convicted of “simple, continued and aggravated […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) – Argentina and the IMF said Thursday they had reached agreement on a “pragmatic and realistic” plan for the country to repay a ruinous $44-billion debt. The economy ministry in Buenos Aires announced that a deal was struck on refinancing its debt in a way that “seeks to continue generating conditions of stability.” The deal — the details of which were ironed out between Argentine officials and IMF […]
