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PAGASA: Shear line affecting eastern portions of S. Luzon, Visayas

(Eagle News) — The shear line is affecting the eastern sections of Southern Luzon and Visayas. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, the northeast monsoon is also affecting Northern and Central Luzon. PAGASA said Eastern Visayas, Bicol Region, MIMAROPA, Caraga, Davao Region, Aklan, Capiz, Quezon, and Aurora will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms as a result. Flash floods or landslides due to moderate to at times heavy […]

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Sri Lanka completes return of illegal waste to Britain

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) – Sri Lanka shipped out to Britain on Monday the last of several hundred containers filled with thousands of tonnes of illegally imported waste, officials said. Several Asian countries have in recent years been pushing back against an onslaught of refuse from wealthier nations and have started turning back unwanted shipments. The waste from Britain arrived in Sri Lanka between 2017 and 2019 and was listed as “used mattresses, carpets and […]

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Mining firms targeting Brazil indigenous lands: report

RIO DE JANERIO, Brazil (AFP) – Major mining companies are seeking to expand to currently protected indigenous lands in the Amazon rainforest, bolstered by billions of dollars in financing from international banks and investment firms, a report found Tuesday. Nine mining giants including Brazil’s Vale, Britain’s Anglo American and Canada’s Belo Sun have filed applications seeking authorization to mine on indigenous reservations in Brazil — even though that is currently illegal, said the report by […]

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Only nine percent of plastic recycled worldwide: OECD

PARIS, France (AFP) – Less than 10 percent of the plastic used across the world is recycled, the OECD said Tuesday, calling for “coordinated and global solutions” ahead of expected talks on an international treaty on the issue. A new report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development report found that 460 million tonnes of plastics were used last year, the number nearly doubling since 2000. The amount of plastic waste had more than doubled […]

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Blinken cancels meeting with Lavrov on Ukraine

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday he had cancelled a planned meeting with Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov later this week, as Russia had started an invasion of Ukraine. “Now that we see the invasion is beginning and Russia has made clear its wholesale rejection of diplomacy, it does not make sense to go forward with that meeting at this time,” Blinken said. Blinken and Lavrov were to […]

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Gunman takes people hostage at Amsterdam Apple store

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — A man with a firearm walked into an Apple store in central Amsterdam late Tuesday and was holding people hostage, police said, adding that several of them had been released. “There is an ongoing hostage situation at the Apple Store at Leidseplein at the moment,” the city police force said on Twitter. “Since the start of the hostage taking … several people have managed to leave the store,” the they […]

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Biden says US will continue to supply ‘defensive’ weapons to Ukraine

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Joe Biden said Tuesday the United States would continue to supply “defensive” weapons to Ukraine against a Russian invasion and deploy US troops to reinforce NATO allies in Eastern Europe. “I have authorized additional movements of US forces and equipment, already stationed in Europe, to strengthen our Baltic allies, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania,” Biden said in a televised speech at the White House. “Let me be clear, these […]

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Putin says deployment of troops to Ukraine depends on ‘situation on the ground’

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that his decision to send troops to eastern Ukraine would depend on the situation on the ground. “I didn’t say that the troops would go there right after our meeting with you here,” he told reporters. “Secondly, it’s impossible to predict any specific outline of possible actions at all, it depends on the specific situation that is developing on the spot, on the ground.” oc/as/yad © Agence France-Presse

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NATO warns Russia readying for ‘full-scale attack’ on Ukraine

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday that Russian forces continue to prepare for a potential attack on Ukraine after Moscow recognised two separatist regions as independent. “Every indication is that Russia continues to plan for a full-scale attack on Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said after an urgent meeting with Ukraine’s envoy. “We see that more and more of the forces are moving out of the camps and are in combat formations and ready to strike.” Stoltenberg said […]

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Putin says Ukraine peace agreement ‘does not exist’ anymore

  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Western-brokered peace agreements seeking to end a conflict in eastern Ukraine no longer existed, after he recognised the independence of the ex-Soviet country’s separatist regions. “The Minsk agreements do not exist now, we recognised the DNR and LNR,” Putin said, using the abbreviations for the separatist regions in Donetsk and Lugansk. He spoke after Russia’s upper house of parliament granted him permission to use the Russian army […]

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UN says ‘race against time’ as new storm nears Madagascar

The UN warned Tuesday that authorities and aid workers were racing against the clock to protect people as Madagascar braces for its fourth tropical storm in as many weeks. Cyclone Emnati is expected to make landfall on southern Madagascar Tuesday evening — just weeks after the island was lashed by Cyclone Batsirai on February 5, affecting some 270,000 people and claiming 120 lives. At the same time, some 21,000 people still remain displaced from when […]

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Germany halts controversial Russian pipeline project

by Femke COLBORNE Germany on Tuesday put on ice the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline in response to Moscow’s recognition of two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine, finally halting the 10-billion-euro project that has long irked allies. Berlin had over the years doggedly pursued the pipeline which was set to double natural gas import capacity from Russia, despite opposition from the United States and Eastern Europe which fear it would leave the continent too dependent […]

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