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JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) – Israeli police clashed with Palestinians in the flashpoint east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah on Sunday, as a visit by a controversial far-right Jewish lawmaker inflamed tensions. Police said two people were arrested as they tried to contain “a violent riot”, in the area of annexed east Jerusalem that has emerged as a symbol of Palestinian resistance against Israeli control of the city. Scuffles broke out as Itamar Ben Gvir of the […]
(Eagle News) — The shear line is affecting extreme Northern Luzon. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, Cagayan Valley, as a result, is expected to have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides due to moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Ilocos Region and Cordillera Administrative Region, meanwhile, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains. Metro Manila and the rest […]
by Nina LARSON Agence France-Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) – The Swiss voted on Sunday to tighten their notoriously lax tobacco laws by banning virtually all advertising of the hazardous products. Nearly 57 percent of voters and 16 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons backed the near-total tobacco advertising ban, final results showed. “We are extremely happy. The people understood that health is more important than economic interests,” Stefanie De Borba of the Swiss League against Cancer, told […]
by Levi FERNANDES Agence France-Presse PAMPILHOSA DA SERRA, Portugal (AFP) – In central Portugal, a sustained drought has revealed the ruins of a village that was totally submerged underwater when a large reservoir was created nearly 70 years ago. “I have never seen that!” says Carlos Perdigao, 76, as he gazes at the ruined stone houses of Vilar which were swallowed up by the Zezere river when a dam was opened in 1954. Vilar stands […]
Total Covid-19 recoveries breach 3.5 million (Eagle News) — The Philippines reported its lowest number of new Covid-19 cases and lowest positivity rate this year at 3,050, and 11.7 percent, respectively, on Sunday, February 13. New recoveries hit 5,811, which again were more than the recorded new Covid cases. Because of this, the total active cases in the country went down to 81,394. This is 2.2 percent of the total confirmed Covid-19 cases since […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s airforce said Sunday that it had recovered the body of one of two crewmen of a fighter jet that went missing two weeks ago. The F-15 fighter jet was on a training mission on January 31 when it disappeared from radar shortly after taking off from Komatsu airbase in the central Ishikawa region, sparking a search for its missing crew. The airforce said a body was found on Friday by […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — At least 10 Indonesians died after tidal waves swept away a group of people meditating on a beach during Sunday’s early hours, police said. The group of 23 people was holding hands and meditating on Payangan beach, East Java province, shortly after midnight. “They were too close to the sea and could not save themselves when the tidal waves came and swept them away,” local police chief Hery Purnomo told […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — A Russian anti-submarine destroyer chased off a US submarine near the Kuril Islands, forcing it to leave the country’s territorial waters, Moscow said Saturday, amid rising tensions over Ukraine. The US military however denied the account. Russia’s defence ministry said that during planned military drills the Marshal Shaposhnikov destroyer had detected a US Navy Virginia-class submarine in Russian territorial waters near the Kuril Islands in the northern Pacific. When the […]
(Eagle News)–Philippine Coast Guard officers, enlisted personnel and civilian employees can now avail of free train rides at all Light Rail Transit-2 stations from Antipolo, Rizal to Recto, Manila. According to the PCG, this was after the PCG partnered with the Light Rail Transit Authority to uphold public transport, safety and security in Metro Manila. Under the memorandum of agreement signed by both parties, PCG personnel shall reinforce security measures in LRT-2 stations and help […]
(Eagle News)–Authorities seized over P2.6 million worth of shabu in a buy-bust operation in Negros Occidental, the Philippine National Police said over the weekend. According to the PNP, also arrested during the buy-bust operation in Barangay 21, Victorias City, were Jesther T. Soquena, 46, and Biboy Dacumos. Apart from the more or less 390 grams of shabu worth P2,652,000, seized from the suspects was a Toyota Vios they used to transact with the police poseur […]
(Eagle News)–The northeast monsoon is affecting Northern Luzon. As a result, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Batanes will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides due to moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, meanwhile, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers and thunderstorms. The eastern sections of Visayas and Mindanao will […]
OSLO, Norway (AFP) — Norway on Saturday lifted its final Covid restrictions, scrapping social distancing and masks in crowded spaces despite a surge in Omicron infections. “The metre is disappearing. We are taking away the recommendation on social distancing,” Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store told reporters at a press conference. “Now we can now socialise like we did before, in nightlife, at cultural events and other social occasions. And on the way to and […]
