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(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration has said unvaccinated foreigners who need to transact with the bureau may do so in its offices not located inside malls. In a statement, Immigration chief Jaime Morente said this was in compliance with the resolution of the Metro Manila Council (MMC) and a directive announced by the Palace banning unvaccinated people from dining in restaurants and going to such establishments. He added foreigners are covered by the […]
Mindanao affected by easterlies (Eagle News) — The northeast monsoon is affecting Northern Luzon. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, as a result, Ilocos Region, Cordillera Administrative Region, and Cagayan Valley will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, meanwhile, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms, this time due to the easterlies affecting […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Nine people have died and hundreds have fallen ill with diarrhoea in areas of the Philippines wrecked by a typhoon last month, with aid officials warning of a health crisis as millions struggle to secure clean water and food. Three weeks after Typhoon Rai struck southern and central islands, destroying thousands of homes and killing more than 400 people, relief work continues to deliver supplies to stranded residents left homeless […]
JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) — Israel could see up to nearly 40 percent of the population infected by coronavirus during the current wave, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday, as testing facilities nationwide buckled. “Data presented at the cabinet meeting indicates that here, in Israel, between two to four million citizens in total will be infected during this current wave,” Bennett wrote on his Twitter account. A country of just 9.4 million, Israel has seen infections […]
by Ana FERNANDEZ, Ed JONES and Eleonore SENS NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Nine children were among at least 19 people killed and dozens injured when a fire tore through a high-rise apartment building in New York on Sunday in one of America’s worst residential fires in recent memory. Witnesses reported seeing trapped residents screaming for help from windows during the deadly inferno that the city’s fire chief said had been caused by a […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The number of Covid-19 cases soared by nearly two thirds across the world this week, but pandemic-linked deaths continued to drop. Here is the global state of play from an AFP database: – Nearly two million daily cases – The average number of new daily coronavirus cases increased to 1.94 million, a 64 percent increase compared to the previous week, according to an AFP count to Thursday. The confirmed […]
More than 5,000 people have been arrested in Kazakhstan over the riots that have shaken Central Asia’s largest country in the last week, Kazakh authorities were quoted as saying Sunday. In total, 5,135 people have been detained for questioning as part of 125 separate investigations into the unrest, according to the interior ministry quoted by local media. The energy-rich country of around 19 million people has been rocked by a week of riots with dozens […]
by Nina Larson with Shaun Tandon in Washington Russia ruled out Sunday any concession at talks with the United States on soaring tensions over Ukraine as Moscow seeks a wide-ranging new security arrangement with the West but faces strong pressure to pull back troops. Russia’s deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov told Russian news agencies ahead of his talks in Geneva the Kremlin was also “disappointed” with signals coming from both Washington and Brussels, where NATO […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines rose to 2,965,447 on Sunday, Jan. 9, after the Department of Health reported a record-high 28707 additional cases. According to the DOH, all laboratories were operational on Jan. 7 while 14 labs did not submit data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System (CDRS). Of the total cases, 128114 were active. Of these, 4213 were asymptomatic, 119276 were mild, 2851 were moderate, 1465 were severe, and 309 were critical. […]
More than 150,000 people have died after catching coronavirus in the United Kingdom, the government said Saturday, in a tragic milestone for one of the worst affected countries in Europe. Prime Minister Boris Johnson posted a message on Twitter saying: “Coronavirus has taken a terrible toll on our country and today the number of deaths recorded has reached 150,000.” The government reported that deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test had reached 150,057 […]
by Phil HAZLEWOOD Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, turned 40 on Sunday, hitting the milestone as her profile soars alongside her husband, Prince William, the future king. Since marrying into Britain’s most famous family in 2011, the former Kate Middleton has emerged to become one of the most popular royals — and a figure central to its future. Her image as a safe pair of hands, at a tricky time for the monarchy, was boosted at […]
US actor Alec Baldwin insisted Saturday that he was complying with the investigation into the fatal on-set shooting of a cinematographer nearly a month after detectives obtained a warrant for his phone. “Any suggestion that I am not complying with requests or orders or demands or search warrants about my phone, that’s b……t, that’s a lie,” the US actor said in a video message posted on Instagram. He said that authorities in New Mexico, where […]
