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JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) – Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas made a rare visit to Israel Tuesday for talks with Defence Minister Benny Gantz, that the defence ministry said focused on security and civil matters. Gantz told Abbas that he intended to “continue to promote actions to strengthen confidence in the economic and civilian fields, as agreed during their last meeting,” the ministry statement said. “The two men discussed security and civil matters,” it added. Israeli media […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Wednesday, Dec. 29, said it was “getting concerned” about the recent increase in COVID-19 cases. Acting Presidential Spokesperson Karlo Nograles made the statement a day after the Department of Health urged the public to “remain cautious” about COVID-19 even when fully vaccinated, noting the increase in COVID-19 cases in recent days and the threat of the Omicron variant. The OCTA research group has said that Metro Manila registered an […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) – The Philippines has lifted a four-year ban on new open-pit mines, an official said Wednesday, in a bid to revitalise the country’s coronavirus-battered economy slammed by activists as “short-sighted”. The move sees the Philippine government reverse a ban imposed in 2017, when the then-environment minister blamed the sector for widespread ecological damage. Manila has since reversed course, encouraging mining investments to shore up government revenues as lockdowns and quarantine restrictions ravaged […]
(Eagle News) — Filipinos topped the Philippines’ list of individuals arriving in the country for the holidays. In a statement, the Bureau of Immigration said of the 141,216 Filipinos who arrived, many were overseas Filipino workers. This was followed by Americans with 12,455 arrivals, Canadians with 2,805, and Japanese with 1,645. According to bureau Port Operations Division Chief Carlos Capulong, the numbers remain relatively low, although they were higher than the figures posted during the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The death toll from a shooting spree across multiple locations in Colorado, which ended when the gunman was himself shot dead, has risen to five, police said Tuesday. The trail of shooting began around 5:00 pm on Monday and unfolded across at least four different locations in the cities of Denver and Lakewood, said police, who had initially put the death toll at four. Two women were killed and a […]
by Tony Gamal-Gabriel Agence France-Presse MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) – A budding Iraqi filmmaker yells “action!” as an actress clambers over rubble in Mosul’s Old City, proud students of a nascent film school in the former jihadist bastion. Mosul still bears the scars of the brutal reign of the Islamic State group, who overran the northern Iraqi city in 2014 and imposed their ultra-conservative interpretation of Islamic law. They destroyed everything from centuries-old churches to musical […]
by Khaliun Bayartsogt Agence France-Presse DUNDGOBI, Mongolia (AFP) – Nurse Sodkhuu Galbadrakh clutches a box of Covid-19 vaccines on his lap as he journeys along a bumpy track through a remote region of the Mongolian steppe, going home-to-home to offer booster doses to herders. The country of three million has taken some of the world’s toughest and most enduring measures against the coronavirus pandemic, shutting schools for much of the last two years and closing […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippines has ordered two new warships from South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries, Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Tuesday, modernizing Manila’s navy as it faces a dispute with Beijing in the South China Sea. The Philippine Navy had become run down in recent decades — even featuring US craft from World War II — until President Rodrigo Duterte’s predecessor, Benigno Aquino, began a modest modernization program in 2010. Tuesday’s 28 billion […]
Chilean scientists studying organisms in one of the most remote places on Earth are urging regional leaders to step up efforts to tackle climate change. A recent expedition, which was delayed by a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, sought to investigate harmful organisms and how they are impacting climate change. Chile’s Magallanes region — on the southern tip of South America where the Atlantic and Pacific oceans meet — is known as the “end […]
Hong Kong authorities arrested six current and former staff of local news outlet Stand News on Wednesday on colonial-era charges of “seditious publication”, amid international alarm about the city’s press freedoms. Police said more than 200 uniformed and plainclothes police were deployed to search the publication’s office in the Kwun Tong district. An AFP reporter saw Stand News editor-in-chief Patrick Lam being led into the news outlet’s office building in handcuffs. Stand News is […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police on Tuesday, Dec. 29, reported eight more COVID-19 cases among police personnel. This is the first time the number of daily COVID-19 cases in the police force almost reached the double-digit mark. In recent weeks, the PNP has been reporting from zero to two additional cases. According to the PNP, with the additional eight cases, the PNP COVID-19 tally is now at 42257. Of these, 22 are active. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (AFP) – Former US Senate majority leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada who rose from humble beginnings to lead the upper chamber during the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, has died at the age of 82, officials said Tuesday. Reid, who used his experience in Congress to help Obama steer his landmark Affordable Care Act through the Senate, had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2018. Laconic […]
