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Reggie Jackson scored a team-high 21 points, Terance Mann delivered 16 points and 10 rebounds and the Los Angeles Clippers routed the hapless Detroit Pistons 107-96 on Friday. Eric Bledsoe busted out of a slump to score 15 points for the Clippers, who have won just three of their last seven games. Bledsoe had been averaging just 5.2 points over the previous five games. Paul George added 12 points, Ivica Zubac finished with 10 points […]
Legendary Broadway songwriter Stephen Sondheim, widely credited with revolutionizing American musical theater, died Friday at the age of 91. Rick Miramontez, the publicist for the ongoing Broadway production of Sondheim’s musical “Company,” confirmed to AFP that the musical theater titan had passed away. Sondheim’s attorney F. Richard Pappas said Sondheim — known for works including “West Side Story” and “Sweeney Todd” — died suddenly in his Roxbury, Connecticut home the day after celebrating Thanksgiving […]
by Paul RICARD Agence France Presse It is, scientists say, the most worrying Covid-19 variant since delta and perhaps ever. Here is what we know — and what we don’t — about the strain thought to have originated in Southern Africa. – How worrying? “This one is worrying and I’ve not said that since delta,” British virologist Ravi Gupta said on Twitter, about the variant labelled B.1.1.529. Concerns among disease experts stem from the variant’s […]
by Agnès PEDRERO Next week’s World Trade Organization ministerial conference, the global trade body’s biggest gathering in four years, was postponed at the last minute Friday due to the new Omicron Covid-19 variant. The WTO hoped the four-day gathering in Geneva would breathe new life into the crippled organisation, which has been stuck for years trying to make progress on resolving issues like fishery subsidies. New director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was also hoping, against the odds, […]
The new Covid variant, dubbed Omicron and originally detected in South Africa, poses a “high to very high” risk to Europe, the EU health agency warned on Friday. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) noted in a threat assessment report that there was still “considerable uncertainty related to the transmissibility, vaccine effectiveness, risk for reinfections and other properties of the Omicron variant.” However, the overall risk that Omicron posed to the European […]
The bodies of three people have been discovered in a burnt-out building in the Solomon Islands capital Honiara, police said Saturday, the first reported deaths after days of rioting. The charred bodies were discovered in a store in the Chinatown district of Honiara, with a security guard telling AFP he found the bodies in two rooms late Friday. Police said forensic teams had launched an investigation and were still on the scene but that the […]
The World Health Organization on Friday declared the recently-discovered B.1.1.529 strain of Covid-19, first detected in southern Africa, to be a variant of concern and renamed it Omicron. The classification puts Omicron into the most-troubling category of Covid-19 variants, along with the globally-dominant Delta, plus its weaker rivals Alpha, Beta and Gamma. Nations rushed to ban flights to slow the spread of Omicron on Friday, while stock markets and oil prices plunged on fears […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Quarantine has been directed to locate travelers from South Africa, Botswana, and other countries with reported cases of the new COVID-19 variant or with a likelihood of such occurrences who may have arrived in Philippines prior to the temporary suspension of travelers. According to Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, the BOQ shall attempt to find travelers also from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini, and Mozambique, which are adjacent to South Africa […]
(Eagle News) — A 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck off Surigao del Norte on Saturday, Nov. 27. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, the quake hit at 7:14 a.m. Its epicenter was 20 kilometers northeast of Burgos. The depth of focus was one kilometer. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
(Eagle News) — Cloudy skies and rains are expected in parts of the country on Saturday, Nov. 27. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, Cagayan Valley, Aurora, Quezon, Davao Region, Caraga, Northern Mindanao and Palawan, in particular, will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms due to the shear line affecting the eastern sections of Northern and Central Luzon. Flash floods or landslides during moderate to at times heavy […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines has temporarily banned inbound international flights from South Africa and other countries with reported cases of the B.1.1.529 variant or with a likelihood of such variant cases. According to Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, the temporary ban on travelers also from Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini, and Mozambique, which are near South Africa, is in effect immediately until Dec. 15. Nograles said passengers coming from or who have been to those countries within […]
Total active cases at 17,853 or 0.6 percent of total COVID cases (Eagle News) – The Philippines reported 863 new COVID-19 cases, the second lowest number of new cases in a day for this month. The single-day lowest number of new cases was 849 recorded last Nov. 16. Total active cases reached 17,853 as of Friday, November 26, or just 0.6 percent of total COVID cases for the third straight day. This is so […]
