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SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — One person died and 17 others were injured Sunday as riot police clashed with protesters in the Chilean capital during a rally by the indigenous Mapuche community. About a thousand activists — many wearing ponchos and traditional headbands, and playing ceremonial drums — marched near Plaza Italia in the center of Santiago, demanding autonomy for the Mapuche. When police moved in to disperse the protest with water cannon and tear gas, protesters […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Dozens of Hong Kong triad members have been arrested in a series of operations targeting gangs using high-powered speedboats to smuggle contraband to the Chinese mainland, police said Monday. Smuggling has been a mainstay of the triad organised crime gangs operating on both sides of the border for years but the phenomenon has surged during the coronavirus pandemic. Police embarked on a crackdown after a marine officer was killed last […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – British pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca on Monday revealed more positive results from a trial of a treatment for Covid-19 symptoms. The drug, made from a combination of two antibodies, achieved a “statistically significant reduction in severe Covid-19 or death” in non-hospitalised patients with mild-to-moderate symptoms, AstraZeneca said in a statement. The group’s treatment, known as AZD7442, has been undergoing phase 3 or final clinical trials to assess its safety and efficacy. […]
by Alfred Acenas (EBC Hawaii-Pacific) Eagle News Service HONOLULU (Eagle News) – The U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) recorded an offshore magnitude-6.2 earthquake southwest of Hawaii’s Big Island on Sunday, October 10, at 11:48am, Hawaii Standard Time (5:48 a.m. Monday, Oct. 11 Manila time) The said phenomenon was centered about 27 kilometers (17 miles) south-southeast of the town of Nāʻālehu at a depth of 35 kilometers (22 miles). The state’s Department […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — New Zealand announced Monday a sweeping “no jab, no job” policy for most healthcare workers and teachers to prevent the spread of Covid-19. “We can’t leave anything to chance so that’s why we are making it mandatory,” said Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins, who is also the education minister. Doctors, nurses and other frontline health workers must be double-jabbed by December 1 while everyone working in the education sector who […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Vaccination is highly effective at preventing severe cases of Covid-19, even against the Delta variant, a vast study in France has shown. The research published Monday — focusing on prevention of severe Covid and death, not infection — looked at 22 million people over 50 and found those who had received jabs were 90 percent less likely to be hospitalised or die. The results confirm observations from the US, the UK […]
by Yelim LEE / Claire LEE SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Simple, sweet, and fictionally fatal: the stallholder who makes the traditional South Korean children’s treat featured in the global cultural phenomenon “Squid Game” — and once associated with post-war poverty — has hit a real-life jackpot. The Netflix smash hit series features a group of South Korea’s most marginalised and deeply in debt, who compete in children’s games for the chance of 45.6 billion […]
Binigyang-diin ni House Speaker Rodante Marcoleta na isang maling layunin at hindi para sa kapakanan ng mamamayang Pilipino kundi para lang sa pansariling interes ang pagkandidato ng ilang kilalang personalidad sa bansa na ang layunin at isinasangkalan sa pagtakbo ay ang maibalik ang prangkisa at operasyon ng ABS-CBN.
Ipinahayag ni House Deputy Speaker Rodante Marcoleta na “parang iniinsulto ang Pilipino” at hindi dapat ikatuwa ng mamamayang Pilipino ang pagkakapili kay Maria Ressa ng Rappler bilang awardee ng Nobel Peace Prize. Ibinatay ni Marcoleta ang kanyang pahayag sa naging karanasan niya sa mga isinulat ng Rappler. “Ituring mo na akong kasama sa mga hindi sumasang-ayon na binigyan siya ng parangal ng Nobel Peace Prize,” ayon pa kay Marcoleta sa programang “Sa Ganang Mamamayan” ng […]
by Julien MIVIELLE Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – For its supporters, nuclear energy is the world’s best — perhaps only — hope to avoid catastrophic climate change. Opponents say it is too expensive, too risky and totally unnecessary. Standing between the two camps are those who see atomic power as a necessary evil that will buy the time needed to develop cleaner and safer alternatives. “We don’t have the luxury of choosing one or […]
(Eagle News) — “Maring” has intensified into a severe tropical storm as it moves westward towards Babuyan Islands, with nine provinces in Northern Luzon placed under signal number 2, according to PAGASA. As of 10 a.m., the center of Severe Tropical Storm “MARING” was estimated at 240 km East of Aparri, Cagayan or 265 km East Southeast of Calayan, Cagayan (18.7°N, 123.9°E). It has maximum sustained winds of 95 km/h near the center and […]
by Shaun TANDON Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (AFP) – Global momentum is building on the climate crisis but action will be impossible without two nations, China and the United States, which together account for more than half of emissions — and whose governments don’t get along. Ahead of the COP26 summit in Glasgow, experts believe that breakthrough US-China cooperation could be the catalyst for a historic agreement on climate change — but also […]
