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Emma Raducanu’s extraordinary US Open triumph on Saturday led to an explosion of joy in Britain, with Queen Elizabeth II leading the celebrations as the 18-year-old qualifier made tennis history in New York. Raducanu beat 19-year-old Canadian Leylah Fernandez 6-4 6-3 to become Britain’s first women’s Grand Slam singles champion since Virginia Wade at Wimbledon in 1977, and the first player to win a major after coming through a qualifying tournament. “I send my congratulations […]
Several gorillas at Zoo Atlanta in the southern US state of Georgia have tested positive for the Covid-19 virus, the zoo said. The western lowland gorillas were tested after keepers saw them coughing and other symptoms, it said. Initial tests indicated they were positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19 and the zoo said in a statement Friday it was awaiting the results of confirmatory tests from the National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, […]
Afghan women will be allowed to attend university as long as they study separately from men, the Taliban’s new higher education minister said Sunday. Women’s rights in Afghanistan were sharply curtailed under the Taliban’s 1996-2001 rule, though since returning to power last month the hardline Islamists have claimed they will implement a less extreme rule. But speaking to reporters about the new regime’s plans for the country’s education, Minister Abdul Baqi Haqqani was unapologetic about […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte has extended the state of calamity in the country due to the continuing COVID-19 crisis for another year, or until Sept. 12, 2022. In Proclamation No. 1218 signed on Sept. 10 and released by Malacanang on Sunday, Sept. 12, President Duterte extended the COVID-19 state of calamity, until Sept. 12, 2022, “unless earlier lifted or extended as circumstances may warrant.” A previous proclamation, 1021 series of 2020 extended […]
21,411 new COVID cases, 168 deaths added (Eagle News) – The total number of COVID-19 recoveries in the country breached 2 million on Sunday, Sept. 12, with the addition of 25,049 new recoveries, the highest in over four months. This brought the total recoveries to 2,010,271 or 90.3 percent of the total confirmed COVID-19 cases. New COVID cases added were 21,411 pushing the total active cases to 181,951 or 8.2 percent of the total […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Typhoon Chanthu unleashed powerful winds and heavy rain on eastern Taiwan Sunday, disrupting travel links and cutting electricity to some homes but sparing the island a direct hit. Downgraded from a super typhoon since its rapid formation last week, the outer edges of Chanthu pounded the eastern coastline. But the centre of the storm remained out to sea as it moved north, the central weather bureau said. The eastern regions […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The Biden administration declassified an FBI memo Saturday that fortified suspicions of official Saudi involvement with the hijackers in the September 11, 2001 attacks, but it fell well short of proof that victims’ families suing Saudi Arabia had hoped for. The memo from April 4, 2016, which had been classified until now, showed links between Omar Bayoumi, at the time a student but suspected to have been a Saudi […]
(Eagle News) — Typhoon “Kiko” has exited the Philippine Area of Responsibility, but Batanes is still under Signal No. 1. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, the typhoon left PAR at 1:10 p.m. In its 11 a.m. bulletin, PAGASA said the typhoon was packing maximum sustained winds of 175 kph near the center and a gustiness of up to 215 kph. PAGASA said Typhoon “Kiko” will continue to enhance the southwest […]
(Eagle News) — Operations at the Department of Foreign Affairs’ consular offices in Robinsons Galleria, Quezon City, and in Calasiao, Pangasinan located in Robinsons Place are suspended from September 13 to 17. The DFA said this was after 12 personnel–10 from the consular office in Quezon City and two from Calasiao—tested positive for COVID-19. Other personnel assigned to those offices have been identified as close contacts. “As such, both Consular Offices have temporarily suspended operations […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Guillermo Eleazar has ordered a thorough probe into the killings of two anti-drugs operatives in Cabanatuan City on Friday, Sept 10. According to Eleazar, he ordered the Police Region 3 director to look into the motive behind the shooting of Police Staff Sgt. Allan Capinpin, 43; and, Police Staff Sgt. Aries Dichoso, 39, and to identify those responsible for the crime. The two policemen–who were assigned to the […]
(Eagle News) — Travelers from countries and territories on the Philippines’ “green list” do not automatically qualify for entry into the country, the Bureau of Immigration clarified. Bureau Port Operations Division Chief Carlos Capulong said general travel restrictions are still in effect for travelers from the following: American Samoa Anguilla Australia Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Cayman Islands Chad China Comoros Republic of the Congo Djibouti Equatorial Guinea Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Gabon Grenada Hong Kong Hungary […]
(Eagle News) — A 4.5-magnitude earthquake struck off Davao Occidental early Sunday, Sept. 12. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake hit at 4:14 a.m. It had its epicenter 113 kilometers southeast of Jose Abad Santos. The depth of focus was five kilometers. The earthquake, PHIVOLCS said, was of tectonic origin. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
