Breaking News, Latest Philippines Headlines, World, Entertainment, Politics, Weather & Video News
by David FOX KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Western security forces were involved in an exchange of fire with unidentified gunmen Monday at Kabul airport, as US President Joe Biden sought to speed up the chaotic evacuation of tens of thousands of people from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. One Afghan was killed and three others were injured in a dawn firefight that according to the German military erupted between Afghan guards and unknown assailants. German and American troops […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration will soon launch an ACR I-Card checking system for foreign passengers so they can enter and exit the country with more ease, the bureau said. In a statement, Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said the bureau’s automated travel control system will be integrated with its database of issued alien certification of registration identity cards (ACR I-Cards), and will be pilot-tested at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport terminal 3 before […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — New Zealand extended a national Covid-19 lockdown Monday, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern saying a Delta variant outbreak has yet to peak. Ardern said the rapid spread of the highly transmissible variant meant it was too early to lift restrictions imposed last week after a virus cluster emerged in Auckland, ending a six-month run of no local cases. “Delta had a head start on us and we’ve needed to catch […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China reported no new domestic coronavirus cases Monday, and Beijing appears poised to bring to heel the pandemic’s most serious resurgence in months — driven by the highly contagious Delta variant — with mass testing and targeted lockdowns. The latest outbreak, which began in mid-July when cleaners at a Nanjing airport tested positive, is the most severe since Covid-19 first surfaced in the central city of Wuhan. Over a thousand people […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Bitcoin broke back above $50,000 on Monday for the first time in three months as investors piled back into the cryptocurrency on bargain-buying. The unit climbed around two percent to $50,249.15, its highest since mid-May, when it began tumbling on a range of issues including China’s crackdown on cryptocurrencies and Tesla boss Elon Musk’s decision to stop accepting it on concerns about the environmental impact of mining. The electric car […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Devastating floods in the southern US state of Tennessee have left at least 21 people dead and dozens missing, local officials said Sunday in what they warned was a preliminary toll. Tennessee was hit Saturday by what meteorologists called historic storms and flooding, dumping 15 inches (38 centimeters) or more of rain. Rural roads, state highways and bridges were washed out and widespread power outages affected thousands of […]
by Peter HUTCHISON NEW YORK, United States (AFP0 — Tropical Storm Henri slammed into Rhode Island on the US east coast Sunday, knocking out power to thousands of Americans, uprooting trees and bringing record rainfall before weakening as it moved across New England. The storm — earlier downgraded from a Category 1 Hurricane — hit land near the town of Westerly at approximately 12:15 PM (1615 GMT), the National Weather Service said. Henri is a […]
(Eagle News) — Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Lt. Gen. Jose Faustino Jr. has tested positive for COVID-19 in an antigen test. According to AFP spokesperson Colonel Ramon Zagala, the results of Faustino’s RT-PCR test will be released within the day. So far, he said the AFP chief was “isolating.” Faustino replaced General Cirilito Sobejana on July 31 after he reached the mandatory age of retirement.
(Eagle News)–Senator Lito Lapid has tested positive for COVID-19. Lapid’s chief of staff Jericho Acedera said in a statement that the senator was currently undergoing treatment at the Medical City Clark in Mabalacat, Pampanga. Acedera said the doctors consider Lapid’s case as “mild to moderate.” He said all those who came in close contact with him already took the necessary tests and have been instructed to comply with existing COVID-19 protocols. According to Acedera, only […]
(Eagle News) — Quarantine control points will still be in place across borders in Metro Manila for the duration of the modified enhanced community quarantine, the Philippine National Police said. According to the PNP, the control points will be manned and supervised by policemen to ensure the restrictions for the duration of the community quarantine are followed. He said the new quarantine did not mean that non-eligible individuals could already cross borders, noting that authorized […]
(Eagle News) — Only 32 Filipinos remain in Afghanistan as the Department of Foreign Affairs continues its repatriation efforts. According to the DFA, this was after 16 more Filipinos left Kabul via a military flight and are now in the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, 13 repatriates are now in Oslo, Norway; while one landed in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and one in Kuwait. Twenty-two Filipinos are so far requesting company or government repatriation. Eight, the DFA said, registered […]
(Eagle News) — The southwest monsoon is affecting the western sections of Southern Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. As a result, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Western Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula, Palawan, Occidental Mindoro, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms are possible. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, meanwhile, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies […]
