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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — New Zealand extended a national Covid-19 lockdown Friday as case numbers continued to rise and a Delta variant outbreak spread from Auckland to the capital Wellington. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the initial three-day lockdown, which would have expired overnight Friday, would be extended by another four days. She said New Zealand was still trying to assess the scale of the outbreak, which emerged in Auckland this week, ending the […]
(Eagle News) — Over 200 distressed Filipinos arrived in the Philippines this week from Vietnam, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Friday, Aug. 20. According to the DFA, the 271 Filipinos arrived in the Philippines through a chartered Cebu Pacific flight on August 15. Most of the repatriates were distressed due to economic difficulties brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, while some of them were stranded in Vietnam due to flight cancellations. The department said […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Thursday saluted Albania, Canada, Chile, Mexico and Uganda for agreeing to take in Afghans being evacuated in a major airlift after the Taliban victory. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke by telephone with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, who announced Sunday just as the Taliban were taking over Kabul that he had agreed to a request to accept hundreds of Afghans temporarily on their way to […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Sydney extended its two-month-old lockdown for another month and introduced a partial curfew Friday, as Australia’s largest city struggled to contain a fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak. New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian announced the “difficult” decision, telling the city’s population of five million it was time to “bunker down”. “Unfortunately the case numbers continue to grow,” she said. “This is what life will look like for most of us until the end […]
by Rob Woollard Agence France Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Manny Pacquiao says a change of opponent has not affected his training as he attempts to reclaim his world welterweight crown after a two-year absence from the ring on Saturday. The Filipino boxing icon faces WBA champion Yordenis Ugas at Las Vegas’s T-Mobile Arena in a bout that was put together after his initial opponent, Errol Spence Jr., suffered an eye injury. The […]
by Shingo ITO TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — At a Tokyo cafe, Michio Imai greets a customer, but not in person. He’s hundreds of kilometres away, operating a robot waiter as part of an experiment in inclusive employment. Dawn cafe’s robots are intended to be more than a gimmick, offering job opportunities to people who find it hard to work outside the home. “Hello. How are you?” a sleek white robot shaped like a baby penguin […]
by David FOX KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Defiant protesters waved Afghan flags at scattered rallies Thursday to mark the country’s independence day, as a UN document suggests the Taliban are rounding up people placed on a blacklist for working with the Afghan government, or US-led forces. As the small-scale demonstrations unfolded, the son of the nation’s most famous resistance fighter vowed to take up arms against the Islamist hardliners, who are back in power after […]
(Eagle News) — Over 100 more COVID-19 cases have been reported among police personnel. According to Philippine National Police data, the additional 123 cases pushed the PNP COVID-19 total to 33,034. Recoveries also rose to 31178, including the 179 recoveries. The PNP COVID-19 death toll is now at 99, with the addition of one death. Members of the police force are currently among those being inoculated under the country’s COVID-19 vaccination program as members of […]
CINCINNATI, United States (AFP) — World number two Naomi Osaka suffered one of her worst losses this season on Thursday, falling to Jil Teichmann in a third-round match at the ATP and WTA Cincinnati Masters. The 76th-ranked Swiss took the biggest upset victory of her career, defeating four-time Grand Slam champion Osaka by 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 at the final major US Open tuneup tournament. Teichmann took just over two hours to defeat Osaka, breaking the […]
(Eagle News) — Over 5.3 million students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 level have enrolled for school year 2021-2022 so far, the Department of Education said. According to the DepEd, the 5,356,643 figure was as of Thursday, Aug. 19. The DepEd said the region with the most enrollees so far was Calabarzon with 710,526; followed by Central Luzon with 450,202; and then by Western Visayas with 436,301. Based on DepEd data, 4,557,327 students have enrolled […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — LeBron James is taking issue with a pre-season poll that doesn’t give him a vote in the discussion about who is the NBA’s best player entering the 2021-22 campaign. An ESPN survey of 10 NBA executives and scouts was evenly split between US Olympic hero Kevin Durant of the Brooklyn Nets and Greek star Giannis Antetokounmpo, who led the Milwaukee Bucks to their first NBA crown in 50 years. […]
(Eagle News) – Some three million doses of Sinovac vaccines arrived in the country on Thursday, Aug. 19, becoming the largest delivery of COVID-19 vaccines in a single day. The three million Sinovac doses which were purchased from China arrived just a day after 365,040 doses of Pfizer vaccines arrived in the country. The latest deliveries bring to almost 46 million doses the total vaccines delivered so far. The Philippine Airlines aircraft carrying the […]
