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Mexican aid arrives in quake-hit Haiti

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Two Mexican military aircraft carrying 15.4 tons of food, medicine and water landed in Haiti on Monday following a powerful earthquake that left nearly 1,300 people dead, Mexico’s government said. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Mexico would continue to help Haiti’s impoverished population after yet “another misfortune befell them.” Another shipment of 3.6 tons of emergency aid including blankets, water filters, wheelbarrows and shovels was expected to arrive later […]

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Thousands evacuated in southern France as ‘fierce’ wildfire spreads

MARSEILLE, France (AFP) — Thousands of people, including tourists in campsites, have been evacuated from the Var region of southern France due to a wildfire, a spokeswoman for the fire department told AFP on Tuesday. “Thousands of people have been evacuated as a precautionary measure, but there are no victims. Around 750 firefighters are fighting the fire, which is still very fierce,” she said. © Agence France-Presse

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Japan’s ‘father of Sudoku’ dead at 69

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The man dubbed the “father of Sudoku” for his role in popularizing the numerical brainteaser loved by millions, has died of cancer at 69, his Japanese publisher has announced. In a notice posted Monday, Nikoli said Maki Kaji died at home on August 10 after battling cancer, and a memorial service would be held at a later date. “Mr Kaji was known as the father of Sudoku and was loved by […]

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Colorado basin drought sparks water limits at huge US reservoir

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A huge reservoir that supplies water to tens of millions of people in the Western United States is at such low levels that populations it feeds must reduce their useage next year, the government said Monday. A chronic drought has left huge swathes of the country parched, as man-made climate change forces shifts in the pattern of rainfall. That has left Lake Mead, the largest US artifical reservoir which […]

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Japan to expand virus emergency to battle surge

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s government said Tuesday it will expand a coronavirus state of emergency to seven new regions as it battles a record wave of infections a week before the Paralympic Games. Virus emergency measures that ban restaurants and bars from selling alcohol and require them to close by 8 pm are already in place in Tokyo and five other regions, and had been due to end by August 31. But the government […]

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New Zealand records first local virus case in six months

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — New Zealand recorded its first locally transmitted case of Covid-19 in six months on Tuesday, sparking efforts to trace the origins of the infection as officials pondered a response. The health department said the case was identified in Auckland, the country’s largest city, adding “a link between the case and the border or managed isolation is yet to be established”. It said ministers would meet later Tuesday to determine how […]

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PNP reports four more COVID-19 deaths

(Eagle News) — Four more police officers died due to COVID-19, the Philippine National Police reported on Tuesday, Aug. 17. According to the PNP, PNP patient 93 was a 49-year-old policeman assigned in Central Visayas. On August 2, he tested positive for COVID-19 and was brought to the hospital for medical attention. On August 14, he succumbed due to pneumonia secondary to Covid-19. PNP patient 94 was a 34-year-old policeman assigned in Metro Manila. On […]

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PAGASA: Easterlies affecting PHL

(Eagle News) — The easterlies are affecting the Philippines. As a result, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Visayas, Caraga, Northern Mindanao, and Zamboanga Peninsula will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms are possible. Metro Manila, meanwhile, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers. The rest of the country, PAGASA said, will also have the same conditions. PAGASA […]

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Fresh fires force evacuation of Greek villages

ATHENS, Greece (AFP) — Greek firefighters struggled to control two new blazes that broke out around Athens on Monday, forcing the evacuation of several villages and clouding the sky over the capital as they braced for a long night battling the flames. Greece’s prime minister has linked the devastating fires to the “climate crisis”, speaking last week as wildfires swept across the Mediterranean, engulfing parts of Greece, Italy and Spain. Scores of firefighters battled fresh […]

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MIAA releases list of operational commercial flights for Tuesday, Aug. 17

(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Tuesday, Aug. 17: Flight schedules may change at any given time. MIAA advised passengers to secure confirmation of their flights prior to the scheduled travel. The travel ban on India and nine other countries has been extended. Metro Manila is under an enhanced community quarantine until Aug. 20.      

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Louisiana hospitals overwhelmed by surging Delta variant

by Valentin GRAFF HAMMOND, United States (AFP) — Barely clinging to life, patients in an intensive care unit in Hammond, Louisiana, lie in their beds, gray and emaciated, their faces marked by the tight grip of respirators and the ravages of Covid-19. As cases soar due to the more contagious Delta variant, medical units like the North Oaks Hospital are overwhelmed. Half of the Covid patients there are critical. The southern United States is finding […]

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Israel asks for international help to fight forest fires

JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) — Israeli firefighters battled flames for a second day Monday in the hills west of Jerusalem, forcing the evacuation of five communities and prompting the government to ask for international help. “The Greek foreign minister already said he will help as much as possible,” Foreign Minister Yair Lapid wrote on Twitter. Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat told AFP Greece and Cyprus had agreed to send firefighting planes to Israel. Italy, France and […]

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