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Malaysian PM to offer resignation Monday: minister

Malaysia’s embattled leader will offer his resignation to the king Monday, a minister said, potentially spelling an end to his 17-month-old government and plunging the country into fresh turmoil. Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has faced mounting pressure to step aside after losing his parliamentary majority, and over his administration’s handling of a worsening coronavirus outbreak. He made a last-ditch attempt to cling to power Friday by urging opposition MPs to support him in exchange for […]

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At least 20 killed in Lebanon fuel tanker explosion

At least 20 people were killed and nearly 80 others wounded when a fuel tanker exploded in Lebanon’s northern region of Akkar, the Red Cross and state media said on Sunday. The tragedy heaped new misery on a country already suffering from an economic crisis and severe fuel shortages that have crippled hospitals and caused long power cuts. “Our teams have transported 20 dead bodies … from the fuel tanker explosion in #AKKAR to hospitals […]

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No survivors of Turkey fire-fighting plane crash as floods kill 55

Turkey battled disaster on two fronts on Saturday with eight people dying when a fire-fighting aircraft crashed and rescuers racing to find survivors of flash floods in the north that have killed at least 55. Ankara and Moscow announced that all eight people on the Russian plane had perished on the fire-fighting mission. The air tragedy came just as Turkey was gaining control of hundreds of wildfires that killed eight people and destroyed swathes of […]

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Ivory Coast records first case of Ebola: health minister

Ivory Coast has recorded a first case of Ebola, the health minister announced late Saturday, the first occurence of the deadly disease in nearly three decades. Officials at the Institut Pasteur had confirmed the case after testing samples taken from an 18-year-old Guinean woman, Health Minister Pierre N’Gou Demba said on RTI state television. She had left the city of Labe in Guinea by road, arriving in Ivory Coast on Wednesday, he added. “This is […]

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Japan braces for more rain after floods, landslides

Japan braced for further downpours on Sunday as rescuers sifted through flood and landslide damage after record rain that left at least three dead. Residents returned to check on their mud-covered homes in the southwest, where nearly two million people were advised to urgently seek shelter Saturday as rivers overflowed. “So many logs tumbled down and crashed into this area” from nearby mountains, an elderly resident of Kanzaki in Saga prefecture told public broadcaster NHK. […]

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Taliban capture Jalalabad: residents; Kabul only major Afghan city in govt control

The Taliban raced closer to a complete military takeover of Afghanistan on Sunday after capturing more major cities, leaving only the isolated capital Kabul for them to conquer. The insurgents took  control of the key eastern city of Jalalabad on Sunday, just hours after the seizing the northern anti-Taliban bastion of Mazar-i-Sharif — furthering an astonishing rout of government forces and warlord militias achieved in just 10 days. “We woke up this morning to the […]

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Haiti searches for survivors after quake kills at least 304

  Rescue workers scrambled to find survivors after a powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti early Saturday, killing at least 304 and toppling buildings in the disaster-plagued Caribbean nation still recovering from a devastating 2010 quake. The epicenter of the shaking, which rattled homes and sent terrified locals scrambling for safety starting around 8:30 am (1230 GMT), was about 100 miles (160 kilometers) by road west of the center of the densely populated capital Port-au-Prince. Churches, […]

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QC gov’t files raps vs two who got COVID-19 booster shots

(Eagle News) — The Quezon City government has charged two individuals for getting a third COVID-19 vaccine shot in the city even if they had already been fully vaccinated in another. In a statement, the local government said one of those charged before the City Prosecutors Office received his second Sinovac dose in Mandaluyong City on May 10, but still received a Moderna shot in Quezon City last week. The other, the local government said, […]

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Passengers with “mere layover” in 10 countries on PHL travel ban list to be allowed entry: Immigration bureau

Arriving Filipinos under repatriation programs from those countries to be allowed to enter PHL, too (Eagle News) — Passengers who had a “mere layover” in the ten countries on the Philippines’ travel ban list will still be allowed to enter the country, the Bureau of Immigration clarified. According to the bureau, arriving Filipinos, under repatriation programs from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia may also be allowed […]

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Marinduque to revert to GCQ starting Aug. 16

(Eagle News) — Marinduque will revert to a general community quarantine starting Aug. 16. In a Facebook post, Governor Presbitero Velasco said he signed Executive Order No. 28 Series of 2016 declaring the GCQ until Aug. 31 due to reports of Alpha and Beta variants in the province and the “fast-increasing” COVID-19 transmission  possibly due to the highly transmissible Delta variant. He also noted the Department of Health had declared the province under alert level […]

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PAGASA monitoring LPA off Camarines Norte

Easterlies affecting eastern sections of Visayas, Mindanao (Eagle News) — The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is monitoring a low pressure area off Camarines Norte. According to the weather bureau, the easterlies are also affecting the eastern sections of Visayas and Mindanao. Central Luzon, Bicol Region and Quezon will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms are possible. Meanwhile, Metro Manila will have partly […]

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4.9-magnitude quake strikes off Davao Oriental early Sunday, Aug. 15

(Eagle News) — A 4.9-magnitude earthquake struck off Davao Oriental early Sunday, Aug. 15: The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake — an aftershock of the 7.1-magnitude earthquake in Governor Generoso  on Aug. 12 — struck at 3:22 a.m. It had its epicenter 164 kilometers southeast of Governor Generoso and was tectonic in origin. The depth of focus was eight kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.

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