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by Dessy SAGITA / Haeril HALIM Agence France Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Tirsa Manitik gave birth to her first girl in June and buried her a month later — another casualty of virus-battered Indonesia’s soaring child death toll. The Southeast Asian nation has been hit by its worst Covid-19 surge yet as the ultra-infectious Delta variant sent deaths skyrocketing and left a trail of devastated parents in its wake. “My heart is broken. […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Thursday authorized an extra dose of Covid vaccine for people with weakened immune systems, as the country struggles to thwart the Delta variant. Emergency use authorization for a third injection of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines was granted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulator. “The country has entered yet another wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the FDA is especially cognizant that immunocompromised […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte approved the recommendation to extend the travel restrictions in 10 countries with high Delta variant cases, namely India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia until the end of the month. The travel restrictions were supposed to end on Aug. 15, but the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) decided to extend the current travel restrictions from Aug. 16 to Aug. 31 to […]
by Katy LEE PARIS, France (AFP) — Cryptocurrency investors have been transfixed over the past few days by the antics of a mysterious hacker who stole more than $600 million — before gradually giving it back. But was the thief a good samaritan who stole the money to expose a dangerous security flaw, or did they simply realise they were about to be caught? The hacker struck Poly Network, a company that handles cryptocurrency transfers, […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Friday, Aug. 13: MIAA advised passengers to secure confirmation of their flights as only those with the confirmation will be allowed entry into the airport. The travel ban on India and nine other countries has been extended. Metro Manila is also under an enhanced community quarantine until Aug. 20.
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Thursday said his climate fund would pour $1.5 billion into projects with the United States if the government enacts a program to cut carbon emissions currently working its way through Congress. A $1.2 trillion infrastructure package passed by the US Senate this week would funnel billions of dollars to the Department of Energy for projects battling climate change. If the infrastructure package becomes law, […]
(Eagle News) — Laguna, Bulacan, and Cavite will be under a modified enhanced community quarantine from August 16 until August 31. According to Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque, the following areas will also be placed under the same community quarantine for the same period: Iloilo City Apayao Ilocos Norte Cagayan de Oro City Lucena City Rizal province Aklan Iloilo Province Lapu-Lapu City, Mandaue City, and Cebu City The following areas will be under a general community […]
by Claire LEE SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The jailed de facto leader of the giant Samsung group walked free on parole Friday, the latest instance of South Korea’s long tradition of freeing business leaders imprisoned for corruption or tax evasion on economic grounds. Lee Jae-yong — the 202nd richest person in the world according to Forbes, with a net worth of $11.4 billion — was serving a two-and-a-half year prison sentence for bribery, embezzlement […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration has nabbed three wanted South Koreans in Pampanga. In a statement, Immigration chief Jaime Morente said Han Jeongcheol, 47, Yang Wonil, 48, and Cho Sunggye, 56, were nabbed on Tuesday, Aug. 10, in their residence inside a subdivision in Angeles City. The bureau’s Fugitive Search Unit had gone to the house to serve a deportation warrant against Han, who had been ordered expelled by the bureau for being […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Firefighters battled three wildfires in Spain on Thursday as a heatwave that has enveloped southeastern Europe in recent days shifted west towards the Iberian peninsula. Dozens of firefighters backed by four water-dropping aircraft were on the scene of a blaze in the northeastern province of Tarragona which has so far destroyed some 40 hectares (100 acres) of protected forest, local officials said. Two smaller fires were burning in the northern wine-producing […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Guillermo Eleazar has ordered the relief of the entire Quezon City unit of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group over an alleged P3-million extortion. In a statement, the PNP said Eleazar ordered Police Maj. Gen. Albert Ignatius Ferro, Director of the CIDG to also disarm and put the policemen under restrictive custody while an investigation into the demand made to businessman Adrian Dominic Ang was ongoing. Ang was […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) — Argentina on Thursday began distributing the first batch of more than one million doses of the Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine produced domestically. The South American country announced in June that a local pharmaceutical company would manufacture the vaccine using an antigen provided by the Moscow-based maker of Sputnik. So far Laboratorios Richmond, the pharmaceutical company tasked with the effort, has produced 995,000 units of the first dose and 152,000 […]
