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(Eagle News) – Filipina boxer Nesthy Petecio bagged the silver medal in the Tokyo Olympics after the final bout of the women’s featherweight division. She faced Japan’s Sena Irie who won the gold after being declared the winner after three rounds via unanimous decision. Sena beat Petecio for the third time in their four boxing matches since 2019. Petecio’s silver is the second medal that Filipino athletes bagged in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) — Libya called Monday on people to come forward to be vaccinated after it received two million doses of the Chinese vaccine Sinopharm, with more on the way. “We call on all our fellow citizens to be vaccinated,” Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah told reporters at Mitiga airport near Tripoli after the shipment arrived. Adding to its security and political problems, the North African country of around seven million people has been hard […]
by Kadir DEMIR MARMARIS, Turkey (AFP) — The European Union sent help to Turkey on Monday and volunteers joined firefighters in battling a week of violent blazes that have killed eight people and put pressure on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey’s struggles against its deadliest wildfires in decades come as a blistering heatwave grips southeastern Europe creating tinderbox conditions that Greek officials blame squarely on climate change. The fires tearing through Turkey since last Wednesday […]
POINTE-A-PITRE, France (AFP) — France’s overseas territory of Guadeloupe is to return to lockdown for at least three weeks because of a “catastrophic” surge in Covid cases, officials announced Monday. The announcement comes days after Martinique, another region of France 190 kilometres (120 miles) to the south, returned to lockdown on Friday for at least three weeks. And the French island of Reunion entered a partial two-week lockdown this weekend, including a 6:00 pm to […]
KIKWIT, DR Congo (AFP) — Thirty-three people died in a horrific collision between a fuel truck and a crowded bus in the Democratic Republic of Congo at the weekend, police said Monday. The victims were engulfed by a “huge fire sparked by the collision” overnight Saturday in the west of the country, local police captain Antoine Pululu told AFP. Another police source said the bodies were destroyed by the flames, adding that the remains that […]
(Eagle News) — Over 500 more COVID-19 cases have been reported among overseas Filipinos. According to Department of Foreign Affairs data, the additional 503 cases pushed the total COVID-19 cases among overseas Filipinos to 21641. Seventy-one additional recoveries also pushed the total recoveries among Filipinos abroad to 12531. Over 50, or 56, more deaths also pushed the total COVID-19 deaths to 1322. Based on DFA data, the Middle East and Africa are still the regions […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Australian Andrew Hoy became the oldest medallist at the Olympics since 1968 when he took silver in the equestrian eventing team competition at the Tokyo Games on Monday. It was the 62-year-old’s fifth Olympic medal in total — three of them gold — but his first since Sydney 2000. Hoy was not done there, following up soon after with bronze in the eventing individual competition. “I’m actually grateful people can still […]
(Eagle News) — Apayao, Aklan and Laguna will be under a stricter modified enhanced community quarantine until Aug. 15. Cebu City will remain under MECQ, while Cebu province will be under a general community quarantine with heightened restrictions also until August 15, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said during the Cabinet’s meeting on Monday night. Earlier, the Palace announced Metro Manila would revert to an enhanced community quarantine from Aug. 6 to Aug. 20. The Palace made […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — All-star point guard Chris Paul, who guided the Phoenix Suns to their first NBA Finals since 1993, has agreed to a new four-year deal with Phoenix worth up to $120 million, US media reported Monday. The 36-year-old Paul opted out of his contract by declining a $44.2 million player option for next season, becoming an unrestricted free agent. Contract agreements with free agents cannot become official until the start […]
(Eagle News) — The southwest monsoon is still affecting the Philippines. As a result, the Philippine Atmospheric and Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Ilocos Region, Batanes, Babuyan Group of Islands, Abra, Apayao, Benguet, Zambales, and Bataan will experience monsoon rains. Flash floods or landslides during scattered to widespread moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Tarlac, Pampanga, Bulacan, Occidental Mindoro, and the rest of Cordillera Administrative Region and Cagayan Valley, meanwhile, will have […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Outspoken US comedian Kathy Griffin, whose decades-long stand-up career was briefly derailed in 2017 after a grisly stunt with a prop depicting Donald Trump’s severed head, said Monday that she has lung cancer. “I’m about to go into surgery to have half of my left lung removed. Yes, I have lung cancer even though I’ve never smoked!” Griffin, 60, said in a statement posted on Twitter. She said her […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Schools in a county in the southeastern US state of Georgia will pay $1,000 bonuses to staff who are vaccinated against Covid-19 in a bid to protect themselves from the resurgent pandemic, authorities said. With that incentive county officials said they hope to avoid the “numerous disruptions that were encountered in public education over the past two school years due to a global pandemic.” “Last year was a challenge like […]
