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MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — More than 2,000 people have fled from a volcano eruption that has filled the air near the Philippine capital with toxic gas, officials said Saturday. Taal volcano, which sits in a picturesque lake, has been belching sulphur dioxide for several days, creating a thick haze over Manila and several surrounding provinces, and prompting health warnings. At least 2,400 people have left their homes since the government called for evacuations of […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia reported its fifth record for daily Covid-19 deaths in a row on Saturday, as countries around the world rush to contain the rapid spread of the highly contagious Delta variant. The variant has propelled a resurgence of the virus which has already killed nearly four million people, forcing numerous nations to reimpose restrictions well over a year after the pandemic first swept the world. Indonesia imposed a partial lockdown […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia imposed a partial lockdown Saturday in the capital Jakarta, across the main island of Java and on Bali as the Southeast Asian nation grappled with an unprecedented wave of coronavirus infections. Mosques, restaurants and shopping malls were shuttered in virus hotspots around the Muslim-majority country, which recorded more than 25,000 new cases and 539 deaths on Friday, both new daily records. Indonesia’s daily caseload has more than quadrupled in […]
New COVID recoveries added were 7,698, the highest this past week (Eagle News) – The Philippines’ COVID-19 deaths breached 25,000 on Saturday, July 3, with the addition of 90 virus fatalities, even as the country continued to record low percentages of active COVID-19 cases. As of Saturday, July 3, the number of COVID-19 fatalities reached 25,063. The number of new fatalities reported on Saturday at 90 were still much lower than the previous day’s […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — Two brothers pulled off a sweet escape from a leopard in India by throwing a birthday cake at the animal as it chased them while they rode a motorbike, officials said Thursday. “Your first instinct when you sense danger is to do whatever you can to save yourself. That’s what they did,” a forest official told AFP. “They had a cake with them and they threw it at the […]
SAN FRANCICO, United States (AFP) — A US IT company urged customers to shut down their servers Friday after cyberattackers smuggled ransomware onto its network platform. Kaseya said Friday evening that it had limited the attack to “a very small percentage of our customers” who use its signature VSA software, “currently estimated at fewer than 40 worldwide.” Cybersecurity firm Huntress Labs had earlier said in a Reddit forum that it was working with partners […]
by Natsuko FUKUE Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A huge landslide swept away homes and left 19 people missing at a popular resort town in central Japan on Saturday after days of heavy rain, local officials said. Television footage showed a torrent of mud obliterating some buildings and burying others in Atami, southwest of Tokyo, with people running away as it crashed over a hillside road. “I heard a horrible sound and […]
WHO issues “Joint COVAX Statement on the Equal Recognition of Vaccines” amid some countries’ preference for Western-made jabs (Eagle News) – The World Health Organization (WHO) called on all countries and regions to recognize the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines included in its emergency use listing (EUL) as these are all “safe and effective.” WHO said failure by some countries to do so is “undermining confidence in life-saving vaccines.” In a statement, WHO called […]
(Eagle News)–Forty-eight earthquakes were monitored at Taal in 24 hours. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said three small phreatomagmatic eruptions also occurred at the volcano, which remains under alert level 3. A steam plume rose to as high as 3000 meters, which contributed to the vog around Taal. Sulfur dioxide flux was at 10254 tons on July 2. PHIVOLCS reiterated the ban on the entry into the Taal volcano island and into “high-risk” […]
SURFSIDE, United States (AFP) — Two more victims were found in the rubble of a partially collapsed apartment building in Florida on Friday, bringing the death toll from last week’s tragedy to 22, with 126 people still unaccounted for, officials said Friday. The rise in number of victims came as Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said she had signed an order authorizing the demolition of the part of the building that still stands, […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday denounced a wave of vandalism across Canada that saw churches damaged and statues of monarchs splashed with red paint and torn down. These acts followed the recent discoveries of more than 1,000 unmarked graves at former indigenous boarding schools that has provoked anger and grief in indigenous communities, and beyond, along with a reckoning of the country’s colonial history. “It is unacceptable and wrong […]
(Eagle News) — Light Rail Transit-2 commuters going to Pasig, Marikina, and Antipolo can enjoy faster travel as the LRT-2 East Extension line opens to the public on Monday, July 5. According to the Department of Transportation, passengers from Santolan to Antipolo and vice versa, can ride for free for two weeks following the request of President Rodrigo Duterte, who, with Transportation Secretary Art Tugade, inaugurated the project on Friday, July 1. Commuters will board […]
