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CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AFP) — At least 12 people were killed and 10 injured when a bus overturned on Tuesday on a highway in northeastern Mexico, the authorities said. Nine people died at the scene of the accident in Tamaulipas state and three more died in hospital, civil protection coordinator Pedro Granados told reporters. The bus was traveling between the border city of Reynosa and Monterrey in neighboring Nuevo Leon state. Tamaulipas’s highways are considered […]
by Claire DOYEN KWALHATHI, South Africa (AFP) — Single mother Lihle Magudulela spat out a mouthful of dirt as she sucked on a stone dug up from a hillside in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, convinced she might have found a diamond. Thousands have flocked to the outskirts of KwaHlathi village, more than 300 kilometres (186 miles) southeast of Johannesburg, after a cattle herder last week unearthed a handful of unidentified crystal-like stones. News of the […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — California — the first US state to enact a stay-at-home order just under 15 months ago — celebrated its “reopening day” Tuesday by lifting almost all pandemic-related social distancing and capacity limits. Vaccinated people will be free to ditch their masks in nearly all of the nation’s richest and most populous state, though exceptions will remain for locations including public transport, schools and hospitals. “Finally we are here, June […]
(Eagle News) — The southwest monsoon is affecting Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said as a result, Ilocos Region will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides due to moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, on the other hand, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms. The northern section […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine COVID-19 cases reached 1,327,431 on Tuesday, June 15, after the Department of Health reported 5,389 additional cases. According to the DOH, of the total cases, 58063 were active. Of these, 91.8 percent were mild, 3.8 percent asymptomatic, 1.3 percent critical, 1.8 percent severe, and 1.3 percent were moderate. Recoveries rose to 1,246,405, including the additional 6667 recoveries. Over 100, or 118, more deaths were reported, pushing the COVID-19 death toll to […]
Bulk of vaccine purchases coming in by 3rd and 4th quarter of the year (Eagle News) – The vaccination of chlldren — those aged 12 to 15 years old – could start by the fourth quarter of this year, according to vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. During the Senate hearing on the vaccine procurement, Galvez said that the vaccination of children against COVID-19 can only happen when there are already enough vaccine supplies, […]
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will “never cooperate” with an International Criminal Court probe into the country’s deadly drug war, his spokesman said Tuesday, branding the process “legally erroneous”. Outgoing ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on Monday asked judges at the world’s only permanent war crimes court to authorize an investigation into allegations that Philippine police unlawfully killed as many as tens of thousands of civilians between 2016 and 2019. Duterte was elected in […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines has extended the travel restrictions on India and six other countries. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the ban on passengers also from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Oman, Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates is now in place until June 30. The ban was supposed to end on June 15. The government first imposed the travel restrictions on passengers from India in April, following the surge in COVID-19 […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — A huge red banner welcomed nearly 9,000 students in Wuhan for a massive graduation ceremony over a year after the city was battered by the first global outbreak of Covid-19. Students in navy gowns and mortarboards sat in crowded rows, without social distancing or face masks, beneath the sign that read: “Welcoming the graduates of 2020 back home. We wish you all a great future.” Covid-19 first emerged in late 2019 […]
by Martín SILVA COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (AFP) — The alarm in the Bolivian hospital pierced through the din of beeping life support machines and hissing ventilators — a patient lay unconscious, oblivious to the warning that his life hung by a thread. The monitor was flashing red. “Low oxygen pressure” it alerted, showing a reading of 25. “It should be 75!” doctor Daniel Quispia said as he jumps to the patient’s aid, adjusting the controls in […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — International Olympic Committee vice-president John Coates arrived in Japan on Tuesday, as organisers ramp up final preparations with just over five weeks until the pandemic-postponed Games open. Ahead of his arrival, several dozen people protested against the Games in Tokyo, though recent opinion polls suggest public opposition may be weakening. Later Tuesday, organisers will release the final version of their virus countermeasures for athletes in a so-called “playbook” that they say […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Trae Young poured in 25 points and added 18 assists as the Atlanta Hawks rallied Monday to beat the Philadelphia 76ers in game four of their second round Eastern Conference playoff series. Young shot eight of 26 from the floor and drained three, threes but he had plenty of help from his supporting cast as all five Hawks starters finished in double figures to level the best-of-seven series at […]
