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by Ludovic EHRET and Poornima WEERASEKARA BEIJING, China (AFP) — The first crew for China’s new space station prepared to blast off this week for the latest step in Beijing’s ambitious programme to establish itself as a space power. The mission is China’s first crewed spaceflight in nearly five years, and a matter of prestige for the government as it prepares to mark the 100th birthday of the ruling Communist Party on July 1 with […]
(Eagle News) — Over 200 volcanic earthquakes were monitored at Taal in 24 hours. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the 221 quakes at the volcano, which remains on alert level 2, included 29 low-frequency volcanic earthquakes and 192 volcanic tremor events with durations of one 135 minutes. Low-level background tremor has also persisted since April 8. According to PHIVOLCS, an upwelling of hot volcanic fluids and sulfur dioxide emission averaging 5,837 tons […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police has logged its 71st fatality due to COVID-19, a 47-year-old police senior master sergeant from Davao Oriental. In a statement, the PNP said the police officer tested positive for the virus on June 3 after being among those exposed to a colleague who tested positive for the virus on May 31. The 47-year-old’s results were based on an RT-PCR test initiated by the local government on all personnel […]
(Eagle News) — The southwest monsoon is affecting Luzon. As a result, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said 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, on the other hand, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms, this due to localized thunderstorms as well. The same […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Novavax’s Covid-19 jab is more than 90 percent effective, including against coronavirus variants, the vaccine maker said Monday after a large-scale US study. The jab “demonstrated 100% protection against moderate and severe disease, 90.4% efficacy overall,” the company said in a statement, adding “the study enrolled 29,960 participants across 119 sites in the U.S. and Mexico to evaluate efficacy, safety and immunogenicity.” The Maryland-headquartered company said it intended to […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Tuesday, June 15: Metro Manila and Bulacan are under a general community quarantine but with some restrictions until the end of the month. Some areas, meanwhile, are back under a modified enhanced community quarantine due to an increase in COVID-19 cases there. A travel ban is in place on passengers from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Oman and […]
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AFP) — Cyprus on Monday dropped its prosecution of police officers for alleged negligence and racism over the disappearance of seven foreign women and children who were victims of a serial killer. Prosecutors could not prove “beyond reasonable doubt” that the 15 officers had been criminally negligent, the office of attorney general George Savvides said in a statement. “It is clear from case law that ‘error, however serious, negligence, stupidity, inadequacy or incompetence’, […]
MINNEAPOLIS, United States (AFP) — A woman was killed and three other people injured when a man drove into a crowd of demonstrators who were protesting the shooting death by US Marshals of a Black man in Minneapolis, police said Monday. Police said the man, who may have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol, drove his vehicle into a group of protestors shortly before midnight. “Protesters pulled the suspect from the vehicle and, […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Kyrie Irving has been ruled out of the Brooklyn Nets’ crucial game five of their NBA playoff series against the Milwaukee Bucks after suffering a sprained right ankle, coach Steve Nash said Monday. Irving was injured during the second quarter of the Nets’ loss to the Bucks in game four on Sunday after a collision with Giannis Antetokounmpo. The Bucks and Nets are tied at 2-2 in the best-of-seven […]
LONAVLA, India (AFP) — Indian start-up Mylab Discovery Solutions hopes that its inexpensive Covid-19 home test kit — the country’s first — will help the massive South Asian nation better track the pandemic’s spread among its 1.3-billion people. CoviSelf was launched earlier this month and is the first home testing kit to be approved in India, which is slowly emerging from a brutal second wave that overwhelmed its hospitals and crematoriums, with almost 30 million […]
by Agnès PEDRERO GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The WHO warned Monday that Covid-19 was moving faster than the vaccines, and said the G7’s vow to share a billion doses with poorer nations was simply not enough. Global health leaders also warned the pledge was too little, too late, with more than 11 billion shots needed. Faced with outrage over disparities in jab access, the Group of Seven industrialised powers pledged during a weekend summit in […]
(Eagle News) — A 5.9-magnitude earthquake was felt in parts of Mindanao on Monday night, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. According to PHIVOLCS, the earthquake hit at 10:38 p.m. It had its epicenter nine kilometers northwest of Kadingilan, Bukidnon and a depth of eight kilometers. The following intensities and instrumental intensities were reported: Reported Intensities: Intensity V- Kadingilan, Bukidnon Instrumental Intensities: Intensity III – Cagayan De Oro City and Gingoog City, Misamis […]
