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(Eagle News) — Two of the Department of Foreign Affairs’ consular offices will be temporarily closed to the public, the department said on Monday. According to the DFA, the consular office in NCR South-Alabang will be closed from Monday, May 24, to Tuesday, May 25. The consular office in Santiago City, Isabela, on the other hand, will be closed only on Monday, May 24. The DFA said the temporary closure was to pave the way […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Devin Booker scored 34 points as the second-seeded Phoenix Suns outplayed the Los Angeles Lakers in their Western Conference playoff series opener with a hardfought 99-90 victory on Sunday. Booker — playing in the first NBA playoff game of his career — spearheaded a deserved win over the reigning NBA champions, rallying his team after an injury to Chris Paul restricted the Phoenix veteran’s influence. Booker was backed by […]
(Eagle News) — An improvised pool party in Novaliches, Quezon City became a super-spreader event for COVID-19 where 51 tested positive for the virus recently. Because of this Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte again issued a “stern warning to residents who organize and join large social gatherings that may cause coronavirus outbreaks in the City.” Sge also ordered a probe of the officials of Barangay Nagkaisang Nayon where the pool party happened. “Lahat ng mga […]
(Eagle News) — Two drug suspects were killed in Muntinlupa on Sunday night after they fought it out with authorities who were about to arrest them in a buy-bust operation, the Philippine National Police said. According to the PNP, also seized from the two suspects, Jordan Sabandal Abrigo and Jayvee De Guzman, during the operation in Katarungan Village 1 was P68 million worth of shabu. Apart from the three plastic packs containing more or less […]
(Eagle News) — The easterlies are affecting the Philippines today. As a result, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Metro Manila will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers. PAGASA said the rest of the country will also experience the same conditions. Flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms are possible. Meanwhile, PAGASA said Palawan will have moderate winds and moderate coastal waters. The rest of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Monday, May 24: Flight schedules may be subject to changes. MIAA advised passengers to secure confirmation of their flights before going to the airport. So far, the NCR Plus area, including Metro Manila, is under a general community quarantine, but with heightened restrictions, which means non-essential travel in and outside the bubble is still prohibited. Travelers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, […]
JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) — Israel is set to ease restrictions imposed to combat coronavirus on June 1, but tough rules on travellers to the Jewish state would remain in place, the health ministry said Sunday. The health ministry proposal must still be approved by the government. “For the first time since the outbreak of the epidemic, all restrictions inside Israeli territory will be lifted from June 1,” a ministry statement said. Restrictions on travelers to […]
KOLKATA, India (AFP) — A severe cyclone is brewing off India’s eastern coast, the nation’s weather bureau warned Sunday, as the death toll rose from a major storm that wreaked havoc in the west of the virus-hit nation last week. Moving northwards in the Bay of Bengal, the depression was set to form a cyclone — to be dubbed Yaas — before intensifying and hitting the eastern states of West Bengal and Odisha on Wednesday, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US health authorities said they were looking into a small number of reports of heart inflammation among some younger people who received Covid vaccines, with no clear link established for the moment. There were “relatively few reports of myocarditis,” primarily in adolescents and young adults, following doses of mRNA vaccines like Pfizer and Moderna, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. “Most cases appear to be mild, […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Dumagat tribe in Luzon has a unique traditional way of cooking food, harking backing to the old days when their ancestors had to cook food using what could be found in the forest. With the use of bamboo, they are able to cook rice and even the Philippine dish “sinigang”. They also cook chicken in a unique way while buried in the ground. -Sinigang with katmon fruit, lando leaves […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines reached 1,179,812 on Sunday, May 23, after the Department of Health reported 3,083 additional cases. According to the DOH, the data represents results submitted by all operational laboratories on May 21 except for three. The department said these three laboratories that did not submit data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System represent 4.1 percent of the total samples tested and 2.6 percent of the total number of […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — At least nine people were injured in a blast on Sunday at a plant producing explosive materials in Iran’s central province of Isfahan, ISNA news agency reported. The blast occurred at Sepahan Nargostar Chemical Industries at 4:00 am local time (2330 GMT) due to “unclear reasons still being investigated,” said Mansour Shisheforoush, head of the province’s crisis management organization. Nine factory workers were injured and transferred to hospital, he added. He […]
