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(Eagle News) — Two were killed while two others were hurt during an armed encounter in Lanao del Norte over the weekend, the Philippine National Police said. The PNP identified the fatalities as Special Action Force member, Police Corporal John Oliver Rodriguez and Naen Ampatua Tumog. Rodriguez was part of a group of policemen from the elite PNP unit who were out to serve a search warrant for Tumog’s home in Barangay Rebucon on Saturday. […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The New York Knicks showed why they are headed to the NBA playoffs for the first time in eight years on Sunday as Derrick Rose scored 25 points in a 106-100 win over the Los Angeles Clippers. The Knicks used a combination of well-executed perimeter shooting and solid defense to break down Los Angeles and bust the game open in the second quarter before holding on in the fourth […]
DIWANIYAH, Iraq (AFP) — An Iraqi journalist was left seriously wounded after being shot in the head early Monday, witnesses and doctors told AFP, 24 hours after leading anti-government activist Ehab al-Ouazni was shot dead. Reporter Ahmed Hassan was in intensive care after receiving “two bullets in the head and one in the shoulder,” a doctor told AFP. “He was targeted as he got out of his car to go home,” in Diwaniyah in the […]
(Eagle News) — The Intertropical Convergence Zone is affecting Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said as a result, cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms will be experienced in Visayas, Mindanao, and MIMAROPA. Flash floods or landslides during 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 […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Monday, May 10: MIAA advised passengers to secure confirmation of their flights as only those with the confirmation will be allowed entry into the airport. It added flight schedules may change at any given time, so passengers should consult with their airlines. The NCR Plus area, which includes Metro Manila, is under a modified enhanced community quarantine until […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) — Libya’s coastguard on Sunday warned against “illegal” fishing in its waters, denying Italian claims it had wounded a fisherman as it fired shots during an operation against four boats from Sicily. Citing “repeated, documented violations”, the coastguard said that on Thursday morning it had “received reports that four Italian fishing vessels were heading from southern Italy” into Libyan waters. The coastguard despatched a patrol to intercept and inspect the boats to […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A man opened fire Sunday at a birthday party in Colorado, killing six people before taking his own life, US police said. Colorado Springs police responded to an emergency call in the morning at a mobile home park, where they found six adults shot dead and one adult male who was seriously injured. He was transported to a local hospital, where he died from his injuries. Preliminary investigations revealed that […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The British government is to announce a timeline for lifting anti-virus restrictions in England on Monday including the reopening of indoor seating in pubs and restaurants and allowing hugs, Downing Street said late Sunday. Johnson will hold a news conference on Monday afternoon set to announce a May 17 start for the third step in Britain’s “roadmap” out of the crisis. The government said Johnson would agree the exact measures […]
by Mathieu GORSE MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain has lifted a state of emergency in place since October to fight the pandemic, allowing Spaniards to travel between regions for the first time in months. “It’s like New Year’s,” said 28-year-old Oriol Corbella in Barcelona, where the lifting of the curfew was met with shouts, applause and music. “We’re getting a bit of normality back, of freedom, but we have to keep in mind that the […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — New Orleans Pelicans executive David Griffin was fined $50,000 by the NBA on Sunday for his remarks criticizing league officiating after star forward Zion Williamson suffered a broken finger. Griffin, the Pelicans’ executive vice president of basketball operations, was punished for public criticism of the officiating and comments detrimental to the NBA. Williamson was revealed to have a fractured left ring finger on Friday that will sideline him indefinitely. […]
by Nina LARSON GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — A Covid-19 variant spreading in India is more contagious and it is feared it could be dodging some vaccine protections, contributing to the country’s explosive outbreak, the World Health Organization’s chief scientist said Saturday. In an interview with AFP, Soumya Swaminathan warned that “the epidemiological features that we see in India today do indicate that it’s an extremely rapidly spreading variant”. India on Saturday for the first time […]
by Laurie Chen, with Qasim Nauman in Seoul BEIJING, China (AFP) — A large segment of a Chinese rocket re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrated over the Indian Ocean on Sunday, China’s space agency said, following fevered speculation over where the 18-tonne object would come down. Officials in Beijing had said there was little risk from the freefalling segment of the Long March-5B rocket, which had launched the first module of China’s new space station […]
