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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The National Basketball Association slapped Kyrie Irving with a $35,000 fine on Wednesday, because the Brooklyn Nets player continues to violate media access rules by refusing to attend news conferences and give interviews. Irving is a repeat offender having been fined $25,000 earlier this season for declining to speak to reporters during the preseason. The Nets organization was also hit with a $35,000 fine Wednesday. “The fines result from […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — One of California’s iconic giant sequoia trees was recently found to be still smoldering and smoking in an area of the state devastated by massive wildfires last summer, National Park authorities said Wednesday. “Scientists and fire crews were surveying the effects from the 2020 Castle Fire in Sequoia National Park, when they observed a still smoldering and smoking giant sequoia tree that appears to be caused from last year’s […]
by Kamal Taha GHOR AL-HADITHA, Jordan (AFP) — Ahmad Daoud surveyed his shrivelled tomato plants near the Dead Sea in Jordan, where severe drought in what is already one of the world’s most water-deficient countries is hitting hard. “Look at how the land thirsts,” he said, walking on cracked earth stained with white salt patches, waving at the five hectares (12 acres) of his farm. “Everything I planted… is dead.” He inspected a tomato the […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Jailed Hong Kong dissident Joshua Wong was handed an additional 10-month sentence on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to taking part in an “unlawful” Tiananmen Square protest last year. Wong was sentenced alongside three other prominent young activists — Lester Shum, Tiffany Yuen and Janelle Leung — over the 4 June vigil, which was banned by police for the first time last year. © Agence France-Presse
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Beijing said Thursday it has suspended an economic agreement with Australia, an apparent tit-for-tat response to Australia scrapping a Belt and Road infrastructure pact and threat to undo a deal leasing Darwin Port to a Chinese company. The China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue deal has been suspended “based on the current attitude” of the Australian government, China’s National Development and Reform Commission said in a statement, blaming some officials of “ideological discrimination.” […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Health on Thursday acknowledged that there was an increase in the number of COVID-19 variants in the country but said this was due to “increased genomic biosurveillance activities.” The DOH made the statement as it announced there were 1,075 South Africa variant cases in the Philippines as of May 3. Apart from the B.1351 variant cases, it said there were so far 948 variant cases first detected in the […]
(Eagle News) — Starting May 7, the Philippines will also temporarily ban passengers coming from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka or those who have been to those countries within 14 days before their travel to the Philippines. This is according to the Department of Health, which issued a statement on Thursday, May 6. Earlier, the Philippine government banned travelers from India following reports of another variant possibly causing a surge in that country. The ban, […]
by Issam AHMED WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — SpaceX managed to land its prototype Starship rocket at its Texas base without blowing it up on Wednesday, the first time it has succeeded in doing so in five attempts. The test flight represents a major win for the hard-charging company, which eventually wants to carry crew inside Starship for missions to Mars. “Starship landing nominal!” tweeted founder Elon Musk triumphantly, after the last four tries ended […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US biotech firm Moderna on Wednesday announced initial data from a small clinical trial that showed its booster shots improved people’s immune responses against key coronavirus variants of concern. “We are encouraged by these new data, which reinforce our confidence that our booster strategy should be protective against these newly detected variants,” said the company’s CEO Stephane Bancel. Forty participants were tested for their levels of neutralizing antibodies six to […]
(Eagle News) — Forty-one more COVID-19 cases have been reported among overseas Filipinos. According to Department of Foreign Affairs data, the additional COVID-19 cases pushed the COVID-19 cases among Filipinos abroad to 18457. Three more recoveries also pushed the COVID-19 recoveries to 11292. No additional fatality was reported, which means the death toll remains at 1147. According to DFA data, the Middle East and Africa are still the regions with the most COVID-19 cases, recoveries, […]
(Eagle News) — A 3.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Davao Occidental early Thursday, May 6. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake hit at 3:33 a.m. It had its epicenter 205 kilometers southeast of Jose Abad Santos. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
by Alexandria SAGE ROME, Italy (AFP) — An Italian court convicted two young Americans Wednesday for the murder of a police officer while they were on a summer holiday in Rome, with both handed life sentences. Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, had admitted stabbing Mario Cerciello Rega during a late-night encounter in July 2019, while out with his friend Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20. Prosecutors claimed it was a brutal, unprovoked attack in which Elder, then 19, stabbed […]
