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The high energy Washington Wizards welcomed the defending champions Los Angeles Lakers Wednesday night, April 28. Eagle News Service correspondent Ken Cruz was there in Capital Arena in Washington D.C. Watch it in this Eagle News America report. The Wizards beat the Lakers in that game, 116-107. (Eagle News Service)
https://youtu.be/GNm3e9Bhd2w As April marks the 26th Anniversary of the bombing of Alfred P Murrah Federal Building, Eagle News Service correspondent Nenita Manaois takes us on a tour of the memorial landmark in Oklahoma City, while also highlighting the area attractions that make this city so unique. Watch it in this report in Eagle News America. The domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, happened on […]
(Eagle News) — Ifugao province has been added to the list of areas under a modified enhanced community quarantine. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Friday, April 30, said Puerto Princesa, on the other hand, is under a general community quarantine until the end of May. Roque said both areas were added to the respective lists upon the request of local government officials. Apart from Ifugao, the following are under an MECQ starting May, as announced […]
DOLE says it “recognizes risk of those who courageously and willingly put their lives on the line” amid pandemic (Eagle News) — COVID-19 is now a “compensable work-related disease,” according to Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III. Because of this, “Filipino workers who had been infected with COVID-19 will receive appropriate compensation from the government through the Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC),” according to the Department of Labor and Employment. Bello said that the ECC board […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — Persistent drought in southern Madagascar has left hundreds of thousands of people on the brink of famine and stoked acute malnutrition among children, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned Thursday. Ministry of Health data revealed that 16.5 percent of children under five now suffer from acute malnutrition, almost double the proportion four months ago, the agency said. The Ambovombe district in the Indian Ocean island’s far south has […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Kevin Durant scored a season-high 42 points and dished out 10 assists as the first-place Brooklyn Nets won their fourth straight game with a 130-113 victory over the Indiana Pacers in Indianapolis. Durant scored 22 points in the third quarter as the Nets closed out Thursday’s contest with a 17-7 run and improved to 43-20 with the victory at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Injuries have taken a toll on Brooklyn’s […]
(Eagle News) — Twelve more COVID-19 cases were reported among overseas Filipinos. Recent Department of Foreign Affairs data showed the additional cases pushed the COVID-19 cases among Filipinos abroad to 18325. Thirteen more recoveries also pushed the recovery total to 11233. No additional fatalities among Filipinos outside the country were reported, which means the death toll due to COVID-19 remains at 1145. According to the DFA data, the Middle East and Africa are still the […]
MERON, Israel (AFP) — A massive stampede at a densely packed Jewish pilgrimage site killed at least 44 people in northern Israel on Friday, with rescue workers facing chaotic crowds while trying to evacuate the injured. The disaster occurred in Meron at the site of the reputed tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a second-century Talmudic sage, where mainly ultra-Orthodox Jews flock to mark the Lag BaOmer holiday. Closed last year due to coronavirus […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — A US military plane on Friday brought the first emergency coronavirus supplies to help India battle its devastating surge in the pandemic. The military jet carrying more than 400 oxygen cylinders and other hospital equipment and nearly one million rapid coronavirus tests landed at New Delhi’s international airport as the Indian capital battles a major pandemic crisis. © Agence France-Presse
(Eagle News) — Authorities seized P4.76 million worth of shabu in Tawi-Tawi, the Philippine National Police said. According to the PNP, also arrested during the joint Philippine National Police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency buy-bust operation in Bongao on Wednesday were Hassan Anggie Hawaan, 30; Mannan Nusuri Muhadi, 48; and Mudzna Anggie Hawaan, 42. Apart from the fourteen packs of shabu weighing more or less 700 grams, the PNP said identification cards and two cellular […]
(Eagle News) –Former San Juan Mayor Guia Gomez will again be admitted to the hospital due to COVID-19 and pneumonia. Former Senator JV Ejercito said his mother got a spot in the hospital after a week of waiting. “She was confined already last December after testing positive,” Ejercito said. Gomez first contracted the COVID-19 virus in 2020. She, however, recovered in December. Ejercito’s father, former President Joseph Estrada, also tested positive for COVID-19 in March. […]
(Eagle News) — Restaurants, eateries, commissaries and other food preparation establishments can now resume indoor dine-in services in areas under Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) at an initial 10 percent venue or seating capacity, the Inter-Agency Task Force said on Thursday, April 29. Beauty salons, beauty parlors, barbershops and nail spas can also operate at an initial 30 percent venue or seating capacity in MECQ areas. However, “these establishments shall only provide services that […]
