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Immigration bureau: 2 Qatar-bound victims of illegal recruitment intercepted at NAIA

(Eagle News) — Authorities stopped two Filipinos who were victims of illegal recruitment from leaving the Philippines, the Bureau of Immigration said on Thursday night. A report by Travel Control and Enforcement Unit Chief Ma. Timotea Barizo said that the passengers, whose names were withheld for their protection, were intercepted on Tuesday at the departure area of NAIA Terminal 3 after immigration officers found their Overseas Employment Certificates were not encoded in the bureau’s linked […]

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DOTr reports 655 active COVID-19 cases as COVID-19 mass testing of rail line personnel continues

(Eagle News) — There are over 600 active COVID-19 cases among rail line personnel so far, recent data from the Department of Transportation showed. According to the data from the ongoing COVID-19 mass testing in the country’s rail lines, the breakdown of the 655 active cases is as follows: Light Rail Transit-1: 19 active cases Light Rail Transit-2: 215 active cases Metro Rail Transit-3: 201 active cases Philippine National Railways: 220 active cases So far, […]

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All tropical cyclone wind signals lifted; Typhoon “Bising” still moving away from Luzon landmass

(Eagle News) — All tropical cyclone wind signals have been lifted as Typhoon “Bising” accelerated and moved northeastward, away from the Luzon landmass. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said tropical cyclone winds of at least strong breeze to near gale in strength, however, will extend outward up to 320 km from the center of the typhoon, located 490 km east of Basco, Batanes or 495 km east of Itbayat. Destructive typhoon-force winds […]

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4.6-magnitude quake hits Southern Leyte early Friday

(Eagle News) – -A 4.6-magnitude earthquake struck Southern Leyte early Friday, April 23. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake hit at 4:31 a.m. It had its epicenter 11 kilometers northeast of Sogod. The following intensities and instrumental intensities were felt and recorded in the following areas: Reported Intensities: Intensity IV – Sogod, Hinunangan, Hinundayan, Libagon, Southern Leyte Instrumental Intensities: Intensity III – Abuyog, Leyte Intensity II – Baybay, Leyte Intensity I […]

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Syria government receives first Covax jabs

DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) — The Syrian government received more than 200,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine via the Covax programme Thursday, state media said, in the first such shipment to government-held territory. The delivery comes as Syria’s war-ravaged medical sector grapples with a Covid-19 outbreak that has accelerated rapidly in recent months. The health ministry “received the first batch of vaccines provided by the Covax platform, which consist of 203,000 doses,” the official SANA news […]

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Germany expects to offer Covid jabs to all adults from June

BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany is expecting to open up Covid-19 vaccinations to all adults in June at the latest, German Health Minister Jens Spahn said Thursday. Spahn told the Bundesrat upper house of parliament he expected Europe’s biggest economy to be able to “lift the prioritisation in June”, referring to current lists deciding who gets the jabs first. He added that the move may be possible even earlier. After a sluggish start to its […]

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Pakistan Taliban claim deadly blast at luxury hotel

QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) — The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility Thursday for a deadly suicide blast at a luxury hotel hosting the Chinese ambassador in the southwest of the country, as officials raised the death toll to five. Beijing said it strongly condemned the attack, although the Taliban said Pakistan security officials were the target of the blast. The bomber detonated the explosives late Wednesday while inside a vehicle in the car park of the Serena […]

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Virus reaches Everest as climber tests positive

by Paavan MATHEMA KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) — A Norwegian climber hoping to summit Everest confirmed Thursday that he has tested positive for Covid-19, in a blow to Nepal’s hopes for a bumper mountaineering season on the world’s highest peak. The pandemic wiped out last year’s season but Nepal has eased quarantine rules in an effort to attract more climbers despite the difficulties of treating them if they contract the virus. “My diagnosis is Covid-19,” Erlend […]

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Angola flood death toll rises to 24

LUANDA, Angola (AFP) — The death toll from a torrential rainstorm that hit Angola’s capital Luanda this week has risen to 24, with more than two thousand homes flooded, officials said. The hours-long storm pounded the coastal city on Monday, triggering flash floods that brought down buildings and swept away trees and cars. “The number of deaths has risen from 14 to 24,” Luanda’s provincial government said in a statement late Wednesday. At least 2,344 […]

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Covid-19 variant related to surging case numbers in India appears in Canada

By: Thomas I. Likness EBC News Service (Eagle News) — The first case of the so-called double mutation variant of the Covid-19 virus spotted in India has been identified in the provinces of Quebec and British Columbia, health authorities said. Quebec is reporting one case and another 39 cases have been occurred in BC. The virus has two different mutations of the original Covis-19 virus. These mutations have occurred separately, but the B.1.617 variant contains […]

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Covid 3rd wave peak in France ‘appears to be behind us’: PM

PARIS, France (AFP) — The peak of the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in France “appears to be behind us”, Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Thursday, announcing that travel restrictions will be relaxed from early next month. He told reporters there had been a “genuine fall in the circulation of the virus over the last 10 days”, confirming that restrictions confining people to a 10-kilometre (six-mile) radius of their homes would be dropped […]

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3 rockets hit Baghdad airport base housing US troops: security sources

  BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Three rockets crashed into a base at the Iraqi capital’s airport housing US troops Friday, security sources said, in the latest attack coinciding with tensions between Baghdad’s allies Tehran and Washington. One of the sources told AFP the projectiles hit the section of the airbase occupied by Iraqi troops, who share the base with soldiers deployed by Washington as part of the US-led anti-jihadist coalition. One Iraqi soldier was wounded, […]

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