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by Stuart WILLIAMS and Adam PLOWRIGHT PARIS, France (AFP) — French Prime Minister Jean Castex on Thursday announced a limited month-long lockdown for Paris and several other regions to combat surging Covid-19 cases, while insisting the measures would be less strict than in the past. While non-essential businesses will close and movement outside will be restricted in the affected regions, schools will stay open and outdoor exercise allowed up to 10 kilometers (6 miles) from […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — NASA successfully carried out a key static test of its troubled Space Launch System rocket on Thursday, a win for the agency as it prepares to return to the Moon. The second “hot fire” test saw all four of the rocket’s RS-25 engines fire simultaneously at 4:40 pm Eastern time (1940 GMT) for the full duration of eight minutes, producing a maximum of 1.6 million pounds of thrust (7.1 million […]
by Sebastian Smith WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that his goal of getting 100 million coronavirus vaccine doses administered in his first 100 days in office will be met by Friday, far in advance of the original target. “I’m proud to announce that tomorrow, 58 days into my administration, we will have met my goal of administering 100 million shots to our fellow Americans,” he said in a White House […]
by Cyril JULIEN Agence France Presse ATLANTA, United States (AFP) — A 21-year-old suspect described as a sex addict was charged Wednesday with murdering eight people in spas around the US city of Atlanta, in triple attacks that have deeply shaken the Asian-American community. Police said Robert Aaron Long has denied a racist motive to Tuesday’s attacks — in which six of the victims were women of Asian origin — but that they had […]
by Isabelle LE PAGE and Deborah COLE Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — An independent study commissioned by the Roman Catholic Church released Thursday has uncovered hundreds of cases of sexual violence allegedly committed by clergy and laymen in Germany’s top diocese. The long-awaited 800-page report on the Cologne diocese found 202 alleged perpetrators of sexual assault and 314 victims between 1975 and 2018, Bjoern Gercke, a lawyer mandated by the Church, told […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 active cases in the Philippines increased to 66,567 after the Department of Health reported 5,290 additional cases, the seventh consecutive day more than 4,000 additional cases were reported in a single day. The DOH said the additional cases also pushed the confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Philippines to 640984. Of the total active cases, the DOH said 93.3 percent were mild, 3.7 percent asymptomatic, 1.2 percent critical, 1.2 percent severe, and […]
Says alert level “subject to change” should current activity persist (Eagle News) — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology on Thursday,, March 18, warned of Bulusan volcano’s “increase in activity.” In an advisory issued on Thursday, March 18, PHIVOLCS said the volcano, which remains on alert level 0, had twenty volcanic earthquakes which included one “tornillo” and three low-frequency events within the last 30 hours, according to the Bulusan Volcano Network or BVN. A […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Agriculture should be investigated for alleged anomalies in the pricing of pork imports, according to the Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (SINAG), a group of farmers and others involved in the agriculture sector. SINAG chair Rosendo So said that they think there is a “tara system” in the DA since the price of imported pork only has a landed cost of P106 per kilo within the 30 percent tariff […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Violence against people of Asian descent “must end,” former US president Barack Obama said Wednesday after a series of shootings in the Atlanta area left six Asian women dead. “Although the shooter’s motive is not yet clear, the identity of the victims underscores an alarming rise in anti-Asian violence that must end,” Obama said on Twitter. A total of eight people were killed in three separate attacks Tuesday at spas […]
(Eagle News) — Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez has tested positive for COVID-19 again. “[I’ve] been wearing mask shield and distancing outside home but still got hit,” he said. He said he was asymptomatic and was in isolation. This is the second time Lopez contracted COVID-19. He also got infected with the COVID-19 virus in December last year. Earlier, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said he tested positive for COVID-19. The PNP said PNP Chief Debold Sinas […]
https://youtu.be/dzOJ4s4HYR4 (Eagle News) – More than 30,400 Filipinos in Israel were given free COVID-19 vaccines, most of them caregivers, according to the Israel embassy. At least 30,000 were caregivers and around 400 were agriculture students, and the rest were staff of the Philuppine embassy in Israel. Even Filipinos with expired working permits were given the vaccine shots from Pfizer. “Israel is thankful for the Filipino caregivers for helping the elderly and the disabled Israeli […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for increased testing and local restrictions to halt an “emerging second peak” of the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday, as fresh daily cases hit a three-month high. The world’s third most infected nation with more than 11.4 million cases, India recorded a peak of just under 100,000 new daily infections in September, before a gradual decline. Infections fell to below 9,000 new cases in early […]
