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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ne0Y0eaC_k&feature=youtu.be A reported group of protestors, numbered in the dozens, converged on Dodger Stadium brandishing signs which called for an end to the lockdowns as well as denouncing the administration of the COVID-19 vaccination. Watch details in this report by Eagle News International prepared by Eagle News Service’s North America bureaus. (Eagle News Service)
(Eagle News) — Starting today, Monday, Feb. 1 until Feb. 28, the Department of Health will hold the second phase of its Measles Rubella and Oral Polio Vaccine Supplemental Immunization Activity (MR-OPV SIA) amid the ongoing COVID-19 pademic and polio outbreak. The Phase 2 of the vaccination campaign will be done in the Visayas Regions, National Capital Region, Central Luzon and CALABARZON and aims to immunize close to 10 million children. “The Phase 2 […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government has urged local government units to ensure their policies to mitigate the spread of the African Swine Fever are aligned with the national government’s. The DILG made the statement after DILG Officer-in-Charge Bernardo Florece Jr. urged LGUs to conduct an “immediate review” of LGU executive orders and ensure they follow the nationwide policy on the unhampered flow of cargoes emphasized in an Inter-Agency Task […]
(Eagle News) — National Police Commission vice chair and executive officer Vitaliano Aguirre II said the country needed a police force that was “flexible, agile and adaptable” amid the ever-changing world. In his speech during the 30th PNP foundation day on Monday, Feb. 1, Aguirre emphasized the country needed a police force that was “flexible, agile and adaptable” and that “can thrive in volatile, uncertain, complex and an ambiguous situation” even as he hailed the […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia on Monday demanded Myanmar’s army immediately release de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other elected leaders, warning the military was “once again seeking to seize control” of the country. “We call on the military to respect the rule of law, to resolve disputes through lawful mechanisms and to release immediately all civilian leaders and others who have been detained unlawfully,” foreign minister Marise Payne said in a statement. […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Former US president Donald Trump announced Sunday that he had hired two lawyers to head the defense for his historic second impeachment trial. Trump introduced the lead lawyers — David Schoen and Bruce L. Castor, Jr — the day after reports said several members had left his legal team just over a week shy of his trial before the US Senate. Schoen is a trial lawyer who has said […]
Vaccines now made available for child care providers in the US District of Columbia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX_05ERX394&feature=youtu.be The Department of Homeland Security took steps to implement President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting COVID-19 Saftey in Domestic and International Travel. The National Emergency Determination is basically a declaration by David P. Pekoske, Acting DHS Secretary, that says that a national emergency exists and that he directs the Transportation Security Administration or the TSA to take actions […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Myanmar’s military declared a one-year state of emergency on Monday and appointed a general as acting president, after arresting civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior officials. An announcement on military-owned Myawaddy TV said the move was needed to preserve the “stability” of the state, accusing the country’s election commission of failing to address “huge irregularities” in the November election. © Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A powerful winter storm is expected to dump deep snow on parts of the northeastern United States that are home to major cities like New York, after blanketing the nation’s capital on Sunday. The National Weather Service issued storm warnings from Virginia to Maine — home to tens of millions of people — and predicted snowfalls of 18 and 24 inches (45-60 centimeters) in southern New York, northeastern New Jersey […]
Canadians wanting a trip to a sunny destination in the Caribbean or Mexico are out of luck. New travel restrictions have been announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. As of today, Trudeau says flights to those destinations are no longer available. Watch the details in this Eagle News International report prepared by Eagle News Service’s North America bureaus. (Eagle News Service)
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Myanmar troops on Monday seized control of Yangon city hall, as signs grow of a coup d’etat after the military arrested the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi. An AFP journalist saw five military trucks inside the city hall compound, with soldiers turning people away as they arrived for work. © Agence France-Presse
(Eagle News) — The United States government said it is “alarmed” over reports of the detention of Myanmar’s State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior officials of the country as it called on the Myanmar military to immediately release the officials it had detained. “The United States is alarmed by reports that the Burmese military has taken steps to undermine the country’s democratic transition, including the arrest of State Counselor Aung San […]
