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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump left a letter to his successor Joe Biden before leaving the White House, spokesman Judd Deere told AFP minutes after the outgoing president’s departure. Trump, who refused to accept his defeat for more than two months, never congratulated Biden on his victory. “We are just temporary occupants of this office,” Barack Obama wrote in his own note to Trump four years ago, left in the Oval Office in […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris arrived at the US Capitol on Wednesday for their official inauguration ceremony. Biden, 78, is to be sworn in at noon (1700 GMT) by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts as the 46th president of the United States. Harris, 56, will be the first woman to become vice president. Donald Trump left Washington three hours before Biden’s swearing-in, the first American president […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris arrived at the US Capitol on Wednesday for their official inauguration ceremony. Biden, 78, is to be sworn in at noon (1700 GMT) by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts as the 46th president of the United States. Harris, 56, will be the first woman to become vice president. Donald Trump left Washington three hours before Biden’s swearing-in, the first American president […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — At least two people were killed on Wednesday when a huge explosion ripped through a building in Madrid, in what appeared to be caused by a gas leak, officials said. The emergency services tweeted that two people had died, while another person was seriously injured and six had suffered light injuries in the blast. “It seems there was a gas explosion in the building,” mayor Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida told reporters at […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — A strong explosion rocked a building in central Madrid on Wednesday, witnesses said, with images from Spanish television and the emergency services showing the street covered in debris. “Nine fire crews and 11 ambulances have gone to Calle Toledo following an explosion in a building,” local emergency services tweeted. The cause of the blast was not immediately clear. © Agence France-Presse
BEIJING, China (AFP) — 1.6 million residents were banned from leaving Beijing on Wednesday as two Covid-19 cases linked to a new UK virus variant were found in the Chinese capital. China has lauded its response to the pandemic, which emerged in the central city of Wuhan just over a year ago but has been broadly brought to heel, officially killing fewer than 5,000 Chinese people. Authorities have been swift to stamp out local clusters […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump left Washington on Air Force One on Wednesday three hours ahead of the inauguration of his successor, Joe Biden. Trump, 74, will be at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida when Biden is sworn in at noon (1700 GMT). He is the first president in more than 150 years to snub the inauguration of his successor. © Agence France-Presse
(Eagle News) — Rains will persist in parts of the country today due to the low pressure area and the tail-end of a frontal system, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. According to PAGASA, the cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms in Metro Manila, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Cordillera Administrative Region, MIMAROPA, Bicol Region, rest of CALABARZON, and Eastern Visayas are due to the LPA located 100 kilometers east of Baler, Aurora. […]
by Sebastian Smith and Michael Mathes Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th US president Wednesday, drawing a curtain on the most tumultuous administration of modern times and charting a new course to tackle Covid-19 and unite a splintered nation. Outgoing President Donald Trump entered the White House four years ago as a brash billionaire outsider, but he is being ousted by a polar […]
(Eagle News) – After almost 30 years of operation, Makati Shangri-La Hotel will be temporarily closing operations starting February 1 as the hotel chain is hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. In a letter to the Philippine Hotel Owners Association, Vice-President for Operations (Philippines) of the Shangri-La Group John Rice said that throughout the “unprecedented pandemic” in the last 10 months, their priority has been to “preserve as many jobs as possible for our […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines reached 505,939 on Wednesday, Jan. 20, after the Department of Health reported 1,862 additional cases. The DOH said of the total COVID-19 cases, 5.7 percent or 28,904 were active. Of these, 84.9 percent were mild, 7.5 percent asymptomatic, 4.5 percent critical, 2.6 percent severe, and 0.39 percent were moderate. The areas with the most COVID-19 cases reported today were Zamboanga City with 206, Davao City with 109, […]
by Glenn CHAPMAN Agence France Presse SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Netflix on Tuesday topped subscriber growth expectations in the past quarter, keeping ahead of new streaming rivals competing for viewers stuck in their homes during the coronavirus pandemic. The streaming television leader added some 8.5 million paid subscribers in the quarter to reach 203 million, topping 200 million despite recent price hikes, its quarterly earning update showed. “Covid-19 has accelerated that big shift […]
