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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump in a farewell address Tuesday said he was the first president in many years to have left office without starting a war. “I am especially proud to be the first president in decades who has started no new wars,” he said, according to excerpts from the address, which the White House said would be broadcast shortly. © Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to be secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said Tuesday that he agreed with incumbent Mike Pompeo’s finding that China is committing genocide against Uighurs and other mostly Muslim communities. “That would be my judgment as well,” Blinken said at his confirmation hearing when asked by Senator Lindsey Graham about Pompeo’s determination announced earlier in the day. © Agence France-Presse
(Eagle News) — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it is coordinating with Pfizer and BioNTech so that the Philippines can be updated on developments regarding recent response to its vaccines on individuals given this inoculation in other countries. So far, the FDA said that because of reported adverse reactions monitored in other countries in some individuals particularly in very sick elderly patients, and severe allergic reactions in persons with a history of […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese miners trapped underground for nine days are recovering strength after food and medical supplies were lowered to them, rescuers said Tuesday, as authorities raced to save the workers. Some 22 workers were trapped at the Hushan mine near Yantai in east China’s Shandong province after an explosion damaged the entrance. One group of the miners managed to send a note attached to a metal wire which rescuers had dropped […]
(Eagle News) — There are no more cases of the Avian Influenza (AI) A(H5N6) virus or bird flu in the country, according to the Department of Agriculture. The DA said that as early as Jan. 8 this year, the World Organization for Animal Health has declared that the “country is now free of the last remaining A(H5N6) strain of the Avian Influenza (AI).” In a statement released on Tuesday, Jan. 19, the DA said that […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — An estimated 12 percent of people in England had been infected with coronavirus by December last year, up from nine percent in November, according to official antibody data released Tuesday. One in 10 people in Wales, one in 13 in Northern Ireland and one in 11 in Scotland were also estimated to have caught the virus, according analysis of random blood test results published by the Office for National […]
(Eagle News) — Cloudy skies and rains are expected in parts of the country today, January 19. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Eastern Visayas, Bicol Region, Marinduque, Romblon, Oriental Mindoro, and Quezon will have cloudy skies with scattered to widespread rains and thunderstorms due to the low pressure area 65 km east southeast of Masbate City, Masbate and the tail-end of a frontal system affecting the eastern section of Southern Luzon. […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Thousands of prefabricated rooms fill a vast field on the outskirts of China’s Shijiazhuang city as construction crews work around the clock to erect a large quarantine facility to curb the city’s growing Covid-19 outbreak. China has largely brought the virus under control even as the rest of the world struggles with mounting deaths and overburdened hospitals. But a spate of small, localised outbreaks has prompted Chinese officials to order […]
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AFP) — Four UNICEF schools for Rohingya children in refugee camps in Bangladesh have been destroyed in a fire, officials said Tuesday, with the UN children’s agency calling it arson. It was unclear who might attack the schools, which were empty at the time, but the security situation in the camps housing around a million people has worsened in recent months. Last week a blaze thought to have been started by a […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte read the names of 89 barangay captains who have been preventively suspended due to anomalies in their distribution of social amelioration funds to those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Duterte said that he had already issued a warning to the barangay captains early on — that they should not touch the funds meant to help poor Filipinos amid the pandemic. “Now, ito suspendido muna for six months then […]
(Eagle News) — The number of COVID-19 cases in the country climbed to 504,084 after the Department of Health reported 1357 additional cases on Tuesday, January 19. The DOH said of the total cases, 27857 were active. Of these, 86.1 percent were mild, 6.1 percent asymptomatic, 4.7 percent critical, 2.7 percent severe, and 0.42 percent moderate. The areas with the most COVID-19 cases reported today were Davao City with 130, Rizal with 71, Quezon City […]
by Sebastian Smith WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump began his final full day in the White House Tuesday with a long list of possible pardons to dish out before snubbing his successor Joe Biden’s inauguration and leaving for Florida. On Wednesday at noon, Biden will be sworn in and the Trump presidency will end, turning the page on some of the most disruptive, divisive years the United States has seen since the […]
