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(Eagle News) — Sixteen more COVID-19 cases have been reported among overseas Filipinos. The Department of Foreign Affairs said the additional cases pushed the COVID-19 total among Filipinos abroad to 13017. Fourteen additional recoveries led to an increase in the COVID-19 recovery total, now at 8460. No additional death was reported, which means the COVID-19 death toll among overseas Filipinos is still at 934. The Middle East and Africa are the regions with the most […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Abu Bakar Bashir, a radical cleric linked to the deadly Bali bombings, was freed from a prison near the Indonesian capital Jakarta early Friday, prison authorities said. “He was handed over to his family and a team of lawyers who came to pick him up at the penitentiary,” national prisons spokeswoman Rika Aprianti said in a statement. Bashir, 82, had completed his jail term for helping fund militant training in conservative […]
(Eagle News) — Thirty-one more police personnel have recovered from COVID-19. The Philippine National Police said with the additional recoveries, the PNP COVID-19 total rose to 8831. Twenty-three additional cases, however, pushed the PNP COVID-19 total to 9182. Of these, 323 were active. No additional deaths were reported, which means the PNP COVID-19 death toll remains at 28. The government has said uniformed personnel including policemen were among the priorities in a COVID-19 national vaccination […]
(Eagle News) — Four detainees escaped a Quezon City police station’s temporary lock-up facility, the Philippine National Police said on Thursday. In a statement, the PNP said a manhunt operation is ongoing for the recapture of Glenn Louie Limin, Marvin Inciong, Joel Sanchez, and Ronald Buenafe, who escaped from the QCPD Police Station-11 in Galas. The PNP did not say how they escaped. The PNP said Limin and Buenafe are facing drug-related charges, while Inciong […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Temperatures in the Chinese capital plunged to their lowest for more than five decades on Thursday, as Beijing was hit by gale-force winds and bitter conditions. On Thursday morning the mercury dropped to minus 19.6 degrees Celsius (minus 3.3 Fahrenheit), breaking a previous cold weather record set in 1969. The cold reading was the lowest since 1966, when temperatures in the city fell to minus 27.4 degrees Celsius (minus 17.3 Fahrenheit). […]
(Eagle News) — A 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck off Zamboanga del Norte early Friday, January 8. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which struck at 12:47 a.m., had its epicenter 37 kilometers northwest of Siocon. It had a depth of 33 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
by Agence France Presse World leaders and governments have expressed shock and outrage at the storming of the US Capitol in Washington by supporters of President Donald Trump. – Germany – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday she was “furious and saddened” by the events and said Trump shared blame for the unrest. “I deeply regret that President Trump has not conceded his defeat, since November and again yesterday,” she said. – Britain – […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is monitoring a low pressure area off Davao City. PAGASA said the LPA, located 240 kilometers east of the city, was embedded along the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) affecting Visayas and Mindanao. Apart from this, the northeast monsoon is affecting Luzon. PAGASA said as a result, Visayas, Bicol Region, and MIMAROPA will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Friday, January 8: Flight schedules may change at any given time. The Philippines has so far temporarily banned foreign travelers from 27 countries following reports of the COVID-19 virus variant first observed in the United Kingdom. Covered by the travel restrictions are: overnment later expanded the ban to include the following countries: Denmark Ireland Japan Australia’ Israel The […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP ) — Donald Trump condemns “in the strongest possible terms” violence by supporters who stormed the US Capitol after being whipped up in a speech by the president, his spokeswoman said Thursday. “Let me be clear: The violence we saw yesterday at our nation’s Capitol was appalling, reprehensible and antithetical to the American way,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters. “We condemn it — the president and this administration […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil’s Covid-19 death toll passed 200,000 Thursday amid a surging second wave, with a record number of new cases and the second-highest number of daily deaths since the pandemic began. Highlighting the long road still ahead to bring the pandemic under control, the South American country recorded 87,843 cases and 1,524 deaths in 24 hours, bringing its total death toll to 200,498 — the second-highest in the world, after […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain’s total number of coronavirus infections surged past two million on Thursday as cases jumped following the Christmas holidays, government figures showed on Thursday. The milestone came as the health ministry announced another 42,360 new cases over the past 48 hours, taking the overall figure to 2,024,904. But seroprevalence studies, that test people using a blood serum sample, suggest the figure is far higher. “The total number of confirmed cases… already […]
