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(Eagle News) — Police arrested in Manila the leader of a robbery group that had just victimized two Chinese nationals, and three of his cohorts, the Philippine National Police said. The PNP said Ali Asgar Pendatum Baraguir and three others who were not identified were nabbed in a hotel in Malate on December 29, only a day after they robbed their victims along JW Diokno Blvd. The police are still looking for other suspects. Based […]
by Shaun Tandon with James Pheby in London and AFP bureaus Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A worrying new variant of Covid-19 was detected for the first time Tuesday in the United States and Latin America as President-elect Joe Biden vowed he will significantly ramp up a fledging vaccination drive. The new strain, which first emerged in the UK, pushed Britain to a new daily record of coronavirus infections and led […]
(Eagle News) — A 4.2-magnitude earthquake struck off Bohol early Wednesday, December 30. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which struck at 2:43 a.m., had its epicenter 25 kilometers southeast of Lila. It had a depth of 540 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
(Eagle News) — The trough of a low pressure area is affecting eastern sections of Visayas and Mindanao. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said as a result, Caraga and Davao Region, and Eastern Visayas will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. The rest of Mindanao will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers, this time due to localized thunderstorms. Meanwhile, Central and Western Visayas, Occidental Mindoro, and Palawan […]
(Eagle News)–The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Wednesday, December 30: Flight schedules may be subject to changes. Earlier, MIAA advised passengers to confirm their flights on the day they are supposed to be scheduled, noting that only those with the confirmation will be allowed entry. Both international and domestic travel are allowed. The government, however, has temporarily banned travelers from 19 countries apart from the United Kingdom […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian rescuers on Tuesday were continuing to search for 17 missing fishermen after their trawler capsized during a storm and sank in the freezing Barents Sea a day earlier. The spokesman for the maritime and river transport agency Rosmorrechflot, Alexei Kravchenko, told AFP that rescuers were conducting the operation by air and sea. “We are formally continuing the search and rescue operation,” Kravchenko said, adding that two ships and an An-74 […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US state of Colorado has recorded what is reportedly America’s first case of the particularly infectious coronavirus variant that emerged recently in Britain, the governor said Tuesday. “Today we discovered Colorado’s first case of the COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7, the same variant discovered in the UK,” state governor Jared Polis tweeted. He attached an official statement from his office and state health officials that said the individual is a “male […]
by Hugues HONORE PARIS, France (AFP) — France is considering starting its curfew earlier in the evening in parts of the country to try to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Health Minister Olivier Veran said Tuesday. The government has for the moment ruled out a return to a full lockdown, either nationally or at the local level, he added. The proposal is to extend the existing 8pm-6am overnight curfew, starting it at 6pm in […]
by Lajla VESELICA PETRINJA, Croatia (AFP) — A search for survivors in Croatia stretched into the night Tuesday after a powerful earthquake killed at least seven people in the country’s interior, tearing down rooftops and piling bricks in the streets. The 6.4-magnitude quake was felt as far afield as Vienna but the heavy damage was concentrated in and around Petrinja, a town of around 20,000 some 50 kilometres (30 miles) south of Croatia’s capital Zagreb. […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris received her Covid vaccine live on television Tuesday and urged public trust in the process, while her choice of hospital highlighted the plight of the hard-hit African-American community. A mask-wearing Harris received the first of her two shots at United Medical Center, located in an area of Washington, DC with a large African-American population. African-American communities nationwide have seen disproportionately high levels of death and […]
ZAGREB, Croatia (AFP) — A powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake tore down buildings in central Croatia on Tuesday, striking near the town of Petrinja where rescue teams raced to comb through the rubble. The tremor, one of the strongest to rock Croatia in recent years, collapsed rooftops in Petrinja, home to some 20,000 people, and left the streets strewn with bricks and other debris. “We are pulling people from the cars, we don’t know if […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Belarus on Tuesday began a vaccination drive against coronavirus using the Sputnik V jab, becoming the first country outside Russia to use the vaccine developed by Moscow. Belarus, with a population of around 9.5 million people, has registered more than 188,000 cases of coronavirus infections and nearly 1,400 deaths. “Today the first vaccine shipment has arrived in Belarus,” said the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) which financed Sputnik V. RDIF […]
