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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, December 21, expressed indignation over a Parañaque policeman’s killing of a mother and son in Paniqui, Tarlac. In a televised address, the President hurled invectives at Master Sergeant Jonel Nuezca, calling him “crazy” and “may topak sa ulo.” The President agreed with Interior Secretary Eduardo Año, however, and said this was an “isolated incident.” “Alam mo, bihira kang makakita ng ganito. You only find this in […]
(Eagle News) — A 4.0-magnitude earthquake struck Davao Occidental on Tuesday, December 22. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which hit at 9:19 a.m., had its epicenter 32 kilometers southwest of Sarangani. PHIVOLCS said it was an aftershock of the 6.2-magnitude earthquake that hit the area on December 16. Tuesday’s quake had a depth of 30 kilometers. The following instrumental intensities were reported: Intensity II – General Santos City; Intensity I […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States surpassed 18 million reported Covid-19 cases on Monday, figures from Johns Hopkins University showed, as the virus surges nationwide. The US has the world’s highest absolute number of cases as well as the most deaths related to the virus, according to the figures. It had a total of 18,006,061 reported cases on Monday evening and more than 319,000 deaths. The country began administering vaccines a week ago […]
(Eagle News) — Thirty-five more police personnel have recovered from COVID-19. The Philippine National Police said with the additional recoveries, the PNP COVID-19 recovery total rose to 8371. Seventeen additional cases, however, pushed the total COVID-19 cases among police personnel to 8735. Of these, the PNP said 337 were active. No additional deaths were reported, which means the death toll remains at 27. The government has said it would prioritize uniformed personnel, including police personnel, […]
Suspects escape (Eagle News) — One person was killed and another was injured in an encounter between government troops and a a member of the Dawlah Islamiyah and his two cohorts, the Philippine National Police said. In a statement, the PNP said Leonardo Gatinao Jr. was killed while Aldrin Jay Palma was hurt in the gunfight between joint elements of local police units of Polomolok and Tupi, the intelligence unit of the South Cotobato Police […]
(Eagle News) — The tail-end of a frontal system is affecting the eastern section of Northern Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said as a result, Cagayan including Babuyan Islands, Isabela, Kalinga, Apayao, and Ilocos Norte will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides during moderate to heavy rains are possible. Bicol Region, Aurora, Quezon, and Kalayaan Islands, on the other hand, will have cloudy skies with scattered […]
by James Pheby with Agence France Presse Bureaus LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Travellers were facing a nightmare holiday season on Monday with governments banning flights from Britain to contain a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus, as the European Union approves its first vaccine and readies a mass rollout. More than two dozen countries from India to Argentina suspended flights from the UK offering a bleak reminder that the pandemic is far from over. […]
(Eagle News) – Two counts of murder will be filed against a Parañaque police officer who had shot a 52-year old woman and her 25-year old son after a dispute and heated talk while he was trying to arrest the man for using a “boga”, a type of improvised cannon that creates a very loud noise. Senior Master Sergeant Jonel Nuezca had already surrendered to the Rosales, Pangasinan Municipal Police Station on Monday night, […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Tuesday, December 22: Flight schedules may be subject to changes. Earlier, MIAA urged passengers to confirm their flights on the day they are supposed to be scheduled as only those with the confirmation will be allowed entry into the airport premises. The government has eased restrictions on travel with domestic flights allowed but subject to the requirements set […]
DOHA, Qatar (AFP) — Qatar received its first novel coronavirus vaccines on Monday, just hours after regulators approved the jab for use in the Gulf state, which says it will innoculate all residents free of charge. A shipment of 14 boxes of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine landed at Doha’s Hamad International Airport aboard a Qatar Airways passenger Boeing 787 from Brussels shortly after 2000 GMT, according to AFP correspondents on site. Authorities have not said how […]
By Alfred Acenas EBC Hawaii Bureau HONOLULU, United States (Eagle News) — Within less than three years since its last eruption in 2018, Kīlauea Volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island is once again showing signs of increased activity. The US Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) recorded a magnitude 4.4 earthquake located beneath Kīlauea Volcano’s south flank on Sunday, December 20, at 10:36 pm Hawaii time (4:36 pm Philippine Time). HVO estimated the eruption began […]
by Juliette COLLEN PARIS, France (AFP) — The solar system’s two biggest planets, Jupiter and Saturn, came within planetary kissing range in Monday’s evening sky, an intimacy that will not occur again until 2080. This “great conjunction”, as it is known to astronomers, occurred fortuitously on the winter solstice for those in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of summer in the global south. The two planets were, in fact, more than 730 million kilometers […]
