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SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon surged again over the past year, hitting a 12-year high, according to official figures released Monday that drew a chorus of condemnation of President Jair Bolsonaro’s government. A total of 11,088 square kilometers (4,281 square miles) of forest was destroyed in Brazil’s share of the world’s biggest rainforest in the 12 months to August, according to the Brazilian space agency’s PRODES monitoring program, which analyzes […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Vietnam reported its first local transmission of Covid-19 in nearly three months on Monday, with officials scrambling to prevent a wider outbreak in the country’s most populous city. The communist nation was applauded earlier this year for controlling the pandemic with strict restrictions on movement, extensive quarantine measures and a robust track-and-trace regime. But late on Monday the health ministry announced that that it had detected coronavirus in a 32-year-old man […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization insisted Monday it would do everything possible to find the animal origins of Covid-19, insisting that knowledge was vital to preventing future outbreaks. “We want to know the origin and we will do everything to know the origin,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters. He insisted the UN health agency was intent on getting to the bottom of the mystery, and urged critics who have accused […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte decided to continue to place Metro Manila and the provinces of Batangas, Lanao del Sur, Iligan, and the cities of Iloilo, Tacloban and Davao under General Community Quarantine (GCQ) until year-end. In a televised address to the nation, Duterte on Monday night, Nov. 30, said that there has to be a continued GCQ in these areas as COVID cases continued to rise in these areas. The rest of […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) reminded the public that large year-end gatherings should be avoided for now to prevent another spike in COVID-19 cases. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that gatherings should only be limited to household members, those residing in the same house. “Alam ho natin na sabik na ang ating mga kababayan na gawin iyan pero sana intindihin pa rin nila na nandiyan pa rin iyong virus and […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the country breached the 431,000 mark on Monday, Nov. 30, after the Department of Health reported 1773 additional cases. The DOH said of the 431,630 total cases, 5.7 percent or 24,580 were active. Of these, 83.5 percent were mild, 7.5 percent asymptomatic, 3 percent severe, and 5.7 percent critical. The areas with the most COVID-19 cases in reported today were Rizal with 104, Cavite with 99, Negros Occidental with […]
PALU, Indonesia (AFP) — Islamic State-linked extremists killed four people in a remote Christian community on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, authorities said Saturday, with one victim beheaded and another burned to death. The group of sword-and-gun wielding attackers ambushed Lembantongoa village in Central Sulawesi province Friday morning, killing several residents and torching half a dozen homes, including one used for regular prayers and services, police said. No arrests had yet been made and […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia’s Mount Ili Lewotolok erupted Sunday, belching a column of smoke and ash four kilometres (2.5 miles) into the sky, triggering a flight warning and the closure of the local airport. There were no reports of injuries or damage from the eruption in a remote part of the Southeast Asian archipelago. But authorities raised the volcano’s alert status to its second-highest level as they warned of possible lava flows. A […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police on Monday, Nov. 30, announced authorities had seized around P26 million worth of marijuana in a buy-bust operation in Quezon City. In a statement, the PNP said the 217 kilograms of marijuana seized in Balintawak on Sunday, Nov. 29, were the most illegal drugs confiscated in a buy-bust operation so far during the term of Gen. Debold Sinas as PNP chief. Also arrested during the 7 a.m. operation […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) — Diego Maradona’s personal doctor was on Sunday being investigated for involuntary manslaughter four days after the Argentina legend suffered a fatal heart attack, prosecutors in San Isidro near Buenos Aires reported. Police raided Leopoldo Luque’s surgery and home in search of possible evidence pointing to negligence, according to television images. The probe was triggered by concerns raised by three of Maradona’s daughters Dalma, Giannina and Jana over the treatment […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — In the first TV interview since losing his re-election bid, US President Donald Trump indicated Sunday that he will never concede to Joe Biden and abandon his conspiracy theory about mass ballot fraud. “It’s not like you’re gonna change my mind. My mind will not change in six months,” Trump told Fox News interviewer Maria Bartiromo. “This election was rigged. This election was a total fraud,” he claimed, again without […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, Nov. 30, urged Filipinos to be “fueled by (Andres Bonifacio’s extraordinary courage and determination” to surmount the “many challenges ahead” amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In his short message on the 157th birth anniversary of Bonifacio, the President said if love of country that led Filipino ancestors to “fight for our freedom and secure our rightful place in the community of nations is very vital,” now “more than […]
