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JERUSALEM, Jan 21, 2024 (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he had rejected conditions demanded by Hamas militants for the release of hostages, hours after the group released a report justifying its October 7 attack on Israel. “In exchange for the release of our hostages, Hamas demands an end to the war, the withdrawal of our forces from Gaza, the release of all murderers…. If we accept this, our soldiers have […]
WASHINGTON, Jan 21, 2024 (AFP) – Two US Navy SEALs who went missing during an operation to seize Iranian weapons bound for Yemen’s Huthi rebels have been declared dead after a 10-day search failed to locate them, the US military said Sunday. The Central Command (CENTCOM) had previously said that two SEALs who were reported as lost at sea were involved in the January 11 operation, in which the elite special operations personnel boarded a […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Unrelenting storms have pummelled the United States over the past week, leading to at least 50 weather-related deaths, officials and US media reported Friday, as large swathes of the country brace for new winter wallops. Frigid temperatures, snow gales and thick ice have caused fatal accidents on treacherous roadways, snarled air travel, closed schools and cut power to thousands, with millions of Americans under fresh weather warnings. In Tennessee, 14 weather-related fatalities […]
WASHINGTON, Jan 21, 2024 (AFP) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who was once the leading Republican rival to Donald Trump, ended his election campaign on Sunday and threw his support behind the former president. DeSantis’s withdrawal, after months of weakening support, leaves only low-polling Nikki Haley standing between Trump and nomination as the Republican Party’s candidate for the US presidential election in November. In a video message, DeSantis said that following his second place last […]
MOSCOW, Jan 21, 2024 (AFP) – Artillery shells struck a suburb of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine Sunday, killing at least 27 people, including many at a crowded market, Moscow-backed officials said. Both Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of a sharp escalation in attacks on civilian areas over the past two months. Shattered storefronts and broken glass could be seen in videos shared by Russian state media, along with what […]
MOSCOW, Jan 21, 2024 (AFP) – Four people survived and two are unaccounted for after a Russian plane crashed in mountainous northeastern Afghanistan, the air transport agency Rosaviatsia said Sunday. The Falcon 10 business jet was believed to be carrying six people on a hospital flight from India to Uzbekistan and Russia before communication was lost on Saturday evening. “Of the six people on board the aircraft, tentatively, four are alive. They have various injuries. […]
QUITO, Jan 22, 2024 (AFP) – Police in violence-plagued Ecuador arrested 68 people Sunday who had attempted to take over a hospital in the country’s southwest in the midst of a “war” between drug gangs and the security forces. “We neutralized alleged terrorists who were trying to take over the facilities of a hospital in Yaguachi, Guayas,” police announced on X, the former Twitter. Those detained were believed to be trying to rescue a colleague […]
(Eagle News)–The northeast monsoon is affecting Northern and Central Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said, as a result, Apayao, Batanes, and Cagayan including the Babuyan Islands will have cloudy skies with light rains. Metro Manila, Ilocos Region, Central Luzon, CALABARZON and the rest of Cagayan Valley and Cordillera Administrative Region will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains. The rest of the country, meanwhile, will have partly cloudy […]
(Eagle News)–Panay Island has a stable power supply. Energy Assistant Secretary Mario Marasigan issued the statement after a generating plant went offline on Jan. 17. According to Marasigan, the island does not have a rotational brownout situation with the power supply stable prior to the January 17 incident. He said the exception was when the region had a high power demand that led to a prolonged blackout on Jan. 2. “So ngayon po para maiwasan […]
(Eagle News)–The northeast monsoon is affecting Northern Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said, as a result, Ilocos Region, Cordillera Administrative Region, and Cagayan Valley will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains. SOCCSKSARGEN will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms due to the trough of a low pressure area, the PAGASA forecast said. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, meanwhile, will have partly […]
(Eagle News)–A 4.9-magnitude earthquake struck Batangas on Saturday, Jan. 20. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake hit at 4:04 p.m. The epicenter was 11 kilometers northwest of Tingloy. It had a depth of focus of two kilometers. The following intensities and instrumental intensities were reported: Intensities Intensity IV – Balayan, Bauan, City of Calaca, Calatagan, Lemery, Mabini, San Luis, San Pascual, Taal, and Tingloy, Batangas Intensity III – City of Makati; […]
