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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — Wildfires have destroyed up to 50 homes in New Zealand, authorities announced Monday, saying it was a miracle no one was hurt as “a wall of orange” razed most of a remote South Island village. The blaze began in a mountain forest early Sunday morning and, fanned by strong winds, swept through the village of Lake Ohau, forcing residents to flee for their lives. Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Finance has met with the outgoing Russian ambassador H.E. Igor Khovaev to discuss the continued strengthened economic cooperation between the Philippines and Russia, including a possible agreement on cooperation regarding customs and help in setting up a more efficient tax collection system. Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III met last week with Ambassador Khovaev when the diplomat made a farewell courtesy call to the DOF. The ambassador also discussed […]
ORLANDO, United States (AFP) — Anthony Davis is used to shouldering much of the scoring load for the Los Angeles Lakers, but he says getting in foul trouble early in game three of the NBA Finals took away his effectiveness. “It had an impact. I picked up two (fouls) early, come back in and get the third. So it takes away the aggressiveness on both ends of the floor that I’m used to playing with,” […]
Globe myBusiness recently conducted CONNECT, the online business matching events to help MSMEs recover during the pandemic. The series of runs connected investors, enablers, suppliers, and potential customers online. CONNECT is a platform to establish networking opportunities that help MSMEs bridge the gap between idea and action. Globe myBusiness, through its business solutions, aimed to make these business matching activities create partnerships between ecosystem enablers and MSMEs. “This project was initially an offline event; […]
(Eagle News) — The police seized over P4 million worth of suspected shabu in Caloocan City over the weekend. Also arrested during the buy-bust operation in Barangay 171 on Oct. 3 were Abdul Sulong, 33 and Taya Sulong, 65, the police said. Apart from the seven transparent plastic bags of suspected shabu, weighing more or less 600 grams, worth P4,080,000; authorities also seized a silver digital weighing scale; a black shoulder bag; and buy-bust mone […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte’s approval and trust ratings both rose to 91 percent in September, a Pulse Asia survey said. With his approval and trust ratings rising, the President was the only one of the government’s high-ranking officials to score a line of 9, based on the Pulse Asia survey conducted from Sept. 14 to 20. Relevant events prior to the survey include Ricardo Morales’ resignation as PhilHealth chief, the allegations by Senate Minority […]
by Chloe Fabre with Vincenzo Pinto in Garessio, Italy SAINT-MARTIN-VERSUBIE, France (AFP) — French and Italian rescue services stepped up search efforts Sunday after floods cut off several villages in the mountainous border regions, causing widespread damage and killing at least four people. Others remained unaccounted for on the French side of the border after storms, torrential rain and flash floods battered the area, washing away roads and houses, cutting off entire villages and triggering […]
by Holly ROBERTSON Agence France-Presse SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Tasmanian devils have been released into the wild on Australia’s mainland 3,000 years after the feisty marsupials went extinct there, in what conservationists described Monday as a “historic” step. Aussie Ark, along with a coalition of other conservation groups, revealed Monday that they had released 26 of the carnivorous mammals into a 400-hectare (1,000-acre) sanctuary at Barrington Tops, about 3.5 hours north of Sydney. Tim Faulkner, […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — Wildfires have destroyed dozens of homes in New Zealand, authorities announced Monday, saying it was a miracle no one was hurt when “a wall of orange” descended on a remote South Island village. The blaze began in a mountain forest early Sunday morning and, fanned by strong winds, swept through the village of Lake Ohau, forcing residents to flee for their lives. “The high winds meant the fire could not […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Sunday his son will join trials of Sputnik V, the coronavirus vaccine which was met with caution when Russia announced it was the world’s first to be approved. An initial batch of the vaccine arrived in Venezuela on Friday, the government announced, and 2,000 residents will participate in the trials. “In this clinical trial phase, my son, Nicolas Ernesto Maduro Guerra, told me of his decision […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The United Kingdom passed 500,000 confirmed coronavirus infections on Sunday, official figures showed, in the latest grim milestone for the European country worst-hit by the pandemic. Health authorities blamed a technical glitch for a sudden spike in cases announced in evening figures that had kept several thousand cases from the last week of September off the official tally. Sunday’s numbers showed 22,961 cases for the day, a rise of more […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared on Monday New Zealand “beat the virus again” and announced restrictions in the country’s largest city would be eased, after a second Covid-19 wave was contained. The virus was believed to have been eradicated in late May after a strict national lockdown led to New Zealanders enjoying 102 days without community transmission. But a new cluster emerged in Auckland in August, forcing the city of […]
