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(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs has recently repatriated over 300 Filipinos from Kuwait. The DFA said with the 310 repatriated on Sept. 6, the number of Filipinos repatriated from Kuwait breached the 7,000 mark, or at 7,116, since the COVID-19 outbreak in March. According to the department, the chartered Kuwait Airways flight, the 15th flight arranged by the embassy since June 2020, was granted clearance to land in Manila by the Civil […]
(Eagle News)–Nine volcanic earthquakes were monitored at Taal within 24 hours. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said weak steaming was also observed from the fissure vents along the Daang Kastila Trail of the volcano, which is on alert level 1. PHIVOLCS said the steam rose five meters before drifting southwest. PHIVOLCS reminded the public that “sudden steam-driven or phreatic explosions, volcanic earthquakes, minor ashfall, and lethal accumulations or expulsions of volcanic gas can […]
by Luis Bravo with Margioni Bermudez in Caracas Agence France-Presse MARACAIBO, Venezuela (AFP) — Cheap gasoline smuggled over the border from Venezuela once flooded eastern Colombia. These days, as desperate Venezuelans run out of fuel, the contraband is moving in the other direction. For the first time Colombian gasoline is cheaper and is being smuggled across the border to fuel vehicles in western Venezuela. “It’s a lifeline,” says Roger, a fruit-and-vegetable vendor in Santa Cruz […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Kyle Lowry scored 33 points and Norman Powell added 23 off the bench Wednesday as defending champion Toronto bagged a series-levelling 125-122 double overtime victory over Boston in the NBA playoffs. An emotional thriller that resembled the intensity of a heavyweight boxing matchup saw the Raptors sustain their repeat hopes and pull level 3-3 in the Eastern Conference semi-final with a winner-take-all game seven set for Friday. The winner advances […]
by Sammy Ketz KHARTOUM, Sudan (AFP) — It seemed little to worry about: Sudanese farmer Khadija Ahmad was planting onions when she stepped on a thorn that pierced her sandal and cut her foot. But the thorn brought with it a flesh-eating infection, a bacterial and fungal disease called mycetoma, which rips through the body causing severe deformities. For Ahmad, a 45-year-old from El-Fasher in western Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region, the first she knew something […]
by Javier TOVAR Agence France-Presse Hundreds of homes including entire communities were razed by wildfires in the western United States Wednesday as officials warned of potential mass deaths under apocalyptic orange skies. At least five towns were “substantially destroyed” in Oregon as widespread evacuations took place across the northwestern state, governor Kate Brown said. “I want to be upfront in saying that we expect to see a great deal of loss, both in structures and […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China accused the US of becoming “the biggest driver of militarization” in the contested South China Sea, as tensions between Washington and Beijing look set to swamp a regional Asian summit. US-China rivalry is expected to dominate discussion at this year’s ASEAN conference, which comes just days after Beijing launched ballistic missiles in the flashpoint waters as part of live-fire exercises. Beijing claims the majority of the resource-rich South China Sea, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Young adults with underlying conditions such as morbid obesity, diabetes and hypertension are at the highest risk of being placed on a ventilator or dying from Covid-19, according to a study of 3,000 hospitalized patients aged 18 to 34. The analysis, published Wednesday in the journal Jama Internal Medicine, focused on patients hospitalized between April and June in the United States. It confirmed first and foremost that black and Hispanic […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States has revoked visas of more than 1,000 Chinese students and researchers under an order by President Donald Trump that accused some of them of espionage, the State Department said Wednesday. Trump, in a May 29 proclamation as tensions rose with Beijing on multiple fronts, declared that some Chinese nationals officially in the United States for study have stolen intellectual property and helped modernize China’s military. The State […]
by Will VASSILOPOULOS with John HADOULIS in Athens LESBOS, Greece (AFP) — Thousands of asylum-seekers were left homeless on Wednesday after a fire gutted Greece’s largest migrant camp on Lesbos, provoking an outpouring of sympathy from around Europe and calls for reform of the refugee system. A second fire on Wednesday evening aggravated the crisis on the island, where the authorities have declared a state of emergency. The first blaze, which began hours after 35 […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — People in San Francisco and elsewhere in California woke Wednesday to a deep orange sky that triggered apocalyptic visions in a year already rife with disturbing events. Skies so dark at times that it appeared more night than day were accompanied in some places with ash falling like snow, the cause being massive wild fires filling the air with smoke and cinders. “The orange skies this morning are a […]
DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) — Syrian firefighters and army helicopters Wednesday battled forest fires for a seventh consecutive day in government-held areas of the war-torn country, state media said. Damascus ally Iran sent in a firefighting plane Wednesday carrying 40 tonnes of water to help fight the fires in the hilly woodlands of Latakia and Hama provinces, in northwestern and central Syria respectively, state news agency SANA said. State media has published repeated images of billowing […]
