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Cloudy skies, rainshowers expected in parts of PHL today

(Eagle News)–Cloudy skies with rainshowers are expected in parts of the country today. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said MIMAROPA, Western Visayas, and Zamboanga Peninsula will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms due to the southwest monsoon affecting the western sections of Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Flashfloods or landslides due to moderate with at times heavy rains are possible. PAGASA said Bicol Region,and the rest of Visayas and Mindanao […]

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Mali president announces resignation after military coup

by Serge Daniel and Malick Konate BAMAKO, Mali (AFP) — Mali’s president said he was resigning to avoid “bloodshed” early Wednesday, hours after his arrest by troops in a sudden coup that followed a months-long political crisis in the fragile West African nation. Rebel soldiers detained Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse on Tuesday afternoon and drove the pair to a military base in the town of Kati, near the capital Bamako, which […]

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MIAA releases list of operational commercial flights for Wednesday, Aug. 19

(Eagle News)–The Manila International Airport Authority released its list of operational commercial flights for Wednesday, Aug. 19: Flight schedules may be subject to changes. With Metro Manila now under a general community quarantine, domestic flights are now allowed. International flights are also allowed but the Bureau of Immigration earlier said most of these were still affected due to travel restrictions imposed by several countries. MIAA advised passengers to get confirmation of their flights on the […]

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DOH urges strengthened surveillance, control at ports to prevent entry of more virulent COVID virus strains

G614 virus strain only found in QC samples, may not be present yet in whole country (Eagle News) – The Department of Health said that the G614 mutation of the virus SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 which was found in a sample of positive cases in Quezon City “may not represent the mutational landscape for the whole country.” But the DOH noted that this G614 variant which has also been reported in many other countries with […]

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‘Test-&-trace’ crucial but won’t beat coronavirus alone: study

by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France (AFP) — Testing for COVID-19 and tracing the prior contacts of those found to be infected are crucial measures for slowing the disease’s spread, but inadequate unless combined with other measures, researchers said Wednesday. By itself, the test-and-trace approach can reduce the virus’ reproduction rate, or R number, by 26 percent, they reported in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, using mathematical models to examine data from previously published studies. The reproduction […]

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Indigenous Guatemalans ask for help following village arson attack

COBAN, Guatemala (AFP) — An indigenous community in Guatemala that suffered an arson attack on their village by an armed group has called for further help despite authorities sending police to protect them. Some 40 families were forcibly evicted from their homes, which were then set alight by armed raiders in the early hours of Sunday. “We ask for help for these families and also for ourselves (because) unfortunately they robbed us and left us […]

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Trudeau names Canada’s first female finance minister

by Michel COMTE OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tapped Chrystia Freeland to be Canada’s first female finance minister on Tuesday as an ethics scandal that clipped her predecessor’s wings reverberates through the government. Freeland received a standing ovation after being sworn in at a small ceremony in Ottawa. Guests socially distanced, wore face masks and Freeland greeted Trudeau with an elbow bump after taking the oath of office, telling reporters that it […]

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Rebel soldiers holding Mali president, PM: govt official

BAMAKO, Mali (AFP) — Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse are both being held by rebel soldiers, a senior government official confirmed to AFP on Tuesday. “The prime minister and the president were driven by rebel soldiers to Kati in armored vehicles,” said Boubou Doucoure, who works as Cisse’s director of communications. He added that both men were now at Kati, a town near the capital Bamako which hosts an important […]

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WHO urges nations to join global shared vaccine bid

by Robin MILLARD GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The WHO wrote to every country on Tuesday urging them to quickly join its global shared vaccine program and spelled out who would get its eventual coronavirus jabs first. The World Health Organization’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that without vaccinating the highest-risk populations around the world all at the same time, it would be impossible to rebuild the global economy. And he said the most exposed 20 […]

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Australia to manufacture ‘promising’ virus vaccine and give free to citizens

SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia has secured access to a “promising” potential coronavirus vaccine, the prime minister announced Tuesday, saying the country would manufacture it and offer free doses to the entire population. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Australia had reached a deal with Swedish-British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to receive the COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with Oxford University. “The Oxford vaccine is one of the most advanced and promising in the world, and under […]

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‘Making of Harry Potter’ park to open in Tokyo in 2023

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Muggles in Japan can discover how the Harry Potter films were made at a new amusement park opening in 2023 in Tokyo, Warner Bros said Tuesday, in the latest expansion of the multibillion-dollar wizarding franchise. The attraction, offering visitors a behind-the-scenes look into the production of the eight-hit movies, is the second of its kind, modeled on the original permanent studio exhibition in Britain. “The Studio Tour Tokyo” will stretch across […]

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