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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order barring transactions with the Chinese parent company of social media platform TikTok after 45 days. “The United States must take aggressive action against the owners of TikTok to protect our national security,” the order said. “The following actions shall be prohibited beginning 45 days after the date of this order… any transaction by any person, or with respect to any […]
(Eagle News) — The number of Filipinos who died in the Beirut, Lebanon blast on Tuesday has risen to four, with 31 injured all in all. The Department of Foreign Affairs said of the 31 hurt, two are in critical condition. “They are confined and are being monitored at Rizk Hospital,” Philippine Embassy Beirut Charge d’affaires Ajeet Panemanglor said. According to Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Sarah Lou Arriola, the higher figure comes as embassy personnel work […]
(Eagle News) –Cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers are expected in parts of the country today. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms are expected over Metro Manila, Central Luzon, CALABARZON, Bicol Region, Central and Eastern Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao, and Caraga due to the trough of the low pressure area estimated 325 kilometers northeast of Virac, Catanduanes. Flash floods or landslides due to moderate with […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Friday, Aug. 7: MIAA said flight schedules may be subject to changes. Passengers were advised to get confirmation of their flights on the day they are supposed to be scheduled as only those with the confirmation will be allowed to enter the airport premises. With Metro Manila now under a modified enhanced community quarantine until Aug. 18, the […]
(Eagle News) — A Filipina overseas worker who survived the horrific blasts in Beirut, Lebanon early this week described the incident that had killed at least 149 people and injured around 5,000 more. Raquel Bautista, an OFW in Lebanon, was interviewed by EBC’s Eagle News Service Bureau in Lebanon, where she was hospitalized after being injured in the blasts. Bautista described how glass shards injured her arms and legs, but thankfully she did not suffer […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Lebanese security forces late Thursday fired tear gas to disperse dozens of anti-government demonstrators angered by a cataclysmic blast widely seen as the most shocking expression yet of their government’s incompetence. The scuffles in central Beirut took place in a ravaged street leading to parliament, the wreckage from Tuesday’s explosion still littering the entire area. Protesters had sparked a blaze, vandalized stores and lobbed stones at security forces, according to the […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain’s health ministry on Thursday denied that the country is facing a second wave of COVID-19 infections, despite a spike in cases of the virus in recent days. According to the Spanish government’s own figures, over the past seven days there have been 19,405 new coronavirus cases registered, an average of 2,772 per day. A week earlier the rate was an average 1,913 cases per day and the week before that […]
ORLANDO, United States (AFP) — Philadelphia 76ers star Ben Simmons faces an indefinite injury layoff after suffering an injury to his left knee, the team said Thursday. Australian ace Simmons limped out of the third quarter during the Sixers’ defeat of the Washington Wizards, and did not return. An MRI scan revealed Simmons had suffered a subluxation of his left patella, which typically takes several weeks to heal. Sixers coach Brett Brown would not be […]
JOHNANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — The number of COVID-19 cases in Africa has risen to over one million, with more than half registered in South Africa, according to an AFP count late Thursday. The continent’s worst-hit nation has registered 538,184 infections, including over 8,000 new cases on Thursday, and 9,604 deaths. Egypt has recorded around 95,000 COVID-19 cases while the figure in Nigeria is 45,000. South Africa’s infection figures are the fifth-highest after the […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — Seventeen people, including eight children, have been killed in flash floods and by lightning in Yemen’s northern Marib region, health authorities said Tuesday. The fierce storms have added to the woes of the war-torn country, which the UN has described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Five years of conflict has left swathes of the country in ruins. “Sixteen people drowned and another person was killed after being […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Sixteen staff members at Beirut’s port, the site of a massive explosion, have been detained over the deadly blast that devastated large parts of the city, a military prosecutor said Thursday. Lebanese authorities had announced an investigation into Tuesday’s explosion, which they said was triggered by a fire igniting 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse at Beirut’s port. Lebanon’s foreign minister said on French radio Thursday that an […]
by Paul HANDLEY / Ludovic EHRET in Beijing WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe warned his US counterpart in a phone call Thursday to avoid firing up bilateral tensions, a day after Washington angered Beijing by announcing it would send a senior official to visit Taiwan. Wei told US Defense Secretary Mark Esper in a 90-minute phone call to “stop erroneous words and deeds” and “avoid taking dangerous moves that may […]
