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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Philadelphia’s All-Star guard Ben Simmons says he’s at full strength heading into the NBA restart, having used the coronavirus shutdown to recover from injury. “I’m feeling better than I was when I started this season,” the 23-year-old told reporters on a Zoom call on Thursday. The NBA season has been suspended since March 11 because of the coronavirus pandemic, but Simmons hasn’t played since February 22 when he suffered a […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan has formally asked the United States to extradite two men who helped former Nissan chief executive Carlos Ghosn escape the country to avoid prosecution, a court filing showed Thursday. The men — security contractor and former US special forces member Michael Taylor and his son Peter — were taken into custody on May 20 after they were named earlier in a Japanese arrest warrant for participating in Ghosn’s dramatic escape. […]
(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Customs has surpassed its June 2020 revenue collection target by P1.8 billion, with P42.539 billion collected that month. The Customs bureau said the amount, which it said it collected despite the effects of COVID-19 to the overall trading environment and the stringent community quarantine, represents an increase by 4.4 percent from its target of P40.739 billion. According to the BOC, based on the preliminary report from the BOC-Financial Service, eleven of […]
(Eagle News)–An Intertropical Convergence Zone is affecting Southern Mindanao. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Davao Region, SOCCSKSARGEN, the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and Zamboanga Peninsula will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms as a result. Flashfloods or landslides during moderate to at times heavy rainshowers are possible. Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers due to […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — All children in England will have to go back to school in September, the government said Thursday, after weeks of wrangling as coronavirus restrictions are lifted. The government initially intended pupils to return before the summer break later this month but was forced to revise its plans after concerns from teaching unions and parents. Local authorities said it would be difficult to enforce two-metre (six feet) social distancing with children, […]
by Chris Stein WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The ailing US economy is likely to receive good news Thursday in the government’s June employment report, but surging virus cases could reverse the tentative recovery. The coronavirus pandemic since mid-March has cost more than 22 million US jobs — and as many as 45 million — as businesses were closed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 infections. But amid massive government support the economy regained 2.5 […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — BioNTech of Germany and the US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer reported positive preliminary results on Wednesday from a joint project to develop a coronavirus vaccine. Known as BNT162b1, it produces antibody responses at or above the levels seen in any convalescent serum — blood from people who have recovered — at relatively low doses, according to BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin. The preliminary data come from a so-called phase 1/2 trial that […]
GABORONE, Botswana (AFP) — Hundreds of elephants have died mysteriously in Botswana’s famed Okavango Delta, the head of the wildlife department said Thursday, ruling out poaching as the tusks were found intact. The landlocked southern African country has the world’s largest elephant population, estimated to be around 130,000. “We have had a report of 356 dead elephants in the area north of the Okavango Delta and we have confirmed 275 so far,” Cyril Taolo, the […]
(Eagle News)–The number of coronavirus disease 2019 cases in the Philippine National Police has risen to 754. Based on PNP data as of July 1, 6 p.m., nine have died due to COVID-19. Over 300–or 357–have recovered. More than 1000–or 1162–were suspected cases, while 677 cases are probable cases. PNP Chief Archie Gamboa earlier condoled with the kin of at least three policemen from Cebu City who died due to the virus. The Palace has […]
(Eagle News)–Over 300 displaced Overseas Filipino Workers were recently repatriated from Kuwait. In a statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs said the 314 OFWs were brought home through a chartered Kuwait Airways flight on June 28 arranged by the Philippine Embassy in Kuwait. “The Philippine Embassy stands ready to assist our kababayan in Kuwait who wish to be repatriated and reunited with their loved ones back home, despite the travel restrictions both in Kuwait and […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Amazon forest fires in Brazil increased by 19.5 percent in June compared to the same month last year, making it the worst June in 13 years, authorities revealed on Wednesday. June marks the start of the dry period and there were 2,248 recorded fires, leaving analysts expecting a worse year for the rainforest than the devastating 2019, which provoked anger throughout the world. The National Institute for Space Research […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — China warned Britain on Thursday it could retaliate with “corresponding measures” for London’s decision to extend a broader path to citizenship for the residents of Hong Kong. Britain’s offer came in response to a sweeping new security law that China unveiled for the former British territory this week. Hong Kong was under UK jurisdiction until its handover to China in 1997 with a guarantee that Beijing would preserve the city’s […]
