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(Eagle News)–Passport applicants may now pay for their passport applications through credit or debit card. The Office of Consular Affairs of the Department of Foreign Affairs made the announcement in an advisory on Tuesday, June 16, as the agency continues to find ways to minimize people-to-people contact amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier, the DFA announced those who wish to have their documents authenticated may do so by availing of courier services instead. According to the […]
(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Customs has seized around P9 million worth of illegal drugs from a warehouse in Pasay City. According to the BOC, the 5025 ecstasy tablets were found by Customs personnel assigned at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in a DHL warehouse, and were concealed in a paper shredder shipped from the United Kingdom and consigned to an individual in Pasig. Customs personnel made the discovery while conducting a documents check and physical […]
by Robin MILLARD GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — More than 100 cases of the novel coronavirus have been officially recorded in the fresh outbreak in Beijing, the World Health Organization said Monday. As lockdown restrictions, ease and countries in Europe lifted their borders, the WHO warned countries to stay on alert for a possible resurgence of COVID-19 infections. The UN health agency said it understood no new deaths have been reported thus far in the Chinese […]
(Eagle News)–An Intertropical Convergence Zone is affecting Palawan, Visayas and Mindanao. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms are expected in Mindanao as a result. Flashfloods or landslides due to scattered moderate to at times heavy rains are expected. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, PAGASA said, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms, this time due to the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Monday withdrew emergency use authorizations for two antimalarial drugs favored by President Donald Trump to treat the new coronavirus, effectively shutting the door on the politically charged treatments. Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and chloroquine (CQ) were authorized in March after they were found to inactivate the virus in test tubes, and early small studies appeared to show they worked well in humans, too. Since that time, however, larger, […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The body of a pilot has been found after a US F-15C Eagle fighter jet crashed into the North Sea during a routine training mission Monday, military officials said. “The pilot of the downed F-15C Eagle from the 48th Fighter Wing has been located, and confirmed deceased,” said a statement released on the RAF Lakenheath Facebook page, where the plane was based. His name would be released once next of […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — UAE Energy Minister Suheil al-Mazrouei said on Monday current low oil and gas prices are unsustainable and warned that if they last longer, it could lead to energy shocks. Mazrouei said that “very good signs” of rising demand for oil have been seen in China and India, two of the world’s biggest crude consumers, and to some degree in Europe. “This environment of low oil and gas prices, I […]
(Eagle News)–The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights. MIAA said the list was for Tuesday, June 16: Flight schedules may be subject to changes. MIAA has urged the public to ensure their flights are confirmed on the same day before proceeding to the airport, noting that those who don’t have one will not be allowed inside the premises. President Rodrigo Duterte has extended the general community quarantine in Metro […]
(Eagle News)–The general community quarantine is extended in Metro Manila until the end of the month. President Rodrigo Duterte himself made the announcement in his address to the nation late Monday, June 15. According to the President, Cebu City reverts to being under an enhanced community quarantine starting June 16. Cebu City was a GCQ area until June 15. President Duterte had cited the increasing number of new cases and widespread community transmission in majority […]
(Eagle News)–The businessman who acted as the private complainant in the cyber libel case against Rappler’s Maria Ressa and its former researcher said he has been “vindicated” by the court’s ruling that found them guilty. In a statement, Wilfredo Keng said this was “at least to the extent possible considering the damage had already been done.” “As I have proven in the course of the trial, I have never been investigated or summoned for, much […]
Roque names cities, provinces which filed appeal with IATF for different quarantine protocols (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is set to announce his decision tonight on what the country will transition into by tomorrow, June 16, whether the current General Community Quarantine (GCQ) areas and Modified GCQ areas would graduate to the next level of less relaxed protocols. So far, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that none of the cities in Metro Manila […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — A US fighter jet on a training mission from a British Royal Air Force base in eastern England crashed in the North Sea on Monday. “A US Air Force F-15C Eagle crashed at approximately 0940 (0840 GMT) today (Monday) in the North Sea,” said USAF Captain Miranda T. Simmons, from RAF Lakenheath. “The cause of the crash, as well as the status of the pilot, are unknown at this time, […]
