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by Ammu KANNAMPILLY / Vishal MANVE MUMBAI, India (AFP) — At least three people were reported dead as coronavirus-hit Mumbai appeared to escape the worst of Cyclone Nisarga Wednesday, the first severe storm to threaten India’s financial capital in more than 70 years. The city and its surrounds are usually sheltered from cyclones — the last deadly storm to hit the city was in 1948. Authorities had evacuated at least 100,000 people, including coronavirus patients, […]
(Eagle News)–The Cavite government will implement a modified quarantine pass system starting June 7. Cavite Gov. Jonvic Remulla said this means that starting 5 a.m., while quarantine passes are still required for those who wish to go out, these are already transferable within the household as long as the person is allowed to go out according to Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases guidelines. “Magdala na lang ng ID na patunay […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — A pregnant elephant was killed in India after eating fruit stuffed with explosives, officials said Wednesday, sparking outrage over the use of such traps to protect crops and homes. The wild elephant strayed into a village near Silent Valley National Park in south Kerala state last Wednesday when it ate the rigged fruit — believed to be a pineapple — which exploded and severely injured its mouth, officials said. “We […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The NBA is finalizing details of a plan which is expected to be approved by the league’s Board of Governors on Thursday, paving the way for a return from the coronavirus shutdown. The board is poised to give the green light to commissioner Adam Silver’s return of basketball which would begin July 31 with a 22-team format, and end in mid-October with a champion being crowned, ESPN reported. The […]
GUWAHATI, India (AFP) — About 2,000 people have been evacuated from their homes as authorities struggle to control gas pouring from an exploded well near a popular ecotourism spot in northeastern India. The gas well in an oil field managed by state-owned Oil India Ltd blew out last Wednesday in Tinsukia district of Assam state, and “started releasing natural gas in an uncontrolled manner”, the company said. Authorities have established an exclusion zone of 1.5 kilometres […]
by Joshua Howat Berger with AFP bureaus RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Researchers in hard-hit Brazil on Wednesday said they would begin testing a coronavirus vaccine developed in Britain, while across the Atlantic European nations began reopening borders in a bid to emerge from months of devastation caused by the disease. Authorities in Brazil — the latest frontline of the pandemic, with deaths and infections on the rise — imposed fresh restrictions in the […]
(Eagle News)–A 3.9-magnitude earthquake struck Sulu today. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake hit at 4:13 a.m. It had its epicenter 230 kilometers southeast of Banguigui. Depth of focus was 608 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
(Eagle News)–The easterlies are affecting the eastern sections of Visayas and Mindanao today. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said as of 3 a.m., the Low Pressure Area being monitored by PAGASA was estimated 510 kilometers east of Basco, Batanes or 595 km east northeast of Calayan, Cagayan. Partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms are expected over the provinces of Batanes, Cagayan, Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya, Qurino, Aurora, Ilocos Norte, […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered a state of emergency and criticised a subsidiary of metals giant Norilsk Nickel after a massive diesel spill into a Siberian river. The spill of over 20,000 tonnes of diesel fuel took place on Friday. A fuel reservoir collapsed at a power plant near the city of Norilsk, located above the Arctic Circle, and leaked into a nearby river. The accident is the second largest […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Taking hydroxychloroquine shortly after being exposed to COVID-19 does not help prevent infection in a statistically meaningful way, scientists reported Wednesday following a clinical trial. The medicine has been touted by US President Donald Trump, who has said he used it as a prophylaxis against the novel coronavirus. But an experiment involving 821 people across the United States and Canada showed it did not work significantly better than a placebo […]
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (AFP) — Kuwait wants to slash the migrant proportion of its population from 70 to 30 percent, state media said Wednesday, with the prime minister vowing to “resolve the demographic imbalance”. Like its Gulf Arab neighbors, oil-rich Kuwait has a large foreign population mostly made up of Middle Eastern and Asian workers. Out of 4.8 million inhabitants, some 3.3 million are foreign nationals, said Prime Minister Sabah Al-Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah. “The ideal […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — Torrential rains brought by Cyclone Nisarga have left 13 people dead, dozens injured and washed away numerous homes in eastern Yemen, a government official said Wednesday. The official said that five children were among the provisional death toll in the Hadramout province, which has been lashed by downpours over the past three days. The official, who requested anonymity, added that dozens of houses were also destroyed in the rains, […]
