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(Eagle News)–A 4.2-magnitude earthquake struck Tawi-Tawi early Wednesday, June 3. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which hit at 12:37 a.m., had its epicenter 320 kilometers southeast of South Ubian. Depth of focus was 31 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain recorded no deaths from the coronavirus for the second day running, the health ministry reported Tuesday, while acknowledging some “discrepancies” in the reported daily figures. The ministry’s daily report recorded 34 deaths over the previous week, but none over the previous 24 hours. It was Monday’s report on the previous 24 hours that first broke a run of daily reported deaths dating back to March 3. To date, Spain has […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippines has suspended the termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said. According to a diplomatic note issued to US Ambassador Sung Kim and posted on the Foreign Affairs Secretary’s Twitter account, the suspension of the termination of the agreement, which governs the conduct of US forces who take part in military exercises in the Philippines, was “in light of the political and other developments in the region.” […]
MUMBAI, India (AFP) — At least 100,000 people, including some coronavirus patients, were being moved to safer locations according to officials Tuesday, as India’s west coast braced for a cyclone, the first such storm to threaten Mumbai in more than 70 years. Authorities in India’s financial capital, which is struggling to contain the pandemic, evacuated nearly 150 COVID-19 patients from a recently built field hospital to a facility with a concrete roof as a precautionary […]
(Eagle News)–The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights. MIAA said the list was for Wednesday, June 3: Flight schedules may be subject to changes. Earlier, Transportation Secretary Art Tugade said domestic flights are allowed in general community quarantine areas for as long as there is approval from the concerned local government unit. The Bureau of Immigration has said its operations at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport are still downscaled […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is monitoring a low pressure area off Cagayan. PAGASA said as of 3 a.m., the LPA was estimated 635 kilometers east of Aparri, Cagayan or 610 km east northeast of Casiguran, Aurora. An Intertropical Convergence Zone is also affecting Palawan, Western Visayas, and Mindanao. Mindanao, Western Visayas, and Palawan will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms s a result. Flashfloods […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil surpassed 30,000 deaths from the coronavirus outbreak on Tuesday as the disease continued to rip through South America’s worst-hit country. Figures released by the health ministry showed a new record 1,262 deaths in the previous 24 hours, as well as 28,936 new infections. The figures come as some Brazilian states began to emerge from weeks of economically-stifling quarantine measures despite warnings from the WHO and epidemiologists. The overall […]
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AFP ) — Trade unions took to the streets of Panama City on Tuesday in protest at the government’s decision to reopen the country’s economy, claiming it will lead to a spike in infections and deaths from the coronavirus. “We all know that the number is going to skyrocket, both in terms of infections and deaths,” said Saul Mendez, secretary general of the country’s largest union Suntracs. “It’s like throwing everything the […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP ) — Zoom on Tuesday reported that its earnings soared as its video-meeting service became a popular way to work or socialize while hunkered down due to the pandemic. Zoom said it made a profit of $27 million on revenue that leapt 169 percent to slightly more than $328 million in the first three months of this year. In the first quarter last year, Zoom reported zero dollars per share […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia plans to spend about $72 billion (65 billion euro) on a plan to restore the economy following the coronavirus shutdown, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said Tuesday. The program to boost employment, incomes and economic growth “contains over 500 measures, its cost over two years will be about five trillion rubles,” Mishustin told President Vladimir Putin in a televised meeting. Putin described the plan as a “foundation” for repairing the economy […]
(Eagle News) – The European Union Delegation in the Philippines (EU) is offering Filipino children with access to children’s films, online storytelling, and virtual star- and moon-gazing event on Friday (June 5) and Saturday (June 6). The activities, part of the EU’s “Lakbayin Natin ang ang EU” and “Ode to the Stars and to the Moon” programs, “aim to enable children to learn about the European Union without having to physically visit the continent especially […]
(Eagle News) — A man who kept a Burmese python as a pet for two years turned over the reptile recently to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources office in Davao City after it grew to a length of 10 feet. The Davao City resident, Benjie Putot, said that he found the python inside a bus in January 2018. Out of pity, he brought it home to take care of the reptile. It was […]
