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SEOUL, Dec 27, 2023 (AFP) – South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun, best known for his role in the Oscar-winning film “Parasite”, was found dead Wednesday, police said. He was 48. The actor was found inside a vehicle parked on the street in Seoul’s mid-northern Seongbuk district, an official from the Seongbuk police station told AFP. “We believe his body has now been transferred to the Seoul National University Hospital,” he added. South Korea’s Yonhap news […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine National Railways reopened the Naga-Legazpi-Naga route on Wednesday, Dec. 27. The reopening came six years after the route was suspended due to what the PNR said was an insufficient number of coaches and locomotives. According to the PNR, the first trip of the newly reopened route from Naga City to Legazpi City started at 5:45 a.m. The trip from Naga going to Legazpi is scheduled at 5:30 p.m., while the trip […]
(Eagle News)–President Bongbong Marcos has named and renamed eight Philippine National Police camps and real properties. The following will now be known by their corresponding new names after the President signed Proclamation Nos. 429 and 30: -donated lot to the PNP in Pasacao, Camarines Sur as Camp Brigadier General Ludovico Padilla Arejola -donated lot to Provincial Regional Office V as Camp Captain Salvador Jaucian del Rosaro, Sr. -Camarines Sur Police Provincial Police Office as Camp […]
SYDNEY, Dec 27, 2023 (AFP) – Nine people have died after Christmas storms pounded Australia’s eastern seaboard, authorities said Wednesday, including two women who were washed through a stormwater drain. Thunderstorms and destructive winds have in recent days battered the Australian states of Victoria and Queensland — capsizing boats, sparking flash floods, and tearing down concrete powerlines. The government weather bureau has warned that coastal regions in Queensland were still at risk of “dangerous” storms, […]
(Eagle News)–The northeast monsoon is affecting Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said the easterlies are also affecting the eastern sections of Visayas and Mindanao. As a result, Cagayan Valley, Apayao, Kalinga, Aurora and Quezon will have cloudy skies with rains. Flashfloods or landslides due to moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Visayas, Mindanao, Bicol Region and Palawan, meanwhile, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers […]
NEW DELHI, Dec 26, 2023 (AFP) – Indian police were investigating reports of a blast near the Israeli embassy in New Delhi on Tuesday that did not cause any casualties. Officers cordoned off the embassy as they combed through the surrounding areas following the report of the late afternoon blast. Israel’s foreign ministry in a statement reported “an explosion” near the embassy. “This evening… an explosion occurred in close proximity to the embassy,” Ohad Nakash […]
DUBAI, Dec 26, 2023 (AFP) – US military forces shot down more than a dozen attack drones and several missiles fired by Yemen-based Huthi rebels at shipping in the Red Sea, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. “There was no damage to ships in the area or reported injuries,” the Pentagon’s Central Command said in a social media post, describing a barrage of 12 drones, three anti-ship ballistic missiles and two land-attack missiles over a period […]
By Adel Zaanoun with Ilan Ben Zion in Jerusalem GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, Dec 26, 2023 (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted peace can only be achieved in Gaza if Hamas is destroyed, the territory demilitarised and Palestinian society “deradicalised”, after warning the war is set to intensify. The declarations came as the World Health Organization on Monday reported “harrowing” accounts of entire families killed from Christmas Eve strikes on a refugee […]
JAKARTA, Dec 26, 2023 (AFP) – The death toll after an explosion at a Chinese-funded nickel-processing plant in eastern Indonesia over the weekend has risen to 18 with dozens still being treated in hospital, a police official said Tuesday. The island of Sulawesi is a hub for the mineral-rich country’s production of nickel, a base metal used for electric vehicle batteries and stainless steel, and Beijing’s growing investment has stoked unrest over working conditions at […]
(Eagle News)–A 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck off Surigao del Sur on Tuesday, Dec. 26. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which hit at 11:42 a.m. 91 kilometers northeast of Hinatuan, was an aftershock of the December 2 7.4-magnitude quake that hit the province. The depth of focus of the Dec. 26 quake was 24 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
(Eagle News)–The Department of Trade and Industry has reported more than P4 trillion worth of investments from President Bongbong Marcos’ foreign trips. According to the DTI, based on its December 21, 2023 monitoring of consolidated and processed investments, the P4.09 trillion investment value covers 148 projects at various investment stages. The DTI described these investments as business, investment promotion agency (IPA) registered with operations (US$205.53M or P11.4B), Business/IPA registered (US$983.21M or P54.75B), IPA registration in […]
