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TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) — The forces of Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar rained rockets on the capital Tripoli early Tuesday after being ousted by government loyalists from a string of towns to its west. Salvo after salvo of rockets caused loud explosions throughout the night, AFP correspondents reported. Several homes were hit around Mitiga airbase in the eastern suburbs, the capital’s sole if intermittently functioning airport. There was no immediate word on any casualties. The […]
SUVA Fiji (AFP) — Tens of thousands of people remain homeless in Vanuatu a week after Tropical Cyclone Harold pummelled the impoverished Pacific nation, smashing houses and destroying crops, aid workers said Tuesday. The cyclone careened through the South Pacific last week, peaking as a Category Five superstorm that gouged a trail of destruction across the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji and Tonga. With aid efforts hampered by coronavirus-related travel restrictions, World Vision said up to […]
(Eagle News) — The number of coronavirus disease 2019 cases in Quezon City has reached 942. The local government said this based on Department of Health data. Of the 942, the Quezon City government said 597 have been validated by the Quezon City Epidemiology Surveillance Unit. Sixty-four have so far recovered while 61 have died. Among contacts of COVID-19-positive patients traced by authorities, 102 are suspected COVID-19 cases. The Philippines has so far confirmed over […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government has issued show-cause orders against barangay officials for allegedly violating enhanced community quarantine guidelines. In a statement on Tuesday, April 14, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said the DILG has asked Barangay Libis, Quezon City chairperson Leny Leticia Glivano; and Caloocan City, Barangay 129 chairman Brix John Reyes and councilmen Romualdo Reyes and John Cris Domingo to explain in 72 hours why they should not […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine National Police on Tuesday, April 14, announced policemen deployed during the enhanced community quarantine will receive their hazard pay on April 16. PNP Chief Archie Gamboa said the pay was P500 per day of duty. “That should further boost the financial flexibility of our troops and their families apart from the full range of salary and allowances in April sans deduction for loan amortization for this month,” Gamboa said. The PNP has […]
KIEV, Ukraine (AFP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has promised a $1 million reward to the country’s scientists if they manage to develop a coronavirus vaccine, his spokeswoman said Monday. The ex-Soviet country with a population of around 42 million has confirmed 3,102 cases of COVID-19 and 93 people have died. The president “believes a million dollars is a good incentive,” his spokeswoman Yuliya Mendel said in a statement sent to AFP, with the aim […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets posted gains on Tuesday as better than expected Chinese trade data suggested a rebound from the economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus pandemic. China has largely brought the disease under control within its borders since the COVID-19 outbreak first emerged in the city of Wuhan late last year. But it came at the cost of drastic measures that shuttered much of the economy and cordoned off tens of […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the Philippine National Police (PNP) to arrest anyone who will harm and discriminate against health care workers amid the current COVID-19 crisis. Duterte said that those who will harass health care workers will face jail time. He also gave strict instructions to the police not to release such individuals until he says so. “I’d like to order the police. If there’s a report of somebody harassing or […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Tuesday, April 14, reiterated the petition that seeks to compel President Rodrigo Duterte to disclose his medical records was doomed to fail. In a press briefing, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the Supreme Court where the petition was filed by lawyer Dino De Leon, after all, only interprets the law and was not a trier of facts. “And since the Supreme Court is not a trier of facts, ang magde-determine po […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea on Tuesday fired several suspected cruise missiles towards the sea, the South’s military said. The “multiple projectiles” fired from Munchon in the east of the country were believed to be “short-range cruise missiles,” the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. The test comes a day before the nuclear-armed North marks the 108th anniversary of the birth of its founder Kim Il Sung, grandfather of the current […]
(Eagle News)–The coronavirus disease 2019 cases in Las Piñas have reached 78. The local government said of the 78, one each was from Almanza Dos, Barangay Elias Aldana, and Talon Tres; two each from Barangay Daniel Fajardo, Manuyo Uno and Pulanglupa Uno; three each from Almanza Uno, Pamplona Tres, Pulanglupa Dos and Talon Uno; four each from Talon Singko, Talon Kuatro and Zapote; five each from Pamplona Uno and Pilar; six from Manuyo Dos; seven […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Vietnam will urge Southeast Asian leaders to set up an emergency fund to tackle the coronavirus at a summit held online on Tuesday, as the pandemic ravages the region’s tourism and export-reliant economies. Hanoi is chairing an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting on COVID-19, with the country touting its success so far in containing the virus with extensive quarantines and social distancing. Vietnam has 265 virus cases and no […]
