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By Shaun TANDON The scene would be unthinkable elsewhere these days — US and Chinese envoys, smiling and embracing, hailing their friendship as leading the world together in the right direction. But the spirit of cooperation was on full display in Dubai, where a UN climate summit on Wednesday sealed a historic if watered-down agreement to begin to transition away from oil, gas and coal, the main culprits in the planetary crisis. Hailing the summit […]
Axel Springer said Wednesday it was partnering up with the maker of ChatGPT, OpenAI, which will pay the German media group to include its journalism in responses generated by the chatbot. “ChatGPT users around the world will receive summaries of selected global news content from Axel Springer’s media brands,” which include news site Politico and German tabloid Bild, the two companies said in a statement. The chatbot’s answers would include material otherwise kept behind a […]
Country also affected by easterlies, PAGASA says (Eagle News)–The northeast monsoon is affecting Luzon. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, the easterlies are also affecting the country. As a result, Cagayan Valley, Apayao, Kalinga, Mountain Province, Ifugao, Aurora and Quezon will have cloudy skies with light rains. Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies isolated light rains. Visayas and Mindanao, meanwhile, will have partly […]
(Eagle News)–President Bongbong Marcos on Wednesday, Dec. 13, reminded government agencies to fast-track the completion of irrigation facilities and other structures as he called on Filipinos to brace themselves for El Niño. “We must be prepared to counter its effect, which may last until the second quarter of 2024,” the President said. The President said he has so far issued reminders to the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) to immediately […]
YANGON, Myanmar, Dec 13, 2023 (AFP) – Myanmar junta authorities have arrested two journalists in night raids, their outlet said on Wednesday, as the military cracks down on independent media. Since toppling Aung San Suu Kyi’s government in 2021, the military has waged a sweeping and bloody campaign against dissent, and at least 170 journalists have since been arrested, according to the United Nations. Local outlet Dawei Watch said two of its employees were arrested […]
SYDNEY, Dec 13, 2023 (AFP) – A tropical cyclone was building strength as it rolled towards northeastern Australia Wednesday, with authorities warning “life-threatening” floods could swamp coastal regions for days. Tropical Cyclone Jasper was expected to make landfall around 6:00 pm local time on Wednesday (0800 GMT), but forecasters said gale-force winds were already pummelling some towns. Some 8,000 homes are already without power, the Queensland state government said, while police have started closing major […]
By Alice PHILIPSON HANOI, Dec 12, 2023 (AFP) – China and Vietnam pledged on Tuesday to deepen ties during President Xi Jinping’s first visit in six years, as Beijing seeks to counter growing US influence with the communist nation. Xi met the leader of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party, Nguyen Phu Trong, on the first day of his trip, after Hanoi upgraded diplomatic ties with Washington when US President Joe Biden visited in September. Biden’s visit […]
By Kyoko HASEGAWA TOKYO, Dec 13, 2023 (AFP) – Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was expected to announce the sacking of four ministers on Wednesday over a major party financing scandal, media reports said. Those to be axed include Kishida’s right-hand man, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, and Yasutoshi Nishimura, the minister of economy, industry and trade, the reports said. Others are internal affairs minister Junji Suzuki and agriculture minister Ichiro Miyashita, plus five deputy […]
(Eagle News)–A 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Surigao del Sur early Wednesday, Dec. 13. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake that hit at 1:49 a.m. was an aftershock of the 7.4-magnitude quake that hit the province on December 2. The epicenter of Wednesday’s quake was 131 kilometers east of Hinatuan. The depth of focus was 13 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
By Issam AHMED The Arctic saw its warmest ever summer in 2023, the result of accelerating human-caused climate change that is pushing ecosystems and the people that depend on them into uncharted territory, according to an official report Tuesday. Average summer surface air temperature from the months of July-September was 43 degrees Fahrenheit (6.4 Celsius), the highest since records began in 1900. The Arctic is warming roughly four times faster than the rest of the […]
WASHINGTON, Dec 12, 2023 (AFP) – President Joe Biden told President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday that the United States will not abandon Ukraine in its desperate fight against Russia, even as Republicans signaled opposition to extending US war funding. Standing alongside the Ukrainian leader at a White House press conference, Biden vowed: “I will not walk away from Ukraine and neither will the American people.” And he said that allowing a Ukrainian defeat would mean […]
