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by Ella IDE and Jastinder KHERA Agence France Presse Italy’s new coronavirus spread south on Tuesday to Tuscany and Sicily, as the civil protection agency reported a surge in the number of infected people and Rome convened emergency talks. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has blamed poor management in a hospital in the country’s north for the outbreak, which has caused seven deaths in Italy so far and infected the largest number of people in […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — Clashes over a contentious citizenship law roiled India’s capital for a second day Tuesday — coinciding with a visit by US President Donald Trump — as the death toll in rose to at least nine. There have been widespread protests since the law that critics say is anti-Muslim was passed in mid-December, with more than 25 people killed. “There have been nine confirmed deaths,” Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital official […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Iran’s deputy health minister confirmed on Tuesday that he has tested positive for the new coronavirus, amid a major outbreak in the Islamic republic. Harirchi coughed occasionally and appeared to be sweating during a press conference in Tehran on Monday with government spokesman Ali Rabiei. At the time he denied a lawmaker’s claim that 50 people had died from the virus in the Shiite shrine city of Qom, saying he […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Mars is a constantly tremoring “living” body, researchers said Monday as they unveiled measurements of seismic activity on the red planet showing similar tremble rates to Earth or the Moon. For 15 months NASA’s InSight robot craft scoured the surface of Earth’s neighbour, and measured hundreds of so-called “Marsquakes”. These included several tremors that contained the same frequency patterns as tremors caused by the movement of Earth’s own tectonic plates. […]
The second batch of repatriates is now boarding the flight to Manila! ✈ This batch is expected to arrive sometime before midnight.@teddyboylocsin #DFAinACTION#AssistancetoNationals pic.twitter.com/3PVodTcmsH — DFA Philippines (@DFAPHL) February 25, 2020 (Eagle News) – More than 400 Filipino repatriates from the Japan cruise ship, the MV Diamond Princess, have now boarded the two chartered planes that will bring them to the country Tuesday night, Feb. 25. This was according to the Department of Foreign Affairs […]
CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) — Egypt’s former long-time president Hosni Mubarak died Tuesday at age 91 at Cairo’s Galaa military hospital, his family and state TV said. His son Alaa Mubarak tweeted that “this morning my father, president Mubarak, passed away”. Mubarak’s brother-in-law, General Mounir Thabet, told AFP that the family was at the hospital and that the presidential office would organize the funeral. Mubarak had long been battling an illness and recently been admitted […]
https://youtu.be/SNhoLO_OOAY (Eagle News) – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is looking for “alternative options” to minimize the impact of the decision of Honda Cars Philippines to close its production in the country which will affect some 380 workers. Honda, in a statement issued on Monday, Feb. 24, said that it would close its plant in Sta. Rosa Laguna effective this March. It said that this is “to meet Honda’s customer needs in […]
(Eagle News)–The easterlies continue to affect the eastern section of the country today, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. According to PAGASA, Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers as a result. Visayas and Mindanao, on the other hand, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms. The eastern sections of Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao will have […]
(Eagle News)–Why ask us to issue a concurrent resolution for ABS-CBN to operate? This was the question posed by Senate President Tito Sotto to the National Telecommunications Commission on Tuesday, Feb. 25, a day after Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said Congress could issue the concurrent resolution authorizing the NTC to issue the provisional authority “subject to the Congress’ eventual disposition” of ABS-CBN’s franchise renewal application. According to Sotto, the NTC “should be decisive enough to […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — The novel coronavirus has claimed three more lives in Iran, state media reported, taking the country’s overall death toll from the outbreak to 15 — the highest outside China. Iran has been scrambling to contain COVID-19 since Wednesday when it announced its first two deaths in Qom, a centre for Islamic studies and pilgrims that attracts scholars from abroad. Two of the dead were elderly women in the central province of […]
FRANKFURT AM MAIN (AFP) — A car that rammed into a carnival procession in central Germany Monday injured 52 people, including 18 children, police said, adding that the perpetrator’s motive remains unclear. “Among the victims are 18 children (while)… at present 35 people are still undergoing treatment in the hospital and 17 were already able to leave,” police in Hesse state posted on Twitter Tuesday. A 29-year-old local man ploughed his car into the […]
(Eagle News) — The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority has advised motorists to take alternate routes as lane closures and traffic adjustments in Balintawak Interchange pushed through to give way to the construction of the Skyway Stage 3 project. “We suggest that motorists plan their trips accordingly because of the possible delays caused by the construction works, especially on Wednesday and the succeeding days,” MMDA General Manager Jojo Garcia said. So far, there is one lane […]
