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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — A man died after falling into a river on Sunday as Storm Dennis swept across Britain with the army drafted in to help deal with heavy flooding and high winds. The man fell into the River Tawe, in south Wales, police said. The storm also battered much of France, with some 60,000 people suffering from power cuts in the northwest of the country. Britain’s government weather agency issued a rare […]
by Helen Roxburgh and Beiyi Seow BEIJING, China (AFP) — International experts have begun meeting with their counterparts in China over the new coronavirus epidemic, whose future path is “impossible” to predict, the World Health Organization said late Sunday. The number of new cases from China’s coronavirus epidemic dropped for a third consecutive day, but global concern remains high about its spread, emphasized by a US announcement that more than three dozen Americans from a […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia’s Mount Merapi, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, erupted Thursday as fiery red molten lava streamed down from the crater and it belched clouds of grey ash 2,000 meters (6,500 feet) into the sky. Authorities did not raise the rumbling volcano’s alert status after the early-morning eruption, but they advised commercial planes to take caution in the area. But any activity at Merapi raises concern and local residents were […]
by Harumi Ozawa with Sara Hussein in Tokyo YOKOHAMA, Japan (AFP) — Forty Americans are among hundreds with the new coronavirus on a cruise ship quarantined off Japan, a US official said on Sunday, after other Americans on board left for chartered flights home. The evacuation coincided with stepped-up warnings from Japanese authorities over the deadly outbreak, urging citizens to avoid crowds and “non-essential gatherings.” The Diamond Princess was placed in 14-day quarantine in early […]
(Eagle News)–Rains and cloudy skies are expected in parts of Northern Luzon as the northeast monsoon affects that part of the country. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains will be experienced over the provinces of Batanes, Cagayan, Isabela, Quirino, Nueva Vizcaya,Aurora, Apayao, Abra, Kalinga, Mt. Province, Ifugao, Benguet,Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union and Pangasinan. Moderate to strong winds blowing from the northeast […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed retired Supreme Court Chief Justice Lucas Bersamin to be the new chairperson of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), according to a recent statement by Malacañang. Bersamin has already taken his oath of office. He was initially designated as a member of the GSIS Board of Trustees on Feb. 6, but was later nominated to chair the GSIS, which was also approved by President Duterte. Noting his […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte’s termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement is “epically wrong,” Senator Leila de Lima said. In a statement, De Lima said for one, the VFA, after all, “is an important cog in a whole system of defense and security arrangements with the US that includes the Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) and the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA)..” She said the Philippines “has benefitted for many years, particularly in the matters of joint […]
(Eagle News)–Cloudy skies and rains are expected in parts of the country today. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Ilocos Region, Cordillera Administrative Region and Cagayan Valley will have partly cloudy skies to cloudy skies with isolated light rains as the northeast monsoon affects Northern Luzon. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, PAGASA said, will have partly cloudy skies to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers. PAGASA said this was due […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Saturday the league expects to lose “several hundred million dollars” due to a row with China over a tweet by Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey supporting Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters. The NBA’s Chinese sponsors cut ties in a fierce mainland backlash following Morey’s tweet in October, just before two NBA teams played pre-season exhibition matches in China. State broadcaster CCTV also stopped […]
YOKOHAMA, Japan (AFP) — The number of people infected with the deadly new coronavirus on a quarantined ship off Japan has risen to 355, the country’s health minister said Sunday, as the United States, Canada and Hong Kong prepare to repatriate their residents on board. The figure is a jump of 70 cases from a government tally released Saturday and comes as Katsunobu Kato voiced worries that the rising infection count among the nation’s […]
(Eagle News)–A Senate inquiry into ABS-CBN’S compliance to its franchise terms does not preclude any action in the House of Representatives or in the Supreme Court on the matter. This is according to Senator Grace Poe, chair of the Senate committee on public services who filed Resolution No. 322 calling for the probe. This was after Solicitor General Jose Calida alleged in a quo warranto petition filed before the Supreme Court that the network had […]
(Eagle News)–Train operations from Ortigas to North Ave. stations were briefly suspended due to a broken stretcher bar on Sunday morning, the Metro Rail Transit-3 said. In a statement, Michael Capati, director for operations of MRT3, said operations, however, returned to normal at 12:22 p.m. This was after the stretcher bar at the North Avenue Station Turnback, which prompted the suspension, was replaced. The MRT-3 said re-tightening and calibration works have been ongoing since 8:56 […]
