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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — At least one person was killed and seven others, including a child, were wounded on Wednesday after gunfire broke out in downtown Seattle near a popular tourist area, police and hospital officials said. Police said at least one suspect was being sought in connection with the mass shooting that took place near a McDonald’s fast-food restaurant, just blocks away from the Pike Place Market. It was the third shooting […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australian firefighters are on high alert for the possibility that scorching temperatures and strong winds could whip up new bushfires on Thursday, coming after rain brought welcome respite to fire-ravaged areas. Unprecedented bushfires fuelled by climate change have killed at least 29 people and devastated vast swathes of the country since September. Those blazes have been followed by extreme weather — including intense storms that have battered parts of Australia with […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law increasing excise taxes on alcohol, heated tobacco and vapor products. Duterte’s move came barely a month after the Senate and the House of Representatives submitted the ratified bicameral report on the measure that also removes the value-added tax imposed on medicines for heart disease, cholesterol and diabetes starting January 2020. The measure, which had been certified as urgent by Duterte, also removes VAT for medicines for mental […]
TORONTO, Canada (AFP) – A court in Toronto on Wednesday ordered Volkswagen to pay a fine of Can$196.5 million (US$150 million) after the automaker pleaded guilty to violating environmental laws in the emissions cheating scandal. The court accepted an agreement that the German automaker reached with the Canadian government, which in December filed a 60-count indictment against the company. This fine is in addition to nearly Can$2.4 billion that Volkswagen had agreed to pay in […]
by Eva XIAO / Laurent Thomet with Dario Thuburn in Geneva BEIJING, China (AFP) — China placed the city at the center of a virus outbreak under effective quarantine on Thursday, suspending outward flights and trains in a drastic step to contain a contagious disease that has killed 17, stricken hundreds and reached other countries. Authorities in Wuhan, a major transport hub, also suspended public buses and subways, and said residents should not leave the […]
(Eagle News)–A 3.6-magnitude earthquake struck Sarangani on Thursday, Jan. 23. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which hit at 8:54 a.m., had its epicenter 13 kilometers southeast of Glan. Depth of focus was 11 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
(Eagle News)-An alert level 4 remains hoisted over Taal volcano as it continued its intense activity on Thursday, Jan. 23. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the Philippine Seismic Network recorded 731 volcanic earthquakes since 1 p.m. of January 12. Of these, PHIVOLCS said 176 registered at magnitudes 1.2 to 4.1 and were felt at Intensities I to V. Since 5 a.m. on January 22 until 5 a.m. today, there were six volcanic […]
DAVOS, Switzerland (AFP) – Stuart WILLIAMS Britain’s Prince Charles on Wednesday told business leaders at the Davos economic forum that wealth was of no use if it doesn’t help tackle climate change, as he met Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg and warned over the perils of global warming and environmental damage. Charles, the eldest son of the Queen and heir to the throne, met Thunberg in Davos on the same day as President Donald Trump […]
(Eagle News)–Rains are expected in parts of the country today, Jan. 23, due to the northeast monsoon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Eastern Visayas and Caraga will have cloudy skies with scattered light rains. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, on the other hand, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains. The eastern section of the country, PAGASA said, will have strong winds and rough […]
by Daniel BOSQUE BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) –The death toll from a storm that has lashed Spain with strong winds and heavy snow has risen to seven, while four people were missing, officials said. Gale-force winds and huge waves have smashed into seafront towns, damaging many shops and restaurants, wrecking beach facilities and flooding some streets in the east of the country since Sunday. The latest victim was a man who fell into the sea in […]
DAVOS, Switzerland (AFP) — US President Donald Trump said Wednesday his administration was preparing to add a “couple of countries” to the controversial list of states whose citizens are subject to travel bans or severe restrictions on entry to the United States. “We are adding a couple of countries to it. We have to be safe. Our country has to be safe,” he said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, adding that the names […]
by Laurent Thomet with Dario Thuburn in Geneva BEIJING, China (AFP) — China said it was halting flights and trains from Thursday out of Wuhan, the city of 11 million people at the center of a deadly SARS-like virus outbreak, as the UN extended emergency talks on the disease. The central city’s special command center against the virus also said that residents should not leave without a special reason and that the measures would be […]
