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BHUBANESWAR, India (AFP) — India deployed emergency personnel Wednesday and ordered the navy on standby as it braced for an extremely severe cyclonic storm barrelling towards the eastern coast. Tropical Cyclone Fani, located in the Bay of Bengal and packing wind speeds up to 205 kilometres (127 miles) per hour, is expected to make landfall at Odisha state Friday. Authorities have also ordered the evacuation of thousands of people from coastal districts likely to bear […]
(Eagle News) — Several flights on Thursday, May 2, were cancelled due to bad weather. Below is a list, based on information from the Manila International Airport Authority: SkyJet M8 816/817 Manila-Basco-Manila Cebgo DG 6009/6010 Manila-Basco-Manila DG 6151/6152 Manila-Basco-Manila
(Eagle News) — Parts of Bataan will experience power interruptions on Saturday, May 4. According to the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, these were scheduled from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., and from 4:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. The NGCP said the power interruptions were to “facilitate temporary shifting of Limay-Balanga 69kV line from Limay substation to Hermosa substation for corrective maintenance works.” “NGCP will exert all efforts to restore power earlier or as […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Thursday, May 2, attributed the country’s higher credit rating to the economic reforms launched during the term of President Rodrigo Duterte. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the “tax reform, liberalization of the rice sector, strengthening of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas charter, ease of doing business (law), relaxing (of) the foreign investment negative list and modernizing infrastructure,” among others, were behind the Philippines’ BBB+ credit rating, […]
by Carlos BATISTA / Moises AVILA HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — The scent of the Cold War hung over Cuba’s May Day parade where marchers bellowed defiance against US President Donald Trump for his threats to punish the Communist-run island’s support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by extending the six-decade US embargo. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans turned out in the capital Havana, many of them gathering on Revolution Square from before dawn under the still-illuminated […]
(Eagle News) — The world-famous Guimaras mango will be exported to Russia soon. Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol made the announcement in a Facebook post he shared on Thursday, May 2. According to Piñol, this was after Exim Pacific, a Russian fruit-importing company, expressed interest in buying two metric tons of the mango weekly. He said Agriculture Region Executive Director Remelyn Recoter is now working on the export requirements for the product, and is “coordinating closely […]
https://youtu.be/PP4bbBq2K5s (Eagle News) – Philippine National Police National Capital Region chief major general Guillermo Eleazar was livid with rage as he scolded a Caloocan City police cop who killed a six-year old boy and intentionally shot the boy’s grandmother on Sunday. Eleazar said that the policeman, Cpl. Rocky delos Reyes, will face the full force of the law and will be removed from the police service as he did not deserve to be in […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A kidney needed for transplantation has been delivered by a drone for the first time ever, the University of Maryland Medical Center said, a development that could herald faster and safer organ transport. The specially designed high-tech drone was fitted with equipment to monitor the kidney along its three-mile (five kilometers) journey to its recipient: a 44-year-old woman from Baltimore who had spent eight years on dialysis before the procedure. […]
(Eagle News)–The National Bureau of Investigation has arrested the person allegedly behind the videos that linked President Rodrigo Duterte’s family to illegal drug activities. Authorities did not identify the suspect, but said his arrest took place on Tuesday, April 30. The suspect allegedly uploaded the videos featuring a man who identified himself as “Bikoy,” and who hurled the allegations against members of the presidential family. “Bikoy” accused presidential son Paolo Duterte of receiving kickbacks from […]
by Alexander MARTINEZ / Esteban ROJAS CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — Clashes broke out between opposition supporters and Venezuela’s armed forces in the capital Caracas on Wednesday during May Day protests with opposition leader Juan Guaido attempting to rally demonstrators against President Nicolas Maduro. National Guard troops fired tear gas at stone-throwing protesters attempting to block a highway close to the airbase in eastern Caracas where Guaido had tried on Tuesday to spark a military uprising […]
(Eagle News)–A 4.0-magnitude earthquake struck Surigao del Norte on Thursday, May 2. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, an aftershock of the 5.5-magnitude quake that hit the province on April 26, struck 86 kilometers southeast of General Luna at 2:50 a.m. The depth of focus of the earthquake was 10 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
(Eagle News)–The easterlies continue to affect Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao on Thursday, May 2, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. According to PAGASA, as a result, Caraga, Davao Region, and SOCCSKSARGEN will experience cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides due to scattered light to moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Bicol Region, Visayas and the rest of Mindanao will have partly cloudy to cloudy […]
