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By Mohsen KARIMI HERAT, Afghanistan, Oct 15, 2023 (AFP) – A magnitude 6.3 earthquake killed two people in western Afghanistan Sunday, with damaged prisons evacuated and residents fleeing a region where tremors have claimed at least 1,000 lives this past week. Since October 7, a series of potent quakes have jolted Herat province, levelling whole villages, burying families and leaving thousands homeless as winter approaches. In rural Injil district, near the epicentre of Sunday’s quake, […]
As the Philippines braces for the Nationwide Transport Strike scheduled for October 16-17, 2023, New Era University (NEU) has implemented measures to address potential disruptions. NEU’s administration has made the decision to shift all classes, spanning from the Main Campus to its various branches, to online instruction during the specified strike dates. Moreover, NEU has issued advisories to all faculty and staff members, recommending that they establish direct communication with their respective department heads in […]
The iconic British-Norwegian boy band A1 brought the house down with an energetic performance at the New Frontier Theatre in Manila. Fans were taken on a thrilling trip down memory lane, reliving the 90’s with the group’s best hits and heartfelt ballads. The lads, Mark Read, Ben Adams, Christian Ingebrigtsen and Paul Marazzi, kicked off the night with a burst of energy that had the crowd on their feet from the very start. The New […]
(Eagle News)–The government has raised the crisis alert level over Gaza to 4, which means the repatriation of Filipinos is now mandatory. The raising of the crisis alert level from 3 came days after Hamas launched what has been dubbed as its worst attack on Israel in years, prompting Israel to retaliate. Over 1000 people have been reported killed in the Israel-Hamas conflict, including three Filipinos. Three Filipinos remain missing. Earlier, President Bongbong Marcos said […]
Targets free Wi-Fi for all by the end of 2026 or middle of 2027 (Eagle News)–The government is eyeing total national fiber backbone connectivity in 2026, with the National Fiber Backbone 70% completed in Luzon, an Informations and Communications Technology official said. Undersecretary Jeffrey Dy said also in the pipeline is free Wi-Fi, with a target of setting up 110,000 sites by the end of 2026 or by the middle of 2027. With 70 percent […]
(Eagle News)–Cloudy skies and rains are expected in parts of the country on Sunday, Oct. 15. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Palawan, in particular, will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms due to the trough of a low pressure area. Flashfloods or landslides due to light to moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Batanes, Cagayan, Isabela, Apayao and Abra, meanwhile, will have partly cloudy to cloudy […]
(Eagle News)–Motorists using the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway should expect to pay more starting October 17. This was after the Toll Regulatory Board provisionally approved the petitions for rate adjustments filed by NLEX Corp. in 2020 and 2022. The provisionally approved toll underwent thorough and meticulous review by the TRB, and NLEX Corp. had to comply with all the procedures and requirements, including the publication and posting of surety bond, before the Notice to Start Collection was […]
By James Edgar and Oliver Hotham BEIJING, Oct 14, 2023 (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin heads to China next week to meet his “dear friend” Xi Jinping, forging even closer ties in a key strategic relationship in which experts say Moscow is increasingly the junior partner. Beijing is hosting representatives of 130 countries on October 17-18 to mark a decade of its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — a key geopolitical project of President […]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories, Oct 14, 2023 (AFP) – Palestinians sought refuge Saturday after Israel warned them to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip before an expected ground offensive against Hamas, one week after the deadliest attack in Israel’s history. Israeli ground forces massed near Gaza have made “localised” raids into the enclave “to cleanse the area of terrorists and weaponry” and try to find “missing persons”, the army said. Hamas militants in their October 7 […]
RIYADH, Oct 14, 2023 (AFP) – Saudi Arabia has suspended talks on potentially normalising ties with Israel, a source told AFP on Saturday, amid the war raging between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Hamas launched a large-scale attack on Israel on October 7 which killed 1,300 people, sparking a retaliatory bombing campaign that has killed at least 1,900 in the Gaza Strip ahead of a potential Israeli ground invasion of the territory. “Saudi […]
HOUSTON, Oct 14, 2023 (AFP) – After spending more than a year in space, Frank Rubio now has to get used to that pesky thing Earthlings call gravity. “Walking hurts a little bit the first few days, the soles of your feet and lower back,” he said at a news conference Friday at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. “I think there is a certain level of pain that comes with the fact […]
