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(Eagle News) — Typhoon Rosita (Yutu) has made landfall in Dinapigue, Isabela as of 5 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 30, with maximum sustained winds of 150 kilometers per hour near the center and gustiness of up to 210 kph. Ten provinces in Luzon were placed under signal number 3. They are Isabela, Quirino, Northern Aurora, Nueva Vizcaya, Ifugao, Benguet, La Union, Ilocos Sur, Mountain Province and Pangasinan. Twelve more areas in Luzon were under signal […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — The man accused of sending mail bombs to prominent Democrats and critics of President Donald Trump appeared Monday in Miami federal court, which is taking up his extradition to New York. Cesar Sayoc, 56, appeared before US District Judge Edwin Torres after his arrest Friday in connection with the mailing of at least 15 manila envelopes containing homemade bombs, none of which exploded. With a messy ponytail and dressed in […]
TAMPA, United States (AFP) — Dogs can be trained to sniff out certain cancers, people at risk of a diabetic coma and now, children with malaria just by smelling their socks, researchers said Monday. According to the findings presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene annual meeting in New Orleans, dogs were trained to sniff out malaria parasites in African children who tested positive for the mosquito-borne disease but did not have […]
TAMPA, United States (AFP) — NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which launched earlier this year, has set a new record for becoming the closest human-made object to the Sun, the US space agency announced Monday. “The spacecraft passed the current record of 26.55 million miles (42.73 million kilometers) from the Sun’s surface on Oct. 29, 2018, at about 1:04 pm EDT (1704 GMT),” said a NASA statement. “The previous record for closest solar approach was set […]
by Jan DÖRNER / Christof MEISSNER Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Angela Merkel on Monday announced she will quit as German chancellor when her mandate ends in 2021, as she sought to curtail a series of political crises that have rocked her fragile coalition. Often described as the world’s most powerful woman and Europe’s de facto leader, Merkel said she hoped her planned departure would end fighting within her coalition and allow it […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The Pentagon will deploy more than 5,000 soldiers to the US-Mexico border, a top general said Monday, as President Donald Trump warned a caravan of Central American migrants that the military was waiting. “By the end of the week, we will deploy over 5,200 soldiers to the southwest border,” Air Force General Terrence O’Shaughnessy, head of the US military’s Northern Command, told reporters. Trump in recent weeks has repeatedly said […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo was placed in the NBA’s concussion protocol on Monday and will miss a showdown of unbeatens against the Toronto Raptors. The 23-year-old Greek power forward, averaging 25.0 points, 14.2 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 1.7 blocked shots a game this season, suffered a blow to the head in a victory Saturday over Orlando. Antetokounmpo was elbowed in the head by Orlando’s Aaron Gordon and fell […]
by Kaouther Larbi Agence France Presse TUNIS, Tunisia (AFP) — A female suicide bomber injured 20 people on a busy street in the center of the Tunisian capital on Monday, authorities said, after a three-year break in attacks in the city. “It’s a tragedy,” said Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, during a visit to the German capital Berlin. “We thought we had eradicated terrorism …(but it) is still in the heart of capital,” he said. […]
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) — Police arrested Sri Lanka’s petroleum minister Monday, a day after a man was killed when bodyguards opened fire to rescue him from a group loyal to the country’s president, officials said. Arjuna Ranatunga, captain of Sri Lanka’s 1996 cricket World Cup winning side and an ally of ousted prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, was taken in after trade unions accused him of ordering the shooting. Sunday’s shooting was the first […]
Various personal items and wreckage were recovered at the site of the Indonesian Lion Air jet which plunged into the Java Sea minutes after it took off from the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. Divers also recovered some of the bodies of the victims as search and rescue operational director feared that all the 189 passengers and crew aboard the plane did not survive the crash Monday morning, October 29. “My prediction is that nobody survived […]
by Harry Pearl Agence France Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — All 189 passengers and crew aboard a crashed Indonesian Lion Air jet were “likely” killed in the accident, the search and rescue agency said Monday, as it announced it had found human remains. The Boeing-737 MAX, which went into service just months ago, vanished from radar 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta, plunging into the Java Sea moments after it had asked to […]
(Eagle News) — Big oil companies implemented price rollback on their petroleum products for the third consecutive week because of the continuing decrease in the world oil prices. Phoenix Petroleum was the first to implement the price rollback on Saturday slashing Php 1.65 for every liter of gasoline, and by Php 0.60 for every liter of Diesel. Petro Gazz and Seaoil implemented the same price rollback on Monday at 12:01 AM. Flying V and Petron […]
