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(Eagle News) –President Bongbong Marcos has said he wants safeguards in place for online government procurement. “There will still be an element of accreditation because we cannot just open the market to anything…. (What if) you buy something, you get nothing. A box with nothing inside. ‘Yung ganoon,” President Marcos said in a statement issued by the Presidential Communications Office. The PCO said the President made the statement during a sectoral meeting in Malacañang on […]
By Aishwarya KUMAR India readied Wednesday to become the first nation to land a spacecraft on the Moon’s south pole, days after a Russian probe crashed in the same region. The latest attempted Moon landing is a historic moment for the world’s most populous nation, as it rapidly closes in on milestones set by global space powers. Chandrayaan-3, which means “Mooncraft” in Sanskrit, is scheduled to touch down shortly after 6:00 pm India time (1230 […]
By Issam AHMED WASHINGTON, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – From Quebec to British Columbia to Hawaii, North America is facing an extraordinary wildfire season — and regions both near and far have found themselves increasingly blighted by smoke exposure. Here’s what you should know about air pollution from these blazes. – What we know – One of the defining aspects of smoke from wildfires is “particulate matter” — toxins that, in their numbers, can make […]
Just three weeks old, a giraffe in the southern US state of Tennessee is already making headlines for its unique characteristics, or rather lack thereof: it has no spots. Described by Bright’s Zoo director David Bright as very rare, the animal known as a reticulated giraffe was born on July 31 and now stands six feet tall. Bright said the female is “a beautiful solid brown,” without any of the species’ distinctive patterns which help […]
THAKOT, Pakistan, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – Military helicopters and zipline experts on Tuesday rescued eight people, including six school boys, trapped for hours in a stricken cable car high above a remote Pakistan valley. The daring rescue began with a helicopter plucking two children to safety after almost 12 hours in the air as daylight faded, but the chopper was forced back to base in the dark. Then rescuers used the cable keeping the […]
Tropical depression also located east of Northern Luzon (Eagle News)–The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is monitoring a low pressure area off Aparri, Cagayan. According to PAGASA, a tropical depression is also so far located 3170 kilometers east of Northern Luzon. It is packing maximum sustained winds of 45 kph near the center and a gustiness of up to 55 kph, and moving southwest at 10 kph. PAGASA said Cagayan Valley and Cordillera […]
ALEXANDROUPOLI, Greece, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – Thousands of people in an outer district of Greece’s capital Athens were under evacuation orders Tuesday as firefighters battled a steadily growing wave of wildfires around the country that has left 20 dead. Civil protection ordered the evacuation of Ano Liosia in northwest Athens, a district of over 25,000 people while at the neighbouring community of Fyli an AFP journalist saw homes on fire. Over 60 fires had […]
HONG KONG, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – Hong Kong’s top court on Tuesday issued a landmark ruling affirming mandatory minimum sentences for people convicted of national security crimes, potentially affecting dozens of pro-democracy figures standing trial or appealing jail terms. The national security law Beijing imposed on Hong Kong in 2020 after months of democracy protests sets out minimum jail terms for serious offences, a feature rarely seen in the former British colony’s criminal justice […]
THAKOT, Pakistan, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – A helicopter on Tuesday evening helped rescue the first children from a cable car dangling all day over a deep Pakistan ravine, rescue officials said. Six children and two adults were using the chairlift when a cable broke at a height of up to 1,200 feet (about 365 metres) midway through its journey in a remote, mountainous part of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. “The first child has been […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – The first of six children and two adults trapped in a cable car all day over a deep Pakistan ravine was rescued on Tuesday evening, officials said. “The first child has been rescued with a helicopter,” said a statement from the 1122 rescue service. This is a developing story.
ATLANTA, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – Donald Trump said he will turn himself in on Thursday in Georgia to face racketeering and other charges stemming from his bid to overturn the 2020 election. Writing on his platform Truth Social on Monday, Trump said that that day he would be “ARRESTED by a Radical Left District Attorney, Fani Willis,” the Georgia official who brought the year’s fourth indictment against the former president. The judge in the […]
WEST KELOWNA, Canada, Aug 21, 2023 (AFP) – Cooling weather on Monday gave firefighters for the first time in days the upper hand against what the prime minister described as “apocalyptic” wildfires blazing across western Canada, after tens of thousands of people were evacuated or put on alert. Large parts of the scenic Okanagan Valley, including the towns of Kelowna and neighboring West Kelowna in British Columbia, are threatened by fires. About 27,000 people in […]
