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Vigor Mendoza is new LTO chief

(Eagle News) — President Bongbong Marcos has appointed Vigor Mendoza as chair of the Land Transportation Office. Mendoza, with the rank of assistant secretary, will replace Hector Villacorta, who was officer-in-charge of the agency. The Palace said the following appointments were also made: Arturo Trinidad II – Director II, Department of Finance Jesus Elpidio Atal – Director IV, Department of Labor and Employment Joselito Caballero – Director III, Department of Public Works and Highways Moises […]

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World Cup will ‘wake up’ New Zealand’s love of football: coach

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AFP) — Staging the Women’s World Cup will “wake up” New Zealand’s passion for football, the co-hosts’ coach Jitka Klimkova said on Wednesday’s eve of the tournament. Football remains well behind rugby, cricket and other sports in popularity in New Zealand, which is jointly hosting the World Cup with Australia. New Zealand have also never won a Women’s World Cup game in 15 attempts, but they hope to change that when they […]

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Martial arts superstar Bruce Lee’s legacy endures 50 years on

By Holmes CHAN HONG KONG, July 19, 2023 (AFP) – Hong Kong businessman W. Wong still remembers the day in 1972 when he first heard neighbourhood kids rave about a figure who seemed larger than life: Bruce Lee. Lee, a consummate martial artist whose films spawned a kung fu craze around the world, was one of the first Asian men to achieve Hollywood superstardom before his death at 32. His influence can still be felt […]

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PAGASA monitoring LPA off Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur

(Eagle News) — The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is monitoring a low pressure area off Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur. PAGASA said as a result of the LPA embedded along the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) affecting Mindanao, cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms are expected over Eastern Visayas, Caraga, Bohol, Camiguin, Misamis Oriental, Davao de Oro, and Davao Oriental. Flashfloods or landslides during moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. […]

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Philippines hope ‘meteoric rise’ to debut World Cup changes everything

By Allison JACKSON Agence France-Presse MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — In a country obsessed with beauty pageants, basketball and boxing, the Philippines women’s team hope to ignite interest in football when they make the nation’s World Cup debut this week. Long minnows in the sport, the Philippines have never played at a FIFA World Cup, either the men’s or women’s. All that will change on Friday when the women’s side under their Australian coach Alen Stajcic […]

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Leaks, repairs, stress: how skeleton crew stopped Red Sea oil disaster

By Robbie COREY-BOULET Agence France-Presse ABOARD FSO SAFER, Yemen (AFP) — When an alarm sounded on the decaying oil tanker off Yemen’s coast, signaling a leak in its engine room, Hussein Nasser quickly sprang into action. Working around the clock for days, he and the half dozen other people on board the FSO Safer fashioned makeshift iron strips to patch a burst pipe, before divers arrived to install a permanent steel plate to keep seawater […]

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No damage as magnitude 6.8 quake shakes Central America

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AFP) — A magnitude 6.8 earthquake off the coast of Central America shook El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua on Tuesday, though without any immediate damage reported, according to Salvadoran authorities. The quake was registered at 6:22 pm (0222 GMT) in the Pacific Ocean, about 66 kilometers (41 miles) south of the Salvadoran coast, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The USGS originally recorded the earthquake at a magnitude of […]

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Meta challenges OpenAI and Google with open-source AI

SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Facebook owner Meta on Tuesday released a new and free-of-charge version of its artificial intelligence model, making a play against ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Google. OpenAI and Google have developed the impressive large language models that serve as the foundations of the ChatGPT and Bard chatbots, which have drawn excitement with their capabilities to mimic human creativity and expertise. Meta meanwhile has avoided releasing generative AI products straight to the […]

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North Korea fires two ballistic missiles into sea

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday, hours after an American nuclear-armed submarine made its first South Korean port call in decades. The launch was reported by South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), according to Yonhap, who said they were fired early Wednesday from the Sunan area in Pyongyang, and flew some 550 kilometres (340 miles) before splashing into the […]

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Extreme heat scorches Europe, world

  By Alexandria SAGE Agence France-Presse ROME, Italy (AFP) — Swathes of Europe baked Tuesday in a heatwave trailed by wildfires and health warnings, as parts of Asia and the United States also suffered under extreme weather. Firefighters battled blazes in parts of Greece and the Canary Islands and Spain issued heat alerts, while some children in Italy’s Sardinia were warned away from sports for safety reasons. In the United States, the city of Phoenix […]

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Search for missing after landslide kills 14 in Colombia

  QUETAME, Colombia (AFP) — Rescue teams with drones searched for survivors Tuesday after a landslide triggered by heavy rains left at least 14 people dead and about a dozen missing in central Colombia, authorities said. Several homes were destroyed and a major trade artery blocked after torrential rains hit the Quetame municipality in Colombia’s Cundinamarca department late Monday. Cundinamarca governor Nicolas Garcia said “14 lifeless bodies have been found” by lunchtime Tuesday, updating the […]

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Extreme heat scorches Europe

ROME, July 18, 2023 (AFP) – Swathes of Europe baked Tuesday in a heatwave trailed by wildfires and health warnings, as parts of Asia and the United States also suffered under extreme weather. Firefighters battled blazes in parts of Greece and the Canary Islands, Spain issued heat alerts while some children in Italy’s Sardinia were warned away from sports for safety reasons. “You can’t be in the street, it’s horrible,” said Lidia Rodriguez, 27, in […]

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