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PARIS, June 27, 2023 (AFP) – Earth lost an area of carbon-absorbing rainforest larger than Switzerland or the Netherlands in 2022, most of it destroyed to make way for cattle and commodity crops, an analysis of satellite data released Tuesday revealed. That is nearly a football pitch of mature tropical trees felled or burned every five seconds, night and day, and 10 percent more than the year before, according to the World Resources Institute (WRI). […]
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2023 (AFP) – Former US president Donald Trump can be heard discussing secret documents he had apparently held on to after leaving the White House and acknowledging they had not been declassified, in an audio recording aired by US media. The two-minute clip, played by CNN late Monday and later obtained by ABC and CBS, comes from an interview Trump gave at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club in July 2021 for […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Transportation announced it would construct 470 kilometers of bike lanes across the country this year. Assistant Secretary for Road Transport and Infrastructure James Andres Melad said the additional bike lanes will also include pedestrian infrastructure to ensure the safety of cyclists and pedestrians. At least 332,000 residents and active transport users are expected to benefit from the project. The construction of the additional bike lanes is part of our […]
MANILA, June 27, 2023 (AFP) — Philippine police said Tuesday they have rescued more than 1,000 people allegedly trafficked into the country to work for an online casino in Manila. Chinese, Vietnamese, Singaporean and Malaysian nationals were among those found when police raided buildings inside a compound in the capital on Monday night. Police said the alleged victims had accepted jobs posted on Facebook to work in the Philippines as “assistants in online gaming”. International […]
MONTREAL, June 27, 2023 (AFP) — Olivia Chow won election Monday to become the first Chinese-Canadian mayor of Toronto, vowing to pursue a more progressive approach in Canada’s largest city after ending more than a decade of conservative rule. Hong Kong-born Chow, who emerged victorious from a record field of 102 candidates, has promised to raise property taxes and do more to support tenants to help tackle the city’s housing affordability crisis. In her acceptance […]
(Eagle News) — Over 100 volcanic earthquakes were monitored in Mayon in the last 24 hours. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said apart from the 107 volcanic earthquakes, also monitored were 241 rockfall events and 17 dome-collapse pyroclastic density current events. A very slow effusion of lava flow reaching 1.6 kilometers and 1.2 kilometers was also monitored along Mi-Si and Bonga gullies, respectively. PHIVOLC S said sulfur dioxide flux was monitored at 753 […]
SYDNEY, June 27, 2023 (AFP) — A man was killed in Sydney’s famed Bondi neighborhood Tuesday, in what police described as a hit on a “major player” in the city’s crime underworld. A police cordon was thrown up around one of Sydney’s busiest shopping precincts after residents and rush hour commuters were shocked to hear shots ring out from an underground parking lot not far from Bondi Beach. A 48-year-old man with an “extensive criminal […]
TIANJIN, China, June 27, 2023 (AFP) — Chinese Premier Li Qiang slammed efforts in the West to “de-risk” the global economy as a “false proposition” on Tuesday, as he opened a meeting known as the Summer Davos in northern China. “In the West, some people are hyping up what is called ‘cutting reliance and de-risking’,” Li told delegates in a wide-ranging speech calling for deepening economic globalization and cooperation. “These two concepts… are a false […]
By Amal JAYASINGHE Agence France-Presse HORANA, Sri Lanka, June 27, 2023 (AFP) — Heart-wrenching images of revered elephants and cattle eating plastic in Sri Lanka have prompted politicians to toughen pollution laws, but skeptical conservationists warn past bans were repeatedly ignored. After an estimated 20 elephant deaths and countless other wild animals perishing due to single-use plastics in the past decade, officials say a law banning many such items is expected to come into force […]
By Delphine Matthieussent Agence France-Presse REHAN, Palestinian Territories, June 27, 2023 (AFP) — As dawn broke over the occupied West Bank, Mamoun Abu al-Rob and his son crossed into Israel, where a volunteer was waiting to take them to a hospital. Past the Rehan crossing in the northern West Bank, where Palestinian workers were passing through a dimly lit corridor, Abu al-Rob walked towards Yael Noy’s car as his six-year-old son, Adam, dozed in his […]
By Eugenia LOGIURATTO RIO DE JANEIRO, June 27, 2023 (AFP) – What’s the longest river in the world, the Nile or the Amazon? The question has fueled a heated debate for years. Now, an expedition into the South American jungle aims to settle it for good. Using boats run on solar energy and pedal power, an international team of explorers plans to set off in April 2024 to the source of the Amazon in the […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is monitoring a low pressure area off Infanta, Quezon. PAGASA said the Intertropical Convergence Zone is also affecting Southern Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. As a result, PAGASA said Mimaropa, Bicol Region, Cagayan Valley, Aurora and Quezon will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms as a result. Flashfloods or landslides due to moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Metro Manila and the […]
