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NORTH DAKOTA, United States (Reuters) — The first widespread winter storm to sweep the Dakotas this season unleashed heavy snow and howling winds from the Black Hills to Bismarck on Tuesday (November 29), creating whiteout conditions and forcing the closure of a stretch of Interstate 90. The late-November storm caps an unusually warm and mild weather month in most of North and South Dakota, two states in the upper Midwest that normally see multiple […]
BISLIG CITY, Surigao del Sur (Eagle News) – Pinatunayan ng mga selected students ng Mangagoy East Elementary School sa Bislig City, Surigao del Sur na hindi pa rin nila isinasantabi ang pagbabasa ng mga aklat. Ito ay sa kabila ng mga makabagong gadgets sa kasalukuyan. Araw-araw ay iba’t ibang pampublikong paaralan ang bumibisita sa Division Library Hub ng DepEd-Bislig City. Ito ang maituturing na pinakamalaking Library Hub sa buong CARAGA Region na may E-library Conference Room Shelving […]
ANGAT, Bulacan (Eagle News) – Nilibot ni Angat Mayor Narding de Leon ang mga Barangay na kaniyang nasasakupan. Layunin nito ay upang makausap ang mga residente at paaalahanan sa masamang maidudulot ng ilegal na droga sa kanilang buhay at kalusugan. Hinikayat din ng alkalde ang kaniyang mga kababayan na huwag subukan ang droga. Ang mga sumuko naman na gumagamit at nagbebenta nito ay dapat ng tumigil sa masamang gawaing ito. Ayon naman sa Hepe ng PNP ng nasabing bayan […]
KAMPALA, Uganda (AFP) – by Grace Matsiko Ugandan prosecutors charged a tribal king with murder Tuesday, accusing him of backing a separatist militia in his kingdom where weekend fighting between his guards and security forces left at least 87 people dead. The Rwenzururu King Charles Wesley Mumbere is accused of commanding a militia from his palace with the aim of creating an independent state straddling Uganda and the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. “Court sat […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) – by Philippe ALFROY South Africa on Wednesday begins a major clinical trial of an experimental vaccine against the AIDS virus, which scientists hope could be the “final nail in the coffin” for the disease. More than 30 years of efforts to develop an effective vaccine for HIV have not borne fruit, but for the first time since the virus was identified in 1983, scientists think they have found a promising candidate. […]
ALEPPO, Syria (AFP) – by Karam al-Masri with Sara Hussein in Beirut The Syrian government offensive to recapture rebel-held parts of Aleppo sparked international alarm on Tuesday, with the UN saying nearly 16,000 people had fled the assault and more could follow. France called for an immediate UN Security Council session on the fighting, which has seen the army capture a third of opposition-controlled east Aleppo in recent days. The fighting has prompted an exodus […]
by Rodrigo Almonacid BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — A charter plane carrying a Brazilian football team crashed in the mountains in Colombia late Monday, killing 76 people, officials said. They said five survived the disaster. The LAMIA airlines charter declared an emergency at around 10 pm local time” 0300 GMT Tuesday, reporting it had suffered “electrical failures,” and crashed a short time later near the city of Medellin, officials said. The plane was carrying members […]
TACLOBAN, Leyte (Eagle News) – Pormal ng binuksan sa publiko ang modernong pasyalan at palaruan para sa mga mamamayan partikular na sa mga kabataan na may traumatikong karanasan at alaala dulot ng Super Typhoon Yolanda. Layunin nitong malunasan ang malungkot na nakaraan at magkaroon ng uli na panibagong alaala. Sa loob lamang ng pitong buwan ay natapos ang nasabing proyekto kasama na ang pagplano sa Tacloban Astrodome Playground. Pinondohan ito ng World Vision katuwang ang Lokal na […]
(Eagle News) — Russia, the Philippines, and the whole of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will stand to benefit from a closer relationship among these countries as ASEAN pushes its development agenda. In a roundtable discussion of the New Era University ASEAN Studies Center, a Russian academician and political affairs expert, Dr. Ekaterina Koldunova said that even the closer relationship between Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Russian President Vladimir Putin would mean more […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippines criticized Tuesday as “irresponsible and alarming” a UN envoy’s warning that life sentences meted out to two ex-Khmer Rouge leaders should serve as a warning to Manila over human rights abuses. Last week, a United Nations-backed court in Cambodia upheld life sentences for crimes against humanity for two senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime, which was responsible for the death of up to two million Cambodians from 1975-1979. […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Seven military bodyguards of President Rodrigo Duterte and two other soldiers were wounded Tuesday in an ambush by suspected Islamic militants on the eve of his planned visit to the southern Philippines, the military and president said. Military spokesmen said a bomb hit the soldiers’ convoy as it drove on a road in a southern region where an armed group which had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group operated, […]
STUCKENBROCK, Germany (Reuters) —A dog at a German zoo is helping to rear Bengal tiger cub twins which were abandoned by their mother soon after birth, Safaripark Stukenbrock in northern Germany said on Monday (November 28). One-month-old Peach and Pearl, born over the course of about an hour, were immediately rejected by their mother, said keeper Jeannette Wurms. “The first-born was in critical condition. She was so cold that we couldn’t take her temperature. Her […]
