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MARYLAND, United States (Reuters)– The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) warned Americans not to place a frozen turkey into a hot deep fryer this Thanksgiving. As the video showed, doing so results in an explosion of oil and flames. “We estimate an average of about 1,400 cooking fires on Thanksgiving Day each year. This is more than three times the average number of cooking fires each day throughout the rest of the year,” the […]
KATOWICE, POLAND (Reuters) — Scientists develop pollution-detecting drones to increase precision of measurements in one of Poland’s most polluted regions. Polish engineers have developed what they have called a “flying laboratory” – a drone-based platform to test air pollution in one of Poland’s dirtiest areas. Dust, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide concentrations can be measured remotely through the device. Engineers at the Central Mining Institute in Katowice say it can measure even the smallest concentration […]
(Eagle News) — The House Committee on Justice recommended the grant of immunity to Ronnie Dayan as it started its inquiry on Thursday morning (November 24) into the alleged proliferation of illegal drugs at the New Bilibid prisons. With no member of the House objecting, House committee chair Rep. Rey Umali said they would forward their motion to grant immunity to Dayan, a former bodyguard-driver and lover of Senator Leila de Lima, to House […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton is now more than two million votes ahead of President-elect Donald Trump in the popular vote count for the US presidential elections, a tally compiled by the Cook Political Report showed Wednesday. The Democratic candidate’s 1.5 percent lead in the popular vote makes no difference to the outcome of the November 8 election, which Trump won by taking a majority of electoral votes. Clinton conceded the following day. […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A 5.6-magnitude earthquake shook northeast Japan early Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, two days after a powerful tremor triggered a tsunami near the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant. There were no risks of seismic waves or immediate reports of damage from Thursday’s quake, which struck at 6:23 am (2123 GMT) off Fukushima prefecture some 210 kilometers (130 miles) northeast of Tokyo, Japanese authorities said. The quake did not cause any […]
HAARLEM, The Netherlands (Reuters) — A poem that Anne Frank sent to a girlfriend in 1942, shortly before her family went into hiding from the Nazis, was sold for 140,000 euros ($147,700) at an auction in the Netherlands on Wednesday (November 23). Frank was twelve years old when she sent the short poem, at least part of which was copied from a magazine, for her friend’s poetry album. Auction house Bubb Kuyper had initially […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President-elect Donald Trump acknowledged that a “long and bruising” presidential campaign had left emotions raw and tensions high Wednesday but urged America to come together on its Thanksgiving holiday. In a video address from his Florida golf resort, the 70-year-old tycoon said: “It is my prayer, that on this Thanksgiving, we begin to heal our divisions and move forward as one country, strengthened by a shared purpose and very, very […]
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (Reuters) — For the last time in a time-honored tradition, outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday (November 23) pardoned the National Thanksgiving Turkey and its alternate at a ceremony in the Rose Garden. Obama spared Tater and Tot, both 18-week old, 40-pound turkeys raised in raised in Northwest Iowa, from being dressed and turned into a Thanksgiving feast. The names for this year’s lucky birds were chosen by Iowa schoolchildren […]
WALT DISNEY’S PICTURES (Reuters) — Disney’s “Moana” is expected to top the Thanksgiving weekend box office. The animated movie which features Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson as demi-god Maui with songs created by ‘Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda, started off the extended five-day holiday break with $2.6 million worth of ticket sales on Thursday night (November 22) previews and is expected to net a total in the region of $85 million, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com. Last weekend’s box […]
ALBAY (Eagle News) – Humigit kumulang 12,000 katao na kabilang sa 6km radius permanent danger zone ang nananatili pa rin sa evacuation center ng Albay. Ayon sa Albay Public Safety and Emergency Management Office (ASEMO) na hanggang buwan pa ng Disyembre ngayong taon mananatili ang mga evacuees. Ito ay dahil sa hindi pa rin pumapayag ang Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) sa Albay na ibaba ang alert level ng bulkang Mayon. Ayon kay resident volcanologist […]
ENGLAND, United k=Kingdom (AFP) — The family of murdered British lawmaker Jo Cox spoke of love, not hate after a man obsessed with Nazis and extreme right-wing ideas was sentenced to life in jail on Wednesday (November 23). Cox was killed in a frenzied street attack which stunned Britain a week before the European Union referendum on June 16, 2016. Thomas Mair, 53, shot Cox three times and repeatedly stabbed the 41-year-old mother of two […]
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AFP) – by Marc BURLEIGH A Caribbean storm verging on a hurricane spun towards the coasts of Costa Rica and Nicaragua on Wednesday, prompting evacuations and red alerts ahead of “life-threatening” flash flooding. Tropical Storm Otto was forecast to strengthen into a hurricane with winds over 119 kilometers (74 miles) per hour when it makes landfall on Thursday, the US National Hurricane Center said. On Tuesday, though the storm proper was at […]
