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BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Nearly 200,000 people in Thailand have been admitted to hospital because of air pollution this week, officials have said, with Bangkok shrouded in a harmful haze. The Thai capital, home to an estimated 11 million people and one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations, has been blanketed for days by an unpleasant yellow-grey mix of vehicle fumes, industrial emissions and smoke from agricultural burning. More than 1.3 million people have […]
Dakar, Senegal (AFP) — At three months old, even future kings of the savannah like to play. In Senegal, a video of three cubs that would have hardly been imaginable a few years ago, has given hope that the revered West African lion, which has been decimated over time, will be revived. The US-based wild cat conservation organisation Panthera has released never-before-seen images of a lioness and three cubs spotted in February by remote cameras […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Thursday, March 9, announced the latest appointments in several government agencies and government-owned and -controlled corporations. The appointees and their respective agencies and GOCCs are the following: Department of Agriculture Genevieve E. Velicaria-Guevarra, Assistant Secretary Celso C. Olido, Director III Maria Melba B. Wee, Director III Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development Ma. Lorina J. Rigor, Director IV Philippine Rubber Research Institute Cheryll L. Eusela, Executive Director III […]
by Kelly MACNAMARA Agence France Presse Paris, France (AFP) — Smoke from monster wildfires in Australia caused a chemical reaction that widened the ozone hole 10 percent, researchers said Wednesday, raising fears that increasing forest fires could delay the recovery of Earth’s atmospheric protection against deadly UV radiation. Severe summer heat and drought helped drive the deadly “Black Summer” fires from late 2019 to early 2020, which destroyed vast swathes of eucalyptus forest and enveloped […]
by Thomas URBAIN Agence France-Presse HOUSTON, United States (AFP) — A year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the oil market has become more fragmented and uncertain, a dynamic expected to boost crude prices over the long term. Condemnation of Russia by Western governments has essentially severed Europe from Russian supplies, leaving it more reliant on the Middle East and the United States. That shift means cheaper Russian energy imports for China and India, while countries […]
by Hashem Osseiran Agence France-Presse ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — Cradling a pink stuffed animal as she sleeps in a United Arab Emirates hospital, a nine-year-old Syrian earthquake survivor is recovering from the wounds that nearly claimed her life, believing her mother is still alive. Sham Sheikh Mohammed, who suffered severe crush injuries in a 40-hour ordeal under the rubble, has not yet been told that both her mother and sister died in […]
(Eagle News) — The northeast monsoon is affecting Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Metro Manila, the rest of Luzon, and Western Visayas, as a result, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with light rains. Mindanao and the rest of Visayas will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms, this time due to localized thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms are possible. The eastern […]
Athens, Greece (AFP) — Greece’s leading animal park on Wednesday said it had recovered a rare white tiger cub found abandoned on a nearby street earlier this week. Attica Zoological Park outside Athens said the four-month-old female cub, which was found beneath a garbage bin near the premises, was paralysed from the waist down. “No one knows where it came from or how it got here,” park founder Jean Jacques Lesueur told Proto Thema daily, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States increasingly worries that China will use its power in global supply chains as an additional weapon to advance its political and military might, a report released Wednesday showed. The “Annual Threat Assessment” issued by the Director of National Intelligence said China is already using its supply chain dominance to force foreign companies and countries to transfer technologies and intellectual property to it. But the US intelligence community […]
by Emmanuel ANULE Agence France-Presse ABUJA, Nigeria (AFP) — Nigeria’s electoral agency said on Wednesday it had postponed a weekend governorship election by one week following a court decision over machines used in voting tallies. The so-called BVAS machines are at the center of a legal dispute over last month’s contested presidential election which results show Nigeria’s ruling APC party candidate won, but the opposition claims was marred by massive tampering. With President Muhammadu Buhari […]
by Anna MALPAS Agence France-Presse KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) — NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned Wednesday the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut might fall to Russia in the coming days following months of intense fighting. His remarks came as Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, which has spearheaded the attack on Bakhmut, claimed to have captured the eastern bank of the industrial town, devastated in the longest battle since Moscow invaded Ukraine a year ago. Wagner chief […]
by Hazel Ward with AFP bureaux around the world Agence France-Presse MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Women hit the streets from Kabul to Mexico City on Wednesday to mark International Women’s Day and stand up for rights that are coming under increasing attack. With Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers imposing what the United Nations has called a “gender apartheid” on women, Iran’s repression of the Mahsa Amini protests, new US restrictions on abortion rights and the Ukraine war, […]
