by Jeanete Duazo Eagle News Service Canada Bureau (Eagle News) — The Public Health Agency of Canada has confirmed the country’s first case of Zika-related defects in a fetus, withholding further information for privacy reasons. It has however, confirmed that the fetus had severe congenital neurological anomalies. This is the second Canadian case of maternal-to-fetus transmission occurred in a baby that was confirmed to have the virus and the first to which has been linked to […]
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Obama warns Democrats against overconfidence about Clinton victory
(REUTERS) Declaring he was tired of talking about Donald Trump, President Barack Obama urged Democrats on Monday not to grow too confident about their prospects in the 2016 election despite Hillary Clinton’s strong position in the race for the White House. Obama, who is on a two-week vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, an island off the coast of Massachusetts, took a short break from his relaxation time to raise money for Clinton, the Democratic presidential […]
UN combats spread of cattle disease in Europe through early-detection training
(UNITED NATIONS) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today started a programme to train European laboratory staff on how to use nuclear-derived techniques to detect lumpy skin disease – a highly infectious cowpox virus spreading across the continent. “Lumpy skin disease has always been considered exotic in Europe, therefore many laboratories in the region are not prepared to detect it, or to differentiate between its various strains,” said Giovanni Cattoli, head of the UN […]
Spratly Island, ipinadedeklarang protected area ng ilang mga environmental advocate
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) – Hinihimok ng ilang environmental advocates na ideklara ang Spratly Islands bilang Marine Protected Area. Pinangunahan ito ng grupo ng Albert del Rosario Institute, Philippine Business for Environmental Stewardship at ng ilang international expert at nananawagan sa gitna ng umano’y pagkasira nito dulot ng pagpapatayo ng China ng mga imprastraktura sa Spratly Islands. Ayon sa mga environmental advocate, nakalulunos na umano ang pagkasira ng marine ecosystems ng pinagtatalunang teritoryo. Anila, dapat maging masigasig na sa […]
15 Guantanamo inmates transferred to UAE
by Thomas Watkins WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Fifteen Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to the United Arab Emirates, the largest such release in years, the Pentagon announced Monday. The latest transfers bring the remaining population of the detention center down to 61. Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, about 780 inmates have been housed in the US military-run facility. According to a State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, 12 of the men […]
NAIA expressway to open within the first 100 days of Duterte administration, says DPWH secretary
MANILA, Aug. 16 – Department of Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar is confident that the traffic situation at the domestic and international airport complex in Pasay City will change with the opening of phase 2 of the NAIA Expressway Project, which connects Macapagal Boulevard to NAIA Terminals 1 and 2. “We are in the process of doing safety checks. With the help of DOTC, we are confident that the public would soon be able […]
Philippines’ Global Ferronickel may resume China high-grade ore shipments
(REUTERS) Global Ferronickel Holdings Inc , the Philippines’ second-largest nickel producer, said on Monday it may resume shipments of higher grade ores to China in the second half of 2016 when prices are anticipated to improve further. The company expects a “better performance” in the second half, after booking losses in the first half on lower volumes and prices, and pass an audit by the government, which has launched a crackdown on miners violating environmental […]
Outbreak of yellow fever in DR Congo could go global, children’s charity warns
By Umberto Bacchi LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – An outbreak of yellow fever that has killed hundreds of people in central Africa could spread across the world, an international children’s charity warned on Tuesday, even as a massive vaccination campaign was expected to get underway. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) declared a yellow fever epidemic in June after the hemorrhagic virus spread from Angola, where at least 360 people have died since last December […]
Gunmen kidnap at least 10 in Mexico resort city
GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AFP) — Gunmen stormed a bar and kidnapped at least 10 people Monday in the Mexican resort city of Puerto Vallarta, state prosecutors said, linking it to a war between rival gangs. The heavily armed men arrived in pickup trucks around dawn and abducted their victims from the bar of a restaurant called La Leche in the city’s upscale hotel district, the Jalisco state prosecutor’s office said in a statement, citing witnesses. Chief […]
Shallow 5.3 quake in southern Peru kills at least four
(REUTERS) A 5.3 magnitude shallow earthquake killed at least four people, including a U.S. tourist, and injured dozens when it rocked a copper-producing region popular with trekkers late on Sunday, authorities said. The quake struck just 8 kilometers (5 miles) deep in the Caylloma province of the Andean region Arequipa and at least five aftershocks shook the region anew on Monday, the Geophysical Institute of Peru said. The USGS reported the earthquake as having […]
List of class suspensions today – August 16, 2016
METRO MANILA: Navotas – All leveles, public and private Valenzuela – All levels, public and private Quezon City – Pre School to Senior HS, public and private BULACAN: Pandi – All Levels, public and private Malolos – All Levels, public and private Meycauayan – All Levels, public and private Paombong – All Levels, public and private Guiguinto – All Levels, public and private Marilao – All Levels, public and private Hagonoy – All Levels, public […]
Lack of stores with fresh foods linked to signs of early heart disease
By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – Living in poor neighborhoods has been linked to increased heart risk, and a new U.S. study suggests the lack of access to fresh, healthy foods may be to blame. “Previous studies have found relationships between neighborhood characteristics and cardiovascular disease,” said lead author Jeffrey Wing of Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. “Finding that the density of healthy food stores was the only factor among those […]
