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Four people hurt, BFP says (Eagle News) — At least six people died in a fire that hit a residential area in Manila on Thursday, December 29. According to the Bureau of Fire Protection, at least four people were also hurt in the blaze that broke out at 2:34 a.m. on Arlegui Street in Quiapo. The cause of the fire has yet to be determined. The fire was put out at 8:10 a.m. At least […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – Six people have been killed after a bus and truck crash caused a huge fire at an expressway tunnel on the outskirts of Seoul, the local fire department told AFP. Images of the scene in local media showed huge flames and plumes of smoke rising from the tunnel, as hundreds of firefighters battled to bring the blaze under control. The fire started when a bus collided with a truck at around […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – The world is getting warmer, winters included. The United States, however, has experienced severe winter storms in recent years, and experts are taking a closer look at the link between these extreme cold events and climate change. While the link between global warming and heat waves is very direct, the behavior of winter storms is governed by complex atmospheric dynamics that are more difficult to study. Even so, “there are certain […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) – Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James remains “locked in” on basketball with his 38th birthday fast approaching, but the four-time NBA champion made it clear Wednesday he wants to be a title contender. James, who turns 38 on Friday, reflected on his career after another frustrating Lakers defeat, this one to the Miami Heat. With superstar Anthony Davis sidelined by injury, the Lakers have dropped five of their last six games […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) – The Brooklyn Nets pushed their NBA winning streak to 10 games in dramatic style on Wednesday, rallying in the second half then hanging on to edge the Hawks 108-107 in Atlanta. Kyrie Irving scored 15 of his 28 points in the fourth quarter and Kevin Durant added 26 points, 16 rebounds and eight assists for the Nets — whose winning streak is their longest since the 2005-06 season and the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Thousands of Twitter users reported an outage on Wednesday, according to tracking sites Downdetector.com and Netblocks, but the issue appeared to be resolving, with error messages and missing tweets reappearing. At the peak of the outage, at about 0035 GMT, DownDetector said more than 10,000 people reported problems with the platform, which is now owned by the mercurial billionaire Elon Musk. AFP journalists in the United States and Asia were among […]
(Eagle News) — Reported deaths due to the heavy rains and floods in Visayas and Mindanao over the weekend have risen to 32, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said. According to the NDRRMC, of these, 18 were reported in Northern Mindanao, six in Bicol, four in Zamboanga, three in Eastern Visayas, and one in Caraga. Twenty-four people, the NDRRMC said, have been reported missing. Of these, 11 each were reported in Bicol […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – British experts on Wednesday said 2022 was set to be the UK’s warmest on record after a year of heatwaves and minimal rainfall. The findings come as communities across the globe reel from a catalogue of extreme weather this year including soaring temperatures and drought across Europe that saw crops wither and forest fires ravage swathes of land. This year had the “highest annual average temperature across the UK, exceeding the […]
(Eagle News) –Cloudy skies and rains are expected in parts of the country on Thursday, Dec. 29. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, MIMAROPA, CALABARZON, Bicol Region, Eastern and Western Visayas will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms due to the low pressure area (LPA) estimated 100 km southeast of Guiuan, Eastern Samar. PAGASA said flash floods or landslides due to moderate to at times heavy rains are […]
Rome, Italy (AFP) Italy is making coronavirus tests for visitors from China mandatory following an explosion in cases in China, the health minister said Wednesday. “I have ordered mandatory Covid-19 antigenic swabs, and related virus sequencing, for all passengers coming from China and transiting through Italy,” minister Orazio Schillaci said. The measure was “essential to ensure the surveillance and identification of any variants of the virus in order to protect the Italian population”, he said. […]
This year is set to be the UK’s warmest on record, according to provisional figures released by the Met Office on Wednesday. It had the “highest annual average temperature across the UK, exceeding the previous record set in 2014 when the average was 9.88 degrees Celsius (49.78 degrees Fahrenheit)”, the Met said in a statement. The figure for 2022 would be announced later. Since 1884, each of the ten years recording the highest annual temperature […]
Washington, United States (AFP) The European Union and the United States urged Kosovo and Serbia Wednesday to take “immediate” steps to deescalate tensions amid mounting unrest in their border region. “The European Union and the United States of America are concerned about the continued tense situation in the north of Kosovo,” they said in a joint statement. “We call on everyone to exercise maximum restraint, to take immediate action to unconditionally deescalate the situation, and […]
