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Bangkok, Thailand (AFP) Six more bodies have been recovered from the sea after a Thai warship went down in the Gulf of Thailand six days ago, the country’s navy said Saturday. The HTMS Sukhothai sank late Sunday roughly 37 kilometres (22 miles) off Thailand’s southeastern coast, with a massive rescue operation managing to pull 76 crew alive from the waves. Seventeen members of the 105-strong crew are still missing. “Today we have recovered a total […]
Los Angeles, United States (AFP) Hundreds of high profile figures from the global cinema industry called Wednesday for Iran to release actor Taraneh Alidoosti, who was jailed over her support for the country’s three-month-old protest movement. Actors Emma Thompson, Penelope Cruz, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen and directors Ken Loach and Mike Leigh were among a host of luminaries to sign an open letter demanding the star of “The Salesman” be freed. “As members of the […]
Tehran, Iran (AFP) Iran’s supreme court has ordered the retrial of a Kurdish rapper who was reportedly sentenced to death over protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death, the judiciary said Saturday. Protests have gripped Iran since the September 16 death of Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin, after her arrest in Tehran for an alleged breach of the Islamic republic’s dress code for women. Iran this month executed two people in connection with the […]
Paris, France (AFP) by Alexandre HIELARD / Murielle KASPRZAK A 69-year-old white French gunman who opened fire at a Kurdish cultural centre in Paris killing three people told investigators he was racist, a source close to the case said Saturday. The shots at the centre and a nearby hairdressing salon shortly before midday on Friday caused panic in the bustling 10th district of the French capital, home to several shops and restaurants and a […]
(Eagle News)–The Departments of Transportation, and Science and Technology have signed an agreement for the development of an automated fare collection system that will benefit mass transport systems. According to the DOTr, the agreement signed by DOTr Secretary Jaime Bautista and DOST Secretary Renato Solidum Jr. seeks to establish a laboratory testing facility in Bicutan, and “govern the roles and responsibilities of the parties regarding the Certification and Validation testing of Fare Media and Transit […]
(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Internal Revenue on Friday, December 23, said individual taxpayers will be charged lower income taxes starting next year. According to the BIR, because of the lower income tax rate pursuant to Republic Act 10963, or the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Law, individuals earning purely compensation income, including non-business/non-profession related income and sole proprietors, “can look forward to a higher take-home pay in 2023.” It said starting January 1, […]
(Eagle News) — President Bongbong Marcos has ordered the grant of gratuity pay to contract of service and job order government workers. The order was contained in Administrative Order No. 3, which he signed on Friday, Dec. 23. According to the AO, government workers under those categories may be granted a one-time gratuity pay not exceeding P5,000. They should, however, have rendered a total or an aggregate of at least four months of actual satisfactory […]
(Eagle News) — The shear line is affecting Southern Luzon and Visayas. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, the northeast monsoon is also affecting the rest of Luzon. Eastern Visayas, PAGASA said, will have cloudy skies with scattered to widespread rain showers and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides due to moderate to heavy with at times intense rains are possible. Meanwhile, Bicol Region, Palawan, Dinagat Islands, and the rest of Visayas […]
San Francisco, United States (AFP) Facebook parent Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running lawsuit that accused the social network of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users’ private data. The amount was disclosed in a court filing late on Thursday. “The proposed settlement of $725,000,000 is the largest recovery ever achieved in a data privacy class action and the most Facebook has ever paid to resolve a […]
Chicago, United States (AFP) by Kamil Krzaczynski A historic and brutal winter storm put some 240 million Americans under severe weather warnings Friday as the United States faced holiday travel chaos, with thousands of flights cancelled and major highways closed. Heavy snow and howling winds upended holiday plans for millions at one of the busiest times of the year, just days before the Dec 25, as a huge cold front swept down from the […]
Paris, France (AFP) The extreme cold weather hitting North America in the run-up to the holidays is due to a phenomenon called a “bomb cyclone”. The US National Weather Service said this “once in a generation type event” has the power to turn deadly and is already breaking cold-weather records — with temperatures falling to minus 53 degrees Celsius (minus 63 Fahrenheit) in western Canada, minus 38 in Minnesota and minus 13 in Dallas. […]
Paris, France (AFP) by Alexandre HIELARD / Murielle KASPRZAK / Daphne ROUSSEAU A 69-year-old gunman opened fire at a Kurdish cultural centre and a hairdressing salon in Paris on Friday, killing three people and injuring three others, witnesses and prosecutors said. The shots shortly before midday (1100 GMT) caused panic in rue d’Enghien in the trendy 10th district of the capital, a bustling area of shops and restaurants that is home to a large […]
