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Walmart manager kills six in latest US mass shooting

Chesapeake, United States (AFP) by Bastien INZAURRALDE A 31-year-old overnight manager at Walmart shot and killed six people at a store bustling with Thanksgiving holiday shoppers before turning the pistol on himself, authorities said Wednesday, in America’s second high-profile mass shooting in four days. Four other people remained hospitalized in unknown condition following the Tuesday night rampage in Chesapeake, Virginia, police chief Mark Solesky said. The gunman is believed to have died of a “self-inflicted […]

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Senate approves proposed P5.268-trillion national budget for 2023

(Eagle News)–The Senate on Wednesday, Nov. 23, approved on third and final reading the proposed  P5.268-trillion national budget for 2023. The Senate budget measure received 21 affirmative votes, no negative votes, and no abstention. In September, voting 289 against three, the House of Representatives approved on third and final reading its  version of the proposed P5.268 trillion proposed national budget for 2023. Senate Finance Committee Chair Sonny Angara said the bicameral conference committee meetings aimed […]

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Newborn killed in Russian strike on Ukraine maternity ward: rescuers

KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) – A newborn baby was killed following a Russian strike that hit a maternity ward in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region, which Moscow claims to have annexed, Ukrainian emergency services said Wednesday. Overnight on Tuesday to Wednesday, “in the city of Vilniansk in Zaporizhzhia region, as a result of a rocket attack on the territory of the local hospital, the two-storey building of the maternity ward was destroyed,” rescuers said on social media. They […]

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President Bongbong Marcos urges Filipino scientists to stay in Philippines

Gov’t will continue to support you, he says (Eagle News) — President Bongbong Marcos on Wednesday, Nov. 23, urged Filipino scientists to stay in the country and to continue sharing their expertise with the younger generation. The President made the statement during the 2022 National Science and Technology Week (NSTW) celebration held at the World Trade Center in Pasay City. In urging the country’s scientists to stay,  the President said the government “will continue to […]

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Singapore warns slower economic growth in 2023

SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) – Singapore warned on Wednesday that economic growth could slow to a trickle next year owing to weakness in key export markets including the United States, Europe and China, as rising interest rates and the Ukraine war cause headwinds. The city-state’s economic performance is often seen as a useful barometer of the global environment because of its reliance on trade with the rest of the world. The trade ministry said it expected growth […]

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Dreams of wealth turn to dust for Qatar migrant workers

by Shafiqul ALAM / with Aishwarya KUMAR in New Delhi / and Mikhail FLORES in Manila Agence France-Presse SREEPUR, Bangladesh (AFP) — Hundreds of thousands of people have flocked to Qatar in recent years to work on giant construction schemes as it boosted its infrastructure ahead of the World Cup. Drawn by the prospect of making more money than they could ever hope to at home, migrants make up nearly 90 percent of Qatar’s population […]

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Protests erupt at largest iPhone factory in China

BEIJING, China (AFP) – Large-scale protests broke out at Foxconn’s vast iPhone factory in Zhengzhou, central China, images circulating on Weibo and Twitter on Wednesday showed. Videos showed hundreds of workers marching on a road in daylight, with some being confronted by a row of people in hazmat suits and riot police. Another clip from a livestream video showed dozens of workers at night confronting a row of police officers and a police vehicle with flashing […]

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Aussie Simmons loses with Nets in NBA return to Philly

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Brooklyn’s Ben Simmons endured a defeat Tuesday in the Australian’s emotional NBA return to Philadelphia as a short-handed 76ers’ squad lacking three top stars humbled the Nets 115-106. The pre-game focus was on ex-Sixer Simmons playing his first game in Philadelphia since being traded to the Nets in February, but the home team lacking injured starters Joel Embiid, James Harden and Tyrese Maxey stole the show. Tobias Harris scored 18 […]

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China has ‘solved’ youth gaming addiction: industry body

BEIJING, China (AFP) — China has “solved” the issue of youth video game addiction, a report co-written by the country’s top gaming industry body has said, a year after the government limited the number of hours young people could play a day. China is the world’s biggest gaming market, but the industry — termed “spiritual opium” by state media — has been swept up in a tech regulatory crackdown marked by record fines, long investigations […]

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Russia unveils new icebreaker in push for energy markets

SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) — President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday oversaw the launch of a new nuclear-powered icebreaker as Russia pushes to develop the Arctic and seeks new energy markets amid sanctions over Ukraine. Addressing a Saint Petersburg ceremony for the launch of the Yakutia icebreaker by video link, Putin said such vessels were of “strategic” importance for Russia. In addition to floating out the Yakutia, authorities also symbolically raised a flag on another nuclear-powered […]

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Indonesia quake survivors appeal for supplies as rescuers trawl rubble

by Dessy SAGITA Agence France-Presse CIANJUR, Indonesia (AFP) — Survivors of an Indonesian earthquake that killed at least 268 people appealed for food and water Wednesday, as rescuers picked through devastated villages with hopes of finding anyone alive fading. The calls for help came as authorities warned that debris from landslides caused by the strong quake near the town of Cianjur in West Java needed to be cleared ahead of heavy rains forecast in the […]

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Magnitude-6.1 quake hits northwest Turkey

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — A magnitude-6.1 earthquake struck northwest Turkey during Wednesday’s early hours, the US Geological Survey said. The shallow tremor struck about 170 kilometers (105 miles) east of Istanbul, the country’s largest city, according to the USGS. It gave a time of 4:08 am (0108 GMT) and a depth of 10 km. The USGS uses a “fixed depth” of 10 km when initial quake data is “too poor to compute”, according to its […]

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