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WASHINGTON, April 27, 2024 (AFP) – Dozens of tornadoes struck the central United States on Friday, razing homes, knocking down power lines and injuring at least three people, authorities said. More than 70 tornadoes were recorded across the country by the National Weather Service (NWS), most of them around Omaha, a transportation hub in Nebraska. Images from storm chasers posted on social networks showed immense black twisters sweeping across the sky, turning over earth, dust […]
TAIPEI, April 26, 2024 (AFP) – Taiwan was hit by a series of at least 10 earthquakes in the early hours of Saturday, with the strongest reaching 6.1 magnitude, according to the island’s Central Weather Administration. No tsunami warning reports followed the earthquakes, which triggered mobile phone alarms in capital Taipei, an AFP journalist said, and came just several days after dozens of quakes shook the island. The strongest 6.1-magnitude earthquake occurred just off the […]
(Eagle News)–Over two million international visitors have entered the country this month, the Department of Tourism has said. Of the total 2010522 as of April 24, the DOT said 94.21 percent or 1894076 were foreign tourists while 5.79 percent or 116446 were overseas Filipino workers. The DOT said the overall figure is 15.11 percent higher than the international arrivals reported in the same period last year. South Korea remains number one in terms of inbound […]
(Eagle News)–The Light Rail Transit Line 2 and Metro Rail Transit Line 3 will offer free rides to workers on Labor Day, May 1. The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said the free rides will be from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. “Ipakita lamang ang inyong company ID (or government-issued ID para sa mga edad 18 pataas)” it said. DOLE said the initiative is in collaboration with the […]
(Eagle News)–The easterlies are affecting the country. As a result, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Metro Manila will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers and thunderstorms. Flashfloods or landslides due to moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. The rest of the country will experience the same conditions. The entire country will have light to moderate winds and slight to moderate coastal waters.
By Simon VALMARY NAIROBI, April 26, 2024 (AFP) – “Done!” — the catchphrase punctuating former rugby player Dennis Ombachi’s cooking videos is as famous as the balcony of the Nairobi apartment where he films himself in action. A former Rugby Sevens international, Ombachi reinvented himself to become a social media star with a global fanbase in just a few years> He has 2.3 million followers on TikTok and 1.4 million on Instagram. Known as “The […]
LOS ANGELES, April 26, 2024 (AFP) – The Denver Nuggets rallied to push LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers to the brink of elimination from the NBA playoffs on Thursday as the Philadelphia 76ers, fueled by 50 points from Joel Embiid, clawed back a win against the Knicks. The defending champion Nuggets erased a 10-point first-quarter deficit to beat the Lakers 112-105 in Los Angeles. Aaron Gordon scored 29 points and grabbed 15 rebounds […]
(Eagle News)–Hans Leo Cacdac is the new Department of Migrant Workers secretary. President Bongbong Marcos appointed Cacdac to head the department months after he was designated officer-in-charge of the same in September 2023. Cacdac became OIC following the passing of then-Secretary Susan “Toots” Ople the month before. According to the Presidential Communications Office, Cacdac also served as executive director of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration and of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration. He also […]
By Michael ZHANG A spaceship carrying three astronauts from China’s Shenzhou-18 mission safely docked at Tiangong space station Friday, state-run media reported, the latest step in Beijing’s space programme that aims to send astronauts to the Moon by 2030. The crew took off in a capsule atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China’s northwest at 8:59 pm local time !1259 GMT) Thursday. By early Friday the spacecraft had “successfully […]
By Faith Brown and Allison Jackson MANILA, April 26, 2024 (AFP) – The first jeepneys rolled onto the streets of the Philippines just after World War II — noisy, smoke-belching vehicles initially made from leftover US Jeeps that became a national symbol. Seven decades later, the colourfully decorated vehicles face an existential threat from a plan to replace them with modern mini-buses. Easy to fix and cheap to ride, the vehicles grew in size and […]
By Harumi OZAWA KYOTO, Japan, April 26, 2024 (AFP) – Diagnosed with autism, Shoko Sakuma says she struggled working in accounting but now she is putting her childhood love of drawing to work in a special Japanese animation studio. The groundbreaking initiative aims to provide job training and confidence to people with autism who can find it hard to cope in Japan’s often high-stress and long-hours work environment. “I was really bad at numbers, which […]
By Lucie PEYTERMANN The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo is accusing Apple of using “illegally exploited” minerals extracted from the country’s embattled east in its products, lawyers representing the African country said Thursday. The DRC’s lawyers have sent Apple a formal notice seen by AFP, effectively warning the tech giant that it could face legal action if the alleged practice continues. The Paris-based lawyers accused Apple of purchasing minerals smuggled from the DRC […]
