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SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) – Covid-19 vaccine maker Moderna announced Monday that it will open an mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in the Australian city of Melbourne, a first for the southern hemisphere. The project will be based at one of Australia’s largest universities, Monash, and will produce 100 million vaccine doses a year for Covid-19, influenza and other diseases. Moderna’s Spikevax was one of a new class of inoculations developed during the coronavirus pandemic that uses […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said Monday he will offer a wide-ranging aid package to the North in return for denuclearization, a deal long seen as a non-starter for Pyongyang. The proposal comes days after the North threatened to “wipe out” Seoul authorities over a recent Covid-19 outbreak and less than a month after leader Kim Jong Un said his country was “ready to mobilize” its nuclear capability in any […]
by Catherine LAI Agence France Presse United States lawmakers were set to meet Taiwan’s president on Monday days after China reacted to a similar visit by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with huge military drills that raised fears of conflict. The unannounced two-day trip came after Beijing sent warships, missiles and jets into the waters and skies around Taiwan, a self-ruled democracy that China’s leaders claim and have vowed to one day seize. The five-member […]
(Eagle News) — The southwest monsoon is affecting the western sections of Southern Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, as a result, Metro Manila, Visayas, Bicol Region, MIMAROPA, CALABARZON, Bataan, and Zambales will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides due to moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. The rest of the country, meanwhile, will have partly cloudy to […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines logged over 4,000 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, Aug. 14. According to the Department of Health, with the 4182 new cases, the COVID-19 tally rose to 3831941. Of these, 40016 were active. Of the regions, Metro Manila logged the highest number of new COVID-19 cases in the last 14 days, with 15767. Calabarzon followed suit with 10014, followed by Central Luzon with 5265, Western Visayas with 2821, and Cagayan Valley […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Blackburn Rovers extended their perfect start to the English Championship season with a 2-1 win at home to West Bromwich Albion on Sunday. Rovers only had two shots on target in the whole of the 90 minutes at Ewood Park but made them count. Ben Brereton Diaz fired them in front just before half-time ahead of setting up Sam Gallagher, who doubled their lead just two minutes after the restart. […]
HOUSTON, United States (AFP) – Rick LaBrode has worked at NASA for 37 years, but he says the American quest to return to the Moon is by far the crowning moment of his career. LaBrode is the lead flight director for Artemis 1, set to take off later this month — the first time a capsule that can carry humans will be sent to the Moon since the last Apollo mission in 1972. “This is […]
LAPPEENRANTA, Finland (AFP) — A crowd of people gathers in the Eastern Finnish city of Imatra on a bridge overlooking Imatrankoski rapids, one of the Nordic country’s most well-known natural attractions. At the same time every day, the river’s almost century-old dam is opened and water rushes under the bridge, to the sound of music by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. It is a popular attraction especially for Russian tourists. Even Catherine the Great, Empress […]
(Eagle News)–Over P100,000 worth of illegal drugs were seized in an illegal drug den in Davao del Sur on Friday, August 12. Also arrested in the raid were four people the police said were high-value drug targets. The PNP identified them as Felimon Llorando, Romeo Pantonial, Rudy Pedrales and Rolando Hocamis. The police did not give additional details on the operation. It said, however, that it was “part of ongoing efforts to boost (an) offensive […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippines and China will resume talks on major transport projects, the Department of Transportation said. According to the DOTr, Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista and Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian agreed to start the negotiations during a first meeting at the Chinese Embassy in Makati on August 11. In particular, the DOTr said discussed were China-funded railways such as the Philippine National Railways South Long Haul Project, the Subic Clark Railway and the Mindanao Railway. […]
QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) — Three mountaineers died and 12 were injured after they fell while climbing Ecuador’s Carihuairazo volcano, rescue services said Saturday. “A 47-year-old woman and two men aged 45 and 50 died in this emergency,” ECU911 rescue services said in a statement. “Due to weather conditions and nightfall, it was not possible to evacuate the bodies.” The 12 injured, aged between 39 and 58, were transferred to hospitals in the towns of […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippines logged over 4000 more COVID-19 cases on Saturday, Aug. 13. According to the Department of Health, the 4679 additional cases pushed the total cases to 3827758. Of these, 40324 were active. Of the regions, Metro Manila logged the highest number of new COVID-19 cases in the last 14 days, with 15843. It was followed by Calabarzon with 10052, Central Luzon with 5212, Western Visayas with 2873 and Cagayan Valley with 2236. Of […]
