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(Eagle News)–A 3.9-magnitude earthquake struck Dinagat Islands on Saturday, July 23. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake struck at 10:34 a.m. The epicenter was 5 kilometers northwest of Loreto. The depth of focus was 98 kilometers. PHIVOLCS said the earthquake was tectonic in nature. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
(Eagle News)–A husband and wife from Negros Oriental were arrested in a buy-bust operation on Wednesday, the Philippine National Police said. According to the PNP, also seized from Jomy Dela Cruz Consular, 42, and Leosella Cuenca Consular, were more or less 170 grams of shabu worth P1,156,000, one tricycle, drug paraphernalia, among others. The operation took place at 3:30 pm in Barangay Camugao, Negros Occidental. No additional details were provided on the operation. “Our continuing […]
Istanbul, Turkey | AFP by Dmitry ZAKS with Frankie TAGGART in Kyiv Ukraine and Russia on Friday ended months of fraught negotiations and signed a landmark deal with Turkey and the United Nations aimed at relieving a global food crisis caused by blocked Black Sea grain deliveries. The first major deal between the warring parties since Russia’s February invasion should help ease the “acute hunger” that the UN estimates say now faces an additional 47 […]
New York, United States | AFP Wheat prices tumbled Friday, retreating to levels last seen prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine following a landmark agreement to unblock Ukraine’s Black Sea grain exports. In Chicago, the price of wheat for delivery in September dropped 5.9 percent to $7.59 per bushel, which is equivalent to about 27 kilograms and the lowest close since Russia invaded its neighbor on February 24. On Euronext, wheat prices for delivery […]
(Eagle News)–The easterlies are affecting the eastern section of the country. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, Metro Manila will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms as a result. The rest of the country will have the same conditions. Flashfloods or landslides during severe thunderstorms are possible. The whole country, PAGASA said, will have light to moderate winds and slight to moderate coastal waters.
Washington, United States | AFP Is it tumbleweed? A piece of fishing line? Spaghetti? A tangled object discovered by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has intrigued space watchers, leaving some musing tongue-in-cheek about the quality of Italian dining on the Red Planet. But the most plausible explanation is more prosaic: it’s likely remnants of a component used to lower the robotic explorer to the Martian surface in February 2021. “We have been discussing where it’s from, […]
The Hague, Netherlands | AFP by Danny KEMP The UN’s highest court ruled on Friday that a landmark case accusing military-ruled Myanmar of genocide against minority Rohingya Muslims can go ahead. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague threw out all of Myanmar’s objections to a case filed by the west African nation of The Gambia in 2019. The decision paves the way for full hearings at the court on allegations over […]
Copenhagen, Denmark | AFP The World Health Organization’s European office on Friday said the heatwave baking Europe has caused over 1,700 deaths on the Iberian peninsula alone, calling for joint action to tackle climate change. “Heat kills. Over the past decades, hundreds of thousands of people have died as a result of extreme heat during extended heatwaves, often with simultaneous wildfires,” WHO regional director for Europe Hans Kluge said in a statement. “This year, we […]
Istanbul, Turkey | AFP Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said Friday that conditions were in place to unlock grain exports from Ukraine in the “next few days” and promised Moscow would not take advantage of de-mined Ukrainian ports. “Today we have all the prerequisites and all the solutions for this process to begin in the next few days,” Shoigu said, after signing a landmark deal with the United Nations and Turkey on resuming grain shipments. […]
Washington, United States | AFP Ninety-five percent of monkeypox cases have been transmitted through sexual activity, according to the largest study to date, which also noted new clinical signs such as single genital lesions. The research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday, came as World Health Organization experts debated whether to classify the outbreak as a global health emergency, the highest alarm it can sound. Led by scientists at Queen Mary […]
Washington, United States | AFP Donald Trump lashed out overnight at the panel investigating the US Capitol riot, calling it a “kangaroo court,” trashing its vice chair Liz Cheney as a “sanctimonious loser” and reiterating his lie about the 2020 election being stolen. Hours after lawmakers wound up a forensic condemnation of his inaction during the January 6, 2021 insurrection, his social media posts confirmed he was closely following the hearing on how he […]
Beijing, China | AFP Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a sympathy message to his United States counterpart Joe Biden on Friday, state broadcaster CCTV reported, a day after the 79-year-old US leader tested positive for Covid-19. Biden on Thursday insisted he was “doing great”, and said he would continue to work while isolating at the White House with mild symptoms. “I would like to express my deep sympathies to you and wish you a speedy […]
