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NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — India’s parliament began voting Monday for a new president, with a female politician from the country’s marginalised tribal community the favourite for the post. Droupadi Murmu, from the Santhal tribe, has been nominated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party for the largely ceremonial position. If elected, she would be India’s first tribal president and second female president. The incumbent, Ram Nath Kovind, is the country’s second […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Four people were killed Sunday after two small planes collided in midair at an airport in Las Vegas, officials and local media reports said. A single-engine Piper PA-46 plane was preparing to land at North Las Vegas Airport in the US state of Nevada around noon local time, when it collided with a single-engine Cessna 172, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement to AFP. “The Piper crashed… in […]
(Eagle News) — Incoming Energy Secretary Raphael “Popo” Lotilla has tested positive for COVID-19. According to the Department of Energy, Lotilla informed the agency that he tested positive for the virus on Saturday. The DOE said, so far, Lotilla is undergoing medication at home and self-isolation. “He has informed the Palace of his medical condition and will continue to provide updates,” the DOE said. According to the department, the DOE “has been providing updates to […]
Metro Manila with 9,713 new COVID-19 cases in last 14 days (Eagle News) — The Philippines logged over 2,000 more COVID-19 cases on Sunday, July 17. According to the Department of Health, the additional 2560 cases pushed the total COVID-19 cases to 3733101. Of these, 19873 were active. Of the regions, Metro Manila logged the highest number of new COVID-19 cases in the last 14 days, with 9713. It was followed by Calabarzon with 5420, […]
by Tony Gamal-Gabriel Agence France-Presse BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Iraq’s oil wealth is rekindling tensions between federal authorities and the autonomous Kurdish region, in a row that could compromise the lifeline industry and keep investors away, analysts say. The long-simmering dispute came to a head in February — at a time of political deadlock in Baghdad — when the federal supreme court ordered Kurdistan to hand over oil extracted from its territories to the federal […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — Inflation in New Zealand rose to a 32-year high of 7.3 percent on-year in the second quarter, according to official figures released Monday. The main drivers were rising fuel, food and housing costs, said Stats NZ, putting inflation at a level last seen in 1990. “Supply chain issues, labor costs, and higher demand have continued to push up the cost of building a new house,” said Jason Attewell of Stats […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese regulators have promised to repay more victims of one of the country’s biggest-ever banking scandals, after hundreds of thousands of customers were left without access to funds, triggering rare mass protests. China’s rural banking sector has been hit hard by Beijing’s efforts to rein in a property bubble and spiralling debt, in a financial crackdown that rattled the world’s second-largest economy. Four banks in Henan province froze cash withdrawals in […]
by Karim Abou Merhi with AFP bureaus Agence France-Presse TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — With the war in Ukraine still raging, Russian President Vladimir Putin travels Tuesday to Tehran for talks with his Iranian and Turkish counterparts on the Syria conflict. Russia, Turkey and Iran have in recent years met to discuss Syria as part of the so-called “Astana peace process” to end more than 11 years of conflict in the Arab country. All three are […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — France was bracing Monday for the peak of the heatwave gripping the country, with crushing temperatures expected from the Mediterranean as far up as Brittany in the northwest. Forecasters have put 15 departments across the country on the highest state of alert for extreme temperatures, including Gironde in the southwest where forest fires have already wrought havoc. In the Landes forest, in the southwest Aquitaine region, temperatures “will be above 42 […]
(Eagle News) — The southwest monsoon is affecting the entire country. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, MIMAROPA, Visayas, Caraga, Northern Mindanao, Zamboanga Peninsula, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi, as a result, will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides due to moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, meanwhile, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies […]
(Eagle News) — Twenty-two volcanic earthquakes were monitored in Kanlaon in the last 24 hours. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, also monitored were 151 tons/day of sulfur dioxide flux. A cloud covering the volcano was also detected. PHIVOLCS reminded the public about the ban on the entry into the 4-kilometer radius permanent danger zone. PHIVOLCS also advised against flying close to the volcano, with sudden steam-driven and phreatic eruptions possible. The […]
(Eagle News)–One person was hurt in an encounter with police who were out to serve a search warrant on his home in Zamboanga City, the Philippine National Police said. The PNP said one Jainal Assan sustained gunshot wounds on his left thigh and arm following police retaliation after he fired his gun at them instead of letting them search his house in Lamisahan on Friday. “When the suspect acted violently, our personnel had to defend […]
