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by Hiroshi HIYAMA / Tomohiro OSAKI Agence France Presse A Tokyo court Wednesday ordered former executives from the operator of the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant to pay 13.32 trillion yen ($97 billion) for failing to prevent the disaster, plaintiffs said. Four ex-bosses from the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) were ordered to pay the damages in a suit brought by shareholders over the nuclear disaster triggered by a massive tsunami in 2011. Plaintiffs emerged […]
8251 new COVID-19 cases logged in Metro Manila in last 14 days (Eagle News)–The Philippines logged 1064 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, July 13. With the additional cases, the country’s tally rose to 3723014, according to Department of Health data. The data showed of the total cases, 14862 were active. Of the regions, Metro Manila logged the highest number of new COVID-19 cases in the last 14 days, with 8251. It was followed by Calabarzon […]
(Eagle News) — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is already “free from all symptoms of COVID-19” and could be released from isolation on Friday, July 15, according to Malacanang. Citing the latest health bulletin on President Marcos, Palace Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles on Wednesday, July 13, said that President has been free from all symptoms of Covid-19 for the past two days The President’s lead physician Dr. Samuel Zacate visited Marcos in his residence at […]
(Eagle News) — A 3.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Negros Occidental on Wednesday, July 13. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, the quake hit at 4:12 p.m. The epicenter was 32 kilometers northwest of Sipalay. The following intensities were reported: Reported Intensities: Intensity III – City of Sipalay, Negros Occidental Intensity II – Hinoba-an, Negros Occidental Instrumental Intensity: Intensity III – City of Sipalay, Negros Occidental No damage to property nor aftershocks were […]
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. conducted his second cabinet meeting virtually as he completes his isolation period after testing positive for COVID-19. Among the topics discussed was on food and agriculture, education, tourism, health, and the economy amid the still ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Malacanang said that President Marcos was now free from Covid-19 symptoms but is just completing the mandatory seven-day isolation period. He tested positive for Covid-19 last Friday, July 8, when he […]
“The dawn of a new era in astronomy has begun as the world gets its first look at the full capabilities of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency),” NASA announced on July 12 as the telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data were released. This was during a televised broadcast at 10:30 a.m. EDT (14:30 UTC) on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, from NASA’s Goddard […]
by Issam AHMED Agence France Presse The cosmic cliffs of a stellar nursery and a quintet of galaxies bound in a celestial dance: NASA released the next wave of images from the James Webb Space Telescope Tuesday, heralding a new era of astronomy. “Every image is a new discovery,” said NASA administrator Bill Nelson. “Each will give humanity a view of the universe that we’ve never seen before.” Released one by one starting from 10:30 […]
Hong Kong, China (AFP) Macau on Saturday announced a weeklong shutdown of its casinos and non-essential businesses as the city confronted its worst coronavirus outbreak yet. Macau will enter “static management” for a week starting July 11 and residents must stay home, with rulebreakers liable to be jailed for up to two years, top city official Andre Cheong said at a press conference. Some public services and businesses such as supermarkets and pharmacies can […]
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) — Crisis-hit Sri Lanka declared an indefinite nationwide state of emergency on Wednesday, hours after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country, the prime minister’s office said. “Since the president is out of the country, an emergency has been declared to deal with the situation in the country,” Dinouk Colombage, spokesman for Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, told AFP. Police said they were also imposing an indefinite curfew across the Western Province, which […]
by Benoit Petit, with AFP Bureaus in Europe Agence France Presse BORDEAUX, France (AFP) — France and Britain were set to suffer soaring temperatures on Wednesday, with a heatwave in Western Europe fuelling wildfires across vast stretches of forestland. Since Sunday, large parts of the Iberian Peninsula have seen temperatures surpassing 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in Spain and Portugal, where firefighters have battled wildfires. In southern France since Tuesday afternoon, a wildfire ripped […]
by Claire Lee Agence France-Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The South Korean government on Wednesday slammed the controversial 2019 repatriation of two North Koreans, after releasing photos that appeared to show one of them resisting the handover. Then-president Moon Jae-in’s administration had expelled the men after investigators said the pair murdered 16 crewmates before taking their fishing boat to South Korean waters. The government said at the time that the men — described by […]
by Amal JAYASINGHE Agence France-Presse COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) — Sri Lanka’s embattled president flew out of his country to the Maldives early Wednesday, in a likely prelude to his resignation after months of widespread protests against his island nation’s worst-ever economic crisis. Gotabaya Rajapaksa had promised at the weekend to resign on Wednesday and clear the way for a “peaceful transition of power” after fleeing his official residence in Colombo just before tens […]
