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KREMENCHUK, Ukraine, June 28, 2022 (AFP) by Benoit FINCK / with Deborah COLE in Elmau Castle Russia vowed on Tuesday its assault on Ukraine would continue until Kyiv surrenders, as world leaders warned that Moscow would pay for its aggression. The G7 group of the world’s most powerful democracies met in Germany to send a message that they remain united behind Ukraine’s embattled government. And, ahead of a key meeting of the NATO allies, US […]
WASHINGTON, June 28, 2022 (AFP) – Washington announced steps Tuesday to implement the new sanctions on Russia as agreed by G7 leaders, targeting Moscow’s defense industry, raising tariffs and banning gold imports from the country. The latest moves “strike at the heart of Russia’s ability to develop and deploy weapons and technology used for Vladimir Putin’s brutal war of aggression against Ukraine,” the US Treasury Department said in a statement. The sanctions target Rostec, Russia’s […]
MUMBAI, June 28, 2022 (AFP) At least 19 people were killed when monsoon rains caused a four-storey building to collapse in the Indian megacity of Mumbai, authorities said Tuesday. The structure — located next to a slum in a central city district — collapsed just before midnight on Monday, according to local officials. Fourteen people had been rescued by Tuesday evening but emergency workers retrieved 19 bodies from the rubble. “Search and rescue operations are […]
ELMAU CASTLE, Germany (AFP) — G7 industrialised nations on Tuesday urged countries and companies with large food stockpiles to help ease a hunger crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “We call on those partners with large food stockpiles, as well as on the private sector, to make food available without distorting the market,” the Group of Seven leaders said in a statement after a summit in Germany. They called “on all countries to […]
(Eagle News)– The Philippine National Police will set up security control points on roads leading to the National Museum, the venue of the inauguration of President-elect Bongbong Marcos. According to the PNP, all vehicles approaching the immediate museum vicinity will be subject to a thorough inspection. PNP Officer-in-Charge Police Lt. Gen. Vicente D Danao Jr. said only persons on the guest list with confirmed attendance will be allowed access to the premises. Guests including the […]
(Eagle News) – The Supreme Court dismissed the various petitions questioning the presidential candidacy of President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., on Tuesday, June 28, saying he was qualified to run for public office. The decision was issued two days before Marcos Jr’s inauguration as the 17th Philippine president on June 30. The high court also affirmed the previous resolutions issued by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) that had also dismissed for lack of merit […]
by David COURBET Agence France Presse A German court on Tuesday handed a five-year jail sentence to a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, the oldest person so far to go on trial for complicity in war crimes during the Holocaust. Josef Schuetz was found guilty of being an accessory to murder while working as a prison guard at the Sachsenhausen camp in Oranienburg, north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945, presiding judge Udo […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Most Asian markets reversed early losses Tuesday and oil continued its recent rally after China slashed the quarantine time for visitors, fuelling hope for a boost to the embattled economy. The news came as Beijing and Shanghai appeared to have contained a Covid outbreak that had forced officials to impose lockdowns that had compounded global supply chain snarls. Authorities said inbound travellers would now only have to quarantine for […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China on Tuesday (June 28) reduced the length of mandatory quarantine for inbound travellers, in the biggest relaxation of entry restrictions after sticking to a rigid zero Covid policy throughout the pandemic. The new guideline cuts the length of mandatory quarantine for overseas travellers to seven days plus three more of home monitoring — a drastic drop from about 21 days of quarantine and home monitoring combined. China closed off […]
Vaccination required for on-site workers in areas with sufficient Covid vaccines, says IATF (Eagle News) — All on-site workers in establishments located in areas where there are sufficient COVID-19 vaccine supplies need to be vaccinated, according to the updated testing requirements for COVID-19 of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF). “In areas where there are sufficient supplies of COVID-19 vaccines, all establishments and employers in the public and private sector shall require their eligible employees who […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines logged 50 more cases of the highly-transmissible Omicron BA.5 subvariant, bringing the total cases in the country to 93. According to Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire, the Philippines also recorded 11 new BA.2.12.1 subvariant cases, pushing the total to 43. and two more BA.4 subvariant cases, bringing the total to four. BA.5 Of the 50 new BA.5 cases, 38 were from Western Visayas, five from Metro Manila, and seven were […]
(Eagle News) — A rainfall advisory has been raised over parts of Luzon and Visayas. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, light to moderate to at times heavy rains are affecting Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Catanduanes, Albay, Masbate, Sorsogon, Northern Samar, Oriental Mindoro, Marinduque and Romblon. Moderate to occasionally heavy rains, meanwhile, are also being experienced over portions of Aurora (Baler, Casiguran, Dilasag, Dipaculao, Maria Aurora and San Luis), Isabela (Cordon, […]
