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13 police officials get new posts in PNP minor reshuffle

(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police has implemented a minor reshuffle, with 13 police officials assigned to new posts. Formally installed to the new positions by PNP Officer-in-Charge, Police Lieutenant General Vicente D. Danao Jr. were the following: PBGEN Emmanuel B Peralta, Acting Director for Information and Communication Technology Management (DICTM); PBGEN Jon A Arnaldo, Acting Director of National Police Training Institute (NPTI); PBGEN Lawrence B Coop, Chief of Supervisory Office for Security and […]

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Japanese man given $360,000 of Covid aid by mistake arrested

  A Japanese man given $360,000 in Covid-19 aid by mistake has been arrested after saying he gambled away the money online, police said Thursday. Local authorities have become increasingly desperate to get their money back from the 24-year-old, who has said he will return the cash “even if it’s going to be bit by bit”. The blunder by authorities in the remote town of Abu and the man’s failure to pay them back has […]

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Canada reports dozen suspected cases of rare monkeypox virus

  Health authorities in Canada’s Quebec province are investigating more than a dozen suspected cases of monkeypox, a rare but potentially serious virus, public broadcaster CBC reported Wednesday. The United States on Wednesday also confirmed a case of monkeypox in a man who had recently traveled to Canada, after European health officials confirmed dozens of cases earlier this week. The illness often starts with flu-like symptoms such as fever, muscle ache and swollen lymph nodes […]

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PAGASA declares start of rainy season

(Eagle News) — The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration has announced the start of the rainy season in the country. PAGASA said the country satisfies the criteria for the same, amid the presence of a frontal system, the occurrence of severe thunderstorms that have brought widespread rains in parts of the country, and the southwesterly windflow also observed during the past few days. With the start of the season, PAGASA said intermittent rains […]

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UN chief warns of famine, urges Russia to free Ukrainian grain

UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday of years of mass hunger and famine if a growing global food crisis goes unchecked as he urged Russia to release Ukrainian grain. Speaking at a major United Nations summit in New York, Guterres said the war in Ukraine was compounding global food insecurity already worsened by warming temperatures and the coronavirus pandemic. Guterres said that in just two years, the number of severely food insecure people has doubled […]

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Johnny Depp grabbed Amber Heard by hair, hit her repeatedly: sister

Washington, UNITED STATES (AFP) — Johnny Depp grabbed his then-wife Amber Heard by the hair and repeatedly struck her in the face during a heated argument about a month after their marriage, her sister said Wednesday. Heard also punched Depp during the March 2015 fight at their Los Angeles penthouse, Whitney Henriquez testified at the high-profile defamation case between the celebrity couple. Henriquez, Heard’s 34-year-old younger sister, said the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star sought […]

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NBA fines Mavs again for rowdy bench behavior

The NBA cracked down on the rowdy behavior of the Dallas bench on Wednesday, fining the Mavs’ $50,000 for violating “team bench decorum” rules in their series-clinching victory over the Phoenix Suns. It’s the second such fine levied against the Mavs in two weeks, and doubled the $25,000 penalty meted out on May 6. NBA president of league operations Byron Spruell said the  amount of the fine reflected the team’s “prior infractions” during the playoffs. […]

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US ‘confident’ in Nordic NATO bids, Ukraine holds war crimes trial

  by Charlotte PLANTIVE, with Dmitry ZAKS in Sydorove and Sebastian SMITH in Washington © Agence France-Presse Kyiv, UKRAINE (AFP) — The United States said Wednesday it is confident Finland and Sweden will become part of NATO, despite vocal Turkish protests — an expansion that would dramatically realign European security in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Reflecting the brutality of the conflict which has reinvigorated the transatlantic alliance, Ukraine held its first war […]

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Foreign-born US workers reach pre-pandemic level: Census

  The number of foreign-born workers in the United States neared pre-pandemic levels last year, reaching 17.4 percent, according to government data released Wednesday. The foreign-born labor force increased by 671,000 compared to 2020, rising to 27.9 million, the Labor Department said. However, it remains below the pre-pandemic level of 28.4 million. The unemployment rate for that group fell to 5.6 percent in 2021 from 9.2 percent the prior year. The size of the native-born […]

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Spain, Portugal detect suspected monkeypox cases

Spain and Portugal have detected around 30 suspected cases of monkeypox, officials said Wednesday after British authorities found several cases of the viral infection which is rare in Europe. Health officials have noted some of the UK infections may be through sexual contact — in this instance among gay or bisexual men — which would be a new development in understanding transmission of the virus. The World Health Organization said Tuesday it was coordinating with […]

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UK inflation jumps to 40-year peak

  by Roland JACKSON Agence France Presse Britain’s annual inflation rate surged to a 40-year high last month on rocketing energy costs, official data showed Wednesday, sparking opposition calls for the government to announce an emergency budget to combat a cost-of-living crisis. Consumer prices index inflation hit 9.0 percent in April from 7.0 percent in March, the Office for National Statistics said in a statement. The ONS estimated that April was the highest level since […]

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