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(Eagle News) – Another oil price hike is set next week where gasoline and diesel prices are set to increase between P3 to P4 per liter. Some oil companies have already issued advisories about the price hike that is scheduled on Tuesday, April 26. Unioil said that their diesel process would increase by P3.90 to P4.10 per liter, while gasoline prices would go up by P3 to 3.20 per liter. This is the second […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Florida governor Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a law that eliminates a statute that has for decades allowed entertainment giant Disney to act as a local government in Orlando, where it has its theme park. The move was the latest episode in a dispute between DeSantis’ Republican administration and Disney, after the company criticized the passage in March of a law banning school lessons on sexual orientation. There was […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration has announced the transfer of its Makati extension office to a mall instead. According to the bureau, starting April 25, the new office will be housed on the fifth floor of the Ayala Circuit Mall. The office is so far housed in a building on J.P. Rizal Avenue. Bureau Commissioner Jaime Morente said the move to a “bigger office” was “a necessary step to provide better service.” “Foreign […]
(Eagle News) — A 4.2-magnitude earthquake struck off Davao Occidental early Saturday, April 23. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, the quake hit at 6:26 a.m. The epicenter was 355 kilometers southeast of Balut Island. The depth of focus was 226 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
Rest of PHL affected by easterlies (Eagle News) — The Intertropical Convergence Zone is affecting Southern Mindanao. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, the easterlies are also affecting the rest of the country. PAGASA said Davao Region and SOCCSKSARGEN will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms as a result. Flash floods or landslides due to moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Metro Manila will have partly […]
Three people were wounded on Friday after a gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon in an upscale neighborhood of the US capital, police said. The Connecticut Avenue-Van Ness neighborhood of Washington was on lockdown after the mid-afternoon shooting and residents were evacuated as police hunted for the gunman. WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 22: Police provide cover as area residents are told to run with their hands up while being evacuated from their homes after a shooting in the […]
Second booster dose for health workers (A1) and the elderly (A2) to follow only after WHO, CDC approval (Eagle News) –- The Philippine government will start next week the rollout of the second booster dose of the vaccines against Covid-19, but only for the immunocompromised. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said that they will initially limit the administration of the second booster dose for the “immunocompromised” individuals, or those who have primary immune deficiencies […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan described four disputed islands as “illegally occupied” by Russia for the first time in nearly two decades on Friday as ties sour between the countries over the war in Ukraine. The two nations have long been engaged in attempts to agree a post-World War II treaty, but the islands held by Moscow and claimed by Tokyo remain a key sticking point. Japan’s foreign ministry last used the expression in […]
by Clara WRIGHT Agence France Presse Nanterre, France (AFP) — French authorities have issued an international arrest warrant for Carlos Ghosn, the disgraced auto tycoon who jumped bail in Japan and fled to Lebanon in a sensational getaway, prosecutors told AFP on Friday. The warrant was issued on Thursday over 15 million euros ($16.3 million) in suspect payments between the Renault-Nissan alliance that Ghosn once headed and an Omani company, Suhail Bahwan Automobiles (SBA), […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Europe endured record extreme weather in 2021, from the hottest day and the warmest summer to deadly wildfires and flooding, the European Union’s climate monitoring service reported Friday. While Earth’s surface was nearly 1.2 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial levels last year, Europe saw an average increase of more than two degrees, a threshold beyond which dangerous extreme weather events become more likely and […]
(Eagle News) — A 4.2-magnitude earthquake struck off Davao Oriental on Friday, April 22. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, the quake, an aftershock of the 5.5-magnitude earthquake on April 20, hit at 12:20 p.m. The epicenter was 140 kilometers southeast of Tarragona. The depth of focus was 75 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
by Chris Lefkow Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — “Pirates of the Caribbean” star Johnny Depp said Wednesday that domestic abuse allegations made against him by his ex-wife Amber Heard had cost him “nothing less than everything” and claimed that she was the one who was frequently violent. Depp, taking the witness stand for a second day of testimony in his defamation case against Heard, said she would regularly insult him and […]
