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Directs national flag to be be flown at half-mast in all gov’t buildings nationwide and abroad (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte declared “period of national mourning” for 10 days over the passing of former President Benigno Simeon Aquino III, from June 24, the day of his death until July 3. In his Proclamation No. 1169 which he signed on June 24, President Duterte also directed that the Philippine national flag to “be […]
LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg (Reuters) – EU environment ministers gathered in Luxembourg on Monday (June 19) held a minute of silence for the victims of the forest fire in Portugal that killed at least 62 over the weekend in Pedro Grande, a mountainous area about 200 km (125 miles) northeast of Lisbon. More than 1.000 firefighters on Monday were still battling Portugal’s deadliest forest blaze, while public prosecutors opened an investigation into the causes of the fire.
PEDROGAO GRANDE, Portugal (Reuters) – The full extent of the damage caused by a forest fire that ravaged parts of Portugal was clearly visible on Monday (June 19) as the Spanish airforce released video filmed from a firefighting plane that has been used to dump thousands of litres of water over the area. The video filmed on Sunday (June 18) showed a vast blackened area of fire-damaged terrain. In some areas smoke cover has not […]
LISBON, Portugal (Reuters) – Portugal’s president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on Sunday (June 18) addressed the nation following a huge forest fire that had raged for two days killing at least 62 people. De Sousa said the country’s pain had “no measure” and called deadly blaze as a tragedy “without precedent in the history of Portugal’s democracy.” Local residents said they had been left to their own devices and had seen no firefighters for hours […]
