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KABUL, June 22, 2022 (AFP) – A powerful earthquake struck a remote border region of Afghanistan overnight killing at least 1,000 people and injuring hundreds more, officials said Wednesday, with the toll expected to rise as desperate rescuers dig through collapsed dwellings. The 5.9 magnitude quake struck hardest in the rugged east, where people already lead hardscrabble lives in a country in the grip of a humanitarian disaster made worse by the Taliban takeover in […]
By Monika Todoc Always packaged safely in our nearly oversized luggage was the family’s yearly sense of fleeting closure alongside two weeks’ worth of clothes and toiletries. Every December, we were to haul the gifts all the way to Bicol in the Philippines, where my lolo and lola lived. There, we would often share the celebration of welcoming the New Year. December meant the immediacy of our reunion, and of our parting. “Punta kayo ulit […]
Watch the news and other features in Bukidnon as reported in the Cebuano dialect in this online edition of Agila Pilipinas (Philippine news in the provinces) Some of the news in this episode: – National ID registration in San Fernando, Bukidnon; – Monitoring of checkpoints in Bukidnon; – and price monitoring of vegetable prices in the public markets (Eagle News Service)
(Eagle News)–Batanes has been placed under a state of calamity. The declaration was made after successive earthquakes hit the province over the weekend, leading to at least nine deaths and several injured. President Rodrigo Duterte visited the province on Sunday, July 28, and ordered the construction of a P40-million clinic following the damages wrought on the hospital there. The declaration will facilitate the release of calamity funds for the province’s rehabilitation. Earthquakes struck the province […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — American journalist David Gilkey and his Afghan translator were killed Sunday while traveling with an Afghan army unit that came under fire in southern Helmand province, National Public Radio announced. The translator was identified as Zabihullah Tamanna. Two other journalists traveling with Gilkey, named as reporter Tom Bowman and producer Monika Evstatieva, were unharmed. NPR said the vehicle in which Gilkey, 50, and his translator were traveling was struck by […]
