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Manila, Philippines | AFP | Emergency workers scrambled to rescue residents trapped by floods in and around the Philippine capital on Sunday as Tropical Storm Nalgae swept out of the country after killing at least 48 people. Several neighbourhoods in towns and cities just outside Manila remained under water after the storm raked across the main island of Luzon overnight, cutting power supplies and inflicting damage. The death toll from the storm rose to 48, the […]
MANILA, Oct 29, 2022 (AFP) The Philippines sharply revised the death toll from a tropical storm ravaging the country downward on Saturday, saying only 45 people had been killed — correcting the earlier reported toll of 72. Civil defence officials acknowledged rescue teams sent to the country’s flood-swamped south on Friday had erred in their reporting, leading to some deaths being tallied twice. “When we consolidated the reports at 6:00 am today we realised there […]
Manila, Philippines (AFP) Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae slammed into the Philippines on Saturday, after unleashing flash floods and landslides that left at least 72 people dead, officials said. Nalgae pounded the archipelago nation’s main island of Luzon with maximum winds of 95 kilometres (59 miles) an hour after making landfall on the sparsely populated Catanduanes island before dawn. Heavy rains triggered by the approaching storm began Thursday in the southern Philippines, the state weather service […]
Cotabato, Philippines | AFP | Landslides and flooding in the southern Philippines killed at least 67 people on Friday, according to an official tally, with rescuers racing to save residents of a mountain village that was buried in mud. The village of Kusiong accounted for many of the 50 deaths in the area around Datu Odin Sinsuat town, after heavy overnight rain unleashed floods mixed with mud, rocks and fallen trees that buried the […]
Cotabato, Philippines | AFP | Landslides and flooding killed at least 31 people as heavy rain from an approaching storm lashed the southern Philippines, a disaster official said Friday. The storm unleashed flash floods carrying uprooted trees, rocks and mud overnight in nine mostly rural towns around Cotabato, a city of 300,000 people on Mindanao island. Many residents were caught by surprise as floodwaters rose rapidly before dawn, Naguib Sinarimbo, the spokesman and civil defence […]
Cotabato, Philippines | AFP | Landslides and flooding killed 13 people as heavy rain from an approaching storm lashed the southern Philippines, with some residents stranded on rooftops, a disaster official said Friday. Torrents of rainwater unleashed flash floods laden with uprooted trees, rocks and mud overnight in mainly rural communities around waterlogged Cotabato, a city of 300,000 people. Seven people were missing, Naguib Sinarimbo, the spokesman and civil defence chief for the regional government, […]
Jakarta, Indonesia | AFP | by Marchio GORBIANO Southeast Asian foreign ministers said they were “even more determined” to solve the political crisis in Myanmar during talks in Indonesia on Thursday ahead of the ASEAN leaders’ summit in November. Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military coup in February last year, but despite its expressions of concern, efforts by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have yet to bear any fruit. But “ASEAN […]
Bangkok, Thailand | AFP | A Thai plastic surgeon on Thursday described drinking pond water to survive during three weeks of captivity at the hands of gun-toting kidnappers in Mali. Nopparat Rattanawaraha, who also runs a popular YouTube channel where he posts travel clips, returned to Thailand after being released on payment of a reported $150,000 ransom. The 49-year-old was back at work just a day after flying back to the kingdom, and recounted the […]
#TsunamiPH ADVISORY: NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO THE PHILIPPINES Tsunami Information No.1 Date and Time: 25 Oct 2022 – 10:59 PM Magnitude = 6.7 Depth = 028 kilometers Location = 17.76°N, 120.76°E – 007 km N 58° W of Tineg (Abra)https://t.co/JM9lJkGxv1 pic.twitter.com/9r8OrU9oGA — PHIVOLCS-DOST (@phivolcs_dost) October 25, 2022 NO TSUNAMI THREAT to Hawaii is expected from an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 occurring at 4:59 am HST Tuesday near Luzon, Philippines. pic.twitter.com/ej32qr95zw — Hawaii […]
NO TSUNAMI THREAT to Hawaii is expected from an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 occurring at 4:59 am HST Tuesday near Luzon, Philippines. pic.twitter.com/ej32qr95zw — Hawaii EMA (@Hawaii_EMA) October 25, 2022 There was a 6.8 magnitude earthquake in the Philippines about 15 minutes ago. No tsunami threat is expected for the Marianas, please keep the people of the Philippines in your thoughts/prayers though. pic.twitter.com/47JUpErs1L — NWS Guam 🇬🇺 (@NWSGuam) October 25, 2022 […]
Yangon, Myanmar | AFP | Myanmar ethnic rebels attacked a key town near the Thai border on Friday, residents and local media said, with the military junta calling in air strikes. The Karen National Union (KNU) has been a vocal opponent of the coup which brought the generals to power last year, and has provided shelter to dissidents working to oust the junta. Its fighters have clashed sporadically with the military along the Thai border, sending […]
Manila, Philippines | AFP | The Philippines will acquire heavy-lift military helicopters from the United States, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said Thursday, after scrapping a deal to buy similar aircraft from Russia. The government of his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte had signed a deal worth $216 million for 16 Mi-17 helicopters, but backed out in the months following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of wide-ranging sanctions on Moscow. Earlier Thursday, local media had […]
