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Fires triple in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands in 2020

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — The number of forest fires in the Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetlands, has nearly…

Magnitude 5.2 quake rocks Davao del Sur; PHIVOLCS expecting aftershocks

  (Eagle News) – A magnitude 5.2 quake rocked Davao del Sur early dawn of Saturday, July 11, which was…

Cebu City remains under ECQ as Metro Manila, other areas currently under GCQ, remains in GCQ

https://youtu.be/L81DnqXvYU8   (Eagle News) – Cebu City remains under Enhanced Community Quarantine after July 15, while Metro Manila, Cavite, Rizal,…

Mandatory work-from-home arrangement proposed

(Eagle News)--Senator Imee Marcos has filed a bill that aims to make the work-from-home arrangement  mandatory. In pushing for Senate…

Dismissed police officer, two others killed in shootout with policemen in Quezon

(Eagle News) -- A dismissed police officer and two others were killed in a shootout with policemen  in Quezon on…

Netherlands records no virus deaths, first time since March

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) -- Dutch health authorities Monday reported no new deaths overnight resulting from the coronavirus pandemic for…

Pakistan’s Akram warns saliva ban will make bowlers ‘robots’

Legendary Pakistan paceman Wasim Akram warned Wednesday that bowlers would become "robots" after cricket officials temporarily banned shining the ball…

More than two million facing hunger in Burkina Faso: government

  OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AFP) -- More than a tenth of the population in Burkina Faso, a drought-stricken West African…

Floods and tears in Bangladesh a week after cyclone

by Sam Jahan and Kazi Santo Agence France-Presse KHULNA, Bangladesh (AFP) — Rezaul Islam wades through waist-high water, a sack of…

Cancer patients twice as likely to die from COVID-19: study

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- People with cancer are more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than those…

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