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PBBM signs Kabalikat sa Pagtuturo Act

  (Eagle News)–President Bongbong Marcos has signed the Kabalikat sa Pagtuturo Act increasing the annual teaching allowance for public school teachers. Under the law, the teaching allowance will increase from P5,000 to P10,000 beginning  school year 2025-2026. According to the Presidential Communications Office, public school teachers have historically received allowances for their actual teaching expenses throughout, starting at P100 in 1988 and pegged at P5,000 in 2021. “Indeed, this new law institutionalizes the provision of an […]

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High likelihood’ of more landslides at Papua New Guinea disaster site: govt report

PORT MORESBY, June 4, 2024 (AFP) – Papua New Guinea authorities have warned there is a high risk of more landslides at the site of a recent deadly disaster, with government experts demanding the area be evacuated and declared a “no-go-zone”. A draft internal report by Papua New Guinea’s mining and geohazards department, obtained by AFP on Tuesday, warns that the highland community where hundreds are feared to have died on May 24 needs to […]

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Israel confirms more hostages dead as doubts grow over Gaza truce plan

RAFAH, Palestinian Territories, June 3, 2024 (AFP) – Israel on Monday announced the deaths of four captives held in Gaza amid growing doubts and international pressure over a plan for a ceasefire and hostage release deal outlined by US President Joe Biden. Biden on Friday presented what he labelled an Israeli three-phase plan that would end the bloody conflict, free all hostages and lead to the reconstruction of the devastated Palestinian territory without Hamas in […]

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Trump joins TikTok, which he once tried to ban

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Former US president and current White House hopeful Donald Trump has joined TikTok, posting his first video on the wildly popular social media app he once tried to ban while in office. Reaching out to younger voters as he seeks reelection in November, Trump posted a 13-second clip Saturday night that shows him in his usual blue suit and red tie attending an Ultimate Fighting Championship bout in Newark, New Jersey. In […]

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12 dead in South African flooding

  JOHANNESBURG, June 3, 2024 (AFP) – Twelve people have died in flooding caused by torrential rain on South Africa’s eastern coast, local authorities said on Monday. In Eastern Cape province, “the death toll is currently sitting at seven,” a spokesperson from Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, at the heart of the floods, told AFP. More than 2,000 people have been evacuated from Nelson Mandela Bay, notably from makeshift homes in the municipality’s slums. Local authorities […]

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Stricken Djokovic stages French Open escape act, Medvedev out

By Jed Court PARIS, June 3, 2024 (AFP) – An injured Novak Djokovic sealed a 15th consecutive French Open quarter-final with a thrilling comeback victory over Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo in the fourth round on Monday, while Daniil Medvedev became the highest seed to crash out at Roland Garros so far. In the women’s draw, both Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina comfortably powered into the last eight. A limping Djokovic looked to be heading for a […]

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TikTok fails ‘disinformation test’ before EU vote, study shows

By Joseph Boyle with Anuj Chopra in Washington PARIS, June 4, 2024 (AFP) – Wildly popular social network TikTok approved adverts containing political disinformation ahead of European polls, a report showed Tuesday, flouting its own guidelines and raising questions about its ability to detect election falsehoods. International campaign group Global Witness created 16 ads targeting Irish audiences with false information about this week’s EU elections and tried to get them approved by three platforms — […]

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Biden’s son Hunter stands trial on gun charge

By Ryan Collerd WILMINGTON, United States, June 3, 2024 (AFP) – Hunter Biden, the long-troubled son of Joe Biden, went on trial Monday on gun charges in a historic first prosecution of a sitting president’s child — and potential threat to his father’s reelection. The only surviving son of President Biden, Hunter Biden is charged with lying about his illegal drug use when buying a handgun in 2018, a felony. The 54-year-old arrived in court […]

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Russia ramps up disinfo ahead of Paris Games: Microsoft

WASHINGTON, June 3, 2024 (AFP) – Russia is waging an intense disinformation campaign aimed at tarnishing the reputation of the International Olympic Committee and stoking fears of violence at this summer’s Paris Games, according to a new report from Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center. According to Microsoft, the influence operations utilize a potent mix of fake videos, fictitious news stories, and AI-generated impersonations, including the faked voice of Hollywood star Tom Cruise. “Russia is ramping up […]

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China lunar probe takes off from Moon carrying samples

BEIJING, June 4, 2024 (AFP) – A module of a Chinese lunar probe successfully took off from the far side of the Moon on Tuesday carrying samples to be taken back to Earth, state media reported. The achievement is a world first, and the latest leap for Beijing’s decades-old space programme, which aims to send a crewed mission to the Moon by 2030. The ascender module of the Chang’e-6 probe “lifted off from lunar surface”, […]

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Tiananmen crackdown ‘will not disappear in the torrent of history’: Taiwan president

TAIPEI, June 4, 2024 (AFP) – Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te said on Tuesday that the memory of Beijing’s deadly crackdown at Tiananmen Square “will not disappear in the torrent of history” in a post marking the event’s 35th anniversary. Discussion of the crackdown at Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 is highly sensitive for China’s communist leadership, and any mention of it is strictly censored on the mainland. But self-ruled Taiwan commemorates the date with […]

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Japan’s emperor and empress to pay three-day state visit to UK

LONDON, June 4, 2024 (AFP) – Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit Britain at the end of June, spending three days as guests of King Charles III, Buckingham Palace confirmed on Tuesday. The royal couple is due to arrive on June 22, but will spend the first three days in private engagements before beginning the official state visit, which will run from June 25 to 27. Naruhito, 64, will meet Charles and his […]

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