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By Yussel GONZALEZ MEXICO CITY, May 23, 2024 (AFP) – An election rally in northern Mexico descended into tragedy after a gust of wind sent the stage careening into the crowd on Wednesday night, killing at least nine people, including a child, authorities said. At least 50 other people were injured in the accident, some seriously, according to Nuevo Leon Governor Samuel Garcia. Footage of the incident showed a chaotic scramble as people screamed and […]
WASHINGTON, May 23, 2024 (AFP) – A tornado that ripped through the midwestern US state of Iowa killed five people and left dozens injured, officials said, with homes smashed to pieces and cars thrown through the air. Residents surveyed the wreckage of flattened buildings and uprooted trees after the storm left a path of destruction across the town of Greenfield on Tuesday. “Four fatalities and at least 35 injuries were the result of the tornado […]
LAHORE, Pakistan, May 23, 2024 (AFP) – Half of Pakistan’s pupils will be shut out of schools for a week as the nation takes crisis measures to lessen the effect of a series of heatwaves, officials said Thursday. Some 26 million students will be out of lessons from Saturday in Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, which has ordered schools to close for the summer break one week early because of the soaring temperatures. The early […]
BEIRUT, May 23, 2024 (AFP) – A third of Lebanese people are impoverished with poverty rates tripling in a decade, the World Bank said Thursday, as the country grapples with years of economic meltdown and war in the south. One in every three Lebanese “was poverty-stricken in 2022,” the World Bank said in a report covering about 60 percent of the country’s population. The institution could not access data from the eastern Hermel region or […]
SHANGHAI, May 23, 2024 (AFP) – China on Thursday announced two days of war games around self-ruled Taiwan, encircling the island with naval vessels and military aircraft. Here’s what you need to know. – Why has China launched these drills? – Taiwan has been self-governed since 1949, when nationalists fled to the island following their defeat by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in a civil war on the mainland. Beijing considers the democratic island part […]
LONDON, May 22, 2024 (AFP) – UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday set a general election date for July 4, ending months of speculation but not the doom-laden forecasts about the size of the government’s expected defeat. The poll will be the first time Sunak, 44, faces the public while in charge, after he was appointed leader of the largest party in parliament by Conservative MPs in October 2022. The vote — the third […]
By James EDGAR BEIJING, May 23, 2024 (AFP) – China on Thursday launched two days of military drills to surround self-ruled Taiwan in what it said was “strong punishment” for the island’s “separatist acts”. The drills come after Lai Ching-te was sworn in as Taiwan’s new president this week and made an inauguration speech that China denounced as a “confession of independence”. Communist China claims Taiwan as part of its territory and has vowed to […]
(Eagle News)–The easterlies are affecting the Philippines. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said as a result, Metro Manila will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers and thunderstorms. Flashfloods or landslides during severe thunderstorms are possible. The rest of the country, PAGASA said, will experience the same conditions. The entire country will have light to moderate winds and slight to moderate coastal waters.
(Eagle News)–A 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Davao Occidental early Thursday, May 23. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake hit at 1:20 a.m. The epicenter was 146 kilometers southeast of Balut Island. The depth of focus was 49 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
(Eagle News)–Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa on Wednesday, May 22, urged the public to continue observing minimum health precautions including cough etiquette, avoiding overcrowded places and observing proper ventilation. The Health official made the statement amid what the Philippines’ Department of Health observed was a slight increase in COVID-19 cases in the country, and the reported rise in cases in nearby Singapore in the last two weeks as a result of Covid-19 sub-variants collectively known as […]
(Eagle News)–President Bongbong Marcos has approved the move to start reverting to the old school calendar. The Presidential Communications Office said on Wednesday, May 22, that the opening of classes for school year 2024-2025 will be on July 29. It will end on April 15 next year. According to the PCO, the move to revert to the school calendar was based on consultations with teachers, other school officials, and parents, according to information from Education […]
By Anna PELEGRI PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, May 22, 2024 (AFP) – The floods devastating southern Brazil have been exacerbated by deforestation, much of it driven by soybean farming, according to experts, who urge the country to restore its forests and their vast water-retaining root systems. The key agricultural state of Rio Grande do Sul has been hit by an unprecedented climate disaster for the past three weeks, with cities and rural areas alike inundated by […]
