Updated News in PH
PARIS – France’s government announced Sunday it will repatriate up to hundreds of French citizens from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of a deadly new virus. An ambulance drive in to the Bichat hospital in Paris, Saturday Jan. 25, 2020. France has announced three confirmed cases of the deadly new virus from China, […]
GOING HOME Residents of Lemery town in Batangas province who fled Taal Volcano’s eruption two weeks ago ride back to their homes after the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology lowered the alert level to 3 from 4 on Sunday. —AFP MANILA, Philippines — Volcanologists on Sunday lowered the alert status of restive Taal Volcano […]
Roy Cimatu—MARIANNEBERMUDEZ MANILA, Philippines — The waters of Manila Bay, world-famous for its sunset, have shown signs of improvement a year after the environment department and other government agencies launched a drive to clean up what has been called a “gigantic septic tank.” Officials touted Baseco Compound, a huge slum by the bay in Tondo, […]
A worker hoses down garbage bins outside the closed Hankou Railway Station in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei Province, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. Overnight, Wuhan authorities announced that the airport and train stations would be closed, and all public transportation suspended by 10 a.m. Friday. Unless they had a special reason, the government said, residents […]
MAGSAYSAY, DAVAO DEL SUR — Three months after being hit by a series of powerful earthquakes, this town is slowly rising to its feet. Although its damaged seat of government has yet to be rehabilitated, Mayor Arthur Davin said Magsaysay has “regained the strength” to move forward from the devastation. ADVERTISEMENT Davin cited the quake-displaced […]
MANILA, Philippines — Reacting to various posts on social media that the dreaded novel coronavirus (nCov) had reached the city, Pasay Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano quashed the rumor, dismissing it as “fake news.” A Facebook post which earlier went viral claimed that officials in Barangay 44 had gone around the area, announcing that a case of nCov, […]
Prime Minister of Netherlands Mark Rutte attends a meeting with Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte at Palazzo Chigi government’s office, in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) AMSTERDAM — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologized Sunday for the failure of officials in the Nazi-occupied country during World War II to do more to prevent […]
TORONTO — Canadian officials said Sunday that they are tracking down airline passengers and others who were in close contact with the first person in the country detected with an emerging virus that originated in China. Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer, said the man, who is in his 50’s, had mild symptoms […]
FILE – In this Sunday, March 17, 2013 filer, Pope Francis is flanked by Gonzalo Aemilius as he greets faithful at the Vatican. Pope Francis has chosen a Uruguayan priest who has worked with street children to be one of his two personal secretaries. The Vatican said on Sunday that Francis has known the Rev. […]
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the Europa building in Brussels, Monday, Jan. 20, 2020. EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels on Monday to discuss the situation in Libya and Venezuela, the deteriorating security and humanitarian situation in Sahel, and climate diplomacy. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo) BERLIN — […]
