Philippines

MANILA, Philippines – Some of the 1.4 million liters of industrial fuel oil inside a sunken Philippine tanker has started to leak into Manila Bay, the coast guard said Saturday, calling for a suspension of fishing in the waterway. The MT Terra Nova sank in bad weather in the busy waterway early Thursday, killing one crew member and leaving the country potentially facing its worst oil spill disaster. The oil slick has more than tripled in size from Thursday and is now estimated to stretch between 12-14 kilometers (7.5-8.7 miles) across the bay, which thousands of fishermen and tourism operators […]…

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The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will resume accepting applications for digital banking licenses after three years, allowing more players into the growing industry. The number of available slots is still unknown, but BSP Governor Eli Remolona Jr. told the Inquirer that a circular on the matter will be released “soon.” The decision to welcome new digital banks was a product of the BSP’s initial assessment of the incumbent players, which so far include UNO Digital Bank, UnionDigital Bank, GoTyme, Overseas Filipino Bank of state-run Land Bank of the Philippines, Tonik Digital Bank and Maya Bank. The central bank earlier […]…

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NEW YORK, United States — An attorney for Justin Timberlake asked a judge to dismiss drunk driving charges against the US pop singer Friday, saying his client was “not intoxicated” when he was arrested last month. On June 18, the 43-year-old entertainer had been pulled over in the town of Sag Harbor, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of New York City, after police observed his BMW drive through a stop sign and struggle to stay within street lanes. Timberlake had been en route to a friend’s house after getting dinner at a local hotel’s restaurant. Officers arrested him on […]…

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KIGALI—”Bigger than basketball.” After qualifying for the Olympics for the first time, South Sudan’s basketball team is on a mission to make their troubled young country proud. The players come from the United States, Australia, Canada, some starting out life in refugee camps. They know little about their country, as their parents fled during the Sudan conflict of 1983 to 2005, one of the longest civil wars on record, that eventually paved the way to South Sudan’s independence in 2011. SCHEDULE: Men’s basketball at Paris Olympics 2024 But this “bunch of refugees,” as Wenyen Gabriel describes them, is determined to […]…

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Arson attacks scrambled France’s high-speed rail network for tens of thousands of passengers on Friday, after what officials called premeditated acts of “sabotage” just hours before the Paris Olympics opened. Friday’s attacks were launched as the French capital was under heavy security ahead of the Games opening ceremony, with 300,000 spectators and an audience of VIPs expected at the event. READ MORE: Locked-down Paris nervously awaits Olympics opening ceremony Paris Olympics: Know your Cebuano Olympians Team Philippines in Paris Olympics 2024: Meet the athletes What was targeted? Fires that affected France’s Atlantic, northern and eastern lines led to cancellations and […]…

Keep on reading: ‘Sabotage’ on French rail network before Olympics: What we know