Credit to Author: THE MANILA TIMES| Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 11:05:19 +0000
PAZARKULE, Turkey: Around 2,000 more migrants reached the Turkish border with Greece on Sunday after Turkey opened its gates to Europe saying it could no longer cope with refugees from war-torn Syria. Since dozens of Turkish troops were killed in northwest Syria last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has launched reprisal attacks against Syrian […]
Read moreCredit to Author: THE MANILA TIMES| Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 09:05:06 +0000
JERUSALEM: A day ahead of Israel’s third election in a year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Sunday that if re-elected he would annex swathes of the occupied West Bank within weeks. In an interview with Israeli public radio, Netanyahu said annexation of the Jordan Valley and other parts of the West Bank was his top […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Associated Press| Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 04:22:19 +0000
LONDON: The patter of tiny feet is coming to Downing Street. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) that he and his girlfriend, Carrie Symonds, are engaged to be married and expecting a baby in the early summer. A wedding date wasn’t announced. Johnson, 55, and Symonds, 31, made history as […]
Read moreCredit to Author: THE MANILA TIMES| Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 04:05:21 +0000
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Seeking to reassure the American public, President Donald Trump said Saturday there was “no reason to panic” as the new coronavirus claimed its first victim inside the United States. The White House also announced new restrictions on international travel to prevent its spread. Trump, speaking only moments after the death in Washington state […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Associated Press| Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 03:55:52 +0000
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Vice President Joe Biden has for weeks looked to the black voters of South Carolina to hand a win to his flagging campaign. On Saturday, they delivered. Biden won about 60 percent of the votes cast by non-white voters, dominating a crowded Democratic field among a group that made up more than half […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Associated Press| Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 03:40:10 +0000
The governor of Washington declared a state of emergency on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) after a man died there of COVID-19, the first such reported death in the United States. More than 50 people in a nursing facility are sick and being tested for the virus. Gov. Jay Inslee directed state agencies to use “all resources […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 14:58:15 +0000
FOUR policemen died and 31 were wounded after a truck they were riding fell off the road in Alimodian, Iloilo, police reported on Saturday. Police Regional Office (PRO) of Western Visayas said in a report that the accident in Barangay Ginomoy involving 35 policemen from the 601st Company of Regional Mobile Force Battalion (RMFB) 6 happened at about […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 09:06:36 +0000
KUALA LUMPUR: Former interior minister Muhyiddin Yassin was named Malaysia’s new prime minister on Saturday, royal officials said, signalling the end of Mahathir Mohamad’s rule and return to power of a scandal-plagued party. Muhyiddin will be sworn in on Sunday, the palace said, ending a week of turmoil after the collapse of the reformist government […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 08:24:59 +0000
A lawyer was gunned down in Talavera, Nueva Ecija, police reported on Saturday. Talavera Municipal Police Station (MPS), in a report, identified the victim as Bayani Dalangin, 73. Dalangin was shot by an unidentified suspect in his office at Barangay Poblacion Sur about 7:15 p.m. on Friday. The victim was rushed to Talavera General Hospital but […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Jan Arcilla| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 05:31:32 +0000
THE Department of Tourism (DoT) on Saturday postponed the 2020 Philippine Shopping Festival, a nationwide mall sale due to coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) threat. Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said that the department maintained its stance to prioritize the safety of its citizens more than visitor arrivals and revenue. She also said that they have coordinated […]
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