ISRAEL HITS SYRIAN PORT FOR SECOND TIME THIS MONTH - SYRIAN ARMY Israel launched an air strike on Syria's main port of Latakia on Tuesday in the second such attack this month, the Syrian army said, setting ablaze the container storage area where two port sources said Iran has be
OMICRON RISK REMAINS ‘VERY HIGH’, SAYS WHO, AS COVID CASES SPIKE The risk posed by the omicron variant is still "very high", the World Health Organization said Wednesday, after COVID-19 case numbers shot up by 11 percent globally last week.
SRI LANKA READIES OIL TANK FARM DEAL WITH INDIA China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Sri Lanka next week in the midst of a crippling economic crisis that has seen Colombo turn to Delhi for help and fast pedal the long-delayed India-Sri Lanka plan for joint developme
DOH ON NEW COVID REPORTING SYSTEM: ‘WALANG MAWAWALANG IMPORMASYON’ MANILA—The Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday said its decision to focus on data evaluation rather than posting raw information was the reason behind scrapping the customary bulletin of new C
DOH ON NEW COVID REPORTING SYSTEM: ‘WALANG MAWAWALANG IMPORMASYON’ MANILA—The Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday said its decision to focus on data evaluation rather than posting raw information was the reason behind scrapping the customary bulletin of new C
GOVT PANEL OKAYS 2 VACCINES, COVID PILL An expert panel of the country's central drug authority has recommended granting emergency use authorisation to Serum Institute of India's COVID-19 vaccine Covovax and Biological E's vaccine Corbevax with certain conditions.
TUTU, WHO FOUGHT FOR A ‘RAINBOW NATION’, DIES AT 90 South African anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu, described as the country’s moral compass, died on Sunday aged 90, sparking an outpouring of tributes for the outspoken Nobel Peace Prize laureate. &nb
WITH NO PRESIDENTIAL PICK OF THEIR OWN, DUTERTE PARTY TO SHORTLIST BETS TO SUPPORT MANILA — Pederalismo ng Dugong Dakilang Samahan, the political party organized around President Rodrigo Duterte, said it would submit a shortlist of presidential candidates to support in the
GOVERNMENT 'OBLIVIOUS' TO THREAT POSED BY OMICRON: CONGRESS Accusing the government of being "ignorant" to the threat posed by the Omicron variant of coronavirus, the Congress on Sunday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi must follow a clear vaccination policy, provide ja
OMICRON LESS LIKELY TO PUT YOU IN HOSPITAL: U.K. DATA Preliminary data suggest that people with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus are between 50% and 70% less likely to need hospitalisation than those with the Delta strain, Britain’s public health agency said on Thurs
