DELTA VARIANT IS CAUSING A SURGE IN COVID CASES GLOBALLY The Delta variant of Covid-19 has now been detected in 124 territories worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. It is expected to become the dominant variant globally in the coming months, with the WHO p
DUTERTE TO DELIVER FINAL SONA AS PANDEMIC, POVERTY STALK FILIPINOS MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte, whose 6-year term ends in June next year, will deliver his final State of the Nation Address on Monday, as the Philippines struggles to stop one of Asia's worst COVID-19
KARGIL VIJAY DIWAS EVE: LAMPS LIT AT MEMORIAL, EPIC BATTLES RECALLED The epic battles of Tololing, Tiger Hill and others were recalled and 559 lamps lit in a tribute to the martyrs at the Kargil War Memorial in Drass area of Ladakh as events to mark the 22nd Kargil Vijay Diwas c
WHO URGES GLOBAL COLLABORATION AFTER CHINA REBUKE The World Health Organization (WHO) called on Friday for all countries to work together to investigate the origins of the coronavirus that caused Covid-19, a day after China rejected plans for more checks on labs and markets in i
HOUSE TO PRIORITIZE 5 BILLS IN DUTERTE AGENDA MANILA — The House of Representatives will prioritize the five remaining bills in the legislative agenda of the Duterte administration when sessions resume next week, after the President delivers his last State of the Nation Ad
THE GAMES BEGIN At 8 pm sharp local time Friday, the lights dimmed and the fireworks went off. And the country obsessed with punctuality could finally begin the Olympic Games a year later than originally scheduled.
ISRAEL APPOINTS COMMISSION TO REVIEW NSO Israel has established a commission to review allegations that the NSO Group’s controversial Pegasus phone surveillance software was misused, the head of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee said on Thursday. &nb
PHILIPPINES CONFIRMS LOCAL TRANSMISSION OF DELTA VARIANT MANILA — The Department of Health confirmed the local transmission of the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19. In a statement issued late Thursday, the DOH said that based on the phylogenetic analysis
PEGASUS STALLS PARLIAMENT AGAIN The Pegasus row continued to rock Parliament with Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday making a statement in the Rajya Sabha denouncing reports that the spyware could have been used to snoop on Opposition leaders, activists and others, a
OVER 560,000 ADDITIONAL PFIZER VACCINE DOSES ARRIVE IN PH MANILA - More than 560,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine arrived in the Philippines on Wednesday night, as the country continues to intensify its vaccination efforts amid the detection of the more contagious
