Locals walk over the dry part of Intang Lake in Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija on April 22, 2024. (STAR / Walter Bollozos) Amid rising temperatures due to El Niño MANILA, Philippines — A four-day workweek will be implemented in the offices of the provincial government of Cavite starting tomorrow until July …
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Supreme Court of the Philippines (File photo) MANILA – Supreme Court officials led by Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo met with Bohol court judges to discuss the creation of the Office of the Regional Court Manager (ORCM) to improve the efficiency of the delivery of administrative offices to lower courts. According to a …
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SIMULATION. BRP Ramon Alcaraz officers conduct flight quarters procedure before takeoff of the Philippine Navy AW-109 helicopter. Naval ships participating in the multilateral maritime exercise of the 39th “Balikatan” successfully conducted a simulated replenishment at sea on Friday (April 26, 2024) in Palawan waters. (Photo courtesy of Western Command) MANILA – The …
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Stock image of a tattoo artist/Image by Felix from Pixabay MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police (PNP) stressed on Sunday that its policy prohibiting police officers from bearing visible tattoos is not discriminatory against inked individuals. The PNP recently released a memorandum prohibiting their personnel from having visible tattoos, …
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Joe Biden tried taking a victory lap this week, celebrating a coveted foreign policy win. Yet in the streets near his house, he was being jeered over a different foreign crisis — the one that’s threatening his presidency. Biden needs votes from a group with a rock-bottom opinion of Israel’s …
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Players beyond the borders of Sudan — from its African neighbours to the Gulf States and beyond — are influencing the course of the conflict for their own purposes and increasing the chances of it metastasizing, analysts say. U.A.E., Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran among countries seen to be taking sides. …
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Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles has given Premier Doug Ford a deadline to reverse the ban on the wearing of keffiyehs at the provincial legislature or else she says the NDP will defy the ban. Demonstrators rallied against ban on Friday as civil liberties group called ban ‘undemocratic.’ Ontario NDP …
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which vastly exceeded all expectations, has relayed its final transmission back to Earth. Now it’s onto a new phase of its mission where it will continue to collect data for future explorers to retrieve. The helicopter will now collect data from its final resting spot for …
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The Government of Canada has announced multiple rounds of sanctions against various parties in the Middle East since October 7. But it still hasn’t engaged sanctions against violent Israeli settlers, despite promising to do so. Joly says her department is still ‘working on’ sanctions announced in February. The Government of …
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Canada’s poverty rate rose to 9.9 per cent in 2022, approaching pre-pandemic levels as government financial benefits introduced during the COVID-19 crisis ended, according to a Statistics Canada report released Friday. Food insecurity numbers are ‘sickening’ but not surprising, says researcher. Nearly nine million Canadians lived in food insecure households …
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