Barack Obama and David Cameron have been caught posing for a selfie at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service. Pictures taken inside the FNB Stadium in Soweto, South Africa, showed the two leaders smiling as they leaned in for a photo with Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt....
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December 11, 2013 webmaster
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The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) receives non-food items from Spanish Red Cross (SRC) and German Red Cross (GRC) today to augment typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) response in Visayas region and other affected provinces. Through a Jetstar special air cargo from Berlin, 500 family tents,...
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November 17, 2013 webmaster
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Typhoon Haiyan is battering the central Philippines with sustained winds of 235 km/h (146mph). Meteorologists say that if initial estimates based on satellite images are borne out, it could be the most powerful storm ever to make landfall. The storm has forced millions in storm-prone...
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November 8, 2013 webmaster
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India is gearing up for its first mission to Mars, which if successful, would make it the first Asian nation to reach the Red Planet. The unmanned Mars Orbiter spacecraft is scheduled for lift-off on Tuesday afternoon from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR located on...
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November 5, 2013 webmaster
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At least 20 people were killed after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 hit popular island destinations in the Philippines on Tuesday, local authorities said. Civil defense spokesman Maj. Reynaldo Balido said 15 of the deaths came from Cebu province, an urban and densely...
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October 15, 2013 webmaster
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BALI, Indonesia, Oct. 6 (PNA) — President Benigno Aquino III arrived here on Sunday to attend the 21st Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation from October 6 to 8. The President left Manila at 8 a.m. Sunday for Bali, Indonesia on board a chartered Philippine Airlines flight...
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October 6, 2013 webmaster
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Tokyo has been chosen to host the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games ahead of Istanbul and Madrid. The Japanese capital won a final round of voting by International Olympic Committee (IOC) members in Buenos Aires to beat Istanbul by 60 votes to 36. Madrid had...
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September 8, 2013 webmaster
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Eating more fruit, particularly blueberries, apples and grapes, is linked to a reduced risk of developing type-2 diabetes, suggests a study in the British Medical Journal. Blueberries cut the risk by 26% compared with 2% for three servings of any whole fruit – but fruit...
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August 30, 2013 webmaster
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MANILA, Aug. 19 (PNA) -– The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) on Monday morning lowered its rainfall warning in Metro Manila as well as some Luzon provinces from red rainfall advisory to orange. The orange rainfall advisory is raised in areas where...
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August 19, 2013 webmaster
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China will start phasing out its decades-long practice of using the organs of executed prisoners for transplant operations from November, as it pushes to mandate the use of organs from ethical sources, a senior official said. China is the only country that still systematically uses...
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August 15, 2013 webmaster
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