Middle East conflict: Gulf states scramble to avert wider war

Agence France Presse 04/16/2024

Gulf states are grappling with the widening Middle East conflict as hostilities between Iran and Israel threaten their security and ambitious plans to reshape their economies. Leaders of the resource-rich Gulf monarchies engaged in a rapid round…

UN chief: Middle East, world cannot ‘afford more war’

Agence France Presse 04/15/2024

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned the international community Sunday against deeper descent into conflict, addressing the Security Council during a meeting over Iran’s weekend attack on Israel. “Neither the region nor the world can afford…

Oil prices rise amid fears over escalating tensions in Middle East

12/28/2023

TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices rose in early Asian trade on Thursday as persistent fears over escalating tensions in the Middle East outweighed easing concerns about transport disruptions as some global shipping firms said they were returning…

Cheap anti-malaria bed nets save lives

Bjorn Lomborg - @inquirerdotnet 05/03/2023

We think of malaria as a problem faced only by humid, hot countries. But just over a century ago, the disease thrived as far north as Siberia and the Arctic Circle, and was endemic in 36 states…

How I almost killed Papa

Arjay Hije - @inquirerdotnet 04/25/2022

How will I deal with grief?” I ask myself every time I remember how I almost killed my father when I was still a child. I was naive back then. Will I cry? Will I hide my…

First COVID-19 case in Consolacion ‘imported’; DOH-7 reports 2 ‘recoveries’ in Cebu City

Rosalie Abatayo 04/01/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The first case of coronavirus disease in Consolacion town, in northern Cebu is “imported” Mayor Joannes Alegado told CDN Digital that their first COVID-19 patient, a 54-year-old professional, has just arrived from a…

World ‘not ready,’ WHO exec warns as virus surges in more countries

Agence France Presse 02/27/2020

BEIJING — The new coronavirus epidemic swelled on Wednesday with cases in South Korea surging past 1,000 after deaths soared in Iran and infections appeared in previously untouched countries, prompting dire warnings that the world was not…

Palma to faithful: Pray for peace, clarity in Middle East

Morexette Marie B. Erram 01/09/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Amid the rising tension between the United States and Iran in the Middle East, a Church leader in Cebu is asking the Cebuano faithful to pray for peace and clarity. “Let’s pray for…

Tagle prays for peace as tension escalates in Middle East

Neil Arwin Mercado - Inquirer.net 01/09/2020

MANILA, Philippines — In front of thousands of devotees of the Black Nazarene, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle on early Thursday morning offered a moment of silence to remember and pray for peace in the Middle East.…

Lawmaker wants DOE, oil firms to maintain 30-day oil reserves

Gabriel Pabico Lalu - INQUIRER.net 01/05/2020

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Energy (DOE) should come up with a scheme where oil companies maintain 30-day reserve of fuel products as tensions in the Middle East continues to escalate, a lawmaker said on Sunday.…

CBCP official, 22 others hurt in Egypt border bus accident — DFA

Katrina Hallare - Inquirer.net 10/26/2019

  MANILA, Philippines — An official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) was among the 23 people injured in a bus accident while on their way to an Israel border, the Department of Foreign…

Malala Yousafzai finishes high school, joins Twitter

Inquirer.net 07/09/2017

It’s easy to forget that the Nobel Prize laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai is just like any 19-year-old. The young Pakistani humanitarian joined Twitter July 7 and shared that she was graduating from high school. She…

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