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By Bombo Dennis Jamito -April 23, 2022 | 12:37 PM76 Tiniyak ng Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) na maihahabol ang pagbubukas ng kauna-unahang OFW Hospital sa mismong araw ng mga manggagawa sa Mayo 1, 2022. Ayon kay Labor Sec. Silvestre Bello III, agresibo ang naging pagtatayo ng pasilidad sa lalawigan ng Pampanga, kung saan tumulong na ang iba pang tanggapan ng pamahalaan para makompleto ang pagamutan. Magsisilbi umano itong regalo para sa mga manggagawa mula sa ibayong dagat. Makikinabang ding dito ang pamilya ng mga OFW na nangangailangan ng serbisyong medikal. Ang OFW Hospital ay kagaya rin ng mga pagamutang nakalaan para sa specific na grupo at pangangailangan, kagaya ng military hospital na VMMC at maternity hospital naman na Fabella. Sa kasalukuyan ay nasa dalawang milyon ang recorded Filipino workers sa ibayong dagat. Pinakamalaki rito o 83.6% ay sa Asia, 6.7% sa Europa at 5.2% nasa sa Estados Unidos. Nakapag-ambag naman ang OFWs ng remittances na pumapalo sa P2...

SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong Un oversaw a huge public procession to celebrate the birthday of North Korea's founding leader, state media images showed Saturday, but the anniversary passed without an anticipated show of military strength. Known as the Day of the Sun in the nuclear-armed country, the April 15 birthday of the late Kim Il Sung — grandfather of current leader Kim Jong Un — is one of the most important dates in Pyongyang's political calendar. Analysts and South Korean and US officials had widely predicted a military parade or even a nuclear test, but the celebrations Friday involved a civilian parade, synchronised dancing and fireworks. Photographs released by the state-run Korean Central News Agency showed thousands of colourfully dressed people marching through the capital's Kim Il Sung Square as Kim Jong Un looked on from a balcony. "Columns of workers, peasant dancers and others marched past the square," carrying banners and boards bearing soci...

Philstar.com KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine's president showed a harrowing video of dead civilians to the UN Security Council Tuesday and called for "accountability" for apparent Russian atrocities, as fears grow that Moscow is preparing new offensives. With global revulsion solidifying over civilian killings in the town of Bucha, President Volodymyr Zelensky likened Russia's assault to Nazi war crimes and Western nations ramped up sanctions against the Kremlin. The United States is expected Wednesday to ban all new investment in Russia, while Britain announced it has frozen some $350 billion in assets from President Vladimir Putin's "war chest" so far. Despite the pressure, bombardments rocked the Kyiv area villages of Velyka Dymerka and Bogdanivka, where 12 people were killed by Russian firearms and artillery, Ukraine's prosecutor general's office said on Telegram. And new warnings emerged from Ukraine that other shattered communities, notably th...

STRASBOURG, France — EU leaders on Wednesday said the bloc will soon have to sanction all of Russia's hydrocarbon exports as they blamed Moscow for "war crimes" discovered in Ukraine, especially in the town of Bucha. The declarations, made to the European Parliament in the French city of Strasbourg, came as the European Union was poised to implement a fifth round of sanctions cutting off Russian coal imports, while NATO and G7 foreign ministers gathered in Brussels for further steps on coordinated action. The EU must also impose oil and gas sanctions on Russia "sooner or later", European Council chief Charles Michel told MEPs. The deaths of civilians in Bucha and other parts of Ukraine were "war crimes" and "yet more proof that Russian brutality against the people of Ukraine has no limits," he said. "We the EU, we will not turn our backs. We will look reality straight in the eye. There must be, and there will be, severe consequences ...

Agence France-Presse JERUSALEM — Israel said it will close its only crossing from the Gaza Strip for workers on Sunday in response to overnight rocket fire, stopping short of conducting retaliatory strikes in an apparent bid to ease tensions. The rocket attacks on Friday night and Saturday morning followed days of clashes at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound and a month of deadly violence. The unrest — which comes as the Jewish festival of Passover overlaps with the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan — has sparked international fears of conflict, one year after similar violence led to an 11-day war between Israel and Gaza-based militants. "Following the rockets fired toward Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip last night, it was decided that crossings into Israel for Gazan merchants and workers through the Erez Crossing will not be permitted this upcoming Sunday," COGAT, a unit of the Israeli defence ministry responsible for Palestinian civil affairs, ...

Gaea Katreena Cabico - Philstar.com National Task Force Against Covid19 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines on Monday began administering second COVID-19 booster shots to immunocompromised individuals in a bid to provide Filipinos additional protection against the virus. The Philippine Children’s Medical Center in Quezon City, Dr. Jose Rodriguez Memorial Hospital (Tala) in Caloocan City, Valenzuela Medical Center, and the local government of Makati are scheduled to give second booster doses to vulnerable sectors, the Department of Health said in a message to reporters. More vaccination sites will start administering second booster shots in the coming days. The National Vaccination Operations Center targets to give additional protection to around 690,000 immunocompromised individuals. Immunocompromised individuals are defined as those with or are: Immunodeficiency HIV Active cancer Transplant recipients Undergoing steroid treatment Bedridden According to the DOH, the initial ro...

Angelica Y. Yang - Philstar.com MANILA, Philippines — Consumers may have to pay more for their fuel next week after the Department of Energy (DOE) said Friday that there will likely be a large increase in pump prices due to developments affecting the global oil market, where the Philippines mainly gets its supply from. Gas may experience an increase of P3.50 per liter, while diesel may rise by P4.54 per liter, Director of the DOE's Oil Industry Management Bureau Rino Abad confirmed in an interview with Dobol B TV on Friday. "We confirm that there will be a bit of a large increase [in fuel prices] next week...[But] I cannot say for certain how large the increase will be. The oil price movements are dictated by the Mean of Platts Singapore," Abad said in Tagalog, referring to the pricing yardstick for refined oil products in Southeast Asia. A barrel of oil in April 11 cost $117.45, but the figure went up to $128.11 in April 21. Abad attributed the projected increase...