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[Body] => Myanmar's junta has denied suspending the internet in conflict-wracked regions, blaming a recent spate of data blackouts on anti-coup protesters who had destroyed military-owned communications towers.
The junta's foreign ministry on Saturday denied that the State Administration Council — as the military regime dubs itself — was responsible.
"In fact, the recent internet connections were disrupted due to the terrorist acts such as destroying of communication towers by terrorist groups," the ministry said in a statement. — AFP
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[Body] => A 5.7 magnitude earthquake was felt in Looc, Occidental Mindoro at 1:12 a.m. on Monday, state volcanologists say.
The following intensities were reported:
Intensity IV
Calatagan, Lian, Lipa City, Malvar and Nasugbu, Batangas
Malolos City and Obando, Bulacan
Cavite City, General Trias City, Naic, Amadeo, Bacoor City, Dasmariñas City, Tagaytay City and Tanza, Cavite
Biñan City and Cabuyao City, Laguna
Las Piñas City; Malabon City; Mandaluyong City; City of Manila; Marikina City; Muntinlupa City; Parañaque City; San Juan City; Taguig City; Pateros, Metro Manila
Abra De Ilog, Looc, Lubang and Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro
Baco, Naujan and Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro
San Mateo and Taytay, Rizal
Intensity III
Santo Tomas City, Batangas
Makati City; Pasay City; Pasig City; Quezon City; Valenzuela City
Santa Cruz, Occidental Mindoro
Antipolo City
Socorro, Oriental Mindoro
Intensity II
Los Baños, Laguna
Palayan City, Nueva Ecija
Intensity I
Arayat, Pampanga
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[Body] => A Palestinian was killed Sunday by Israeli gunfire near Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, amid reports of heavy clashes in the area.
The ministry said a Palestinian man from the village of Borqin west of Jenin who had been shot with a live bullet died from his wounds after reaching hospital.
Israeli public radio Kan reported early Sunday that troops were involved in gun battles with armed Palestinians near Jenin, which broke out as the army moved in to arrest "suspects" in the area.
An Israeli army spokesman told AFP it would comment on the incident later Sunday morning.
The Jenin governorate is a flashpoint area in the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Four Palestinians were killed in Jenin refugee camp last month by Israeli forces during heavy clashes. — AFP
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[Body] => Father-of-two Shkelqim Kameni took his children out of school because of Austria's strict COVID testing for pupils and his opposition to the vaccine.
The 28-year-old shop manager from the western city of Salzburg is among a sharp rise in parents opting to homeschool instead.
Even weeks before the new school year started this month, the divisive issue garnered media coverage and has provoked heated exchanges online between parents.
Speaking to AFP at an anti-vaccine demonstration, Kameni said he was afraid that rigorous Covid testing created too much pressure in the classroom.
"Probably a child (who tests positive) will be mobbed... it's psychological abuse of children; it's child abuse," he said at the rally in downtown Vienna this month, attended by thousands.
More than 7,500 children have been withdrawn from school for this academic year, the education ministry says. — AFP
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[Body] => The Provincial Government of Kalinga announced that its Provincial Epidemiological Surveillance Unit (PESU) received information Saturday evening that another six cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19 and one of the Alpha variant have been detected in the provice. — The STAR/Artemio Dumlao
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[Body] => Businesswoman Katrina Gloria Ponce Enrile, daughter of former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, is among the new candidates that Lakas-CMD is fielding, the party says in a release.
She will be running for district representatives of the 1st District of Cagayan.
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[Body] => After seeing photos of black-clad Afghan women in full face veils at a pro-Taliban rally in Kabul, Bahar Jalali, an Afghan-American historian, launched a campaign highlighting the vibrant colors of traditional Afghan dresses.
"I was very concerned that the world would think that those clothing worn by those women in Kabul was traditional Afghan clothing, and I don't want our heritage and culture to be misrepresented," said Jalali, who lives in Glenwood, Maryland, about an hour's drive from Washington.
Jalali, 56, created the social media hashtags #DoNotTouchMyClothes and #AfghanistanCulture, which quickly became popular, with women posting photos of themselves wearing colorful, embroidered Afghan clothing and smiling for the camera.
"Afghan women don't wear hijab," Jalali told AFP.
"We wear a loose chiffon headscarf that reveals the hair. And anybody who's familiar with Afghanistan history, culture, knows that the clothing worn by those women have never been seen before in Afghanistan," she said, referring to demonstrators at the pro-Taliban protest at a university lecture in Kabul earlier this month. — AFP
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[Body] => A "once-in-a-generation" music event circled the world on Saturday, with a slew of megastars taking the stage in New York for Global Citizen Live — 24 hours of shows across the planet to raise awareness on climate change, vaccine equality and famine.
Britain's Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, advocated for COVID-19 vaccine access to be treated "as a basic human right," as the event was broadcast live from New York's Central Park.
"The way you're born should not dictate your ability to survive," the Duke of Sussex said to cheers from the thousands-strong crowd.
NGO Global Citizen wants one billion trees planted, two billion vaccines delivered to the poorest countries and meals for 41 million people on the brink of starvation.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex followed performances by singer Alessia Cara and pop veteran Cyndi Lauper with a rendition of her "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" dedicated to Afghan women. — AFP
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