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The Kremlin accuses Kyiv authorities of not wanting to continue talks to end hostilities that started after Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops into pro-Western Ukraine. "Talks are indeed not moving forward and we note the complete lack of will of Ukrainian negotiators to continue this process," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov tells reporters. — AFP

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Comelec, sitting as the National Board of Canvassers, proclaims the 12 new senators whose six-year terms at the upper house of Congress will start on June 30.

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Four key climate change indicators all set new record highs in 2021, the United Nations said Wednesday, warning that the global energy system was driving humanity towards catastrophe. Greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat and ocean acidification all set new records last year, the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in its "State of the Global Climate in 2021" report. "The global energy system is broken and bringing us ever closer to climate catastrophe," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said of the findings. — AFP

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Senior citizens and frontline health workers may now get their second booster shots, particularly mRNA jabs such as Moderna and Pfizer, the Department of Health announces. — Gaea Katreena Cabico

4 hours ago

Japanese giant Sony brings forward its deadline for reaching carbon neutrality by a decade on Wednesday, saying it is now targeting net-zero emissions across its business by 2040. The electronics and entertainment firm says the decision was taken "as climate change risks become more apparent and serious worldwide, and the transition to a decarbonised society has become an urgent issue". Climate campaigners praised the move, but raised doubts over an element of how Sony aims to reach the goal -- investing in new technology that removes carbon from the atmosphere or converts it into a less harmful compound. — AFP

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OFW advocate and former DOLE Usec. Susan Ople confirms that Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr., presumptive president-elect, offered the post of secretary of the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) during a meeting held last Friday. Ople says Marcos "spoke about the need to get the new department up and running, and for it to care for our OFWs and also develop programs for their families especially the children of migrant workers." She says that she is now discerning and consulting about the offer as she acknowledged "the enormity of the task and the challenges involved” in the newly-created department. — Kristine Joy Patag

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The Gilas Pilipinas women's team  takes the wire-to-wire victory over Thailand, 97-81. 

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Authorities say state agents seized P693,600 worth of shabu from four operators of a clandestine drug den in Panamao town in Sulu who fell in an entrapment operation Tuesday. In a statement Wednesday, the office of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency says suspects Belyamer Ejan, Ben Ejan, Jimboy Muhalim and Dasimir Samudi are now detained. The PDEA-BARMM says the suspects were immediately frisked and arrested after selling their illegal merchandise to non-uniformed agents in a sting in Barangay Lower Patibulan in Panamao, Sulu. — The STAR/John Unson

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Phivolcs says a magnitude 4.8 quake jolted Mobo, Masbate at 9:38 a.m. Wednesday.

9 hours ago

Japan's economy shrinks 0.2% in the first quarter of 2022, official data shows Wednesday, hit by Covid-19 restrictions forced by an Omicron surge and the effect of higher prices. The quarter-on-quarter figure for the January-March period was slightly better than the market consensus of a 0.4 percent contraction, and comes after the world's third-largest economy rebounded modestly in the final three months of 2021. But that recovery proved short-lived due to Covid restrictions put in place across Japan as Omicron took hold in January. — AFP

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