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 The Department of Education IX (DepEd) will be implementing its learning recovery plan as in-person or face-to-face class resume on August 22 to address the “learning loss” sustained by many students during the pandemic. The DepEd IX met last week in a regional executive committee meeting and discussed what were the least learned skills of the students both from the elements and secondary that have to be addressed, Dahlia Paragas, DepEd regional information officer, said here Saturday. The education official said the executive committee also identified why the learning skills of the students had dropped. — The STAR/Roel Pareño

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On the ground, two officers from a special mobile brigade of France's paramilitary gendarmerie speed a long a forest track. Above them, a helicopter scans the landscape to warn them of any fires or anyone who might be looking to start one. These are the members of a newly created police team who have just started patrolling in southwest France to seek out and arrest the fire-starters devastating the region's forests. In the last week, no less than 20 fires have broken out in the forest bordering the seaside resort of Soulac-sur-Mer in the La Gironde department of southwest France, says the local gendarmerie. While some have burned for just a 100 square metres (322 square feet), the largest devoured 30 hectares (74 acres) of forest. Scorched trees and charred trunks line the paths and cycle paths that criss-cross the woods. To stop the devastation, local officials have sent in the new unit, the Forest Vigilance Platoon (PVF) made up of 15 reservist gendarmes, a senior police officer and two motorcyclists from the mobile brigade, backed up by the helicopter. Spread across three zones, the PVF patrol the forest on motorbikes, all-terrain bicycles or in cars, where possible, on the hunt for fire-starters. -- AFP

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A full probe on the unabated vegetable smuggling in the country is being sought in Congress by the filing of House Bill 108. Co-authored by Benguet lawmaker Eric Go Yap and Davao City’s Paolo Duterte, HB 108 is urging the House’s committee on agriculture and food to conduct an inquiry, in aid of legislation, on the continued smuggling of agricultural products into the country despite existing laws. — AFP

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Seven people were injured, two of them critically, after a shooting attack on a bus in Jerusalem's Old City, Israeli police and medics said early Sunday. "The police were informed of a shooting of a bus ... Police have cordoned off the scene and are searching for a suspect who fled," the police said.  Israel's emergency medical services, the Magen David Adom (MDA), called the incident a "terror attack in the Old City". "We were on scene very quickly. On Ma'ale Hashalom St. we saw a passenger bus standing in the middle of the road, bystanders called us to treat two males around 30 years old who were on the bus with gunshot wounds," MDA paramedics said in a statement. Bus driver Daniel Kanievsky said the attack occurred near King David's Tomb. "I was coming from the Western Wall. The bus was full of passengers. I stopped at the station of the Tomb of David. At this moment starts the shootings. Two people outside I see falling, two inside were bleeding. Everybody panicked," he told reporters at the scene. Since March, 19 people — mostly Israeli civilians inside Israel — have been killed in attacks mostly by Palestinians. Three Israeli Arab attackers were also killed.  In the aftermath, Israeli authorities increased operations in the occupied West Bank.  More than 50 Palestinians have been killed, including fighters and civilians, in operations and incidents in the West Bank since then. — AFP

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