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[Body] => Manila Mayor Isko Moreno will announce his candidacy for president in the 2022 elections on Wednesday, September 22, News5 reports.
Moreno will be running alongside Dr. Willie Ong, it also reports.
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[Body] => The OECD warned Tuesday of an "uneven" global economic recovery as it lowered its 2021 growth forecasts for the world and for the United States while raising the outlook for Europe.
Global output is now expected to expand by 5.7 percent this year, down 0.1 percentage points from a previous forecast in May, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). -- AFP
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[Body] => Girls in Afghanistan will be allowed to return to school as soon as possible, the Taliban said Tuesday, after announcing the remaining positions in its all-male cabinet.
"We are finalising things... it will happen as soon as possible," spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on girls' education.
It comes after the education ministry ordered male teachers and students back to secondary school at the weekend, but made no mention of the country's women educators and girl pupils. — AFP
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[Body] => The United States, in partnership with the WHO co-led COVAX facility, delivers an additional 2,582,190 doses of the?Pfizer-BioNTech?COVID-19 vaccine to the Philippines.
The vaccines, delivered in separate shipments on September 19 and 20, were part of the 500 million doses of Pfizer the United States is making available for distribution through COVAX, the US Embassy in Manila says.
"As the largest donor to the COVAX facility, the United States has facilitated the delivery of more than 16 million vaccine doses to the Philippines via COVAX, including more than 9 million doses donated by the American people," the US Embassy says.
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[Body] => The United States announces it will lift COVID travel bans on all air passengers in November if they are fully vaccinated and undergo testing and contact tracing.
The unprecedented restrictions had kept relatives, friends and business travelers around the world separated for many months as the pandemic grinds on.
Jeffrey Zients, coronavirus response coordinator for President Joe Biden, tells reporters the new "consistent approach" would take effect "early November." — AFP
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[Body] => NASA announces it would land an ice-seeking rover on a region of the Moon's south pole called the Nobile Crater in 2023.
The space agency hopes the robot will confirm the presence of water ice just below the surface, which could one day be converted into rocket fuel for missions to Mars and deeper into the cosmos.
"Nobile Crater is an impact crater near the south pole that was born through a collision with another smaller celestial body," Lori Glaze, director of NASA's planetary science division tells reporters. — AFP
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[Body] => Cuba agrees to provide Vietnam with 10 million doses of its home-grown coronavirus vaccine, Abdala, for which the Asian nation has given emergency approval.
A deal was signed between the two countries during an official visit by President Nguyen Xuan Phuc to the communist island, the government says.
The agreement concerns an initial five million doses, but Vietnam has already authorized the purchase of 10 million doses in total, Cuban media reports. — AFP
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[Body] => The Biden administration announces Monday that it would double the number of refugees it will accept in the coming fiscal year to 125,000, amid rising pressure from people fleeing Afghanistan and other countries.
"Today, the State Department is reaffirming our commitment to refugee resettlement in line with our long tradition of providing a safe haven and opportunity to individuals fleeing persecution," says spokesperson Ned Price.
"With the world facing unprecedented global displacement and humanitarian needs, the United States is committed to leading efforts to provide protection and promote durable solutions to humanitarian crises," Price says in a statement. — AFP
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[Body] => Drone strikes Monday killed two jihadist commanders close to Al-Qaeda in the Idlib region of northwest Syria, a war monitor says.
"US forces conducted a kinetic counter-terrorism strike near Idlib, Syria, today, on a senior al-Qaeda leader," a US Central Command (CENTCOM) spokeswoman, Lieutenant Josie Lynne Lenny, says in a statement.
"Initial indications are that we struck the individual we were aiming for, and there are no indications of civilian casualties as a result of the strike," she says. — AFP
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[Body] => The COVID-19 pandemic sped up the shift of innovation from Europe and North America towards Asia, UN world rankings showed Monday.
The Global Innovation Index 2021, from the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organization, showed surging performances by South Korea and China.
"The pandemic has accelerated the long-term geographical shift of innovation activities toward Asia, even if Northern America and Europe continue to host some of the world's leading innovators," said WIPO.
While the top four in the global rankings remained the same as last year — with Switzerland leading for the 11th year running followed by Sweden, the United States and Britain — South Korea leapt five places to fifth.
The index found "substantial increases in brand values in Korea, in trademarks being filed, but also in cultural and creative services exports," index co-editor Sacha Wunsch-Vincent told reporters, citing the K-Pop phenomenon. — AFP
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