Category: GMA News
TB killed 1.23 million last year — WHO
Tuberculosis remains the world’s leading infectious killer, claiming an estimated 1.23 million lives last year, the WHO said Wednesday as it warned that recent gains made against TB were fragile.
OFW now Dubai engineer leading ‘ilaw to the barrios” efforts in PH provinces
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – From selling “tusok-tusok” in front of their house in Manila to being the head of a Filipino engineers” group in Dubai, whose projects include electric power restoration in the Philippine countryside. This is how life played out for 49-year-old engineer Marlon Burgos Hipolito of Bulacan.
Buffaloes from Asia now part of life on Brazilian island near COP30
First brought from Asia in the 19th century, the water buffalo adapted easily to Marajo Island’s marshes and the animals now roam the streets as a symbol of local culture and resilience.
Fire hits residential area in Antipolo
A fire broke out in a residential area in Barangay San Roque, Antipolo City on Wednesday evening.
Bolinao, Pangasinan drug bust nets 2 drug suspects, P13.6M in shabu
Two suspected drug peddlers were arrested in a buy-bust operation in Bolinao, Pangasinan on Wednesday that also yielded two kilos of suspected shabu worth P13.6 million, the Philippine National Police”s Drug Enforcement Group said.
Epstein alleged Trump ‘knew about the girls” –Democrats
Democrats released emails Wednesday in which Jeffrey Epstein suggested that Donald Trump was aware of the financier’s sexual abuse and definitely “knew about the girls.”
Bus accident kills at least 37 in southern Peru, official says
At least 37 people were killed and dozens injured after a bus plunged into a ravine in the mountainous Arequipa region of southern Peru, local authorities said on Wednesday.
Thai-Cambodia border tensions escalate, at least one dead
At least one person was killed in Cambodia amid a flare-up of conflict with Thailand on Wednesday as the neighbors accused each other of opening fire along a disputed part of their border, threatening a US-brokered truce.
Jesus did not appear on hill in French town of Dozule, Vatican says
The Vatican’s top doctrinal office said stories of appearances by Jesus in the town of Dozule, in Normandy, were not to be considered genuine by the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.
BI nabs 2 South Koreans wanted for illegal online gambling
Two South Korean high-profile fugitives wanted for their alleged involvement in illegal online gambling operations across Asia were recently arrested in separate operations in Metro Manila, the Bureau of Immigration said.
