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Philippine forces were on high alert on Sunday after a bomb killed four people and wounded several during a Catholic Mass in a university gymnasium in the south of the country, an attack the authorities called terrorism. “I condemn in the strongest possible terms the senseless and most heinous acts perpetrated by foreign terrorists,” said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. “Extremists who wield violence against the innocent will always be regarded as enemies to our society.” The blast in Marawi, a city besieged by militants for five months in 2017, followed the killing of 11 combatants in a military operation on…

Philippine forces were on high alert on Sunday after a bomb killed four people and wounded several during a Catholic Mass in a university gymnasium in the south of the country, an attack the authorities called terrorism. “I condemn in the strongest possible terms the senseless and most heinous acts perpetrated by foreign terrorists,” said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. “Extremists who wield violence against the innocent will always be regarded as enemies to our society.” The blast in Marawi, a city besieged by militants for five months in 2017, followed the killing of 11 combatants in a military operation on…

Netflix may have some truly great movies, but the vast majority have made-for-TV quality at best, and the cheese factor is extremely high. All of the made-for-Netflix romances tend to play out in the same way, and many of these “Netflix originals” are so similar that they tend to blend together. It’s not as if Netflix is unaware of this. If you type “cheesy movies” into Netflix’s search bar, the results will give you most of their holiday romance films. From there, we narrowed the choices down to the five cheesy Netflix movies that you should watch right now. All…

Fifty oil companies representing nearly half of global production have pledged to reach near-zero methane emissions and end routine flaring in their operations by 2030, the president of this year’s United Nations climate talks said on Saturday, a move that environmental groups called a “smokescreen”. Methane emissions are a significant contributor to global warming, so sharply reducing them could help slow temperature rise. If the companies carry out their pledges, it could trim one-tenth of a degree Celsius (0.18 degrees Fahrenheit) from future warming, a prominent climate scientist calculated and told The Associated Press. That is about how much the…

In some ways, 2023 was a quiet year when it came to laptops. After coming off the high of PC sales during the peak of the pandemic, 2023 was the year of the correction. Many of the most popular lines received minor upgrades, and there weren’t many significant technological innovations that pushed laptops forward. Even so, there were five trends in 2023 that are worth looking back on and that point toward what’s coming in the future. Some prominent lines remained largely unchanged Manufacturers tend to perform major updates to their lines every few years. Sometimes, as in 2023, things…

Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, Caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan, has emphasised the severity of climate change and called for urgent action to address this existential threat. He highlighted the devastating floods that Pakistan experienced last year and the record-breaking heat witnessed this year as stark reminders of the impacts of climate change. Kakar urged participants at COP28 to make it a “COP of action, not just words”. He highlighted Pakistan’s efforts in increasing its climate ambition and taking concrete steps, such as presenting a comprehensive National Adaptation Plan, launching the Living Indus Initiative, and preparing its first Biennial Update Report. “At COP26…

In Christmas lore, the good children of the world can expect presents under the Christmas tree, while bad children will get coal in their stockings. Looking at the films and TV shows coming in December to Amazon Prime Video, we can only conclude that Prime Video thinks that we’ve all been very bad this year because our Christmas present on December 25th is the Prime Video premiere of this year’s biggest box office bomb, The Flash, to be followed two days later by another infamous bomb, Terminator: Genisys. That’s not the most auspicious way to close out 2023. It’s not…

Abu Dhabi Public Prosecution has taken legal measures against a mother and her son after a video clip went viral on social media. The video contained false information regarding an eviction that came from a judicial ruling issued by the Abu Dhabi courts, according to a post mae by the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department. The Public Prosecution in Abu Dhabi explained that the video circulated said the son claims that his mother was forced to leave the house by his father’s siblings, while investigations showed that there was a lawsuit filed by the heirs (the man and his siblings), requesting…

The Hubble Space Telescope has experienced a problem with its hardware and is currently in safe mode, with science operations paused until the fault can be corrected. The problem is with one of the telescope’s three operational gyros, which are used to control the direction in which the telescope points. When a fault like this is detected, the telescope automatically goes into a safe mode in which it performs only essential operations to prevent any damage to its hardware. “The telescope automatically entered safe mode when one of its three gyroscopes gave faulty readings,” NASA wrote in a statement. “The…

The 52nd UAE National Day celebrations have kicked off in full swing, with emiratis and expats dressing in the colours of the national flag. As residents plan their evenings, royals too are celebrating Union Day. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Crown Prince of Dubai, has taken to Instagram to share an ‘unveiling’ of two statues. In the AI-generated video uploaded on Instagram stories, a helicopter is seen flying and picking up a large UAE flag to reveal two large statues. The portrait busts of Sheikh Rashid and Sheikh Zayed were seen standing tall in front of…