The 7-magnitude quake centred in the province of Abra in a mountainous area, said Renato Solidum, the head of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. “The ground shook like I was on a swing and the lights suddenly went out. We rushed out of the office, and I heard screams and some of my companions were in tears,” said Michael Brillantes, a safety officer of the Abra town of Lagangilang, near the epicenter....

With many of the world’s top teams and best players on show, the speed, skill and end-to-end rugby sevens was delivered as the top seeds showed their class to claim victories on day one in front of a packed crowd which included HRH The Princess Royal and The Earl and Countess of Wessex. SEE RESULTS, POOLS AND MATCH SCHEDULE » In the women’s event, which features eight teams in two groups of four, New Zealand are aiming to retain the title they won four years ago, but the Olympic champions will have to overcome Australia, who claimed the World Series title earlier this year and an impressive Fiji, who were bronze medalists in Tokyo last year....

Russia’s state-owned natural gas company announced on Saturday that it had halted shipments to Latvia due to contract violations. In a brief statement, gas giant Gazprom said shipments were halted because Latvia violated “conditions for gas extraction.” He did not provide further details. The statement likely referred to a refusal to meet Russia’s demand for gas payments in rubles rather than other currencies. Gazprom previously suspended shipments to other European Union countries, including the Netherlands, Poland and Bulgaria, because they would not pay in rubles....

“The decision to leave the station after 2024 has been made,” said Yuri Borisov, who was appointed this month to head Roscosmos, the state-controlled company responsible for the country’s space program. The announcement was made during a meeting between Mr. Borisov and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Mr Borisov told Mr Putin that Russia would meet its commitments by 2024. “I think by this time we will start forming the Russian orbital station,” he said....

Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register WASHINGTON, July 27 (Reuters) – Russian space officials have told their U.S. counterparts that Moscow expects to remain part of the International Space Station at least until its own orbiting outpost is built in 2028, a senior NASA official told Reuters on Wednesday. Yuri Borisov, the newly appointed director general of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency, surprised NASA on Tuesday by announcing that Moscow intended to end the long-standing space station partnership “after 2024....

Bradford Doolittle CloseESPN Staff Writer Sports reporter, Kansas City Star, 2002-09 Writer, Baseball, Baseball Prospectus Co-author, Pro Basketball Prospectus Member, Baseball Writers Association of America Member, Professional Basketball Writers Association David Schoenfield CloseESPN Senior Writer Covers MLB for ESPN.com Former deputy editor of Page 2 Been with ESPN.com since 1995 The MLB trade deadline is just days away, and we’re all waiting for a Juan Soto blockbuster or another splash that will change the course of the rest of the season — and beyond....

Few, if any, tidbits of the content of the Duke of Sussex’s long-awaited memoir have so far emerged. “It’s juicy, that’s for sure,” a source told US website Page Six, with another adding: “There’s some content in there that should make his family nervous.” From the prince, the palace, the publishers Penguin Random House and the Pulitzer Prize-winning ghostwriter, JR Moehringer, there was silence. However, royal watchers expect it to be a serious book, not to be dismissed easily....

The research on black holes known as “active galactic nuclei,” or AGNs, says that it definitively shows the need to revise the widely used “unified model of AGN” that characterizes supermassive black holes as all having the same properties. The study, published in The Astrophysical Journal, provides answers to a nagging space mystery and should allow researchers to create more precise models about the evolution of the universe and how black holes develop....

Sommaire Un scénario riche en émotions et en rebondissements Des combats plus dynamiques que jamais Jeu aux mécaniques riches et complexes Technique souvent imparfaite Quel voyage incroyable la série Xenoblade Chronicles a eue. Pour s’en rendre compte, il faut rappeler qu’initialement, le premier Xenoblade Chronicles sorti en 2010 sur Wii au Japon n’aurait jamais dû quitter les frontières de l’archipel nippon. Finalement, ce n’est que grâce à la mobilisation massive de joueurs occidentaux via une pétition baptisée Operation Rainfall que le titre a été localisé, ainsi que deux autres RPG console, Pandora’s Tower et The Last Story développés par le studio Mistwalker....

As investigations into the incident intensified, Greece’s chief air accident investigator told the Guardian his main concern was why the plane’s engines were still running when Jack Fenton and his friends got off it on Monday. “That was the question I asked the pilot and the ground engineers: why were the engines still running?” said Ioannis Kondylis, who heads the country’s Aviation Accident Investigation and Safety Board. “And they replied that they have two procedures, both approved by civil aviation....

Moritz Frankenberg/Getty Images The German city of Hanover has cut off hot water to public buildings, swimming pools, sports halls and gyms as Russian gas cuts fuel fears of a winter energy crisis. The city will also turn off public fountains and stop lighting large buildings at night as the city aims to reduce energy consumption by 15 percent, according to a tweet from Hanover Mayor Belit Onay. “This is a reaction to the impending gas shortage, which is a big challenge for municipalities – especially for a big city like Hanover,” said Onay....

Introduced by Bannon at an event in South Dakota last year as Trump’s “third son from the tropics,” Eduardo became his father’s trusted international envoy and ideologue, forging close ties to conservative allies abroad such as the Trump family. With Jair Bolsonaro facing an uphill battle to win a second term in October in an election seen as a critical test of democracy in Latin America’s largest country, Eduardo has joined his father in challenging Brazil’s electronic voting system and challenges the supreme court....

“It is with deep sadness that Trillium Health Partners mourns the loss of three of our physicians who passed away recently,” Trillium Health spokesman Amit Shilton said in a statement to CTV News Toronto on Wednesday. “Dr. Jakub Sawicki, Dr. Stephen McKenzie and Dr. Lorne Segall were trusted colleagues dedicated to the care of their patients and community.” Trillium Health, which operates hospitals in Toronto and Mississauga, said rumors circulating on social media that the deaths are related to the COVID-19 vaccine are false....

Inhalt Die Schweizerin stürzt auf Etappe 6 und kann die Tour de France Femmes nicht fortsetzen. Zwei Tage nach ihrem Etappensieg in Bar-sur-Aube erlitt Marlen Reusser bei der Tour de France Femmes einen schweren Sturz. Die Schweizerin vom Team SD Worx stürzte 22,5 km vor dem Ziel bei einer Abfahrt zusammen mit Teamkollegin Lotte Kopecky und Lorena Wiebes (DSM). Nach Angaben des Teams erlitt er eine Gehirnerschütterung, wie Untersuchungen im Krankenhaus ergaben....

De plus, nous savons à quel point les soins de santé peuvent être coûteux. Au lieu de parcourir les sites Web de différentes compagnies d’assurance et de passer plusieurs appels ou de remplir plusieurs fois un formulaire similaire, pourquoi ne pas remplir un seul formulaire et demander ensuite des devis ? C’est exactement ce que propose mon comparateur d’assurance : un processus beaucoup plus simple et rapide qui facilite la recherche d’une assurance vie maladies graves....

Former US President Donald Trump returns to Washington on Tuesday for the first time since leaving office, delivering a speech hours after former Vice President Mike Pence, a potential 2024 challenger, called on the Republican Party to stop looking to the back. Trump’s appearance in the nation’s capital — his first trip back since Jan. 20, 2021, when President Joe Biden was sworn into office despite Trump’s frantic efforts to stay in office — comes as some considering White House runs are increasingly willing to challenge him directly....

Miller later said in the video definitively, “There was no direct, there was no order from the President.” “We obviously had plans to activate more people, but that was nothing more than contingency planning,” Miller added. “There was no official message movement or anything like that.” Trump has previously said he has ordered National Guard troops to be ready by Jan. 6. On June 9 he released a statement that he “proposed and offered” as many as 20,000 National Guard troops to be deployed to Washington, DC, before January 6, claiming it was because he felt “that the crowd was going to be too large....

“He knew you don’t go in there loaded with drugs and he admitted it,” Trump said on the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show. “I guess he admitted it without much force because it is what it is, and it sure doesn’t seem like a very good trade, does it? He is absolutely one of the worst in the world and he will be given freedom because a potentially spoiled brat goes to Russia loaded with drugs....

Posted: 08:32, July 29, 2022 | Updated: 08:33, 29 July 2022 A harrowing video has emerged of a 15-week-old puppy being attacked by two dogs as its owner frantically tried to fight them off. The shocking sight was captured on CCTV in Logan, Queensland on Wednesday afternoon, showing the woman trying to pick up her puppy and escape from the jaws of two loose dogs attacking him in her front yard....

“Ukrainian harvest this year threatened to double,” the Ukrainian president tweeted in English. His country’s main goal, Zelensky said, was to prevent a global food crisis caused by the Russian invasion. His comments came as it emerged that the owner of one of Ukraine’s biggest agricultural companies had been killed in the bombing of the strategic southern city of Mykolaiv, near the Black Sea. Before the invasion, Ukraine was known as the breadbasket of Europe, a key supplier for countries in North Africa, the Middle East and Asia....