Category: General

BRUSSELS: Several major airlines in European countries announced the suspension of flights to and from Israel and Lebanon Sunday following escalating hostilities between the two Mideast countries. According to French news channel BFMTV, Air France has decided to suspend its flights to Israel’s Tel Aviv and Lebanon’s Beirut until at least Monday due to growing tensions in the region. “Today’s and tomorrow’s flights are canceled,” an Air France spokesperson said, noting that the suspension could be extended after the company conducts a new assessment on Monday. British Airways also announced a suspension of flights to and from Israel’s Tel Aviv

ANKARA: Rain-triggered flash floods and landslides killed at least 26 people in Thailand and Indonesia on Sunday, with officials saying scores more are missing and search operations underway. At least 13 people were killed, including a Russian couple, when rain-triggered landslides struck Thailand’s resort island of Phuket on Sunday, prompting authorities to launch a major search operation for several missing people, local media reported. Besides the Russian couple, nine of the dead were migrant workers from Myanmar, and the other two were Thais. At least 20 people were injured, and 209 households were damaged in what rescuers described as one

BRUSSELS: Several major airlines in European countries announced the suspension of flights to and from Israel and Lebanon Sunday following escalating hostilities between the two Mideast countries. According to French news channel BFMTV, Air France has decided to suspend its flights to Israel’s Tel Aviv and Lebanon’s Beirut until at least Monday due to growing tensions in the region. “Today’s and tomorrow’s flights are canceled,” an Air France spokesperson said, noting that the suspension could be extended after the company conducts a new assessment on Monday. British Airways also announced a suspension of flights to and from Israel’s Tel Aviv

ANKARA: Rain-triggered flash floods and landslides killed at least 26 people in Thailand and Indonesia on Sunday, with officials saying scores more are missing and search operations underway. At least 13 people were killed, including a Russian couple, when rain-triggered landslides struck Thailand’s resort island of Phuket on Sunday, prompting authorities to launch a major search operation for several missing people, local media reported. Besides the Russian couple, nine of the dead were migrant workers from Myanmar, and the other two were Thais. At least 20 people were injured, and 209 households were damaged in what rescuers described as one

BUTUAN CITY: Dinagat Islands residents are mourning the passing of former governor and lawmaker Glenda Ecleo on Sunday night. She was 87. Ecleo and her husband, Ruben Ecleo Sr., founded the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association Inc. (PBMAI), a non-sectarian and non-profit charitable religious fraternal organization, in 1965. Ecleo authored Republic Act 9355, which established Dinagat Islands as a separate province from Surigao del Norte in 2006. When Dinagat Islands was still part of Surigao del Norte, Ecleo served as representative in its first district which covered the towns in Siargao Island and Dinagat during the 8th Congress (1987-1992), 9th Congress