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Philippine president blames foreign militants for a bombing that killed 4 Christian worshippers

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 08:11:43 GMT

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president blamed “foreign terrorists” for a bomb blast that killed four people Sunday, wounded dozens of other Catholic worshippers in the south and sparked a security alarm, including in the capital, Manila, where state forces were put on alert.The suspected bomb, which the police said was made from a mortar round, went off and hit students and teachers who attended a Mass in a gymnasium at Mindanao State University in southern Marawi city, Taha Mandangan, the security chief of the state-run campus, told The Associated Press by telephone.Dozens of students and teachers dashed out of the gym and the wounded were taken to hospitals.Regional military commander Maj. Gen. Gabriel Viray III said four people were killed by the explosion, including three women, and 50 others were brought to two hospitals for treatment.Six of the wounded were fighting for their lives in a hospital, said Gov. Mamintal Adiong Jr. of the Islamic province of Lanao del S...

Cómo será el aumento del nivel del mar en las ciudades que albergaron cumbres climáticas

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 08:11:43 GMT

(CNN) —  Mientras los líderes y delegados mundiales se reúnen en Dubai para la cumbre anual sobre el clima de la ONU , un nuevo análisis muestra cómo las ciudades anfitrionas de cumbres anteriores podrían verse inundadas, si no completamente sumergidas, por el aumento de las aguas del océano.El incesante aumento de la contaminación que calienta el planeta ya provocó graves sequías, inundaciones mortales y un rápido derretimiento de glaciares y hielo en todo el mundo. Y los científicos dicen que el aumento constante del nivel del mar global continuará durante muchas décadas a medida que las temperaturas aumenten.El análisis de Climate Central , un grupo de investigación climática sin fines de lucro, ilustra el riesgo si los países no logran detener la precipitada tendencia al calentamiento del planeta. Un informe reciente de la ONU mostró que el mundo está actualmente en camino de calentarse hasta 2,9 grados .Utilizando proyecciones de aumento del nivel del mar revisadas por pa...

Awaiting on a Cold Front this Week

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 08:11:43 GMT

Following record heat in Miami on Saturday with highs in the mid 80s despite it being December, I’m sure some of you are hoping for another cold front.Well there is good news because a cold front arrives Tuesday night, ushering in another drop in temperatures. Before we get there, however, temperatures will continue to rise, with record heat possible this Sunday in Marathon.Highs at most locations today should be about 1F warmer than on Saturday due to a south to southwest wind in place, helping to maximize the temperatures. Otherwise it will be humid with times of sun and clouds and the possibility for isolated showers, especially in the afternoon.Monday will be the last very warm day — relatively speaking — until a front arrives Monday evening, flipping winds from the southwest to the northwest. This first front out of two will drop humidity and temperatures by a few degrees for Tuesday.It’s not until Tuesday night when a cold front — essentially just...

France, Germany deplore Paris knife attack that left German man dead

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 08:11:43 GMT

The French president and Germany’s foreign affairs minister condemned Saturday’s knife attack in Paris that injured two and left a German national dead. Anti-terrorism prosecutors have opened an investigation into the assault.Police arrested a 26-year-old Frenchman, who had been on the security services watchlist, soon after the attack Saturday night near the Eiffel Tower. Officials said the victim was with his wife when he was attacked and fatally stabbed on Quai de Grenelle.“I send all my condolences to the family and loved ones of the German national who died this evening during the terrorist attack in Paris,” French President Emmanuel Macron said on X. “The national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office … will be responsible for shedding light on this matter so that justice can be done in the name of the French people,” he said. Emergency services treated the two injured, a French national and a foreign tourist, whose wounds are not life-threatening.Following his arrest...

The Herald’s final Sweet 16 of the 2023 season

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 08:11:43 GMT

No one can ever accuse the 2023 Xaverian football team of backing into a Division 1 state title.The Hawks survived what could be best be described as a gauntlet on their way to the school’s first Super Bowl title since 2015. There was an epic quarterfinal win over state power Springfield Central, a hard-fought semifinal win over a 10-win Needham team and two wins over archrival St. John’s Prep in a six-day stretch to claim the Div. 1 crown.“If you were writing a book, they might say this one would have been sports fiction,” Xaverian coach Al Fornaro said. “I don’t know if anyone has ever had to beat teams like that and then to beat a team the quality of St. John’s Prep was impressive, but our guys were ready to play.“We had some guys banged up (the Hawks played the final two games without star wide receivers Jonathan Monteiro and Charlie Comella), but we always say next man up. Sometimes it’s nothing more than words, but we let them know that they are o...

MLB notes: Red Sox enter pivotal Winter Meetings with extensive to-do list

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 08:11:43 GMT

The Red Sox have had several months now to get their house in order.Once it became clear that a third last place finish in four years was imminent, the club moved on from chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom and handed the keys to Craig Breslow. Since then the newly-minted baseball boss has mostly worked behind the scenes, enmeshing himself in the organizations and formulating a plan for how to build the Red Sox back into a contender.That changes this week, and in the coming days we should see Breslow finally begin executing his vision.Over the next four days the baseball world will gather in Nashville for the annual Winter Meetings, which have historically served as the offseason’s biggest hotbed of activity. Deals will get done, trades will be made, and by next week baseball’s new landscape should come into focus.The Red Sox are expected to be active, but beyond addressing their own needs there will be other events with industry-wide implications that will affect the clu...

Indonesia’s Marapi volcano erupts, spewing ash plumes and blanketing several villages with ash

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 08:11:43 GMT

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s Mount Marapi in West Sumatra province erupted Sunday, spewing white-and-gray ash plumes for more than 3,000 meters (about 9,800 feet) into the air, and hot ash clouds blew several miles to the north, according to Indonesia’s Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center.There were no casualties, said Ahmad Rifandi, an official at the Marapi monitoring post, adding that villagers were advised to stay 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) from the crater’s mouth and be aware of the danger of potential lava.National Disaster Management Agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari said several villages were blanketed with falling ash. He said Marapi’s eruption alert was maintained at the second-highest level and that authorities have been closely monitoring the volcano after sensors picked up increasing activity in recent weeks.Japan’s Meteorological Agency said Sunday it is currently assessing whether there is a possible tsunami in the country because of Marapi...

Naloxone: What to know about the opioid overdose-reversing drug, free across Canada

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 08:11:43 GMT

HALIFAX — Health Canada has called the opioid crisis one of the most serious public health threats in recent history, and an addictions specialist says everyone can play a part in helping reduce the death toll. All it takes is access to naloxone, a life-saving medication that temporarily reverses an opioid overdose.“It’s something that all adult Canadians, and I would hazard to guess teenagers as well, should have access to and be aware of,” said Dr. Sam Hickcox, chief officer of the Nova Scotia government’s Office of Mental Health and Addictions. “If there’s something we could do to save a life, why wouldn’t we?”He compared administering naloxone to using an EpiPen to treat someone having an anaphylactic allergic reaction.Hickcox said the country’s ongoing opioid epidemic has been made worse as Canada’s illicit drug supply became “poisoned” in recent years with toxic, highly potent opioid additives like fentanyl and carfentanil. Some users report not knowing...

Sunday Bulletin Board: The key to fixing stuff: A good, firm slap of the hand!

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 08:11:43 GMT

Then & NowRUSTY of St. Paul: “When I was growing up, in the late 1950s and 1960s, we had an old, heavy Admiral TV. It had a black steel cabinet which sat up on legs. It had tubes that had to warm up before the image on the screen appeared.“Often the vertical hold would goof up, so that we had a pile of lines moving from the bottom of the screen to the top. There was a vertical hold knob to twist to adjust the problem, but sometimes it didn’t quite solve the issue. In those cases, either my dad or we boys would slap the right side of the box with an open hand as hard as we could . . . and that usually was the ticket.“Fast-forward to last week. I was having trouble with our P.O. box at the post office in the small town in northern Wisconsin where we live for half the year. I could open the door with the key as usual, but when I locked it shut, I could then open it with my fingernail placed under the corner of the door. But then I couldn’t close the do...

Muzzleloader hunter made second shot count to drop three-antlered trophy buck

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 08:11:43 GMT

They say the world belongs to those who show up.In this case it’s a very rare deer that belongs to Chase Mortenson for showing up.It’s a funky-looking deer at that, with a third and middle antler that gave this buck the moniker of “unicorn.” Mortenson, of Madison, Minn., dropped the 11-point buck around 4:45 p.m. Sunday just west of Granite Falls.It was the second day of the muzzleloader deer season. Chase Mortenson had taken up an invitation from his uncle Scott Mortenson to come out and hunt on his land between the city of Granite Falls and the Granite Falls Energy plant.Chase said his brother declined the invitation to come out with him, and regrets it now.Had his brother came out, Chase said his brother would have been the one in the blind from which he was able to harvest this big buck.As it was, Chase was hunkered down in the blind as strong winds ushered in eye-tearing temperatures. The blustery winds didn’t seem to bother the two big bucks that Mortenson saw around 100 to 15...