Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Russian invasion of Ukraine. Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion. Ukraine reports capturing 82 Russian settlements within an area of 1,150 square kilometres (440 sq mi) since the start of the Kursk incursion on August 6.
A Philippine ferry carrying 82 passengers and crew caught fire as it was approaching a port south of Manila on Friday, and at least 73 of those aboard have been rescued, including many who jumped ...
June 5, 2024 at 10:57 PM. MANILA, Philippines (AP) — At least six crewmembers of a fishing boat were killed when an explosion and a fire hit their vessel at sea nearly 3 kilometers (1.8 miles ...
An electrical fire razed the Star City amusement park and the adjacent Manila Broadcasting Company building in Pasay. [128] 21-23 May 2023 - The Manila Central Post Office was gutted by a fire that started from a leaking car battery. [129] 31 August 2023 - A fire at a house doubling as a t-shirt factory in Quezon City killed 15. [130]
Maritime Vessel Shipping line 1 Date Deaths 1 Missing 1 Survivors 1 Remarks SS Corregidor: Compania Maritima 17 December 1941 900-1,200 [1]: Unknown 282 The ferry was sailing to the Visayas and was carrying around 1200-1500 passengers, mostly refugees fleeing the bombing of Manila by the Japanese during the Second World War, when it struck a mine off Corregidor Island and sank in five minutes.
Notes. Chinese Massacre of 1603. October 1603. Manila, Captaincy General of the Philippines. 15,000–25,000 [ 1] Fearing an uprising by the large Chinese community in the Philippines, the Spanish colonists carried out the massacre, largely in the Manila area. [ 2] Chinese Massacre of 1639.
BEIJING/MANILA (Reuters) -China summoned the ambassador from the Philippines on Tuesday and warned the country "not to play with fire" after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr congratulated Taiwan's ...
Today, environmental problems in the Philippines include pollution, mining and logging, deforestation, threats to environmental activists, dynamite fishing, landslides, coastal erosion, biodiversity loss, extinction, global warming and climate change. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Due to the paucity of extant documents, a complete history of land use in the ...