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MANILA, Philippines—Filipino pole vaulting ace EJ Obiena showed gratitude to his longtime coach Vitaly Petrov, who received a prestigious award from the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday. Petrov was bestowed the IOC Coaches’ Lifetime Achievement Award in Lausanne, Switzerland for his “long-standing dedication to their respective sports and the athletes they coach.” He was awarded alongside Great Britain’s Aquatics head coach Jane Figueiredo. Obiena is among the many pole vaulters that Petro has mentored in a list that includes legends of the sport like Sergey Bubka. READ: Legend-maker Vitaly Petrov will plan EJ Obiena’s Olympic blueprint at season’s end “I […]…

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Drew Arellano and his firstborn Primo had a father-and-son bonding as they joined and finished a marathon held in Queenstown, New Zealand. Drew documented their experience through his Instagram page on Tuesday, Nov. 19. The father and son appear to have run under different categories as they had different name and number tags during the race. Primo’s has a “parent/caregiver” written on it. “Not sure if it was the breathtaking snowcapped mountain range and lake views that slowed me down, or the rolling terrain—but one thing is for sure: every second of pain was totally worth it,” Drew said in […]…

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KYIV, Ukraine — Russia warned on Tuesday that it would respond after Ukraine fired longer-range US missiles at its territory for the first time, as President Vladimir Putin issued a nuclear threat on the 1,000th day of the war. A senior official told AFP that a strike on Russia’s Bryansk region earlier on Tuesday “was carried out by ATACMS missiles” — a reference to the US-supplied Army Tactical Missile System.Speaking 1,000 days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the attack showed Western countries wanted to “escalate” the conflict.READ MORE: Ukraine fires several US-made longer-range missiles into […]…

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MANILA, Philippines — The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Wednesday it is validating the nine reported deaths due to the onslaught of recent tropical cyclones in the country. In a situational report of the agency issued at 8 a.m. on Nov. 20, the NDRRMC also disclosed that the number of people affected by cyclones Nika (international name: Toraji), Ofel (international name: Usagi), and Pepito (international name: Man-yi) increased to 3,031,171 people or 820,831 families as of their last counting. Of the total, 442,857 were displaced – including 288,566 in evacuation centers and 154,291 outside evacuation sites […]…

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MANILA, Philippines — Groups opposed to the so-called “commercialization” of the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman campus in Quezon City staged a protest during the opening of a supermarket at the “DiliMall” on Monday even as UP president Angelo Jimenez said the establishment would benefit the community. The DiliMall is located on the former […]…

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