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If winning gold medals were the only standard, almost all Olympic athletes would be considered failures. A clinical psychologist with the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, Emily Clark’s job when the Winter Games open in Italy on Feb. 6 is to help athletes interpret what it means to be successful. Should gold medals be the only …

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HELSINKI (AP) — Thousands of tourists were stranded in northern Finland on Sunday after flights at Kittilä airport were canceled due to severe cold. The temperature at the airport dropped to minus 37 degrees Celsius (minus 34.6 degrees Fahrenheit) on Sunday morning, after several days of similar frigid weather, making de-icing of aircraft and other operations …

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 Leading fiber broadband and technology solutions provider Converge ICT Solutions Inc. has been declared as the Philippines’ foremost leader in broadband, as it delivers the fastest average speeds, lowest latency, and most consistent performance among all providers evaluated for December 2025 by the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT). According to the analysis report, …

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JERUSALEM (AP) — The photos seemed destined for posterity in Israel’s state archives. In the snapshots, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is joined by his wife, Sara, as well as U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee and a group of Israeli soldiers, as they light Hannukah candles at Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews pray. The leaders …

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HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court convened a hearing Monday to hear arguments about the sentencing of democracy advocate and onetime media magnate Jimmy Lai, whose conviction under a national security law could land him in jail for the rest of his life. Lai, 78, is the founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper and an …

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SAO PAULO (AP) — For nearly 20 years, Brazil’s largest soy producers assured buyers that their harvest — the world’s biggest — wasn’t grown on land cleared from Amazonian forests. The pledge, known as the soy moratorium, has been widely credited with helping curb rainforest loss. That changed this week when the biggest grain traders announced they …

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The local government lined up a series of activities to celebrate this year’s Spring festival and the Chinese Lunar New year from February 9-22, 2026. The celebration of the Spring festival will fire off on February 9, 2026 with the launching of the calendar of activities during the regular Monday flag raising ceremony at the …

Baguio Spring Festival set Feb. 9-22 Read More »

The 30th edition of the Panagbenga otherwise known as the Baguio flower festival will be formally launched by the Baguio Flower Festival Foundation, Inc. (BFFFI) and the local government at the city hall grounds simultaneously with the conduct of the regular flag raising ceremony on Monday, January 12, 2026. The annual staging of the month-long …

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The city government wants to put order in the Maharlika Livelihood Center by creating a conducive business environment for legitimate stallholders doing business in the facility. City Budget officer lawyer Leticia O. Clemente, chairperson of the Maharlika Livelihood Center Transition Committee, said that what the city government is doing is to gradually implement the necessary …

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Administrative/Procurement officers of the Local Government Unit of Baguio and national line agencies were oriented on the Pansa-nopen tayo Circular Economy transition guidelines for government office events and activities, at the Baguio Convention and Cultural Center (BCCC), Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026. The competencies as crafted from inputs through the city’s Local Circular Economy Action Team …

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