WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump 's administration is placing economic sanctions on a major China-based oil refinery and roughly 40 shipping companies and tankers involved in transporting Iranian oil. The move, announced Friday and first reported by The Associated Press, makes good...
ŠIAULIAI AIR BASE, Lithuania (AP) — When NATO 's call came, the French fighter pilots scrambled with practiced urgency, already suited up to shorten their response times. They dashed in vans to hangars where their prepped and armed Rafale jets awaited, clambered into the cockpits and fired...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration said Friday it will offer ultra-fast review to three psychedelic drugs being developed to treat mental health conditions, including depression, the latest indication of the Trump administration’s commitment to the experimental treatment...
The Manila City Library (MCL) has expanded its collection with the addition of books and academic journals from Ateneo de Manila University, providing the public with greater access to research and literary works. The newly turned-over materials include titles from Ateneo Press, covering fiction,...
BULACAN — Three drug peddlers, including two on the Philippine National Police–Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PNP–PDEA) Unified Watchlist, were arrested in separate buy-bust operations in Baliwag City and Calumpit on Thursday night, April 23. Police said the operations, conducted jointly...
BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Friday during a visit aimed at strengthening the countries’ strategic partnership and expanding cooperation. The two agreed to strengthen collaboration in fighting transnational crime and...
Two individuals on Makati 's most wanted list stunned authorities Friday morning, April 24, when they casually strolled into the Parañaque City Police headquarters and surrendered. Glendon, 46, and Rhitchel, 26 -- tagged as No. 9 and No. 10 on station-level list for violations of the Social...
BEIJING (AP) — Atlanta will have giant pandas again. China on Friday announced it will send two giant pandas to Zoo Atlanta in the U.S., in Beijing 's latest efforts of panda diplomacy despite tensions with Washington, and less than a month before a much-anticipated visit by U.S. President...
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Leo XIV urged the United States and Iran to return to talks to end the war Thursday and condemned capital punishment, in a wide-ranging press conference en route home from his trip to Africa. Leo also asserted that countries have the right to control their...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Thursday approved a 90-billion-euro ($106-billion) loan package to help Ukraine meet its economic and military needs for two years after oil began flowing through a key pipeline to Hungary and Slovakia, ending months of political deadlock. The EU also...
Parañaque residents can now grab medicines without spending a peso, as the city government rolls out its “Botika ng Parañaque” in all 16 barangays, putting free drugs right at the doorstep of every community. Mayor Edwin Olivarez said the initiative aims to ease the burden of families who...
Police arrested two drug suspects, including a high-value individual (HVI), and seized ₱2.04 million worth of shabu in an entrapment operation inside a fast-food restaurant in Pasay City on April 23. The Southern Police District (SPD) identified the suspects as Chong, 33, tagged as a big-time...
