DOHA, Qatar -- The Ukraine conflict has unleashed a "Third World War" over misinformation, an official from the beleaguered country said Saturday, while experts warned of the difficulty in convincing Russians what their army is doing. Russia's war on Ukraine has also forced a profound change in the...
KYIV, Ukraine -- Russian forces took control of a town where staff working at the Chernobyl nuclear site live and briefly detained the mayor, sparking protests, Ukrainian officials said Saturday. "I have been released. Everything is fine, as far as it is possible under occupation," Yuri Fomichev,...
WARSAW, Poland – US President Joe Biden on Saturday castigated Vladimir Putin over the month-old war in Ukraine, bluntly calling the Russian leader "a butcher" who "cannot remain in power". In an impassioned speech from the Royal Castle in Warsaw, delivered after meeting top Ukrainian...
DOHA, Qatar -- Russia's "bragging" about its nuclear weapons is fuelling a dangerous arms race, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Doha Forum on Saturday. Zelensky also called on Qatar, which organises the annual meeting of international political and business leaders, to increase...
A Vladimir Putin state visit to the Philippines may be in the offing if former senator Bongbong Marcos becomes the country’s next president. Presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (Photo from Lakas-CMD Media, AFP) In his guesting on The Deep Probe: The...
Former three-term Senator Loren Legarda has called on the country’s economic managers to ensure food security by helping Filipino farmers and fisherfolk. Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda This, as the current House deputy speaker from Antique cited possible repercussions of a looming shortage of...
LONDON, United Kingdom -- Western officials on Friday named seven Russian generals they said had so far been killed, and another who had been sacked, during the war in Ukraine. The latest to die, Lieutenant General Yakov Rezanstev, was a commander of Russia's 49th Combined Arms Army in its southern...
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will ask Russian leader Vladimir Putin to be an "architect of peace" and stop the war in Ukraine, Turkish media reported Friday. Erdogan, who has been trying to broker peace between Moscow and Kyiv, made the comments while returning from a...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- Dozens of Ukrainian officials, journalists and activists have been detained or forcibly disappeared by invading Russian forces, the UN said Friday, warning that some cases resembled "hostage-taking". Since Russia invaded Ukraine just over a month ago, the United Nations...
Manila Archbishop Jose Cardinal Advincula on Friday, March 25, led the consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary at the Manila Cathedral in Intramuros. Cardinal Jose Advincula leads act of consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary at the Manila...
Aspiring president Vice President Leni Robredo believes that the Philippines must take a stand and should not remain neutral over Russia's invasion into Ukraine. Vice President Leni Robredo (VPLR Media Bureau) During the "Kandidatalks" presidentiables series, Robredo said it is crucial for the...
BRUXELLES, Belgium -- US President Joe Biden will travel to a town near the Polish-Ukrainian border Friday, trying to signal Western resolve against a Russian invasion that has increasingly turned to a grinding war of attrition. Air Force One will jet into the eastern Polish town of Rzeszow --...
