HONG KONG, China - Hong Kong's first "patriots only" district council elections saw a turnout of 27.5 percent, the government said Monday, a record-low number for a race that had shut out all opposition candidates. Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee (L) and his wife Janet Lam (R) cast their votes...
ROME, Italy - Two trains crashed into each other at low speed in northern Italy late Sunday, injuring at least 17 people, none seriously, firefighters and the train operator said. The accident between a high-speed train and a regional train occurred on the line between Bologna and Rimini,...
AFP/MANILA BULLETIN UNITED NATIONS, (Xinhua) -- The UN Security Council failed to adopt a draft resolution on Friday that would have demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza due to a veto cast by the United States. Many countries expressed disappointment and regret over the U.S. veto of...
AFP/MANILA BULLETIN CAIRO, (Xinhua) – Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Saturday vowed to make joint efforts to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. In a phone conversation, "the two presidents agreed to continue making earnest...
A homeless man sits on a luggage bag along a downtown Los Angeles street lined with tents housing the homeless on November 22, 2023 in Los Angeles, California, where skyrocketing rents in recent years has led to an increasing rise in the number of unhoused people. Some 75,500 people live on the...
AFP/MANILA BULLETIN HANOI, Vietnam– China's President Xi Jinping will arrive in Vietnam on Tuesday on a mission to strengthen relations, just months after Washington and Hanoi upgraded their diplomatic ties. China and Vietnam have a border in common, as well as close economic ties and...
This handout picture released on December 8, 2023 by the Pompeii archaeological park, shows the Regio IX area of the site where a prison-bakery has been discovered, announced the archaeological park on the same day. According to historians the bakery was a space where enslaved people and donkeys...
Environmental activists hold up placards during a demonstration outside the headquarters of BP (formerly British Petroleum) in central London on December 9, 2023, gathering in solidarity with people on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Climate negotiators at the COP28 talks in Dubai are...
BEIJING, China– Deflation in China accelerated in November, official data showed Saturday, underlining the difficulties the world's second-largest economy faces in reviving slowing demand. The figures came after President Xi Jinping said Friday that the Asian giant's post-pandemic...
JAKARTA, Indonesia– A tanker carrying oil from sanctioned Venezuela has run aground near the Singapore strait, according to a ship tracking firm and Indonesian officials. The Cameroon-flagged MT Liberty ship, carrying a cargo of 139,000 tonnes of oil, has been grounded since at least...
This photograph taken on December 9, 2023, shows the cover of a document from the Department of Information of the United Nations, dated March 1949, bearing the "Declaration Universelle des Droits de l'Homme" (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of...
Workers walk on a platform at Union Station in Washington, DC, on November 28, 2023. Old-fashioned, slow, infrequent and often non-existent, trains have long been the poor relation of cars and planes in the United States. President Joe Biden's administration is hoping to change that as it unveils...
