AFP/ MANILA BULLETIN TORONTO, Canada– Canada "will not back down" in the face of tech giants' opposition to a new law requiring companies like Google and Meta to pay publishers for news content, Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said Friday. She added that she was "optimistic" that...
In this pool photograph distributed by Sputnik agency, Russia's President Vladimir Putin looks on during a meeting with the President of Kazakhstan in Novo-Ogaryovo on October 7, 2023. (Photo by Vyacheslav PROKOFYEV / POOL / AFP) MOSCOW, Russia– Russian Vladimir Putin on Saturday...
Photo from AFP/ MANILA BULLETIN VATICAN CITY, Holy See– Pope Francis opened a major congress on the Catholic Church's future Wednesday, vowing open doors to "everyone" despite tensions with conservatives on issues from LGBTQ faithful to the treatment of divorcees. The general assembly...
Photo from AFP/MANILA BULLETIN MONTREAL, Canada– Canada's prime minister on Wednesday hailed the "historic" election of Manitoba First Nations politician Wab Kinew as the first contemporary Indigenous person to head a provincial government. Kinew, of the leftist New Democratic...
Kaiser Permanente employees, joined by Union members representing the workers, walk the picket line in Los Angeles, California on October 4, 2023. More than 75,000 employees at Kaiser Permanente began one of the largest healthcare worker strikes in recent US history on Wednesday after failing to...
Photo from AFP/ MANIILA BULLETIN NEW YORK, United States– New York Attorney General Letitia James hit back at Donald Trump on Wednesday over his virulent attacks on the $250 million civil fraud suit she brought against him, saying she will "not be bullied." "The Donald Trump show is...
US President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with his Cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 2, 2023. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) WASHINGTON, United States– President Joe Biden admitted Wednesday he was worried that political turmoil in...
TOKYO, Japan– Japan has seen its hottest September since records began 125 years ago, the weather agency said, in a year expected to be the warmest in human history. The scorching September's average temperature was 2.66 degrees Celsius (36.78 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than usual, the...
LONDON, United Kingdom– A lightning strike hit a UK food waste recycling plant on Monday, sending a huge fireball into the night sky and cutting power nearby. Severn Trent Green Power, which runs the Cassington AD (anaerobic digestion) facility near Yarnton, just north of the city of...
UAW members and workers hold signs outside the Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant after walking off their jobs in Chicago, Illinois, on September 29, 2023. Another 7,000 members of the biggest US automobile workers' union on Friday joined an already major strike against the top three Detroit car...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See -- Five conservative cardinals urged Pope Francis to reaffirm traditional Catholic doctrine in a document made public Monday, two days before a major gathering on the Church's future. Pope Francis (AFP) The cardinals, from four different continents, asked...
NEW YORK, United States -- US Representative Matt Gaetz, a Republican, on Monday moved ahead with his attempt to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy from the leadership post, offering a motion to vacate the chair on the House floor. This official photo of U.S. House Representative Matt Gaetz, a...
