AFP/MANILA BULLETIN MOSCOW, Russia– Russia on Sunday put Meta Platforms spokesperson Andy Stone on a wanted list on unspecified charges as the US social media giant -- which owns Facebook -- is classed as "extremist" by Moscow. Russia has hugely cracked down on media and social media freedom...
Rescue personnel work at the collapsed under construction Silkyara tunnel in the Uttarkashi district of India's Uttarakhand state, on November 25, 2023. Indian rescuers began digging a vertical shaft on November 25 to free 41 workers trapped inside a collapsed road tunnel for two weeks, after...
BANGKOK, Thailand– Kittiya Thuengsaeng thought her 28-year-old boyfriend was among the almost 40 Thais killed in Hamas's deadly assault on Israel last month. But on Friday night Thai officials shocked her with news so good it seemed impossible. "I couldn't believe my eyes," she told...
KYIV, Ukraine– Ukraine said on Saturday it had downed 74 out of 75 Russian attack drones overnight, in what Kyiv said was the biggest drone attack since the start of the invasion. The Ukrainian army said Russia had launched a "record number" of Iranian-made Shahed drones, the majority...
SILKYARA TUNNEL , India - Just a few metres of rock and earth separate Indian rescue teams from 41 workers who have been trapped inside a collapsed road tunnel for nearly two weeks, officials said Friday, vowing to get all the men out safely. After a series of rapid advances, hopes that the...
TEL AVIV, Israel - Israel was eagerly awaiting what one official called the "miracle" release Friday of women and children taken hostage by Palestinian militants during the deadliest attack in the country's history. But the authorities were also gearing up for the complex task of helping those...
MOSCOW, Russia - President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the West had a "dangerous" monopoly over artificial intelligence and Russia needed to rival "biased" Western chatbots with its own technology. The race to develop AI has heated up since the breakout launch of the ChatGPT generative...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The Belgian city of Charleroi on Thursday condemned anti-Semitic vandalism after at least 85 Jewish graves in one of its cemeteries were damaged and objects stolen. A gravedigger in a cemetery in the Marcinelle neighbourhood of the southern city discovered the damage in...
SILKYARA TUNNEL, India - Ambulances were on standby Thursday as Indian rescuers dug through the final metres of debris separating them from 41 workers trapped in a collapsed road tunnel for nearly two weeks. TOPSHOT - A rescue personnel stands near an entrance of the Silkyara under construction...
DUBLIN, Ireland - Protesters on Thursday fought running battles with police, torched vehicles and looted shops in Dublin, after three young children were injured in a knife attack outside a school. Protestors sort through looted goods in Dublin on November 23, 2023, as people took to the streets in...
Lee Young-soo (2nd R), 95, a victim of Japan's alleged forced sexual slavery during World War II, is presented with flowers at a Lawyers for a Democratic Society meeting in Seoul on November 23, 2023, after the High Court overturned a lower court's rejection of a damages suit filed by victims of...
JAKARTA, Indonesia– Indonesia has named the chairman of its anti-graft commission as a suspect in a corruption case, according to police, in a setback to the reputation of an agency set up two decades ago after the fall of dictator Suharto. It is the first time the head of the country's...
