LILLE, France - Ten people were injured, four seriously, after a car drove into a crowd at an international kite-flying festival in northern France on Saturday, local officials said. Initial reports suggested that the elderly driver lost control of the vehicle and slammed into...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil- On his farm in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil's grain basket, Ilson Jose Redivo finished planting his corn crop a few weeks ago, acting quickly once he'd harvested the soybeans that he'd grown on the same fields. In this region of west-central Brazil, the fields stretch as...
WARSAW, Poland- Poland on Friday resumed transit shipments of Ukrainian grain and other food through its territory, partially lifting a nearly week-long ban imposed in response to protests from farmers. Poland and other EU countries bordering Ukraine imposed temporary bans on Ukrainian grain imports...
PARIS, France- A Paris court on Friday sentenced Lebanese-Canadian citizen Hassan Diab to life in prison for the 1980 bombing of a synagogue in which four people died. The court followed prosecutors' request for the maximum possible punishment against Diab, now 69 and a university professor, who was...
WASHINGTON, United States- The US Supreme Court was poised Friday to wade into the legal battle over the abortion drug mifepristone with a ruling on lower court-ordered restrictions on the widely used pill. The nation's highest court has until midnight Friday (0400 GMT Saturday) to decide how it...
BEIJING, China- Beijing accused the United States Friday of "naked economic coercion and technological bullying", in response to Washington's potential new restrictions on US firms' ability to invest in Chinese entities. The Biden administration is considering a programme to restrict certain US...
GENEVA, Switzerland- More than 400 people have been killed and over 3,500 others hurt in the fighting in Sudan, the World Health Organization said Friday. "Four hundred and thirteen people have died and 3,551 people have been injured ... that we know of," WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told...
MANILA, Philippines- Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang was due to arrive in Manila Friday to try to boost ties with the Philippines, which is staging its largest-ever military exercises with the United States. Philippine officials said Qin is set to meet President Ferdinand Marcos on Saturday after...
SHANGHAI, China – Criticizing China over Taiwan will have dangerous consequences, Foreign Minister Qin Gang warned Friday, as he insisted Beijing is a "growing force for peace and justice."...
WASHINGTON, United States – President Joe Biden will welcome Philippine President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to the White House on May 1 in a sign of a warming bond between the two nations amid US tensions with China over Taiwan. Biden will reaffirm Washington’s "ironclad commitment to the...
WARSAW GHETTO ANNIVERSARY - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L), Polish President Andrzej Duda (C), and Israel's President Isaac Herzog leave after laying wreaths at The Monument to the Ghetto Heroes during commemorations of the 80th  anniversary of the start of the...
(https://images.mb.com.ph/production/mb-mkt-neo-prod-1-uploads/CHILDREN_PHOTO_6f3e3ce413/CHILDREN_PHOTO_6f3e3ce413.jfif) Photo credit: UNICEF/UN0579231/Htet UNITED NATIONS – Some 67 million children partially or fully missed routine vaccines globally between 2019 and 2021 because of...
