Paraguay's new president Santiago Pena (AFP) ASUNCION, Paraguay – Paraguayans on Sunday elected a president from the rightwing party in power for nearly eight decades, rejecting a center-left challenger who had railed against endemic institutional corruption. Economist and...
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE – Pope Francis described on Sunday an "acute and strong" pneumonia that led to his hospitalization last month, but the 86-year-old pontiff said he was determined to keep travelling. Pope Francis (AFP) "I felt a strong pain at the end of the (March 29)...
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Sunday announced their commitments to a new 72-hour humanitarian truce, effective as of midnight Sunday. “Based on the endeavors and request of the Saudi-American mediation, the Armed Forces agreed to...
Former secretaries of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Department of National Defense (DND) are among four Filipino recipients of Japanese government awards in the 2023 Spring Conferment of Japanese Decorations, as announced by t he Embassy of Japan in the Philippines on Saturday,...
LONDON, United Kingdom- King Charles III became heir to the throne at the age of just three and waited seven long decades to succeed Queen Elizabeth II. Born on November 14, 1948, his course in life was plotted for him when his grandfather King George VI died, making his mother queen. In 1958,...
MOSCOW, Russia- Five Russian villages on the border with Ukraine were without power as a result of Ukrainian shelling, the governor of Russia's south-western Belgorod region that borders Ukraine said Saturday. The region has been hit by attacks throughout Moscow's more than year-long offensive in...
KHARTOUM, Sudan- Warplanes on bombing raids drew heavy anti-aircraft fire over Khartoum on Saturday as fierce fighting between Sudan's army and paramilitaries entered a third week, violating a renewed truce. More than 500 people have been killed since battles erupted on April 15 between the forces...
GALLABAT, Sudan- An interminable row of minibuses lines the road that separates Sudan's southeastern city of Gedaref from the Ethiopian border, slowly bringing people fleeing Sudan's war closer to safety. There, families have been "sleeping on the ground out in the open", said Oktay Oglu, a Turkish...
MADRID, Spain- Spain will invest 1.3 billion euros ($1.43 billion) in vocational training to fight youth unemployment, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Saturday. The measure will create 824 new training centres for digital skills, 45,000 vocational training places and 1,500 classrooms for...
WASHINGTON, United States- Washington's political and media elites observe their annual truce -- of a few hours -- Saturday at the White House Correspondents Association dinner, where President Joe Biden will find himself the butt of jokes and hit back with his own. The ritual is a landmark on the...
BUDAPEST, Hungary- Pope Francis called for a recovery of the European spirit and a rejection of "adolescent belligerence" amid rising nationalism and war in Ukraine, during his visit to Budapest Friday. The pontiff's three-day trip started with a meeting with Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Three Pakistani soldiers and seven militants were killed in multiple clashes in the country's restive northwest, the military said on Friday. The clashes occurred in the Lakki Marwat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which shares a border with Afghanistan. In one...
