NEW DELHI, India - At least four people were electrocuted Saturday and seven others injured after a Muslim religious procession came into contact with a high-voltage wire in India, police told AFP. The Islamic calendar is currently in the month of Muharram, the holiest time for Shiites across the...
NEW DELHI, India - India's wild tiger population is estimated to now exceed 3,600, according to new government figures released Saturday, in a vindication of conservation efforts for the endangered species. Tigers once roamed throughout central, eastern and southern Asia, but have lost nearly 95...
KYIV, Ukraine - President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday he was visiting "advanced positions" of Ukraine's special forces near the hotspot of Bakhmut as Kyiv ramps up its counter-offensive. "The Bakhmut direction, advanced positions of the Special Operations Forces," Zelensky said on...
A police officer walks through a flooded street caused by heavy rains after Typhoon Doksuri landfall in Xiamen, in China's eastern Fujian province on July 28, 2023. (Photo by AFP) BEIJING, China -- Typhoon Doksuri hit southeastern China on Friday morning, bringing high winds and battering rains to...
SINGAPORE, Singapore -- Singapore on Friday hanged a 45-year-old citizen for drug trafficking, the city-state's first execution of a woman in nearly 20 years, officials said. The execution was carried out despite appeals from rights groups, who argue capital punishment has no proven deterrent effect...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday offered free grain to six poor African countries as he launched a summit with leaders from the continent days after withdrawing from the Ukraine grain export deal. The two-day summit in Putin's native Saint Petersburg is being...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Authorities were racing Thursday to prevent a possible ecological disaster off the Dutch coast where a blaze raged aboard a car carrier ship for a second day. The Fremantle Highway, a Panamanian-flagged vessel, remained tethered to a salvage ship but was drifting...
CHENNAI, India - G20 environment ministers in India readied a fresh bid on Thursday to strike deals tackling climate change, days after heavy criticism for failing to agree on cutting fossil fuel use. Environment chiefs from the Group of 20 major economies -- constituting more than 80...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Two tram operators were slapped with a £14 million ($18 million) fine on Thursday for a 2016 tram derailment which killed seven and seriously injured 21 people. The sentencing at London's Old Bailey court fined Transport for London (TfL) £10 million and Tram...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russia's security service on Thursday said it foiled an attack on a ship in the Black Sea, where tensions are building after the end of a deal protecting grain exports. The FSB said it "foiled an attempt by Ukraine's special service to commit a terror attack aboard one of the...
Minister Rechie Valdez, the first Filipino-Canadian Member of Parliament (MP) in Canada, was appointed as the Minister of Small Business in the current Cabinet formed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Canadian Minister Rechie Valdez / MANILA BULLETIN She is one of the seven new Liberal MPs who...
MANILA, Philippines -- The number of working children in the Philippines continues to rise, with an estimated 1.48 million children aged 5 to 17 working in 2022, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Tuesday. According to the data, among 31.71 million children aged 5 to 17 in the...
