JAKARTA, Indonesia - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has moved its first-ever joint drills, Indonesia's military said Tuesday, edging them away from waters disputed by China. The bloc's joint exercises were initially slated for the North Natuna Sea, which Indonesia claims as its...
PARIS, France - The French government said Tuesday that it would soon shut down an activist climate group over a series of recent demonstrations including one that led to fierce clashes with police over a controversial irrigation project. Government spokesman Olivier Veran accused the...
MADRID, Spain - Spain's Supreme Court on Tuesday began examining a case filed by Greenpeace and other environmental groups accusing the central government of insufficient action to tackle climate change, the court and NGOs said. A spokeswoman confirmed the court had begun assessing the...
OSLO, Norway - Norway said Tuesday it plans to open parts of its continental shelf to commercial deep-sea mining exploration, a controversial move it hoped would set the standard for good practices. The announcement comes a day after the UN adopted the first international treaty to protect...
BORDEAUX, France - The French government faced accusations from the right on Tuesday of failing to ensure public security after a video of a woman and her granddaughter being attacked on their doorstep prompted shock in France. The grandmother, aged 73, and her granddaughter, 7, were attacked...
The Philippine women’s football team is set to play an unofficial closed training match against world No. 3 Sweden on July 17 in Wellington, New Zealand. Per the Philippine Football Federation, the said friendly will serve as the last training match for the Filipinas before they open their...
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts — proverb. Troy didn’t listen and paid a terrible price. *Giannis Antetokounmpo of Greece. (FIBA photo)* Transpose to the present: Qualifiers to the 2023 FIBA World Cup are best advised to heed the same counsel lest they suffer the Trojans’ fate. Forewarned is...
By MARK MONTEJO Justin Brownlee is scheduled to travel straight from the United States to Estonia to join Gilas Pilipinas in a pocket tournament. *(Right) Justin Brownlee. (File/FIBA photo)* Gilas head coach Chot Reyes disclosed this on social media Tuesday, June 20, adding that Brownlee had to...
From barely getting recognition, the Philippine women’s national football team is set to make its FIFA World Cup debut next month. The historic opportunity came when Sarina Bolden fired the penalty kick for the Philippines in their dramatic shootout against Chinese Taipei in the Asian Cup in 2022....
In this picture taken on June 8, 2023, a boy fills up a canister with water from a tanker truck on the outskirts of Yemen's third city of Taez. AHMAD AL-BASHA / AFP TAEZ, Yemen --Â Every day at dawn, 14-year-old Salim Mohammad leaves home to fetch water, trekking through his city in southwestern...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said Friday that conditions were not yet right for ASEAN to open high-level talks with Myanmar on the country's political situation. "We believe it would be premature to re-engage with the junta at a summit level or even at...
Residents are seen at the premises of an attack in Mpondwe, Uganda, on June 17, 2023 at the Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School. AFP MPONDWE, Uganda -- Militants linked to the Islamic State group hacked and burned 37 students to death in western Uganda in the country's worst such attack in over a...
