TOKYO, Japan - Japan scrambled fighter jets on Friday after Russian patrol aircraft were seen off the Sea of Japan and East China Sea, the country's Joint Staff said. Two planes flew along the coast between Japan's central and southern regions, passing through the Tsushima Strait and returning...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russian forces destroyed Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow and its Black Sea Fleet, officials said Friday, the latest in a surge of attacks on the capital and the flashpoint waterway. The drone assaults came as a Russian-proxy official confirmed speculation that Ukrainian...
With less than a week before the opening tip of the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup (FIBAWC), Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) Chairman Richard Bachmann reiterated his support for the country’s hosting and called on basketball-loving Filipinos to watch the games, especially Gilas Pilipinas...
Gilas Pilipinas, the country’s national basketball team, has welcomed Max's Restaurant as a key partner that will help fuel their actions in the much-anticipated global sporting event FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023. (From left to right) Cignal Vice President for Content Innovations,...
PH1 World Developers, the newly-acquired real estate subsidiary of Megawide Construction Corporation, is launching two projects worth P3.5 billion this year as it diversifies into the horizontal residential space. In a press briefing, PH1 World Developers President Gigi G. Alcantara said they have...
Search and recovery team members, accompanied by cadaver dogs, check charred buildings and cars in the aftermath of the Maui Fires in Lahaina, West Maui, Hawaii, August 17, 2023. (Photo by Yuki IWAMURA / AFP) LOS ANGELES, United States -- The embattled head of Maui's emergency management agency,...
WASHINGTON, United States -- US President Joe Biden on Friday will announce new security cooperation at a first-of-a-kind three-way summit with the leaders of Japan and South Korea, hoping to send a message of strength to China which has already made clear its displeasure. The summit at the Camp...
The UN Security Council meets at UN headquarters in New York on August 17, 2023, to discuss the situation in North Korea. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) UNITED NATIONS , United States -- North Korea was accused at the UN Security Council Thursday of spending heavily on its nuclear arms program while...
ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey warned Moscow to avoid further escalations after a Turkish-owned cargo vessel was attacked by the Russian navy last weekend, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office said Thursday. "After the (Russian) intervention, our interlocutors in the Russian Federation were warned...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Thursday a deal aimed to bring long-term preventative HIV treatment to vulnerable populations was on hold after the drugmaker imposed pricing confidentiality. In a statement, MSF called on ViiV Healthcare, to withdraw unacceptable conditions...
UNITED NATIONS, United States -- A total of 62 humanitarian aid workers have died this year around the world, the United Nations said Thursday as it prepared to mark 20 years since a devastating attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad. The UN observes World Humanitarian Day on August 19 each year...
MIAMI (AFP) -- United States women's team head coach Vlatko Andonovski has resigned after the side's disappointing World Cup campaign, U.S Soccer said in a statement on Thursday, Aug. 17. USA's coach Vlatko Andonovski. (AFP) Twila Kilgore, who has worked as assistant coach for the past 18 months,...
