TOKYO — Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced Sunday that he will resign, following growing calls from within his party to take responsibility for a historic defeat in July’s parliamentary election. Ishiba, who took office in October, said he was stepping down as prime minister and...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV was set to declare a 15-year-old computer whiz, Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint on Sunday, giving the next generation of Catholics a relatable role model who used technology to spread the faith and earn the nickname "God 's influencer." An open-air...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea disrupted internet access in parts of Asia and the Middle East, experts said Sunday, though it wasn 't immediately clear what caused the incident. There has been concern about the cables being targeted in a Red Sea...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia hit Ukraine 's capital with drone and missiles Sunday in the largest aerial attack on the country since the war began, killing at least two people and leaving smoke rising from the roof of a key government building. Russia attacked Ukraine with 805 drones and...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan 's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has expressed his intention on Sunday to step down following growing calls from his party to take responsibility for its big loss in the July parliamentary election, Japanese television reported. Ishiba, who took office in October, has...
A man was shot dead following a fistfight along Katipunan Avenue in Barangay UP Campus, Quezon City. The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) said the incident happened around 9:20 a.m. on Friday, September 5, when the suspect and the victim got into an altercation near their alley. During the fight,...
Authorities are looking into faulty electrical wiring as the cause of the fire that hit a factory of a wood lumber supplier in San Mateo, Rizal early Saturday, Sept. 6. The San Mateo Municipal Police Station (San Mateo MPS) said that the incident was reported to them at around 3:45 a.m.,...
A 28-year-old man involved in a project modus scam in Batangas was arrested by members of the Pasay City Police Intelligence Section on Friday, August 5. Col. Joselito De Secto, chief of the Pasay City police, identified the suspect as Patrick, a resident of Hizon Street, Sta. Cruz, Manila. He was...
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congo 's authorities announced earlier this week a new Ebola outbreak, which has killed more than a dozen people in a southern province. Samples analyzed at the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Kinshasa, the Congolese capital, confirmed the presence of the...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Over 1,000 LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families participated in a Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome on Saturday, celebrating a new level of acceptance in the Catholic Church after long feeling shunned, and crediting Pope Francis with the change. Some wept as they walked through the...
LONDON (AP) — British police scuffled with protesters outside Parliament on Saturday as they arrested more than 400 demonstrators who gathered to defy a ban on the group Palestine Action, which has been deemed a terrorist organization by the government. Defend Our Juries, the campaign group...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli army issued evacuation orders and targeted high-rise buildings in Gaza City on Saturday, urging Palestinians to flee south ahead of an escalating offensive to seize the city of nearly 1 million. Aid groups warn that a large-scale evacuation would...
