GENEVA, Switzerland -- Climate change poses a health threat through increasing weather disasters and extreme heat, the UN said Thursday, calling for better warning systems that could be weaved into public health policy. "Climate change threatens to reverse decades of progress towards better health...
CAIRO, Egypt -- Egypt will help evacuate "about 7,000" foreigners and dual nationals from the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, the foreign ministry said, with officials saying some 400 people were expected to cross Thursday. For the first time after weeks of deadly fighting between Israel and Palestinian...
The Manila Police District (MPD) reported on Thursday, Nov. 2, that 652 prohibited items were confiscated from hundreds of thousands of visitors in Manila cemeteries on All Souls' Day. Police confiscated flammable materials such as lighters and cigarettes from some of the over 343,310 visitors in...
A 66-year-old man with dementia was reported missing after he allegedly rode the "libreng sakay" jeepney to Manila North Cemetery (MNC) on Wednesday, Nov. 1. According to a public advisory uploaded on Facebook by the Manila Public Information Office (PIO), the missing person was identified...
More than P500,000 worth of illegal drugs was recovered by the Marikina City Police on Tuesday, Oct. 31, the Eastern Police District (EPD) said. The police identified the suspect as "Igme," 19. According to the police report, Igme was arrested following a drug buy-bust operation on Mais St....
A highly endangered species of rat was caught by citizens of Antipolo City on Wednesday, Nov. 1, the city government said. (Photo from Antipolo LGU) According to Antipolo City Mayor Jun Ynares, a cloud rat or Bugkon was recovered from the ceiling of the house of Gena Richards in Sitio Junction,...
ROME, Italy -Pope Francis on Wednesday said he would attend the crucial COP28 climate talks starting in Dubai on November 30, weeks after warning that time is running out to act on global warming. Pope Francis It will be the first time a pope has attended a COP meeting in person since the...
PARIS, France - France said Wednesday that it was "deeply concerned" about Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip's largest refugee camp, calling for a humanitarian pause to allow aid through. This combination of handout satellite images released by Maxar Technology and created on November 1, 2023,...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Data Protection Board said Wednesday it had adopted a binding decision that will ban Facebook and Instagram owner Meta from using the personal data of users for targeted ads without their explicit consent. The order closes off the legal basis used by Meta to...
KUPANG, Indonesia - A 6.1-magnitude quake hit the eastern Indonesia island of Timor on Thursday, shaking the provincial capital and forcing residents to run outside, US seismologists said. The quake struck at a depth of 36.1 kilometres (22.5 miles) on the west of Timor island near the city of...
SYDNEY, Australia - Australian police charged a woman with murder Thursday over a mushroom meal that left three people dead and a local preacher fighting for his life. Erin Patterson, 49, faces three counts of murder and two of attempted murder over the meal, Victoria state detectives said in...
RAFAH, Palestinian Territories - Ambulances transported wounded residents out of Gaza for urgent medical care in Egypt Wednesday, with hundreds of desperate foreign passport holders also starting to flee the territory wracked by three weeks of war with Israel. The evacuation of the first...
