NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga -- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that he expects to "work well" with China's new foreign minister, after previous incumbent Qin Gang was abruptly removed from office. "I've also known Wang Yi for more than a decade. I've met with him repeatedly," Blinken said...
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Representatives of Afghanistan's Taliban government travelled to Indonesia earlier this month on an unofficial visit, the foreign ministry in Jakarta said Tuesday, despite Kabul saying they held meetings with politicians in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation. The...
Yuan Meng, the first baby panda born in France in 2017, is pictured inside a transportation box at the Beauval zoo in Saint-Aignan, Central France, on July 25, 2023, before being transported to Roissy airport to fly to Chengdu in Southwest China's Sichuan province. (Photo by GUILLAUME SOUVANT /...
WASHINGTON, United States -- US President Joe Biden designated a new national monument Tuesday to memorialize the racist 1950s lynching of Emmett Till, and challenged Americans to confront their dark history or risk repeating the past. "We should know about our country. We should know...
US President Joe Biden pets his new dog Commander as he speak virtually with military service members to thank them for their service and wish them a Merry Christmas, from the South Court Auditorium of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 25, 2021. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) WASHINGTON,...
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea will this week welcome Russia's defence minister and a high-level Chinese delegation to Pyongyang for Korean War armistice anniversary celebrations, state media said Tuesday, marking a key shift in the nuclear-armed country's stringent Covid-19 border...
HODEIDA, Yemen - The United Nations said on Tuesday it had begun transferring one million barrels of oil from a rusting super-tanker off war-torn Yemen, in a bid to avert a catastrophic spill. "The United Nations has begun an operation to defuse what might be the world's largest ticking time...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - EU heavyweights Germany and France on Tuesday opposed a push to extend restrictions on sales of Ukrainian grain exports in five eastern European countries that have enraged Kyiv. The 27-nation bloc dropped duties on Ukrainian exports in the wake of Russia's all-out invasion in...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russian lawmakers on Tuesday backed legislation increasing the maximum age limit to 30 for compulsory military service, over a year into the Kremlin's Ukraine offensive. The bill comes as Moscow seeks to replenish its forces on the front line in Ukraine without resorting to...
BEIJING, China - China's foreign minister Qin Gang was removed from office on Tuesday, state media reported, after disappearing from the public eye for a month with little explanation from the ruling Communist Party. Qin's absence had sparked a storm of speculation that the 57-year-old,...
CAVITE – The city government of Imus announced the suspension of classes on Wednesday, July 26, due to bad weather brought on by Super Typhoon Egay. In a Facebook post, Mayor Alex Advincula says classes will be canceled at all levels for both public and private schools. Photo courtesy of...
Five men and a woman posing as agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) took away a total of P1,844,730 worth of vape or e-cigarette products from a vape shop on Tejeron Street in Sta. Ana, Manila, on Tuesday, July 24. The Manila Police District (MPD) said the six suspects remain...
