BUCHAREST, Romania- Romania on Friday denied Russian missiles flew over the country, rejecting Kyiv's claims that two Russian missiles crossed the airspace of the NATO-member on their way to Ukraine. Romania detected an "aerial target launched from the Black Sea from a ship of the Russian...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine said Russia launched "massive" missile and drone attacks Friday, a day after President Volodymyr Zelensky lobbied for long-range weapons before EU leaders. Ukraine's war-time leader travelled to London, Paris and Brussels this week in only his second trip abroad since Moscow...
MOSCOW, Russia- A former Russian governor, whose arrest sparked massive protests in the far-eastern city of Khabarovsk in 2020, was jailed on Friday for 22 years for allegedly organising two murders. A court outside Moscow sentenced Sergei Furgal for attempted murder and organising the killing of...
LONDON, United Kingdom - The British government on Wednesday announced a fresh round of sanctions targeting Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said the new sanctions on organisations that Russian President Vladimir Putin's military relied on would "accelerate the...
BRUSSELS, Belgium -- European Union member states, the Group of Seven industrialized countries and Australia said Friday that they have reached an agreement on price caps for Russian petroleum products. The move is the latest part of an international push to limit Russian President Vladimir Putin's...
MOSCOW, Russia -- President Vladimir Putin on Thursday vowed a decisive response to any country threatening Russia and lashed out against Germany for promising tanks for Kyiv. His threats came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that the Kremlin was consolidating its forces for a...
MOSCOW, Russia - President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday backed a plan to set up joint military training centres with Belarus, with fears mounting that Minsk could enter the Ukraine conflict to fight with Moscow. In a decree published Tuesday, Putin tasked the defence and foreign ministers to conduct...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday repeated a claim that neo-Nazis were committing crimes in Ukraine -- an allegation Moscow has used to justify its military intervention -- as the world marked Holocaust Remembrance Day. "Forgetting the lessons of history leads to the...
Russian Ambassador Marat Ignatyevich Pavlov revealed his government’s plan to bring Chess Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov to teach the Filipino youth about chess as part of Moscow’s plans to help in the country’s sports program. Russian Ambassador Marat Ignatyevich Pavlov (left) during a courtesy...
Spanish Ambassador to the Philippines Miguel Utray Delgado on Wednesday, Jan. 25, shared with Vice President Sara Duterte his country’s plan for better coordination in teaching Spanish culture and language in Philippine schools. Spanish Ambassador to the Philippines Miguel Utray Delgado pays a...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine's military conceded to AFP Wednesday that its troops had pulled out of town of Soledar in the eastern Donetsk region, which Russian forces said they captured earlier this month. "After months of heavy fighting, including over the past weeks, the Armed Forces of Ukraine left...
The P500-million increase in the 2023 budget for direct fuel subsidies or "ayuda" to public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers will help the government cope with uncertainties in the world oil market. (MANILA BULLETIN) Quezon City 4th district Rep. Marvin Rillo of the House Committee on Appropriations...
