Members of a displaced Palestinian family stand amid the rubble in Rafah on a street in the southern Gaza Strip on December 10, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas. (AFP) The UN General Assembly is due to vote Tuesday on a non-binding resolution...
GENEVA, Switzerland - Swiss police were hunting a "dangerous" gunman who killed two people and injured another Monday in the southern town of Sion. Police officers control a bus near Saint Maurice, as they search for a gunman who killed two people and injured another in the southern Swiss town...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Ukraine sounded the alarm over its European ambitions on Monday as EU leaders face a struggle to agree renewed financial support and an invitation to Kyiv to start formal membership talks. The leaders of the 27 European Union states meet on Thursday at a summit that...
KYIV, Ukraine - Kyiv said Monday that the largest cargo crossing point between Ukraine and Poland was reopened despite a weeks-long protest staged by Polish hauliers barring traffic for truckers over the frontier. A woman stands in a damaged house following a Russian shelling in Kyiv, on...
WASHINGTON, United States - Donald Trump changed his mind about testifying in his own defense in his New York fraud case on Monday, he said, announcing that he will not take the stand as expected because he has "nothing more to say." TOPSHOT - Former US President Donald Trump arrives at the New...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina's President Javier Milei took office Sunday with a stark warning to citizens to brace themselves for painful austerity measures as he seeks to cut spending and curb triple-digit inflation, all with empty coffers. Argentina's new president Javier Milei (C) arrives...
HONG KONG, China - Hong Kong's first "patriots only" district council elections saw a turnout of 27.5 percent, the government said Monday, a record-low number for a race that had shut out all opposition candidates. Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee (L) and his wife Janet Lam (R) cast their votes...
ROME, Italy - Two trains crashed into each other at low speed in northern Italy late Sunday, injuring at least 17 people, none seriously, firefighters and the train operator said. The accident between a high-speed train and a regional train occurred on the line between Bologna and Rimini,...
AFP/MANILA BULLETIN UNITED NATIONS, (Xinhua) -- The UN Security Council failed to adopt a draft resolution on Friday that would have demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza due to a veto cast by the United States. Many countries expressed disappointment and regret over the U.S. veto of...
AFP/MANILA BULLETIN CAIRO, (Xinhua) – Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Saturday vowed to make joint efforts to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. In a phone conversation, "the two presidents agreed to continue making earnest...
A homeless man sits on a luggage bag along a downtown Los Angeles street lined with tents housing the homeless on November 22, 2023 in Los Angeles, California, where skyrocketing rents in recent years has led to an increasing rise in the number of unhoused people. Some 75,500 people live on the...
AFP/MANILA BULLETIN HANOI, Vietnam– China's President Xi Jinping will arrive in Vietnam on Tuesday on a mission to strengthen relations, just months after Washington and Hanoi upgraded their diplomatic ties. China and Vietnam have a border in common, as well as close economic ties and...
