BOGOTA, Colombia- For 40 days after their plane crashed, four Indigenous children were lost in the Colombian Amazon rainforest. A major search operation, with rescuers finding a steady string of clues about their whereabouts, came to an end on Friday with the discovery of the children alive. They...
(https://images.mb.com.ph/production/mb-mkt-neo-prod-1-uploads/burned_1da6e1b862/burned_1da6e1b862.avif) Photo from AFP/MANILA BULLETIN BEAUVAIS, France- A court in France sentenced a man to 18 years in prison on Friday for stabbing and then burning alive his 15-year-old girlfriend. The 2019 killing...
ROME, Italy- Italian special forces boarded a cargo ship sailing from Turkey to France on Friday, after the crew were threatened by "pirates" off the Italian coast, the defence ministry said. Marines dropped onto the vessel from helicopters after a number of "stowaways" used knives to threaten the...
BOGOTA, Colombia Four Indigenous children were found alive Friday after spending more than a month lost in the Colombian Amazon rainforest following a small plane crash, President Gustavo Petro announced. "A joy for the whole country! The 4 children who were lost 40 days ago in the Colombian jungle...
ANNECY, France - French President Emmanuel Macron was visiting preschool children badly wounded in a mass knife attack by a Syrian refugee, as police questioned the attacker Friday. Four children -- aged between 22 months and three years old -- were stabbed Thursday in a playground in the Alpine...
MOSCOW, Russia - The Russian army on Friday said it had repelled several attacks on the southern Ukrainian front, where fighting sharply intensified this week amid expectations of a major Kyiv offensive. The statement came after Russian war correspondents had reported "active combat" in the...
DAKAR, Senegal - One peacekeeper died and four others were seriously injured in an attack in jihadist-hit northern Mali on Friday, the UN peacekeeping mission in the country said. MINUSMA said on Twitter that a "complex attack" involving an improvised explosive device and direct fire targeted a...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The UN's top court gave the green light Friday to Ukraine's western allies to support it in its legal fight against Russia. Ukraine dragged Moscow to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague shortly after the February 2022 invasion. Judges last year issued a...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russian-installed authorities in southern Ukraine on Friday reported more casualties from the flood triggered by the destruction of a key dam, and said the water could keep rising for more than a week. "Unfortunately, there are casualties... Their number has grown to eight...
WASHINGTON, United States - Smoke from Canadian wildfires shrouded US cities in a noxious haze again Thursday, delaying flights and disrupting outdoor events in what President Joe Biden called a "stark reminder" of climate change. Thick skies and an acrid campfire smell hung over the capital...
BEIJING, China - Millions of Chinese students sat for notoriously tough college entrance exams on Wednesday, the first since the country lifted zero-Covid rules that forced classes online for months on end. China's education ministry says nearly 13 million students, a record, are registered this...
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso - Twenty-one people, most of them members of the security forces, have been killed in Burkina Faso in attacks by suspected jihadists, security sources said on Wednesday. Fourteen members of the VDP volunteer militia and four soldiers died on Monday in Sawenga in...
