Britain's King Charles III and Britain's Camilla, Queen Consort (AFP) LONDON, United Kingdom – Britain's first coronation in 70 years takes place on Saturday, with Charles III crowned king in an elaborate Christian ceremony steeped in solemn ritual and more than a millennium of...
STRASBOURG, France – Britain's palace has unveiled a special vegetarian "quiche" to mark King Charles III's coronation on Saturday, but purists in France say the festive dish has been mislabeled. The palace last month posted the recipe for Coronation Quiche, which in line...
LONDON, United Kingdom – As the UK grapples with a cost-of-living crisis and widespread strikes over pay, some Britons are questioning why taxpayers have to foot the bill for King Charles III's lavish coronation on Saturday. CORONATION EARLY BIRDS - People start to arrive...
LONDON PUB VISIT - Britain's Prince William, Prince of Wales, and Britain's Catherine, Princess of Wales, during a visit to the Dog & Duck Pub in Soho, central London, on May 4, 2023. (AFP) LONDON, United Kingdom – Prince William and his wife Kate visited a London pub...
GENEVA, Switzerland – Dwindling Covid deaths may have allowed "normal" life to largely resume but uncertainties persist, the WHO chief said Thursday, as experts debated if the global health emergency should be declared over. WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland (Xinhua)...
OTTAWA, Canada - Ottawa-based Shopify announced Thursday it was cutting its global workforce by 20 percent and offloading its logistics business to Flexport in order to focus on its core e-commerce activities. (Photo from Shopify Facebook page/ MANILA BULLETIN) In a memo to its more than 11,000...
WASHINGTON, United States - US President Joe Biden on Thursday said weeks of urban fighting in Sudan "must end" and authorized potential new sanctions against those responsible for the bloodshed. "The violence taking place in Sudan is a tragedy -- and it is a betrayal of the Sudanese people's clear...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky insisted Thursday that a special tribunal must be created to hold Russia to account for its "crime of aggression", while on a surprise visit to the Netherlands. The Ukrainian leader is on a rare first visit to the lowlands country...
MOSCOW, Russia - Moscow on Thursday accused the US of masterminding a drone attack on the Kremlin, a charge denied by Washington, and said Ukrainian sabotage on Russian territory had reached "unprecedented momentum". Moscow said President Vladimir Putin was working from the Kremlin the day after...
KISANGANI, DR Congo - At least four people have been killed this week in a conflict over land in Kisangani, a city in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials said on Thursday. Several people had already died on April 10 in fighting between members of the Mbole and Lengola ethnic...
CAIRO, Egypt - Seventeen people were killed when a truck and a bus collided on a motorway in southern Egypt on Thursday, the health ministry said. It said another 29 people were injured, and that 26 ambulances were sent to the scene of the accident on the road between the southern cities of Kharga...
BELGRADE, Serbia- Eight students and a security guard were killed during a school shooting in Belgrade Wednesday, officials said, police accusing a detained 13-year-old suspect of plotting the attack for a month and drawing up a kill list. The incident rocked the Balkan nation, with the...
