MOSCOW, Russia - Russia's security service on Thursday said it foiled an attack on a ship in the Black Sea, where tensions are building after the end of a deal protecting grain exports. The FSB said it "foiled an attempt by Ukraine's special service to commit a terror attack aboard one of the...
Minister Rechie Valdez, the first Filipino-Canadian Member of Parliament (MP) in Canada, was appointed as the Minister of Small Business in the current Cabinet formed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Canadian Minister Rechie Valdez / MANILA BULLETIN She is one of the seven new Liberal MPs who...
MANILA, Philippines -- The number of working children in the Philippines continues to rise, with an estimated 1.48 million children aged 5 to 17 working in 2022, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Tuesday. According to the data, among 31.71 million children aged 5 to 17 in the...
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...
