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,...
Sarina Bolden has been carrying the dreams of an entire nation on her shoulders. The Santa Clara, California, USA-born Bolden didn’t find herself in the pool of the Philippine women’s national football team until 2018 when she made her promising debut at the AFC Women’s Asian Cup against...
MANILA (AFP) -- Hundreds of Philippine football fans celebrated wildly and some cried after the country's historic first World Cup win on Tuesday, July 25. *Philippines' forward Sarina Bolden (left) celebrates scoring her team's first goal during the Australia and New Zealand 2023 Women's World Cup...
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...
BEIJING, China - China's foreign minister Qin Gang was removed from office on Tuesday, state media reported, after disappearing from the public eye for a month with little explanation from the ruling Communist Party. Qin's absence had sparked a storm of speculation that the 57-year-old,...
Senator Pia Cayetano on Tuesday, July 25 hailed the Philippines’ historic victory at the FIFA Women’s World Cup. Senator Pia S. Cayetano, head of the Philippine delegation to the ongoing FIFA Women's World Cup, with members of the Philippine Women's National Football Team. (Photo courtesy of...
Sarina Bolden has no doubt in mind that anything is possible for the Philippine women’s national team following its maiden win in the 2023 FIFA Women’s Cup against New Zealand, 1-nil. *Sarina Bolden scores the Philippines' first-ever goal in the FIFA Women's World Cup.* For her 22nd...
