UNITED NATIONS, United States -- Mainly women and girls get water for the 1.8 billion people living without home water supplies, a new report by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. The report said women and girls aged 15 and older primarily...
LOS ANGELES, United States -- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected the most distant active supermassive black hole to date, the agency said on Thursday. Photo from NASA / MANILA BULLETIN The galaxy, CEERS 1019, existed just over 570 million years after the big bang, and its black hole is...
PRAGUE, Czech REPUBLIC -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted in Prague Thursday that Ukraine's counteroffensive was "not fast" but said Kyiv's troops were advancing. Zelensky arrived in Prague as part of a diplomatic push for Ukraine to join NATO and woo allies for more weapons for its...
MIAMI, United STATES -- A personal aide to former US president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to federal charges of mishandling classified government documents. Waltine "Walt" Nauta, 40, a US Navy veteran from Guam, entered the plea at a brief hearing in a US District Court in Miami....
WASHINGTON, United States -- Twitter threatened to sue Meta just hours after the Instagram parent company launched Threads, an app it hopes will beat out the struggling site owned by Elon Musk. In a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, published by online news outlet Semafor on Thursday, Musk lawyer...
BEIJING, China - China has launched its first homegrown open-source operating system for computers, state media said on Thursday, as Beijing seeks to reduce its foreign dependence at a time of increased rivalry with the United States. The announcement of the new system came just before US...
BEIJING, China - US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen arrived in Beijing on Thursday, kicking off a visit aimed at improving communication and stabilising the tense relationship between the world's two largest economies. Yellen's trip through Sunday is her first to China as treasury secretary, and...
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine - Authorities in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia near Europe's largest nuclear plant, under Russian control, said Thursday they are preparing for the "worst" as fears of sabotage mount. Kyiv and Moscow accused each other this week of planning an incident at the plant,...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Nine people including seven children were injured, some believed critically, on Thursday when a car collided with a primary school building in southwest London. Police said they were not treating the incident at the private Study Prep girls' school in Wimbledon, as...
PARIS, France - French MPs on Thursday called on the government to ban video-sharing platform TikTok unless it clarifies its links to China, days after the government blamed social media for fuelling recent riots. A Senate commission of inquiry set up to probe TikTok's handling of data and...
VIENNA, Austria - The Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine is on high alert with Kyiv and Moscow this week accusing each other of planning a covert attack. The UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has repeatedly warned of the risks...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands-Â A record-breaking summer storm hammered the Netherlands and Germany on Wednesday, killing two people and throwing international air and rail travel into chaos. Storm Poly packed howling winds of up to 146 km/h (90 mph), toppling trees and forcing the cancellation of 400...
