President of China Xi Jinping attends the plenary session during the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on August 23, 2023. (Photo by GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / POOL / AFP) BEIJING , China -- Chinese President Xi Jinping made a rare visit to Xinjiang on Saturday, state...
GENEVA, Switzerland - A mysterious stash of 120 gold bars found on a Swiss train nearly four years ago has been given to the Red Cross, prosecutors said Friday, after failing to trace the owner. In October 2019, a train attendant found a package on a train travelling from St Gallen to...
COPENHAGEN - Denmark on Friday said it plans to ban Koran burnings after a string of desecrations of Islam's holy book in the Scandinavian nation sparked anger in Muslim countries. Denmark stepped up security earlier this month following the backlash, as did neighbouring Sweden which has also seen...
MADRID, Spain - Spanish police and customs officials on Friday announced the seizure of nearly 9.5 tonnes of cocaine from Ecuador, saying it marked Spain's biggest seizure to date. Spanish National Police and Customs officers hold some packages of cocaine totalizing 9,436 kilos, that were...
MOSCOW, RUSSIA - Russian paramilitary fighters will have to swear an oath to the Russian flag, a presidential decree signed Friday stipulates, two days after the presumed death of mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. The measure is aimed at "forming the spiritual and moral foundations for the...
ATHENS, Greece - Greek firefighters struggled Friday to contain scores of wildfires stretching nationwide, as the week's death toll from the raging blazes rose to 21. The Greek fire brigade on Friday said they had found the body of a man in the same area in Evros, northern Greece, where...
Fukushima Nuclear Plant in Japan. (Photo from AFP) TOKYO, Japan -- Seawater samples taken following the release of wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear reactor showed radioactivity levels well within safe limits, operator TEPCO said on Friday. The start on Thursday of the discharge of...
A Filipino seaman died after falling from the cruise ship he was working on while docked at the Port of Cromarty Firth in Scotland on Friday, Aug. 25. (Photo from Youtube) Scotland police identified the casualty as Wenceslao Esguerra Donasco. Initial investigation showed Donasco died after securing...
Filipino-Canadian Kenneth Ramos can now afford to buy a home in Surrey, Canada, as well as an apartment in the Philippines after winning the $500,000 lotto cash prize. Lotto winner Kenneth Ramos (Photo from BCLC) According to the British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC), Ramos bought the...
An 86-year-old man was found guilty by a US district court for multiple charges after he took on the identity of his deceased brother to collect retirement benefits and travel out of the country. According to the United States Attorney’s Office District of Maine, Napoleon Gonzales, of Etna,...
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A China-based hacking group named "Flax Typhoon" has targeted dozens of Taiwanese government agencies with the likely aim of spying on them, Microsoft has revealed. Taiwan has long accused China -- which claims the self-ruled island as its territory -- of espionage through...
Three Filipinos who owned and worked in an unlicensed hospice care facility in Riverside, California were found guilty of elderly abuse by the California Department of Justice (DOJ). The suspects, identified as Joel Ombao, Ronnel Tiburcio, and Nimfa Molina, were convicted of "neglect and abuse of...
