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...
This handout image released by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office on August 24, 2023 shows the booking photo of former US President Donald Trump. Former US president Donald Trump was photographed for a police mug shot after his arrest on August 24 at the Fulton County Jail in Georgia, multiple US...
Former US President Donald Trump (Photo from AFP) Donald Trump said he will turn himself in to authorities in Atlanta at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday to be booked on criminal charges over his efforts to reverse his 2020 election defeat— the fourth time the former US president will surrender in a...
Photo from Bloomberg / MANILA BULLETIN China will stop all seafood imports from Japan, escalating tensions between the two nations as Japan begins a contentious release of treated wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant. The move to “comprehensively” pause purchases of...
A general view of flags of (From L to R) South Africa, Brazil, Russia, India and China during the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on August 24, 2023. (Photo by Michele Spatari / AFP) JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- BRICS leaders announced on Thursday the "historic"...
