SINGAPORE, Singapore -- Singapore on Friday hanged a 45-year-old citizen for drug trafficking, the city-state's first execution of a woman in nearly 20 years, officials said. The execution was carried out despite appeals from rights groups, who argue capital punishment has no proven deterrent effect...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday offered free grain to six poor African countries as he launched a summit with leaders from the continent days after withdrawing from the Ukraine grain export deal. The two-day summit in Putin's native Saint Petersburg is being...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Authorities were racing Thursday to prevent a possible ecological disaster off the Dutch coast where a blaze raged aboard a car carrier ship for a second day. The Fremantle Highway, a Panamanian-flagged vessel, remained tethered to a salvage ship but was drifting...
CHENNAI, India - G20 environment ministers in India readied a fresh bid on Thursday to strike deals tackling climate change, days after heavy criticism for failing to agree on cutting fossil fuel use. Environment chiefs from the Group of 20 major economies -- constituting more than 80...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Two tram operators were slapped with a £14 million ($18 million) fine on Thursday for a 2016 tram derailment which killed seven and seriously injured 21 people. The sentencing at London's Old Bailey court fined Transport for London (TfL) £10 million and Tram...
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...
