Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Chinese Premier Li Qiang shake hands before their talks in Beijing on May 24, 2023. (Alexander Astafyev / SPUTNIK / AFP) BEIJING, China -- Russia's prime minister hailed "unprecedented" relations with China despite "sensational pressure" from the West on...
(Bloomberg photo / MANILA BULLETIN) After more than three years, the global Covid emergency is officially over. Yet it’s still killing at least one person every four minutes and questions on how to deal with the virus remain unanswered, putting vulnerable people and under-vaccinated countries at...
View of the school dormitory that caught fire and left at least 19 people dead in Mahdia, Guyana on May 22, 2023. (Keno GEORGE / AFP) GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The weekend school dormitory blaze that killed 19 minors in central Guyana was started by a disgruntled pupil angry at having her mobile phone...
(Photo from Chinese Embassy in the United States of America website / MANILA BULLETIN) NEW YORK, United States -- China's new ambassador to the United States has arrived in the country, vowing to shoulder the "heavy responsibility" of a superpower relationship that is "facing severe challenges"....
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks during an event on his nationwide book tour at Adventure Outdoors, the largest gun store in the country, on March 30, 2023 in Smyrna, Georgia. (Elijah Nouvelage / AFP) WASHINGTON, United States -- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is set to launch his 2024...
GENEVA, Switzerland - Protesters on the tarmac at Geneva airport briefly disrupted air traffic Tuesday before operations were gradually resumed, the airport said, as dozens of climate activists blocked a nearby business jet convention. "Due to the incursion of people on the tarmac, the air...
STRASBOURG, France - Europe's top court on Tuesday ruled that Romania is violating the rights of same-sex couples by refusing to legally recognise their unions, dealing a further blow to the socially conservative country. In Romania, an EU member since 2007, homosexuality was decriminalised...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russia said Tuesday that its armed forces had beaten back and then wiped out a group of militants and military hardware that were dispatched to its southern Belgorod region from Ukraine. The incursion was the most serious attack on Russian soil since the beginning of...
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's last known survivor of Japan's wartime sexual slavery has died at the age of 92, the island's foreign ministry said Tuesday, calling the issue a "wound in human history". Referred to as "comfort women", more than 200,000 women were sexually enslaved by Japan's...
DOHA, Qatar - Hungary's right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban insisted Tuesday that Ukraine cannot win its war with Russia and argued Washington must step in to end the conflict. Orban, who is at odds with other European Union members over the war and has blocked EU aid for Ukraine,...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Six Pakistan security personnel were killed in an overnight siege by dozens of militants on a Hungarian-owned oil and gas exploration site, police and the energy firm said Tuesday. Pakistan has seen an increase in militancy since the Taliban returned to power in...
PARIS, France -- Current policies to limit global warming will expose more than a fifth of humanity to extreme and potentially life-threatening heat by century's end, researchers warned Monday. Earth's surface temperature is on track to rise 2.7 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels by 2100,...
