K-pop supergroup BTS received a warm welcome in Mexico, where President Claudia Sheinbaum personally greeted the group at the National Palace ahead of their sold-out concert series in Mexico City. The group visited the country’s federal government seat, where they met Sheinbaum before appearing...
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV will inaugurate the soaring central tower of Barcelona 's famed Sagrada Familia basilica when he visits Spain next month in a weeklong trip that will also take him to a migrant reception center in the Canary Islands, the Vatican said Wednesday. The June 6-12 visit...
BEIRUT (AP) — Pope Leo XIV surprised 13 priests from southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel, by joining a video call from Rome on Wednesday, telling them they were in his prayers and that he hoped peace would soon prevail along the tense frontier. The Lebanese Catholic and Maronite priests...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran with more bombing Wednesday if it doesn 't reopen the Strait of Hormuz after a report that an agreement is emerging to end the war. Trump posted on social media that the war with Iran could soon end and oil and natural gas...
The Philippines will repay through 2041 an $800-million loan from the World Bank aimed at strengthening the country’s fiscal resilience, attracting higher-quality private investments, and equipping workers with skills for more productive and higher-value jobs. Documents showed that Finance...
GENEVA (AP) — The cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak and which is stuck off the coast of Cape Verde with nearly 150 people on board was waiting Wednesday to head to Spain 's Canary Islands. Meanwhile, health authorities in South Africa and Switzerland identified a...
BEIJING (AP) — China 's foreign minister called for a comprehensive ceasefire in the Iran war and said his country was "deeply distressed" by the conflict that has lasted two months. Wang Yi made the comments Wednesday after meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who was...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An outbreak aboard a cruise ship of a rare, rodent-borne illness called hantavirus has left three people dead and sickened others. The virus, which usually spreads when people inhale contaminated residue of rodent droppings, has been confirmed in two of the cases. The...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A deadly outbreak of the rare hantavirus unfolded over the course of weeks on a cruise ship that sailed from Argentina toward Antarctica and then across the Atlantic Ocean, stopping at or near remote islands on the way as passengers and crew members fell sick,...
BRUSSELS (AP) – Driven in part by fears that the frozen landscapes of Antarctica may be irreversibly melting away because of climate change, tourism to the bottom of the world is soaring. And experts warn that with more visitors comes an increased risk of contamination, illness, and other damage...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A lone coyote stunned biologists and others when it paddled its way to remote Alcatraz Island earlier this year, a former federal prison in the San Francisco Bay surrounded by swift, choppy waters notorious for thwarting prisoners ' escapes. At the time, biologists...
Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. launched a scathing rebuke against China on Tuesday night, May 5, for its attempts to “vilify” Japan as combat forces from Tokyo joined the annual Exercise Balikatan for the first time. Teodoro characterized Beijing 's...
