WASHINGTON (AP) – The FBI on Friday searched the Maryland home and Washington office of former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton as part of a criminal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information, a person familiar with the matter said. Bolton,...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lyle Menendez was denied parole Friday by the same board that a day earlier rejected his brother Erik’s appeal for freedom after serving decades in prison for killing their parents in 1989 at their Beverly Hills mansion. The reason was the same: Misbehavior behind bars. A...
The World Bank has noted improved implementation of an extended loan that supports breaking down collective certificates of land ownership awards (CLOAs), or titles given to agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in the Philippines. In an Aug. 21 implementation status and results report seen by...
ROME — Pope Leo XIV is planning to visit Lebanon this year on his first foreign visit, the country’s Catholic cardinal said, a trip that would give history 's first American pope a chance to speak in broad terms about peace in the Middle East and the plight of Christians there. A visit to...
KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda has agreed to a deal with the United States to take deported migrants as long as they don 't have criminal records and are not unaccompanied minors, the foreign ministry said Thursday. The ministry said in a statement that the agreement had been concluded but that...
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea 's President Lee Jae Myung faces a pivotal foreign policy test barely two months after taking office, with back-to-back summits in Tokyo and Washington that reflect the wider struggle of U.S. allies to navigate Donald Trump’s unilateral push to redefine...
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran held its first military exercise since the end of its 12-day war with Israel, state television reported Thursday, with navy vessels launching missiles at targets at sea in the Gulf of Oman and the Indian Ocean. While such drills are routine in the Islamic Republic, the...
Megawide Construction Corp. expects higher earnings in 2025 as it reported a consolidated net income of ₱436 million in the first six months of the year—slightly lower than the ₱438 million earned in the same period last year but amounting to 81 percent of full-year 2024 net income. In a...
CAIRO — The Palestinian Health Ministry said on Monday that more than 62,000 Palestinians have been killed in the 22-month war in Gaza. At least 60 people were killed in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll from the Israel-Hamas war that started on Oct. 7, 2023, to 62,004. Another 156,230...
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia 's presidential vote headed to an unprecedented runoff after elections Sunday that ended more than two decades of left-wing dominance in the Andean nation but signaled voters ' trepidation about a major lurch to the right. A dark horse centrist, Sen. Rodrigo...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Anguished Pakistanis searched remote areas for bodies swept away by weekend flash floods as the death toll reached 277 on Monday, while one official replied to the lack of evacuation warnings by saying people should have built homes elsewhere. A changing climate has made...
Real estate giant Ayala Land Inc. (ALI) will be raising ₱10 billion this month from a multilateral sustainability-linked loan as part of the ₱50 billion in funds it will be securing in the second half of the year. In an interview, ALI Chief Finance Officer (CFO) Augusto Bengzon said that ₱30...
