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...
Newport World Resorts announced that its Chief HR Officer Ma. Theresa “Terri” Llamas won the Best HR Leader award for this year’s HR Tech Fest Awards in Singapore. Newport World Resorts Chief HR Officer Ma. Theresa “Terri” Llamas The company said that Llamas stood out on the prestigious...
It is an understatement to say that summer in the Philippines is intense. And when the heat becomes unbearable, many Filipinos cool down with their favorite cold treats, one of which is the cheap ice cream courtesy of *mamang sorbetero*. But in Japan, an ice cream creation is making rounds on the...
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,...
Rescuers from the Italian Coast Guards patrol a flooded street on May 21, 2023 in Conselice, near Ravenna, after deadly floodwaters hit the Emilia-Romagna region (Andreas SOLARO / AFP) ROME, Italy -- More than 23,000 people in northeast Italy were still displaced Monday almost one week after heavy...
(AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) DUBLIN, Ireland -- Facebook owner Meta has been fined a record 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) for transferring EU user data to the United States in breach of a previous court ruling, Ireland's regulator announced on Monday. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), which...
Smoke rises above buildings in southern Khartoum on May 19, 2023, as violence between two rival Sudanese generals continues. (AFP) KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Gunfire and explosions again rocked Sudan's capital Monday, hours before a one-week humanitarian ceasefire was due to take effect after a series of...
Move Forward Party leader and prime ministerial candidate Pita Limjaroenrat (centre L) and Pheu Thai Party leader Cholanan Srikaew (centre R) hold a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by eight Thai political parties in agreement to form a new government, in Bangkok on May 22, 2023. (Lillian...
