LONDON PUB VISIT - Britain's Prince William, Prince of Wales, and Britain's Catherine, Princess of Wales, during a visit to the Dog & Duck Pub in Soho, central London, on May 4, 2023. (AFP) LONDON, United Kingdom – Prince William and his wife Kate visited a London pub...
GENEVA, Switzerland – Dwindling Covid deaths may have allowed "normal" life to largely resume but uncertainties persist, the WHO chief said Thursday, as experts debated if the global health emergency should be declared over. WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland (Xinhua)...
OTTAWA, Canada - Ottawa-based Shopify announced Thursday it was cutting its global workforce by 20 percent and offloading its logistics business to Flexport in order to focus on its core e-commerce activities. (Photo from Shopify Facebook page/ MANILA BULLETIN) In a memo to its more than 11,000...
WASHINGTON, United States - US President Joe Biden on Thursday said weeks of urban fighting in Sudan "must end" and authorized potential new sanctions against those responsible for the bloodshed. "The violence taking place in Sudan is a tragedy -- and it is a betrayal of the Sudanese people's clear...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky insisted Thursday that a special tribunal must be created to hold Russia to account for its "crime of aggression", while on a surprise visit to the Netherlands. The Ukrainian leader is on a rare first visit to the lowlands country...
MOSCOW, Russia - Moscow on Thursday accused the US of masterminding a drone attack on the Kremlin, a charge denied by Washington, and said Ukrainian sabotage on Russian territory had reached "unprecedented momentum". Moscow said President Vladimir Putin was working from the Kremlin the day after...
KISANGANI, DR Congo - At least four people have been killed this week in a conflict over land in Kisangani, a city in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials said on Thursday. Several people had already died on April 10 in fighting between members of the Mbole and Lengola ethnic...
CAIRO, Egypt - Seventeen people were killed when a truck and a bus collided on a motorway in southern Egypt on Thursday, the health ministry said. It said another 29 people were injured, and that 26 ambulances were sent to the scene of the accident on the road between the southern cities of Kharga...
BELGRADE, Serbia- Eight students and a security guard were killed during a school shooting in Belgrade Wednesday, officials said, police accusing a detained 13-year-old suspect of plotting the attack for a month and drawing up a kill list. The incident rocked the Balkan nation, with the...
PARIS, France - Getting vaccinated against Covid-19 does not make women more likely to seek medical attention for menstrual problems, the largest study conducted on the subject said on Thursday. Since Covid vaccination campaigns began nearly two and a half years ago, some women have reported...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at Amsterdam's airport late Wednesday for an unannounced visit to the Netherlands, with a trip to the International Criminal Court on his agenda, local media reported. Dutch news agency ANP said Zelensky,...
KHARTOUM, Sudan - The UN chief on Wednesday said "we failed" to stop war from erupting in Sudan, where persistent fighting between rival generals undermined efforts to firm up a truce. "The UN was taken by surprise" by the conflict, because the world body and others were hopeful that...
