The Philippines yesterday slammed an “irresponsible” Chinese state media report claiming a disputed reef in the South China Sea was under Beijing’s control, saying the “status quo” was unchanged.Tiexian Reef (鐵線礁), also known as Sandy Cay Reef, lies near Thitu Island, or Pagasa, where the Philippine
Japan and Vietnam yesterday agreed to boost bilateral trade and uphold global rules on the free flow of goods as Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba met Vietnamese leaders in Hanoi while both nations engage in talks with Washington to avoid tariffs.Ishiba’s first trip to Vietnam, and his subseque
The WHO yesterday said that it wanted a code of conduct to bar medical workers from performing female genital mutilation (FGM).Issuing fresh guidelines on how to halt FGM, the UN health agency highlighted the important role played by health professionals in detecting the widely condemned practice an
TWO-YEAR RELIEF PLAN: With tens of thousands still homeless as monsoon season approaches, aid agencies are warning of major challenges to come
Myanmar yesterday marked one month since suffering its fiercest earthquake in more than a century, with military bombardments unabated despite a humanitarian truce as thousands of survivors camp in makeshift shelters.The magnitude 7.7 tremor was the strongest with an epicenter on Myanmar’s land mass
A man in his 20s was airlifted from Japan’s Mount Fuji and then rescued again from its steep slopes just days later because he returned to find his mobile phone, local media reported.Police said that the Chinese university student, who lives in Japan, was found on Saturday by another off-season hike
A student yesterday stabbed three people in a knife attack at a South Korean high school and injured two others, police said.The attack happened at 8:36am at a school in Cheongju, 110km south of Seoul, police reports said.Police received a report that “a student had stabbed someone in a classroom wi
CEASEFIRE DEAL: Washington has suggested freezing the front line and Ukraine accepting Russian control of Crimea in exchange for an end to hostilities
US President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he believed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was ready to concede Crimea to Russia as part of any ceasefire deal, as talks on a truce entered what Washington called a critical week.Trump also stepped up the pressure on Russian President Vladimir P
Waiters compete in the third “Course des garcons de cafe” race in Saint-Tropez, France, on Sunday.
North Korea confirmed for the first time today that it had sent troops to fight for Russia in the war in Ukraine under orders from leader Kim Jong-un and that it had helped regain control of “Russian territory occupied by Ukraine.”The victorious end of the battle to liberate Russia's Kursk region sh
‘BODIES EVERYWHERE’: The incident occurred at a Filipino festival celebrating an anti-colonial leader, with the driver described as a ‘lone suspect’ known to police
Canadian police arrested a man on Saturday after a car plowed into a street party in the western Canadian city of Vancouver, killing a number of people.Authorities said the incident happened shortly after 8pm in Vancouver’s Sunset on Fraser neighborhood as members of the Filipino community gathered
STRATEGIC PORT: Cargo operations have been partially resumed after the blast, while reports suspect a possible link to a recent shipment of Chinese rocket fuel
Iranian authorities yesterday were still battling to control fire and smoke unleashed more than 24 hours earlier by an explosion at a key commercial port on the Strait of Hormuz that state media said left at least 25 people dead and more than 800 injured.Saturday’s blast rocked the Shahid Rajaee por
Troops from Pakistan and India exchanged fire in disputed Kashmir for a third night in a row, officials said yesterday, as relations between the nuclear-armed rivals plunged to their lowest level in years.India has accused Pakistan of supporting “cross-border terrorism” after gunmen carried out the
A secretive Russian satellite in space that US officials believe is connected to a nuclear anti-satellite weapon program has appeared to be spinning uncontrollably, suggesting it might no longer be functioning, in what could be a setback for Moscow’s space weapon efforts, according to US analysts.Th
US President Donald Trump on Saturday urged free transit for US commercial and military ships through the Panama and Suez canals, tasking his secretary of state with making progress “immediately.”Trump has for months been calling for the US to take control of the Panama Canal, but his social media p
South Korea’s main liberal opposition party yesterday tapped its former leader Lee Jae-myung as presidential candidate in the upcoming June 3 election.The Democratic Party said Lee has won nearly 90 percent of the votes cast during the party’s primary that ended yesterday, defeating two competitors.
A puppeteer moves a life-size animal puppet, part of The Herds public art and climate action project, in Ouakam district in Dakar on Saturday. A wildebeest, a gorilla and a giraffe are among the life-size puppets pursuing a 20,000km trek across the globe that started earlier this month from Kinshasa
LAW: US Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a warning to those harboring illegal migrants, telling Fox News ‘we will come after you and we will prosecute you’
US federal agents on Friday arrested a judge for allegedly shielding an undocumented migrant, escalating a struggle between the White House and courts over US President Donald Trump’s hardline deportation policies.Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County circuit judge, allegedly “intentionally misdirected f
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has unveiled a new naval destroyer, claiming it as a significant advancement toward his goal of expanding the operational range and preemptive strike capabilities of his nuclear-armed military, state media said yesterday.North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Age
An American man identified as the son of a deputy director of the CIA was killed in eastern Ukraine last year while fighting under contract for the Russian military, an investigation by independent Russian media said. Michael Alexander Gloss, 21, died on April 4 last year in “Eastern Europe,” an obi
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