
Marcos Jr proclaimed next Philippine Prez with huge win
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Was proclaimed the next president of the Philippines by a joint session of Congress on Wednesday following a landslide election triumph 36 years after his dictator father was ousted in a pro-democracy uprising. The Senate and House of Representatives also declared that his separately elected vice presidential running...
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Seoul: N Korea fires suspected ICBM, 2 other missiles
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‘Humbled’ Boris apologises for partygate
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Biden: When are we going to stand up to gun lobby?
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Families mourn, worry in wake of US school shooting
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Russian rockets hit eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk
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EU seeks more clout against sanctioned Russian oligarchs
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Saving the children: War closes in on eastern Ukrainian town
26 May 2022 | AP
After 3 months of war, life in Russia has profoundly changed
When Vladimir Putin announced the invasion of Ukraine, war seemed far away from Russian territory. Yet within days the conflict came home - not with cruise missiles and mortars but in the form of unprecedented and unexpectedly extensive volleys of sanctions by Western governments and economic punishment by corporations. Three months...
Russia's invasion of Ukraine direct attack on EU: Spain PM
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Tuesday said Russia's invasion of Ukraine is also a direct attack on the European Union (EU) and Europe must walk together going ahead. He also said that Spain is now hosting more than 100,000 Ukrainian refugees. In a special address at the World Economic Forum Annual...
War rages in east, 200 bodies found in Mariupol
Workers digging through rubble found 200 bodies in Mariupol, Ukrainian authorities said Tuesday, another grim discovery in the ruined port city that has seen some of the worst suffering of the 3-month-old war. The bodies found in the basement of a collapsed apartment building were in a state of decomposition and...
Iran building collapse kills 11 as Mayor and others detained
Rescuers dug through debris on Tuesday of a building collapse in southwestern Iran that killed at least 11 people, fearful that many more could still be trapped beneath the rubble as authorities arrested the city's mayor in a widening probe of the disaster. The collapse on Monday of an under-construction 10-story...
Chinese FM to visit Solomon Islands amid security pact worry
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Solomon Islands this week in what the South Pacific nation's leader said was a "milestone" in his country's relationship with China, amid concerns that their new security pact could allow Chinese military personnel on the islands. But Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare insisted in a...
Lanka arrests 67 suspected to be heading to Australia
Sri Lanka's navy said Tuesday that it has arrested 67 people who it believes were trying to travel by sea to Australia illegally. The navy said in a statement that 12 men were arrested first near port town of Trincomalee, 260 kilometers (160 miles) northeast of capital Colombo on Monday...
China goes on offensive against IPEF, projects it as 'economic NATO' to blunt its dominance
As US President Joe Biden launched a new trade deal with 12 Indo-Pacific nations, including India, to enhance trade, economic and investment opportunities, China, which sees the pact as a threat to its dominance in the region, went on the offensive against it, promising more opening up, while the official...