WHO CHIEF TOUGHENS TONE ON CHINA WITH LAB PROBE CALL The WHO's chief, long accused of complacency towards Beijing, hardened his tone Tuesday, urging further investigation into a theory Covid-19 sprang from a laboratory leak. The director-general of the World Health
DUTERTE, CLOSE TO TEARS, WARNS OF BLEAK MONTHS AHEAD MANILA — Weeks after saying that Filipinos will prevail over the pandemic, President Duterte warned of “bleak months” ahead and admitted that he is having a hard time addressing the COVID crisis amid the
SUEZ CANAL REOPENS AFTER GIANT STRANDED SHIP IS FREED Traffic has resumed in Egypt's Suez Canal after a stranded container ship blocking it for nearly a week was finally freed by salvage crews. Tug boats honked their horns in celebration as the 400m-long (1,300ft) E
TRAFFIC IN SUEZ CANAL RESUMES AFTER STRANDED SHIP REFLOATED ISMAILIA, Egypt - Shipping traffic through Egypt's Suez Canal resumed on Monday after a giant container ship which had been blocking the busy waterway for almost a week was refloated, the canal authority said. &nbs
SUEZ CANAL TEMPORARILY HALTS NAVIGATION The owners of a giant container vessel blocking the Suez Canal said on Thursday that they were facing “extreme difficulty” refloating it, prompting Egypt to suspend navigation through one of the world’s busiest shippi
PH SENDS MORE NAVY SHIPS TO WEST PH SEA, BUT NOT IN REEF WHERE CHINESE MILITIA SHIPS SEEN MANILA — The Philippine military on Thursday said its chief Gen. Cirilito Sobejana has ordered the deployment of more Navy ships to the West Philippine Sea to beef up the country'
STUCK SHIP IN EGYPT'S SUEZ CANAL IMPERILS SHIPPING WORLDWIDE A skyscraper-sized cargo ship wedged across Egypt's Suez Canal further imperiled global shipping Thursday as at least 150 other vessels needing to pass through the crucial waterway idled waiting for the obstruction
WALA PA': DUTERTE SAYS PHILIPPINES YET TO BUY VACCINES MANILA - The Philippine hasn't yet purchased any vaccines from foreign drugmakers, President Rodrigo Duterte said Wednesday, amid queries from officials and the public over the whereabouts of COVID-19 jabs supposedly bou
CHINA DENIES ‘THREATENING PRESENCE’ OF ITS VESSELS IN PHILIPPINE WATERS The Philippines complained to China on Monday about what it described as the “swarming and threatening presence” of Chinese vessels in disputed waters in the South China Sea and d
UIGHURS: WESTERN COUNTRIES SANCTION CHINA OVER RIGHTS ABUSES Several Western countries have imposed sanctions on officials in China over rights abuses against the mostly Muslim Uighur minority group. China has detained Uighurs at camps in the north-west region of Xi
