BIDEN ADMINISTRATION STICKS TO 'VAGUE' WORDING ON SAUDI TIES AFTER IMMUNITY DECISION The US is continuing to review its relationship with Saudi Arabia despite a Biden administration decision that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should be provided immunity from a lawsuit ove
PH NEEDS TO SEND NOTE VERBALE TO CHINA OVER ROCKET PART 'SEIZURE': MARCOS JR. MANILA – President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. said Tuesday said it is necessary for the Philippines to send China a note verbale regarding the alleged forcible seizing by the latter's coast guard
COP27 AGREES TO ADOPT LOSS AND DAMAGE FUND BUT FINER DETAILS MISSING Extended negotiations during the Confe­rence of the Parties (COP27) at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt have resulted in a landmark decision to create the first-ever ‘Loss and Dam­age Fund (LDF)&rsquo
ARRIS ARRIVES IN MANILA, SETS US ‘NEW INITIATIVES’ United States Vice President Kamala Harris arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Sunday night, beginning a 3-day official trip to the Philippines.
UN CLIMATE SUMMIT HANGS ON MONEY FOR 'LOSS AND DAMAGE' The climate change conference remained deadlocked on Thursday night over a proposal to create a new financial facility to fund countries damaged by climate disasters. The two-week annual conference is scheduled to come t
XI WANTS ‘TO WRITE NEW CHAPTER’ IN PH-CHINA RELATIONS BANGKOK — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday told Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. the he wants to “write a new chapter in China-Philippines friendship.”
POLAND SAYS MISSILE THAT HIT IT WAS UKRAINIAN STRAY A missile that hit Poland was probably a stray fired by Ukraine’s air defences and not a Russian strike, Poland and NATO said on Wednesday, easing global concern that the war in Ukraine could spill across the border.
MARCOS JR. ARRIVES IN THAILAND FOR APEC MEET; IS CONFIDENT THAT IT WILL TO YIELD ‘GOOD PROGRESS’ FOR PH BANGKOK — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday arrived in Thailand to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ meeting.
CALLS FOR CONCRETE SOLUTIONS TO CLIMATE CRISIS AS LEADERS GATHER AT G20 SUMMIT, COP27 BALI, Indonesia — As world leaders gather in resort cities of Indonesia and Egypt this week, groups across Asia called on wealthy economies to deliver real solutions to the world&rsqu
SIX DEAD IN ISTANBUL BLAST ERDOGAN SAYS 'SMELLS LIKE TERRORISM' Istanbul : Six people were killed and 53 others were wounded on Sunday when an explosion rocked a busy pedestrian street in central Istanbul in what Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called a bomb attack that &ld
