PAENG DEATH TOLL TOPS 100, AFFECTED PEOPLE SWELLS TO OVER 2 MILLION MANILA - The death toll from the onslaught of Severe Tropical Storm Paeng has risen to 101, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said Monday night, while 66 others remain missing. &nb
BRAZIL ELECTION: BOLSONARO DEFEATED AS LULA MAKES COMEBACK Brazil has taken a turn to the left as former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva beat far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in the presidential election.
SPEAKER BACKS CALAMITY STATE Disaster officials on Sunday formally recommended that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. place the entire country under a state of calamity for a year, after Tropical Storm “Paeng” left 48 people dead and a wide swath of destruction acro
AMID CLAIMS OF ‘DIRTY BOMB’, PUTIN SURVEYS NUCLEAR DRILLS Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday surveyed drills carried out by his nuclear-capable forces as Moscow pressed unfounded claims to India and China that Ukraine was developing a “dirty bomb
UKRAINE WAR: BLACKOUTS IN 1,162 TOWNS AND VILLAGES AFTER RUSSIA STRIKES More than a thousand towns and villages across Ukraine remain without power after massive Russian attacks in recent days, Ukrainian officials have said.
GOVERNMENT TO HIKE INTEREST RATES President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said the government will raise interest rates to keep inflation in check, a policy that is likely to raise the cost of borrowing. After meeting with his economic managers Tuesday, Marcos said taming in
RUSSIA WARNS OF WORLD WAR III IF UKRAINE JOINS NATO: REPORT The admission of Ukraine to NATO could result in a third world war, the deputy secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Alexander Venediktov, told the state TASS news agency in an interview on Th
CHINA LOOKS TO MAINTAIN PHILIPPINES SUPPLY CHAIN GAINS AS MARCOS JR PIVOTS BACK TO US China’s move to establish “demonstration parks” for trade and innovation in the Philippines is part of an effort to shore up supply chains amid US decoupling threats and m
LEBANON, ISRAEL REACH ‘HISTORIC’ AGREEMENT ON MARITIME BORDERS Jerusalem : Israel and Lebanon have agreed to resolve a decades-old dispute over the control of an eastern stretch of the Mediterranean Sea, leaders of the two countries announced Tuesday, in a major
CHINA DENIES PLACING PHILIPPINES ON TOURISM BLACKLIST MANILA — China denied Tuesday that the Philippines is on its tourism blacklist after Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri claimed that Beijing has restricted Chinese tourists from coming to Manila due to the continue
