DUTERTE TO ADDRESS UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR FIRST TIME MANILA — President Duterte will address the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) for the first time today, even as some international groups renew their condemnation of alleged abuses tied to his controversial war on illegal dru
8 OPPN MPS SUSPENDED FOR ‘UNRULY BEHAVIOUR’ ON SUNDAY IN RS The face-off between the govt and the Opposition over the passage of two key farm Bills in Rajya Sabha escalated on Monday with Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu suspending eight MPs “for the remaining part of the current ses
NATION HONORS UN, MULTILATERALISM PLEDGE When President Xi Jinping attended the high-level meetings for the 70th anniversary of the United Nations in New York in 2015, he called on the international community to remain committed to multilateralism and mutually beneficial cooperation for a b
DONALD TRUMP PRESSES FOR NEW JUSTICE TO REPLACE RUTH BADER GINSBURG AMID LOOMING ELECTION President Donald Trump is expected to ignore the dying wish of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and nominate her replacement in the coming days in a rush to hurry through a conservativ
PHILIPPINE MONEY REMITTERS FLAGGED IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN ‘SUSPICIOUS’ TRANSACTIONS MANILA (Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism) — Filipino remittance firms were investigated in the aftermath of the 2016 cyber-heist that siphoned off $81 million from the central
RAJYA SABHA PASSES TWO CRUCIAL FARM BILLS AMID SEVERE PROTESTS BY OPPN Dismissing Opposition objections and pleas, the government pushed through two key farm Bills in Rajya Sabha on Sunday amid unprecedented scenes of chaos, confusion, and ruckus. Agitated Opposition members, protesting t
CHINA SENDS FIGHTERS TOWARDS TAIWAN While tensions remain high and a military build-up continues along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh, China has ratcheted up tensions on its eastern front, with 18 Chinese fighters and bombers crossing the mid-line of the Taiwan Strait and fly
DUTERTE PLACES PHILIPPINES UNDER STATE OF CALAMITY UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2021 MANILA — The Philippines will remain under a state of calamity for one more year as it continues to grapple with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. President Rodrigo Duterte extended the period of the state of c
AS MPs TEST POSITIVE, COVID CONCERNS MAY CUT SHORT MONSOON SESSION With more than 30 MPs, including Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari and Prahlad Patel, testing positive over the last week, there is a palpable sense of concern and apprehension in Parliament over the spread of Covid. The situ
BIDEN SAYS US TRADE DEAL HINGES ON UK 'RESPECT' FOR GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has warned the United Kingdom it must honour Northern Ireland's 1998 peace agreement as it withdraws from the European Union or there would be no separate United States
