WASHINGTON: Lawmakers and activists called for the US to press Vietnam to free dissidents and allow greater religious freedom as the two nations...
WASHINGTON: Lawmakers and activists called for the US to press Vietnam to free dissidents and allow greater religious freedom as the two nations...
TOKYO: A Japanese court yesterday sentenced an African man, one of four who attempted to hijack a Japanese tanker off the coast of...
Electronic cigarettes on display at a stall in Manila yesterday. MANILA: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday warned against the use of...
MANILA: The Sultan of Sulu, Jamalul Kiram III, intends to seek an audience with Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah when he comes to the...
MANILA: At least three Chinese vessels are still in the Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal, more than a year after Beijing had intruded into the...
MANILA: About 400 of more than 1,000 candidates running for 369 elective posts in Maguindanao on May 13 are part of at least...
MANILA: The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has sent notices to the entire senatorial slate of the administration’s Team PNoy for their unlawful campaign...
MANILA: Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in South Korea will be evacuated when the need arises, Malacañang said. Secretary Ricky Carandang of the Presidential...
MANILA: More stranded and undocumented overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Saudi Arabia are expected to camp out outside the Philippine consulate in Jeddah...
Russian President Vladimir Putin (second right) listens to Vladimir Popovkin (third right), head of the Federal Space Agency, as they review a model...
ROME: A panel of “wise men” named by Italy’s president proposed a package of political and economic reforms yesterday, but there was little...
SHANGHAI: US public health experts said developing a vaccine for the H7N9 strain of bird flu could take “many months”, as China seeks...
LONDON: Britain’s public broadcaster has refused to ban the song “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead” after anti-Margaret Thatcher campaigners sent it soaring...
KHARKIV: More than 5,000 protesters rallied in Kharkiv yesterday calling for former premier Yulia Tymoshenko to be released from jail in the first...
Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al Bashir (right), is welcomed by his South Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir at the airport in Juba, yesterday. JUBA:...
CAIRO: Egypt’s President Mohammed Mursi and the military have closed ranks to deny charges that soldiers had killed and tortured protesters, following leaks...
DUBAI: The city that boasts the world’s tallest building is equipping its police with $400,000 Lamborghini sports cars that Dubai’s deputy police chief...
JERUSALEM: Israel has told the European Union and UN it can deport a Palestinian prisoner on a life-endangering long-term hunger strike to one...
