News

Logo
Most Read
Advertisement
The Philippines evacuated hundreds of thousands of people and confirmed at least three deaths Friday as a severe tropical storm battered the country, still feeling the effects of Super Typhoon Ragasa. — AFP pic/Courtesy of Facebook user Jerome Martinez/Handout
World / 26 Sep 2025

Three dead, 400,000 evacuated as powerful storm Bualoi slams the Philippines

Japan’s Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, a top contender to become the next premier, downplayed criticism on Friday over his ministry’s handling of a licensing deal for a prized grape variety that sparked an official protest from producers. — Reuters pic
World / 26 Sep 2025

Japan farm minister Koizumi defends grape licensing policy after backlash over Shine Muscat cultivation talks abroad

Rescue workers in Taiwan battled through thick mud on Friday, looking for 11 people still missing after Super Typhoon Ragasa this week sent a wall of water into a small town on the east coast. — Reuters pic
World / 26 Sep 2025

‘No time to escape’: Taiwan rescuers dig through mud for missing after Typhoon Ragasa floods

US President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to stop Israel from annexing the West Bank as he presses to end the Gaza war, ahead of a high-stakes visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. — AFP pic
World / 26 Sep 2025

‘I will not allow it’: Trump vows to block West Bank annexation as Netanyahu heads to Washington

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy with his wife Carla Bruni after the verdict in his trial for illegal campaign financing from Libya for his successful 2007 presidential bid. — AFP pic
World / 26 Sep 2025

Sarkozy sentenced to five years over secret Libyan cash: Former French president vows to appeal ‘scandalous’ verdict in explosive campaign finance case

A pedestrian crosses the flooded San Ma Lo commercial area during the passage of Super Typhoon Ragasa in Macau September 24, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 26 Sep 2025

China sets first absolute climate targets — here’s what’s in the 2035 plan

The White House has told US federal agencies to prepare for more mass firings during a possible government shutdown next week. — Reuters pic
World / 25 Sep 2025

White House memo warns of mass firings as shutdown fight with Democrats escalates

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy with his wife Carla Bruni at the Tribunal de Paris courthouse in Paris. — AFP pic
World / 25 Sep 2025

Ex-French president Sarkozy convicted of criminal conspiracy in Libya funding scandal, prosecutors seek prison

File picture of Ibaraki Police Department headquarters. Japanese authorities announced on Thursday that they had taken into custody a 75-year-old woman who reportedly admitted to storing her daughter’s body in a freezer for 20 years. — Picture from social media
World / 25 Sep 2025

Japan arrests 75-year-old woman for storing daughter’s body in freezer for 20 years

Members of the ring, run by four Vietnamese siblings, were charged with organising and participating in online gambling between early 2020 and late 2021 when they were busted by police, the Ho Chi Minh City’s Law newspaper reported. — Pexels pic
World / 25 Sep 2025

Vietnam jails dozens in US$3.8b online gambling and crypto case

File picture of residents walking past a fallen electric post along a road in Calayan island, Cagayan province on September 23, 2025, a day after Super Typhoon Ragasa hit the island. Severe Tropical Storm Bualoi is forecast to intensify into a typhoon on Friday and then slam into the southern end of the Philippines’ largest island, Luzon. — AFP pic
World / 25 Sep 2025

Storm Bualoi looms: Philippines cancels classes, flights as nation reels from deadly Typhoon Ragasa

A vehicle teeters on the edge of a massive sinkhole that opened on Samsen Road near Vajira Hospital, in Bangkok, September 24, 2025. Teams in Bangkok are racing to fill a vast sinkhole on Samsen Road with sandbags and crushed stone to prevent further subsidence and the potential collapse of nearby structures. — Reuters pic
World / 25 Sep 2025

Bangkok sinkhole crisis: Sandbags, stone deployed to prevent building collapse (VIDEO)

Muhammad Setiawan Pratama, 11, an elementary student receives treatment for food poisoning after eating government-sponsored free school meals, at a makeshift clinic inside a district’s hall in Bandung, West Java province, Indonesia, September 25, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 25 Sep 2025

Over 1,000 Indonesian students in West Java fall ill in latest school meal food poisoning outbreaks

A member of CORE, a Special Operations wing of the Brazilian Civil Police, stands guard during a large scale operation against drug trafficking, to occupy and secure parts of Jacarezinho favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on January 19, 2022. On September 24, 2025, the Rio de Janeiro state legislature passed a law that would reward police officers who kill ‘criminals,’ sparking an outcry from human rights advocates. — AFP pic
World / 25 Sep 2025

Brazil’s Rio lawmakers approve police bonuses for killing ‘criminals,’ sparking rights fears

A firefighter works at the site of a private enterprise damaged during a Russian air strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine September 22, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 25 Sep 2025

Russia vows to push Ukraine offensive, rejects Trump’s claim Kyiv can retake land

A vehicle teetering on the edge of a massive sinkhole that opened on Samsen Road near Vajira Hospital, is moved to a safe space, in Bangkok, September 24, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 25 Sep 2025

Bangkok authorities scramble to contain massive sinkhole near Vajira Hospital