Philippines opens impeachment trial of V-P Sara Duterte amid political turmoil
If convicted, her ambitions to become president in 2028 could be derailed.
If convicted, her ambitions to become president in 2028 could be derailed.
He called for a full investigation into shortcomings in the government’s initial recovery efforts.
Negotiations continue regarding investor protection.
KARACHI/DUBAI, May 18 - Peace mediator Pakistan has shared with the United States a revised proposal from Iran to end the war in the Middle East, a Pakistani source told Reuters on Monday, warning that the sides \"don't have much time\" to narrow their differences.
The situation is worsened with low basic and complete immunisation in hot spots.
ISLAMABAD, May 18 - Pakistan has deployed 8,000 troops, a squadron of fighter jets and an air defence system to Saudi Arabia under a mutual defence pact, ramping up military cooperation with Riyadh even as Islamabad serves as the main mediator in the Iran war.
ISLAMABAD, May 18 - Pakistan has shared with the U.S. a revised proposal from Iran to end the conflict in the Middle East, a Pakistani source told Reuters on Monday, as peace talks appeared to remain stalled.
He also said there were early discussions on exporting one gigawatt of power to Malaysia.
As the US confronts growing fears that Russian, Chinese and Iranian-backed drone and intelligence activities are turning Cuba into a new strategic pressure point near US territory, the island is reemerging as a focal point of great-power rivalry in the Western Hemisphere. This
The Russian president is to visit China on May 19 and 20.
State news agency Xinhua on Sunday (May 17) said relations between China and Russia will always remain “as unshakeable as a mountain amid wind and rain”.
Rice is a staple for billions but growing it contributes to climate change, as flooded paddy fields release large amounts of methane – a potent greenhouse gas.
China is also facing falling output from wind turbines and nuclear reactors.
A direct conversation between sitting leaders of Taiwan and the US has not happened since 1979.
ISTANBUL, May 18 - The organisers of a flotilla of aid ships bound for Gaza said on Monday that Israeli forces had boarded one of their vessels and that contact had been lost with another of the vessels in the eastern Mediterranean.
Beijing began blocking Taiwan's participation in the annual assembly in 2017.
BEIJING, May 18 - China said on Monday it opposed countries providing platforms for \"Taiwan independence separatist\" activities, after Taiwan's foreign minister arrived in Switzerland for events on the sidelines of a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting.
Link REIT said there were “licensing issues” in renting the venue.
Total number of people on the boat has been revised upwards from 37 to 39.
The 25-year-old reportedly lost his footing and fell 10m from a rock wall, according to Taiwanese media.
KUALA LUMPUR, May 18 - Malaysia's King Sultan Ibrahim held an audience with Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Monday, a day after the premier floated the possibility of calling an early election, according to a statement on the monarch's official Facebook page.
The government handed over equipment including six French-made Rafale jets to the military.
The migrants were trying to reach several destinations in Malaysia, including Penang, Terengganu, Selangor and Kuala Lumpur for work.
The activists used to arrange annual candlelight vigils for the crackdown on protests in 1989.
JAKARTA, May 18 - Indonesia will continue to build up its defence capabilities amid an uncertain geopolitical situation, President Prabowo Subianto said on Monday as he officially handed over six Rafale fighter jets and other military hardware to the Indonesian Air Force.
At least eight people were killed and 32 others injured in the accident.
There were no immediate reports of serious damage or casualties following the earthquake.
More downpours are expected after heavy rains drenched central and eastern China.
BEIJING, May 18 - Rescuers were searching on Monday for six people missing after a pickup truck carrying 15 passengers fell into a flooded river in China's southern province of Guangxi amid heavy rains, killing four, state broadcaster CCTV said.
The freight train collided with a bus in Bangkok, killing eight people and injuring dozens of others.
Myanmar’s war is often described as a clash of ideologies, ethnic identities and competing visions of the state. That is true, but incomplete. At its core, Myanmar’s crisis is also a resource-driven conflict, intensified by geography. The generals did not cling to power for the
Initial charges against the four police officers include jointly detaining others and abuse of authority.
The Trump-Xi summit in Beijing was supposed to signal a new phase of calmer US-China relations. Instead, it exposed a deeper reality that should concern Indonesia and much of Southeast Asia, as stability between great powers can sometimes come at the expense of middle powers.
The bullet train had carried around one million passengers since its debut in June 2018.
The region’s grids urgently need more investment to expand and modernise.
There is a moment in every great geopolitical confrontation when the outcome becomes structurally inevitable — long before anyone is willing to announce it. Rome understood this when Germanic tribes stopped retreating. Britain understood it in 1947, standing in Delhi with empty
The men did not come close to the animals, and were quickly apprehended by zoo officials
An initial urine test of the driver found illicit drugs in his system, said the chief of the local police station.
The 25-year-old man lost his footing and fell from a slope about 7m high, Taiwanese media reported.
The project was proposed almost two years ago to help disperse traffic.
SYDNEY, May 18 - Australia's centre-left government is facing voter blowback after breaking election promises to roll out the biggest changes to investment taxes in decades in its latest budget, according to two closely watched polls.
Steven Mattaboni, 38, died on Saturday after a shark attack while spearfishing at Rottnest Island.
Lai Ching-te made his first direct response to Trump and Xi's meeting where they discussed Taiwan independence.
Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and defined by critical tipping points. There are many differences between the Suez Crisis in 1956 and the US war on Iran today, but
The most revealing line of last week’s Trump-Xi summit was not delivered at the Great Hall of the People. It came afterward, aboard Air Force One, when the American president was asked by Fox News what he thought of the island that had dominated his two days of talks with Xi