IRAN BACKTRACKS ON PLAN TO SEND FLIGHT RECORDERS TO UKRAINEThe Iranian official leading the investigation into the Ukrainian jetlinerthat was accidentally shot down by the Revolutionary Guard appeared tobacktrack on January 19 on plans to send the flight recorders abroad foranalysis, a day afte
TRUMP INVITES DUTERTE TO USMANILA — Despite the passage of a United States budget provision banningPhilippine officials behind the detention of Sen. Leila de Lima fromentering the US, President Duterte was among the Southeast Asian leadersinvited by US President Donald Trump to a Las Vegas sum
CHINA, MYANMAR HAVE PRODUCTIVE EXCHANGE DURING XI'S VISIT China and Myanmar exchanged a number of cooperation documents covering such areas as politics, trade, investment and people-to-people communications amid President Xi Jinping's state visit on Saturday.
BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR WORDS, TRUMP WARNS KHAMENEIPresident Donald Trump on Friday warned Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah AliKhamenei to be "very careful with his words". "The so-called 'SupremeLeader' of Iran, who has not been so Supreme lately, had some nasty thingsto say about the United
CREATION OF TAAL COMMISSION PUSHEDMANILA — Lawmakers called yesterday for the creation of a commission or taskforce that would oversee the rehabilitation and recovery of areas inBatangas and Cavite affected by Taal Volcano’s eruption.
XI GREETED WITH GUSTO IN MYANMAR China is willing to consolidate and deepen its pauk-phaw friendship with Myanmar and jointly build a China-Myanmar community with a shared future, visiting President Xi Jinping said on Friday in Nay Pyi Taw.
IRAN CAN TAKE FIGHT BEYOND ITS BORDERS, SAYS KHAMENEIThe Revolutionary Guards can take their fight beyond Iran's borders, SupremeLeader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday, responding to the US killingof a top general and to unrest at home over the accidental downing of anairliner.
CARPIO: FILIPINOS NEED LEADER WHO CAN ADDRESS CHINA ISSUEMANILA - Retired Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio on Friday saidFilipinos need a leader who can address the country’s territorial issueswith China.
TRUMP IMPEACHMENT TRIAL OPENS AS WATCHDOG FAULTS WHITE HOUSE ON UKRAINEThe Senate impeachment trial on whether to remove U.S. President DonaldTrump from office formally began on January 16 even as a congressionalwatchdog found that the White House broke the law by withholding securityaid for Ukraine
DUTERTE'S FORMER ICC ACCUSER DANCES AROUND CASE'S VERACITYMANILA — The case against President Rodrigo Duterte before the InternationalCriminal Court’s (ICC) was politically motivated, the lawyer who filed itsaid Friday, despite admitting that he "cannot say what is true" or not inthe all
