INDIA, IRAN AGREE TO ACCELERATE WORK ON CHABAHAR PROJECTIndia and Iran on Sunday agreed to accelerate work on the strategic Chabaharproject as External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held wide-ranging talkswith his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif on regional and global issues ofmutual inter
22 WOUNDED IN BLASTS IN COTABATO, MAGUINDANAOMANILA - At least 22 were wounded in several blasts which rocked CotabatoCity and 2 other towns in the provinces of Cotabato and MaguindanaoprovinceSunday night.
CHINA'S LUNAR ROVER JADE RABBIT-2 BREAKS RECORD OF WORKING TIME ON MOON China's Jade Rabbit-2, or Yutu-2, has become the longest-working lunar rover on the moon, as it started to work for the 13th lunar day on the far side of the moon.
TRUMP SIGNS $738 BILLION DEFENCE BILLUS President Donald Trump has signed into law a $738 billion defence Billwhich includes controversial provisions calling for sanctions against Russiaand Turkey.
SENATE EXPECTS DUTERTE TO SIGN BUDGET ON JANUARY 6MANILA, Philippines — The Senate is hopeful President Duterte will be ableto sign by Jan. 6 the P4.1-trillion national budget after Senate PresidentVicente Sotto III signed the final copy of the national spending program onFriday night.
XI, TRUMP DISCUSS TRADE DEAL, RELATIONS IN PHONE CALL The China-US phase one trade deal, reached on the basis of equality and mutual respect and against the backdrop of an extremely complicated international environment, will benefit both countries and contribute to peace and prosperity of the worl
BREXIT: MPS BACK JOHNSON'S PLAN TO LEAVE EU BY JAN 31Prime Minister Boris Johnson won approval for his Brexit deal in parliamenton Friday, the first step towards fulfilling his election pledge to deliverBritain's departure from the European Union by January 31 after hislandslide victory.
ACQUITTED MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE SUSPECTS WALK FREEMANILA - Nearly all of the defendants acquitted in the Maguindanao massacrecase walked free on Friday, a day after a special court absolved them in thedecade-old case.
CHINA ALLOWS NO EXTERNAL FORCES TO INTERFERE WITH HK, MACAO AFFAIRS President Xi Jinping delivered a speech at a gathering celebrating the 20th anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland and the inauguration ceremony of the fifth-term government of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR)
IMPEACHED TRUMP FACES TRIAL IN SENATE The impeachment of President Donald Trump in the U.S. House of Representatives on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress sets the stage for a historic trial next month in the Republican-controlled Senate on whether he should be
