ISLAMIC STATE LEADER KILLED IN SYRIA: BIDEN US President Joe Biden said Thursday that a "terrorist threat to the world" was removed when the head of the Islamic State blew himself up, as US special forces swooped on his Syrian hideout in an "incredibly challenging" nighttime
PHILIPPINE ANNUAL INFLATION EASES TO 3.0% IN JANUARY MANILA - Inflation in January settled at 3 percent using 2018 as the new base year, the state statistics bureau said Friday. Inflation for the month slowed compared to December 2021, the Philippine Statistics Auth
INDIA TO BOYCOTT BEIJING WINTER OLYMPICS CEREMONIES India on Thursday announced that its top diplomat in China will skip the opening or closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics while describing as "regrettable" the Chinese side fielding a military officer involved in
UKRAINE TENSIONS: US BOOSTS TROOPS IN EUROPE US President Joe Biden is to send extra troops to Europe this week amid continuing fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Pentagon says. Some 2,000 troops will be sent from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Poland and G
CONGRESS LIFTS FOREIGN INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS, EXCEPT IN SOME PUBLIC UTILITIES MANILA —Congress has passed a law lifting foreign investment restrictions on all sectors, except the transmission and distribution of electricity, water pipeline and sewerage, seaports, pet
RAHUL GANDHI IN LOK SABHA, SLAMS GOVT PERFORMANCE ON ALL FRONTS India faces a challenge that is the creation of two Indias—one extremely wealthy and the other is being pushed deeper into poverty, said Rahul Gandhi as he accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of behaving
RUSSIA’S ENVOY THANKS INDIA, OTHERS, OVER UKRAINE STAND After India abstained from a procedural vote calling for a discussion on Ukraine — initiated by the U.S. — at the UN Security Council (UNSC) on Monday, First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia t
SENATE PASSES RECORD 166 BILLS ON THIRD READING IN A SINGLE DAY MANILA — The Senate said it approved a record 166 bills on third reading on Monday, the most number of measures it cleared in a single day in the past ten years.
BUDGET AIMS TO GIVE PUSH FOR CAPEX TO REVIVE DEMAND, CREATE JOBS First, on the Personal Income Tax front – there’s been no change at all in 2022-23 union budget presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Lok Sabha yesterday. While she left personal i
PEGASUS-MAKER CALLS CRITICISM “HYPOCRITICAL”, BUT ADMITS "SOME MISTAKES" An undeterred Chief Executive Officer of NSO Group, Shalev Hulio, in an interview to Israeli Channel 12 on Saturday, strongly defended the corporate’s operations, although he additiona
