VFA FULLY RESTORED AFTER DUTERTE MEETING WITH PENTAGON CHIEF — LORENZANA MANILA— President Rodrigo Duterte decided to recall his termination of the decades-old Visiting Forces Agreement following his meeting with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Thursday night, Defe
JOINT FRONT BY OPPOSITION IN LOK SABHA The Opposition Thursday mounted joint protests against the govt over the Pegasus spyware issue in Parliament, with the Congress deciding to further raise the heat by collecting signatures of MPs to press for a debate in the House on the mat
CHINA-TALIBAN TIES WARMING AHEAD OF US WITHDRAWAL A Taliban delegation, led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, on Wednesday made a surprise visit to China and held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, during which the Taliban leader termed Beijing as a “trustworthy fri
DUTERTE: JAPAN ‘UNRIVALED’ AS PHILIPPINES’S VALUED PARTNER MANILA — President Duterte has described as “extraordinary” the Philippines’ ties with Japan and has expressed optimism that the relationship between the two countries would beco
FEW RELATIONSHIPS GLOBALLY MORE VITAL THAN US PARTNERSHIP WITH INDIA, SAYS BLINKEN The visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday said there were few relationships in the world that were more vital than the one between the US and India. His discussions with E
CLIMATE SCIENCE REPORT ‘CRITICAL FOR SUCCESS’ OF COP26: UN Nearly 200 nations started online negotiations on Monday to validate a UN science report that will anchor autumn summits charged with preventing climate catastrophe on a planetary scale.
US SAYS CHINA'S SEA CLAIMS HAVE 'NO BASIS' IN INTERNATIONAL LAW SINGAPORE - Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said Tuesday that Beijing's expansive claims in the South China Sea have "no basis in international law", taking aim at China's growing assertiveness in the hotly contested wa
MODI ASKS BJP MPs TO EXPOSE OPPOSITION FOR NOT LETTING PARLIAMENT FUNCTION Addressing the party MPs at the BJP’s Parliamentary Party meeting on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked them to "expose the opposition parties as they have been deliberately obstructing and
DUTERTE DELIVERS LAST SONA President Rodrigo Duterte delivered his sixth and last State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday afternoon, July 26. This was Duterte's second SONA to be done hybrid, with some guests physically present, and some joining through video calls.
TROUBLE AT ASSAM-MIZORAM BORDER At least six Assam Police personnel were killed while defending the 'constitutional boundary' of the state with Mizoram and more than 60 people injured, including a superintendent police, as the festering border dispute between the two northeaster
