US OFFICIALLY REJOINS CLIMATE DEAL AS TEXAS REELS UNDER ARCTIC FREEZE The US rejoined the Paris climate accord on Friday even as a Texas-sized political controversy erupted in the country over collapsed power grids and water supply disruption — widely attributed to glo
PHILIPPINES RECEIVES 1ST OF 2 C-130 PLANES FROM US MANILA — The US government on Thursday turned over the first of two C-130H Hercules planes to the Philippines under the Foreign Military Financing grant program. The aircraft, worth P1.54 billion, is capable o
PANGONG DISENGAGEMENT OVER, OTHER FRICTION POINTS TO BE DISCUSSED TODAY Making significant headway in attempts to resolve the nine-month military standoff along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh, Chinese and Indian troops have completed the first phase of disengagement on
BIDEN PLANS TO 'RECALIBRATE' SAUDI RELATIONS; WARNS CHINA OF REPERCUSSIONS OVER HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES President Joe Biden plans to shift U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia and will conduct diplomacy through Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz rather than his powerful son, Crown Prin
REPORT SHOWS POSSIBLE CONSTRUCTION ON MISCHIEF REEF AMID COVID-19 PANDEMIC MANILA — A firm based in Florida conducting satellite imagery analysis has published a report this February showing what appeared to be movement and structural changes on Chinese-occupied Mischi
NORTHERN ARMY CHIEF TERMS DISENGAGEMENT A SUCCESS Northern Army Commander Lt General Y K Joshi said Wednesday that getting the People’s Liberation Army to withdraw beyond the Indian claim line at Finger 8 on the north bank of Pangong Tso is a “huge success for India&rdqu
FRANCE’S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PASSES BILL AIMED AT CURBING ISLAMISM France’s National Assembly on Tuesday approved legislation designed mainly to counter a rise in Islamism in towns and cities which the government says threatens national unity. The legislation did n
DUTERTE SIGNS FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS BILL INTO LAW MANILA — President Duterte yesterday signed into law a measure that would allow financial institutions to offload their souring loans, to help the banking system remain strong and ready to extend loans to pandemic-hit
PUDUCHERRY CONG GOVT ON THE BRINK, BEDI REMOVED AS L-G The Congress-led government in Puducherry appeared to have lost majority on Tuesday after a second MLA of the party resigned in two days. Late in the evening, the Centre removed the Lieutenant Governor of the Un
AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S REMAND EXTENDED TILL 17 FEB The detention of State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint has been extended until February 17 as both have been under house arrest since the military took control of the country in a military coup on Febru
