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MANILA -The Philippine police and military said on Sunday they were on high alert as last-minute preparations continued for the country’s general election, even as the overall situation remained “relatively …

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU – Russian climber Pavel Kostrikin died at Camp I of Mount Everest, the first reported death of a foreigner on the world’s highest peak in the …

By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON – The United States has imposed several rafts of sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine in February, targeting its central bank, major lenders, oligarchs …

By Marc Frank HAVANA – Cuban rescue workers on Saturday picked through rubble for bodies and possible survivors after a Havana boutique hotel was devastated by what authorities said was …

By Engen Tham and Eduardo Baptista SHANGHAI/BEIJING -Shanghai authorities were tightening the city-wide COVID lockdown they imposed more than a month ago, prolonging into late May an ordeal that China’s …

SHANGHAI – Shanghai is tightening its already strict COVID-19 lockdown in a fresh push to eliminate infections outside quarantined areas of China’s biggest city by late this month, people familiar …

By Aditya Kalra and Abhirup Roy NEW DELHI – Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp has alleged its top executives faced threats of “physical violence” and coercion during questioning by India’s …

By Neil Jerome Morales and Lisa Marie David MANILA -Crowds of hundreds of thousands massed in the Philippines on Saturday where the leading presidential candidates made a last-ditch bid to …

SHANGHAI – Quanta Shanghai Manufacturing City would seem like an ideal site to implement China’s “closed-loop” management system to prevent the spread of COVID that requires staff to live and …

THAYER: We Need To Rein In Big Tech, Not The EU Joel Thayer on May 7, 2022 The European Union (EU) is at it again. Much like they did with …

LUKAS: Can We Still Call It Mother’s Day? Carrie Lukas on May 7, 2022 Not long ago, Mother’s Day was the quintessential Hallmark holiday, a holiday where children and spouses …

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -Airborne firefighters dumped water and retardants on a raging New Mexico wildfire on Saturday, expediting their mission until gusty afternoon winds grounded their aerial campaign. In …

By Rory Carroll (Reuters) -Long-shot Rich Strike stormed to victory at the 148th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville on Saturday in one of the biggest upsets in the …

(Reuters) – A U.S. grand jury on Saturday indicted a man for terrorism and other charges stemming from an April 12 gunfire and smoke bomb attack that injured 23 people …

By Bill Trott (Reuters) – Country singer Mickey Gilley, whose namesake Texas-sized honky-tonk bar was the birthplace of the “Urban Cowboy” music and fashion fads of the 1980s, died at …

By Pavel Polityuk KYIV -All women, children and elderly civilians have been evacuated from the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday, after a week-long effort rescued …

KABUL -Afghanistan’s Taliban government ordered women on Saturday to cover their faces in public, a return to a signature policy of their past hardline rule and an escalation of restrictions …

FRANKFURT -Berlin criminal investigators and prosecutors were on Saturday studying a device found and destroyed at a residential building housing Russian news agency staff in the city’s Steglitz district, Berlin …

(Reuters) – At least eight people died in Siberia on Saturday as fires ripped through hundreds of buildings in several villages, with high winds hampering efforts to extinguish the blazes. …

By Layli Foroudi and Elizabeth Pineau PARIS -France’s Emmanuel Macron was sworn in for his second term as president on Saturday, promising to lead the country with a “new method” …

BUCHAREST – Sitting in a classroom in the Romanian capital of Bucharest, U.S. first lady Jill Biden met a group of Ukrainian refugee mothers and educators on Saturday, praising the …

By Joyce Lee and Kantaro Komiya SEOUL/TOKYO -North Korea fired a ballistic missile from a submarine on Saturday, South Korea said, an escalation just before the inauguration of a South …

Corporations Stay Quiet On Abortion After Disney’s Disastrous Tangle With DeSantis Laurel Duggan on May 7, 2022 Corporations previously outspoken about hot-button social issues have stayed quiet on the likely …

By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI -China’s capital Beijing kicked off a fresh round of mass testing for COVID-19 on Saturday and shut more bus routes and metro stations, as it seeks …

By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON – President Vladimir Putin will send a “doomsday” warning to the West when he leads celebrations on Monday marking the 77th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s …