MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine senator wanted by the International Criminal Court for an alleged crime against humanity has fled from the Senate, where he sought refuge to evade arrest, officials said Thursday. Sen. Ronald dela Rosa ’s exit from the heavily guarded Senate came after volleys of gunshots were fired Wednesday night by …
MOSCOW, May 14 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit China very soon and preparations for the trip are already complete, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday. Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping have met more than 40 times over the years, most recently in Beijing last September. The two men signed a …
ROME, May 14 (Reuters) – Pope Leo on Thursday decried rising European military spending, which grew last year by the highest amount since the end of the Cold War amid pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, saying it was a betrayal of diplomacy. Leo, who has drawn Trump’s ire in recent weeks after criticizing the …
A tourist who drew widespread condemnation in Hawaii after a witness recorded him chucking a coconut-sized rock at “Lani,” a beloved, endangered Hawaiian monk seal off a Maui beach, was arrested Wednesday by federal agents. Igor Mykhaylovych Lytvynchuk, 38, of Covington, Washington, is charged with harassing a protected animal, the U.S. attorney’s office in Honolulu …
JERUSALEM, May 14 (Reuters) – Thousands of Israeli nationalists will march on Thursday through the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem’s walled Old City under heavy security, in an annual event marking Israel’s capture of the city’s east in a war nearly six decades ago. The parade, the main celebration of Jerusalem Day, has become a show …
Lutnick agreed to sit for an interview with the House Oversight Committee last week after the release of case files on Epstein contradicted his claim on a podcast last year that he had been determined to “never be in a room again” with Epstein after a 2005 tour of Epstein’s home that disturbed Lutnick and …
May 13 (Reuters) – A lawyer for Meta Platforms on Wednesday argued that New Mexico’s $3.7 billion proposal to address teen mental health harms goes too far, saying it would force the company to pay for mental health care for all of the state’s teenagers and not just those it allegedly hurt. Meta attorney Alex …
MOSCOW, May 14 (Reuters) – Russia is establishing a “full-fledged partnership” with Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban and is encouraging other countries in the region to expand cooperation with Kabul, a senior Russian security official was quoted on Thursday as saying. Russia last year became the first country to formally recognise the Islamist Taliban government that seized …
TAIPEI, May 14 (Reuters) – So far, nothing surprising has come out of a summit between Chinese and U.S. leaders in Beijing, but Beijing should stop its military pressure on Taipei as that is the real threat to peace, a senior Taiwanese government spokesperson said on Thursday. China’s Xi Jinping warned U.S. President Donald Trump …
The World Cup final will feature a star-studded halftime show headlined by Madonna, Shakira and boy-band BTS. FIFA has announced that, for the first time, the final at the Metlife Stadium in New Jersey on July 19 will include a Super Bowl-style concert. The governing body said the show would support the FIFA Global Citizen …