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Big wave of Ukrainian drones kills two in Russia, causes refinery fire

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukraine mounted an unusually large wave of overnight drone attacks on Russia that killed two people in Belgorod region and set fire to an oil refinery at Tuapse on the Black Sea, Russian officials said on Friday. Belgorod regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said a mother and her four-year-old son were killed while travelling in a car. The fire at the Tuapse refinery was


Hundreds more French police start deploying to secure New Caledonia

By Kirsty Needham and Camille Raynaud SYDNEY/PARIS (Reuters) -French police reinforcements began arriving in New Caledonia on Friday in a massive push to regain control of the capital, the top French official in the Pacific island territory said, after rioting in which four people were killed and hundreds arrested. After three nights of upheaval, Thursday night was relatively quiet and calls for


Fierce fighting in northern Gaza as Israel defends itself at World Court

By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli forces battled Hamas fighters in the narrow alleyways of Jabalia in northern Gaza on Friday in some of the fiercest engagements since they returned to the area a week ago, while in the south militants attacked tanks massing around Rafah. Residents said Israeli armour had thrust as far as the market at the heart of Jabalia, the largest of Gaza's


PH fishers spot pipe installation off Scarborough – ‘Atin Ito’ leader

SUBIC, Zambales — Filipino fisherfolk saw a pipe installation in waters near the Scarborough (Panatag) Shoal, according to a team leader of an NGO that initiated a civilian mission in the West Philippine Sea. Mark Figueras, team leader of the “Atin Ito” convoy’s advance boat, said fishers could go 50 to 100 meters close to the low-tide elevation before this suspected construction off the sandbar which began last month. “Now, they have been...


Return to sender? Misbehaving Chinese envoys should be expelled, replaced with 'better ones'--solons

Chinese diplomats who misbehave or don't know how to follow laws in the Philippines should be sent home and replaced with "better ones", Manila 6th district Rep. Bienvenido "Benny" Abante Jr. and Lanao del Sur 1st district Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong said. READ MORE: https://mb.com.ph/2024/5/17/return-to-sender-misbehaving-chinese-envoys-should-be-expelled-replaced-with-better-ones-solons Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel! - https://www.youtube.com/TheManilaBulletin Visit our website at http://mb.com.phFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/manilabulletinTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/manila_bulletinInstagram: https://instagram.com/manilabulletinTiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@manilabulletin #ManilaBulletinOnline#ManilaBulleti


Spain to recognise Palestinian state together with other countries

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Friday that Madrid would only recognise a Palestinian state in a joint action with other countries. In an interview with TV channel La Sexta, Sanchez also denied reports that the recognition would occur on May 21. (Reporting by Inti Landauro; Writing by David Latona; Editing by Andrei Khalip)


Israel tells World Court South Africa case makes a mockery of genocide

THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Israel defended the military necessity of its Gaza offensive on Friday at the International Court of Justice after South Africa asked judges to order it to halt operations in Rafah and completely withdraw from the Palestinian territory. Israeli Justice Ministry official Gilad Noam called South Africa's case, which accuses Israel of violating the Genocide Convention, "


Boy, 5, who died in fall from block of flats named

The Metropolitan Police says it is not treating the death as suspicious.


Taiwan's incoming president faces angry China, fractured parliament

By Ben Blanchard and Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) - Lai Ching-te takes office as Taiwan's president on Monday, facing a China that calls him a "dangerous separatist" and has ramped up military drills, as well as a fractured parliament at home where no party has a majority. Lai, vice president for the past four years, succeeds President Tsai Ing-wen at a time Beijing has been increasing military


Woman dies after being hit by bus on main road

Derbyshire Police confirmed a woman, in her 70s, had died after the collision.


North Korea fires multiple short-range ballistic missiles, Seoul says

By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea fired a number of short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea off its east coast on Friday, South Korea's military said, a day after the U.S. and South Korea conducted joint drills with stealth fighter jets simulating air combat. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff condemned the launch as a provocation. It said the projectiles were fired from the east


Belgium's Ghent university severs ties with three Israeli institutions

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's University of Ghent (UGent) is severing ties with three Israeli educational or research institutions which it says no longer align with UGent's human rights policy, its rector said. Pro-Palestinian protesters in Ghent have been protesting against Israel's military offensive in Gaza and have been occupying parts of the university since early this month. The


Comelec: Over 4.2M voters removed from official list

Some 4.2 million names have been removed from the Commission on Elections' (Comelec) official list of voters, Unang Balita reported on Friday. Most of those delisted were from Region IV-A (Calabarzon). Reasons for the delisting were failure to vote in two successive preceding regular elections, by court order, loss of Filipino citizenship, and having non-valid documents. Comelec earlier said that as of May 5, 2024, more than 2.5 million new...


Visayas Grid under yellow alert on Friday — NGCP

The Visayas Grid has been placed under yellow alert status for the fifth straight day on Friday, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) said. The NGCP said that 24 power plants remain either on forced outage or running on derated capacities. In an advisory issued at 2:45 p.m. Friday, the NGCP said that the yellow alert would be implemented between 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., indicating that the operating margin is...


Marcos: We’ve found a solution to bring down rice prices

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. revealed an alternative plan on Thursday to lower rice prices amid calls to amend the Rice Tariffication Law. (RTL). “Well, I don’t want to preempt the bicameral committee but I think we have found the solution already,” said Marcos in an ambush interview in Cagayan de Oro. Marcos said that if rice prices are high, the government would release cheap rice into the market to force...


Court upholds priest accused of ‘offending religious feelings’

A Quezon City court has quashed the complaint that retired jurist Harriet Demetriou filed against a Dominican priest under the country’s controversial, but still extant, blasphemy law. Presiding Judge Zita Marie Atienza-Fajardo on May 7 dismissed Demetriou’s complaint against Rev. Winston Ferdinand Cabading for violating Article 133 of the Revised Penal Code, or offending religious feelings. The court ruled that Cabading’s controversial remarks...


Uprooted by Brazil floods, foreign refugees 'start all over again'

By Lisandra Paraguassu PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Haitians and Venezuelans who found refuge in southern Brazil after escaping hunger, violence and natural disasters are being forced once more to rebuild lives now wrecked by record flooding in Rio Grande do Sul state. Reginald Descilong left Haiti after he lost family and friends in the devastating 2010 earthquake. He


Police request anonymity at shooting death inquest

Former soldier Sean Fitzgerald was shot and killed during a police raid in 2019.


Taiwan’s foreign minister says China and Russia are supporting each other's ‘expansionism’

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Russia and China are helping each other expand their territorial reach, and democracies must push back against authoritarian states that threaten their rights and sovereignty, Taiwan’s outgoing foreign minister, Joseph Wu, said in an interview with The Associated Press. His comments came as Russian President Vladimir Putin was on a visit to China amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping...


Funeral taking place for boy who died in sword attack

Mourners gather for the funeral of Daniel Anjorin, 14, two weeks after he died on his way to school.


Retired man who came to Britain from Ghana in1977 faces deportation

Nelson Shardey, 74, (pictured) assumed he was officially seen as British until 2019 when he tried to apply for a British passport.


Kim Jong Un’s sister denies North Korea exporting weapons to Russia

SEOUL, South Korea — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday denied widespread allegations that Pyongyang is shipping weapons to Russia, calling the claim “absurd.” South Korea and the United States have repeatedly accused North Korea of supplying weapons to Moscow, despite a raft of United Nations sanctions on both countries that would ban any such arms transfers. Analysts have also warned that ramped-up testing and...


Cops nab Canadian allegedly linked to P9.68 billion Batangas drug haul

A Canadian national allegedly linked to the P9.68 billion in shabu seized in Tagaytay City in April was arrested in Tagaytay City, the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) said on Friday. NCRPO chief Police Major General Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. told GMA News Online that some illegal drugs were also seized from the suspect during the manhunt operation. The suspect, identified as Thomas Gordon or "James Martin,” was arrested in Maitim...


Bamban Mayor Alice Guo must be probed, says President Marcos

MANILA, Philippines — Questions on how Bamban Mayor Alice Guo was elected has been raised by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. President Marcos noted that local leaders did not know her. “Kilala ko lahat ng mga taga-Tarlac na politiko. Walang may kilala sa kanya,” the president said in an ambush interview in Cagayan de Oro. (I know all of the politicians from Tarlac. Nobody knows her.) READ MORE: Solicitor General forms team to probe Bamban Mayor...


China orders detention of foreigners suspected of illegally crossing borders

MANILA, Philippines — Beijing has expanded the powers of the Chinese Coast Guard (CCG) to detain foreigners suspected of illegally crossing borders. New regulations on Wednesday stipulate that suspects can be held for up to 60 days without trial. The order, which will take effect in June, coincides with the arrival of a group of civilians and fishermen from the Philippines at Scarborough Shoal, a disputed territory in the South China Sea. This...


Woman admits driving without licence in fatal crash

Ivy Mwangi repeated her not guilty plea to causing the death of the teenager by careless driving.


Suspected gunshots near Israeli embassy in Stockholm prompt police cordon

Swedish police have detained several people and cordoned off an area in Stockholm after a patrol heard suspected gunshots, they said on Friday, with the Israeli embassy located in the closed-off area. "A police patrol at Strandvagen in Stockholm heard bangs and suspected there had been a shooting," police said on their website, adding that the affe...


Spain denied port of call to ship carrying arms to Israel

(This May 16 story has been corrected to fix the name of the ship operator from Danica Maritime to H. Folmer & Co in paragraph 5) MADRID (Reuters) - Spain has refused permission for an Israel-bound ship carrying arms to call at the southeastern port of Cartagena, Transport Minister Oscar Puente said on Thursday. The Marianne Danica was carrying a cargo of arms to Israel and had requested


Panatag not reached, but still ‘mission accomplished’

WEST PHILIPPINE SEA—The civilian-led supply convoy on Thursday aborted plans to sail closer to Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal, although organizers declared the success of their mission after another boat was able to deliver provisions to 144 Filipino fishers despite the presence of China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels in the area. “Parang sinabi niyong lumapit tayo kay Kamatayan ‘pag tumuloy tayo (It’s like telling us to approach the Grim Reaper had we...


Suspected militants bomb a girl's school overnight in northwest Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected militants bombed a girl's school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying the structure, police said Friday, although no one was hurt in the overnight attack. The attack happened in South Waziristan, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It was the second one this month after another school was badly damaged in the region, local police official Safdar Khan said. Nobody immediately claimed...


UN reports improved prospects for the world economy

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations reported improved prospects for the world economy since its January forecast on Thursday, pointing to a better outlook in the United States and several large emerging economies including Brazil, India, and Russia. According to its mid-2024 report, the world economy is now projected to grow by 2.7 percent this year – up from the 2.4 percent forecast in its January report – and by 2.8 percent in 2025. A 2.7...


Man arrested after person climbs on town centre roof

The 50-year-old suspect is being questioned in custody after being discharged from hospital.


Ghana parliament recalled for urgent business after LGBT row

By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana's parliament, which has been adjourned since March following a row between the speaker and the president over an anti-LGBT bill, will reconvene on Friday to discuss approval of ministerial appointees and other "urgent matters". Majority leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin said in a statement that the urgent recall was "in good faith to enable


Bangladesh To Begin Enforcing 'No Helmet, No Fuel' Policy Nationwide

Nearly 30 percent of all the road deaths in the country in 2023 were riders.


Slovak authorities charge ‘lone wolf’ with assassination try on PM

BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia — Slovak authorities charged a man Thursday with attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Robert Fico, saying he acted alone in a politically motivated attack that left the longtime leader in serious but stable condition. Fico’s pro-Russia views have contributed to deep divisions in the small European country that borders Ukraine, and the shooting attack Wednesday shocked the nation and reverberated across the continent...


Western nations urge Israel to comply with international law in Gaza

By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) - Israel must comply with international law in Gaza and address the devastating humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave, a group of Western nations wrote in a letter to the Israeli government seen by Reuters on Friday. All countries belonging to the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies, apart from the United States, signed the letter, along with Australia,


Kremlin warns tensions could spill into WW3

'We warn that they are playing with fire. (The US) have long been in a state of proxy war with the Russian Federation,' Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said


Drugs worth £130k seized in police crackdown

Twenty-four people are arrested in Telford as part of a day of action by West Mercia Police.


Russia says US 'playing with fire' in 'indirect war' with Moscow

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A top Russian diplomat said on Friday the United States had long since entered into a state of indirect war with Moscow and was playing with fire over Ukraine by behaving in such a way that the situation could spin out of control. The comments by deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov in an interview with state TASS news agency reflect growing Russian concern over what Moscow


US military begins aid deliveries into Gaza via $320mn floating pier

Trucks carrying vital humanitarian aid began moving ashore around 9am local time today. From here, aid will be transported inland towards Gaza City for distribution.


Israeli cabinet rifts over Gaza break out into the open

By James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli government splits over the war in Gaza broke open this week, after the defence minister demanded a clear strategy from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as troops returned to battle Hamas fighters in areas the army was fighting in months ago. The comments from Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, who said he would not agree to setting up a military


China Coast Guard empowered to detain 'trespassers' in South China Sea —report

China has issued a regulation empowering its coast guard to detain foreigners trespassing in the South China Sea following the Philippine civilian mission to the West Philippine Sea (WPS) that ended on Friday. The China Coast Guard (CCG) can detain trespassers without trial, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday, citing a regulatory document of Beijing set to take effect in June. "Foreigners suspected of illegally passing China's...


Sinister declassified CIA operations

The Central Intelligence Agency, better known simply as the CIA, has inspired fear, suspicion, and curiosity ever since its official formation in 1947. Before it was called the CIA, it was known as the Office of Strategic Services, and was responsible for some of the most covert operations during and after World War II. As the CIA, the organization has become notorious for an apparent disregard of federal and international law, and is suspected to handle some projects that even the president of the United States is unaware of. From toppling governments and staging false flag operations, to introducing one of the world's most addictive drugs to the US, the covert operations of the CIA that have come to light are, if nothing else, fascinating to read about. Intrigued? Read on to learn more about some of the CIA's declassified deeds.


Russia not seeking Kharkiv capture, claims Putin

Russia's president says he is not after Ukraine's second-largest city - but wants to create a "security zone".


NWRB lowers water allocation for Metro Manila

The National Water Resources Board (NWRB) on Friday said it has lowered the water allocation for Metro Manila. The move, however, will not mean water supply interruptions, assured the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). DENR Undersecretary Carlos Primo David said the allocation for the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System was reduced from 50 cubic meters per second to 49 cubic meters per second starting yesterday until...


Pope Francis says US Catholic conservatives have ‘suicidal attitude’

Pope Francis said his conservative critics within the Roman Catholic Church in the United States are trapped in a “suicidal attitude,” according to an interview with CBS. During the April 24 interview with “60 Minutes” that will air this Sunday, Pope Francis was asked his thoughts on the conservative backlash against his papacy, with many […]


French police kill man who set fire to Rouen synagogue

By Dominique Vidalon and Zhifan Liu PARIS (Reuters) - French police shot dead an armed man who set fire to a synagogue in the northwestern city of Rouen early on Friday, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin and local officials said. Police, who were called to the site because of smoke coming out of the building, shot the man when he threw an iron bar at them and threatened them with a knife as he


WPS civilian mission 'victorious' despite Chinese vessels presence

Atin Ito on Friday claimed "victory" in its civilian mission to the West Philippine Sea (WPS) as it ended "generally peaceful" despite the presence of Chinese vessels in the area. The group made the statement after around 100 boats carrying the participants safely returned to the Subic fishport in Zamabales. “Generally peaceful and victorious despite China's unlawful presence in the area, accompanied by its vessels' acts of harassment and...


Hugs but not the full socialist-era kiss for Putin, Xi in Beijing

BEIJING (Reuters) -A vaunted 'new era' of strategic partnership between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his counterpart Xi Jinping begun in Beijing on Thursday may not exactly have been sealed with a kiss, but it did lead to rare hugs between them. Russia, grappling with Western sanctions after its invasion of Ukraine, is increasingly reliant on its booming trade with China, which is


Marcos questions Mayor Guo’s background: ‘No one knows her’

President Marcos on Thursday raised concerns about the true background of Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo, saying they were curious about her origins and how this happened. Meanwhile, the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) began investigating her legal eligibility for public office, given questions about her alleged connections to China. Interviewed in Cagayan de Oro City, the President said no one among Tarlac’s local politicians had heard of...