Posts tagged philippines
World Briefing: January 14, 2025

Firefighters are in a critical stage of their almost week-long battle against deadly Los Angeles blazes. EU shipyards are repairing Russian ice-class tankers and offering them dry dock facilities, enabling Moscow to continue moving gas despite western sanctions 

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World Briefing: January 13, 2025

A day after making some progress containing fires, firefighters across Los Angeles County were bracing for another round of powerful winds that could threaten new communities and hamper efforts to contain the firestormPhilippine economic growth is expected to accelerate this year & in 2025

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World Briefing: January 12, 2025

Los Angeles was on edge in Day 5 of an unprecedented fire siege that has already damaged or destroyed more than 10,000 structures and killed at least 13 people. German authorities have said an oil tanker stuck in its waters belongs to Russia's "shadow fleet", which Berlin says is used to avoid sanctions

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WORLD BRIEFING: June 2, 2024

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to win a third consecutive term in office, exit polls suggest. At least seven Russian, Belarusian, Latvian, and Israeli journalists and activists have been targeted with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware within the EU

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WORLD BRIEFING: June 1, 2024

Donald Trump confirmed he will appeal against his historic conviction in his New York trial. Russia has accused Nato and the US of "provoking a new level of tension" after the US and Germany became the latest allies to let Ukraine's military to use Western-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russia

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WORLD BRIEFING: October 4, 2023

The U.S. House speaker gets turfed with the help of hardline Republicans. NATO’s European countries running out of ammo for Ukraine war. Russia to block VPN access

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