President Donald Trump's pardon last week of four former Blackwater Worldwide military contractors convicted of killing 14 Iraqis in 2007 violates US obligations under international law, experts with the United Nations said om Wednesday in urging member-states to condemn the presidential action. "Pardoning the Blackwater...

Four out of 10 Filipinos believe that the quality of their life will improve in the next 12 months, results of a recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed. Conducted on Nov. 21-25, the SWS survey found 44 percent of Filipinos said their quality of...

Tuesday was the deadliest day of the coronavirus era in the United States, as thousands more patients succumbed to the disease that's now been around for a full year. According to updated data from John Hopkins University on Wednesday, there were a little more than...

A Chinese drugmaker said on Wednesday its coronavirus vaccine was found to be 79.3-percent effective at preventing infection based on preliminary data from the final round of testing, moving Beijing closer to possibly being able to fulfill its pledge to supply other developing countries. The...

A female overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who was killed by a Kuwaiti woman has been given justice by the country’s court, by sentencing the OFW’s killer to death by hanging. Department of Foreign Affairs for Civilian Security and Consular Concerns Brigido “Dodo” Dulay said in a...

State-owned Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) has granted a P416-million credit line to the country’s first large-scale offshore mining company to augment its working capital requirements in its export production of iron ore, a top official said. DBP President and Chief Executive Officer Emmanuel...

Malacañang respects a newly-enacted US law that bars entry to any foreign official involved in persecuting journalists. In a press statement on Wednesday, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said Palace recognizes the democratic process of US as a sovereign state. “As a fellow sovereign state, we respect...

President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday criticized the Trump administration for falling "far behind" on its plans to administer vaccines for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). In a speech from Wilmington, Del., Biden noted the Trump administration's goal to vaccinate 20 million Americans by the end...

Britain on Wednesday became the first country to authorize an easy-to-handle vaccine for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) whose developers hope it will become the “vaccine for the world.” The approval and a shift in policy that will speed up rollout of the vaccine...

Russia released new figures this week showing it had nearly 230,000 extra deaths through November compared with the same period in 2019, indicating the country's coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) death toll is likely three times higher than reported, the deputy prime minister said. Rosstat, the...