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Philippines' Marcos says threat of assassination 'troubling' 2024-11-25
Khaleejtimes

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos said on Monday he will not take lightly "troubling" threats against him, just days after his estranged vice president said she had asked someone to assassinate the president if she herself was killed. In a...

photo: AP / Aaron Favila

US military to arm the Philippines with more sea-surveillance drones 2024-11-25
Stars and Stripes

The United States is arming the Philippines with advanced, compact sea drones as part of an effort to bolster an ally threatened by China’s territorial claims and growing maritime power. The state-run Philippine News Agency published a photograph Wednesday of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin checking...

photo: AP / Aaron Favila

'Easy, convenient, cheap': How single-use plastic rules the world 2024-11-25
Khaleejtimes

Each year the world produces around 400 million tonnes of plastic waste, much of it discarded after just a few minutes of use. Negotiators hope to reach the world's first treaty on plastic pollution this year, but across five very different countries, AFP found single-use plastic remains hugely...

photo: Unsplash / Brian Yurasits

Inferno destroys thousands of shanties in Manila’s biggest slum area 2024-11-25
CNN

A massive fire tore through a coastal shanty town in the Philippine capital on Sunday, leaving at least 2,000 families homeless as flames billowed for nearly eight hours. Drone footage from the Manila Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office showed raging orange flames razing...

photo: AP / Aaron Favila

$300 billion climate deal reached at COP29 2024-11-24
Gulf-Times

Countries participating at the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku have adopted a $300 billion a year global finance target to help poorer nations cope with impacts of climate change.The agreement, clinched in overtime at the two-week conference in Azerbaijan's capital, was...

photo: AP / Anupam Nath, File

North Korean leader says past diplomacy only confirmed US hostility 2024-11-22
Wtop

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his past negotiations with the United States only confirmed Washington’s “unchangeable” hostility toward Pyongyang and described his nuclear buildup as the only way to counter external threats, state media said Friday. Kim spoke Thursday...

photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon

Afghanistan: Caught between climate change and global indifference 2024-11-21
Al Jazeera

The world is facing a climate crisis, and few nations are feeling its impact more acutely than Afghanistan. It is currently ranked seventh on the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index of...

photo: AP / Mstyslav Chernov, File

World still split over money as clock ticks on COP29 2024-11-21
Khaleejtimes

A fresh draft of a climate pact unveiled on Thursday at COP29 failed to break an impasse over money, with time running for nations to reach a long-sought trillion-dollar finance agreement. The UN climate summit in Azerbaijan is supposed to conclude on Friday but the latest draft only underlines...

photo: UN Climate Change - Habib Samadov

ASEAN aims to enhance defense cooperation 2024-11-21
China.dot.org

VIENTIANE, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Representatives from the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gathered in Lao capital Vientiane to enhance ASEAN defense cooperation and address security...

photo: AP / Anupam Nath

Germany is the odd man out in the world economy 2024-11-21
Asiatimes

Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Germany is the odd man out in the world economy Latest stories Time for world to pivot away from the US economy At COP29, allies of legally non-nuclear Australia pose a problem Japan’s...

photo: European Community / Steffi Loos