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SEOUL, South Korea — Fresh off impeachment, South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s days in office may be numbered. Her potential successors include the outgoing secretary general of the United Nations, an ambitious mayor who has been compared…
As I write this today, December 10, the world celebrates International Human Rights Day. It commemorates the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on this day in 1948, a…
Human rights and church leaders in Cebu expressed dismay over the joint report by the Senate committees on justice and human rights, and public order and dangerous drugs that declared that the government has nothing to do,…
Miracles are provided by Nature to all of us but we haughtily take them for granted, as if our home planet owes us these services. How can we possibly exist without the air, water, land, trees, the…
WITH about 4,700 people killed in the government’s anti-drug war since President Rodrigo Duterte took office, the United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU) have began preparations to come to the Philippines to investigate the spate…
WASHINGTON — Some 300 million children live with outdoor air so polluted it can cause serious physical damage, including harming their developing brains, the United Nations said in a study released on Monday. Nearly one child in…
Have you watched the riveting film “Before The Flood”? It premiered yesterday, October 30, and is aired on the National Geographic Channel starting October 30 until November 6 in 171 countries and 45 languages. With this documentary,…
ALEPPO, Syria — Clashes and air strikes shook the Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday, leaving three civilians dead as heavy fighting resumed after the end of a three-day ceasefire declared by government ally Russia. The unilateral…
United Nations — The United Nations celebrated Wonder Woman’s 75th birthday on Friday by naming the comic book character as its new Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Woman and Girls, despite frustration from both inside and…
Starting Tuesday October 18,, the whole stretch of UN Avenue will be a No Stopping Zone with only two passenger jeepney and one bus loading and unloading areas. No pedestrian would be allowed to cross there except…
OTTAWA — The phenomenon that is Justin Trudeau continues to soar one year after his landslide election. On the eve of this anniversary, the Canadian prime minister’s approval rating reached 65 percent (compared with the previous Tory…
PORT-AU-PRINCE — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited victims of devastating Hurricane Matthew on Saturday, saying the destruction wrought by the storm was “heartbreaking,” and he renewed a pledge to help the nation cope with a deadly scourge…
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