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The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP28, has reached a tentative agreement after negotiations about how and when to phase out fossil fuels continued past midnight on the final day of the summit in Dubai.  Latest draft contains much stronger language, but doesn’t go as far as recommending …

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Protest filed, envoy summoned, but China puts up new sea barriers President Marcos on Sunday night said China’s latest acts of aggression against Filipino boats in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) merely strengthened the country’s resolve to defend its sovereignty. China fired flares at a Philippine …

ECONOMIC BRIEFING. Speaker Martin Romualdez delivers his speech at the Philippine Economic Briefing in Iloilo City on Monday. Listening are Iloilo Rep. Jam Baronda and Secretaries Benjamin Diokno of Finance, Amenah Pangandaman of Budget, Arsenio Balisacan of the National Economic and Development Authority, Jaime Bautista of Transportation, Raphael Lotilla of …

Israeli warplanes and tanks pounded southern Gaza overnight and on Tuesday, and the UN said aid distribution to Gazans facing growing hunger had largely stopped because of the intensity of fighting in the two-month-old war between Israel and Hamas. UN World Food Programme says half the population in the Palestinian …

One of the most consequential questions of the 2024 U.S. presidential election has now been turned over to the Supreme Court in a historic court filing Monday. The fundamental issue being litigated involves whether Donald Trump will be brought to trial before Americans vote in 2024. A speedy trial — …

A draft version of a potential climate agreement at the COP28 climate summit on Monday offered only a range of options countries “could” take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, rather than heeding demands to phase out fossil fuels completely. Proposed COP28 climate agreement has no mention of oil or natural …

The head of Canada’s spy agency is addressing his agency’s handling of the shocking murder of a Sikh separatist activist on Canadian soil for the first time since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blamed India for Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s death earlier this year. Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was gunned down …

Metro Inc. president and CEO Eric La Flèche spoke Monday at a House of Commons committee meeting after research found that profits in the Canadian grocery sector will likely exceed $6 billion this year, setting a new record. Committee hearing comes as new research forecasts record profit of $6B for …

Here’s what you need to know about the Canada Dental Care Plan, a $13-billion insurance program that will start covering costs for most basic dentistry next year for about nine million eligible Canadians, according to the federal government. In its current form, the plan is expected to cost the federal …

A tradeoff for a base build-up, however, would be inviting reprisals from an increasingly assertive China. China had advanced into a new phase in its gray zone tactic in the West Philippine Sea with the deployment of long-range acoustic devices, or LRAD, which are used in crowd control. The utilization …