LONDON – The World Bank is urging “radical” debt transparency for developing countries and their lenders to stave off future crises, it said in a report released on Friday. The Bank wants to broaden ...

SEOUL – A decade after a landmark U.N. report concluded North Korea committed crimes against humanity, a U.N. official investigating rights in the isolated state told Reuters many abuses continue, ...

A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from forcing 20 Democratic-led states to cooperate with immigration enforcement in order to receive billions of dollars in ...

LONDON – British lawmakers will vote on Friday on whether to proceed with legislation to legalize assisted dying for the terminally ill, in what would be the biggest social reform in the country for a ...

Technological innovation in AboitizPower’s power plants Driven by technology and innovation, smart power plants are achieving greater operational reliability and efficiency amidst the transition to ...

Israel bombed nuclear targets in Iran on Thursday and Iran fired missiles and drones at Israel after hitting an Israeli hospital overnight, as a week-old air war escalated with no sign yet of an exit ...

SpaceX’s massive Starship spacecraft exploded into a dramatic fireball during testing in Texas late on Wednesday, the latest in a series of setbacks for billionaire Elon Musk’s Mars rocket program.

VIENNA – U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi on Thursday identified Isfahan, home to one of Iran’s biggest nuclear facilities, as the location of a uranium enrichment plant that Iran said it ...

The Philippines’ overall balance of payments (BoP) position hit a deficit of $298 million in May from a deficit of $2.6 billion in April, the central bank said on Thursday. “The BOP deficit reflected ...

THE BANGKO Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) lowered policy rates for a second straight meeting on Thursday and signaled at least one more cut this year to support economic growth. The Monetary Board on ...

LONDON — Scarlett Johansson’s role in Jurassic World Rebirth made her recall her earliest memories of the dinosaur film franchise. The Black Widow actor recalled seeing the first Jurassic Park film at ...

US PRESIDENT Donald J. Trump’s proposal to tax the money sent home by foreign workers, may hurt the Philippine economy as remittances and household consumption are likely to slow, experts said.