Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed comparisons to a tsar on Thursday, arguing he “works every day” and listens to what people want.
Nearly 15 years after it became the first American city to legalize cannabis, Denver went to the polls on Tuesday to decide on decriminalizing hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Violence in Mexico hit new heights in the first quarter of 2019, with 8,493 murders recorded from January to March, according to official figures.
Facebook and Twitter are doing too little to scrutinise advertising placements on their sites in the runup to European Union elections in May, despite their pledges to fight disinformation, EU officials said Thursday.
President Rodrigo R. Duterte has declared the last Monday of January every year as a special working holiday, in observance of the National Bible Day.
Though it has yet to release the official list of names of aspirants for the May 12, 2019 elections, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Thursday that it is looking to start the printing of the over 60 million ballots by the middle of January next year.
As protesters spread out from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, daylong clashes between police and “yellow vest” demonstrators left dozens of cars burned out and store-fronts vandalised.
Former Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. has been accused of delaying the conduct of the plunder trial against him at the Sandiganbayan.
Chinese government hackers have stolen a massive trove of sensitive information from a US Navy contractor, including secret plans to develop a new type of submarine-launched anti-ship missile, the Washington Post reported Friday.
Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Undersecretary Noel Puyat on Friday confirmed that the P1.4 billion allocated to the ASEAN-Committee on Media Affairs and Strategic Communications (CMASC) was over the budget by 43 percent.
Malacañang said the government is addressing the labor situation in the country after a think tank noted an increase in underemployed and part-time workers over the past year.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern joked Monday that sore feet and being “a little slow going upstairs” were her only worries as she began a European tour while seven months pregnant.
2017 was Mexico’s most violent year in two decades, with 23,101 murders carried out between January and November, according to official figures released Friday.
The widow of a slain Islamist militant leader will be charged for allegedly using social media to recruit Islamic State sympathisers to join a five-month siege of a southern city, Philippine authorities said Friday.
Canada will boost immigration to one million over the next three years with a plan that “will guarantee” the country’s future prosperity, its immigration minister announced Wednesday.
President Rodrigo Duterte has distanced himself from the former wife of his son, Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte, amid rumors she frequently visited the Bureau of Customs (BOC).
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