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Global warming: The window is rapidly closing

Rodel D. Lasco and Ayn G. Torres
Posted at Mar 20 03:22 PM

As 2021 drew to a close, Typhoon Odette lashed the country killing 400 people, affecting 10 million people. Can it get any worse? With global warming, the bad news is that it will get worse if we don’t act soon. Read more »

North Korea fires 'unidentified projectile' but launch fails

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 16 12:19 PM

North Korea fired an "unidentified projectile" Wednesday but the launch appears to have immediately failed, Seoul said, after the US said it was ramping up missile defense in response to a record-breaking string of tests. Read more »

2.5 million people have now fled 'senseless' Ukraine war: UN

Robin Millard, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 11 10:11 PM

The UN was planning for four million people fleeing the country following the full-scale Russian invasion which began on February 24. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: March 9, 2022

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 09 11:42 PM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Ukraine kindergarten converted to refugee shelter

Miguel A. Lopes, EPA-EFE
Updated as of Mar 09 05:13 PM

Olega from Kyiv (Kiev) feeds her baby in the Pustomyty kindergarden that was converted to a refugee shelter near Lviv, Ukraine on Tuesday. Read more »

UN chief warns pandemic not over, decries vaccine inequality

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 09 01:43 PM

After two years, the COVID-19 pandemic is not yet over and could be prolonged further due to 'scandalously unequal' vaccine distribution, the UN secretary-general warned Wednesday. Read more »

397 civilians killed in Afghanistan since Taliban takeover

Emma Farge, Reuters
Posted at Mar 08 03:15 AM

The period indicated on the United Nations report runs from August 2021 to the end of February. Read more »

N. Korea says it conducted test for reconnaissance satellite on Sat.

Kyodo News
Posted at Mar 06 09:37 AM

North Korea's latest launch was conducted to develop a reconnaissance satellite, state-run media reported Sunday, a day after what was described by neighboring countries as a ballistic missile launch toward the Sea of Japan. Read more »

Russia isolated as UN council votes to probe rights abuses in Ukraine

Nina Larson, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 05 04:27 PM

Thirty-two of the council's 47 members voted to establish the highest-level probe possible, in a bid to hold perpetrators responsible. Read more »

North Korea fires ‘unidentified projectile’: South Korea

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 05 08:39 AM

North Korea fired at least 1 ‘unidentified projectile’, the nuclear-armed country's 9th suspected weapons test this year. Read more »

More than 1.2 million refugees flee Ukraine

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 05 03:02 AM

The UN children's agency UNICEF estimates that around half a million of them are youngsters. Read more »

UN: ‘All of humanity’ at risk from nuclear threat

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 03 10:57 PM

"It is clear that World War Three can only be nuclear," Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an online interview with media. Read more »

Lungsod sa Ukraine, nakubkob na ng Russia

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 03 07:27 PM

Kontrolado na ng Russian forces ang lungsod ng Kherson sa southern Ukraine. Read more »

UN General Assembly ‘demands’ Russia withdraw from Ukraine

Humeyra Pamuk and Jonathan Landay, Reuters
Updated as of Mar 03 02:07 AM

After more than 2 days of debate, 141 out of 193 member states voted for the non-binding resolution. China was among the 35 countries that abstained. Read more »

Nearly 836,000 refugees have fled Ukraine conflict: UN

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 02 09:45 PM

More than half have headed west into Poland, according to tallies completed up to Tuesday. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: March 1, 2022

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 02 12:24 AM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Diplomats walk out on Russian foreign minister’s speech

Salvatori Di Nolfi, POOL/AFP
Posted at Mar 01 11:48 PM

Ambassadors and diplomats leave while Russia foreign minister Sergei Lavrov addresses a UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva on Tuesday. Read more »

UN sees potential 'ray of hope' in Ukraine- Russia talks

Rose Carmelle Lacuata, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 01 07:18 PM

'The ongoing military offensive is inconsistent with this. It is an affront to the founders of this Organization and everything it stands for,' the UNGA President said. Read more »

DOJ to review more drug cases, invites special rapporteurs

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 01 07:11 PM

The Philippine government will review hundreds more cases in connection with its drug war and will invite special rapporteurs to the country on non-drug-related issues, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra bared Monday night. Read more »

PH explicitly condemns 'invasion of Ukraine'

John Gabriel Agcaoili, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 28 10:18 PM

The Philippines explicitly condemns the invasion of Ukraine and 'strongly urge(s) the cessation of hostilities', it said in a statement it will deliver at the United Nations General Assembly's emergency special session in New York, Monday. Read more »