The Philippines has pulled off a diplomatic U-turn, reviving its traditional defence ties with Washington years after spurning it in favour of Beijing.. But Marcos has also expanded defence ties with Washington, announcing this week the location of four additional military bases to be used by US troops.
Confronting intimate accounts of abortion, gender identity and paedophilia, Pope Francis gamely takes part in a no-holds-barred encounter with young adults in a new film released Wednesday, accepting both questions and rebukes.. In "Conversations with the Pope", released Wednesday on the Disney+ streaming platform, the Argentine Jesuit does not shy away.
Scotland's ruling party faced fresh turmoil Wednesday after the husband of its former leader Nicola Sturgeon was arrested as part of a police investigation into financial irregularities.. But she also remained dogged at the time by the police investigation into her husband.
Latif Dalyan offers shirts and sweatpants at knock-down prices to Turkey's earthquake victims from a storefront surrounded by piles of debris.. "Nobody can be perfect and no government can be perfect," Dalyan said.
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern bowed out of parliament on Wednesday, making an impassioned plea during her tearful final speech to "please take the politics out of climate change".. Ardern shocked New Zealand earlier this year when she announced she was stepping down as prime minister and retiring from politics, saying she no longer had "enough in the tank".
Nine-year-old Cesar Paredes enters the bullring impeccably dressed in his traditional Venezuelan bullfighter's suit, pink cape neatly folded over one arm, to the ovation of an enthusiastic crowd.. The pupils learn the correct posture and how to extend their arms as they swish the cape in the direction of the bull.
Francisco Rojche left his Guatemalan town, its dirt roads and sugarcane plantations in search of better opportunities in the United States.. Like many other young Guatemalans, they had left their hometown and families because of a lack of jobs, Rojche's father Manuel Rojche told AFP. "They get it into their heads that to have a better future they need to risk their lives and go to the United States," the 47-year-old construction worker said.
With around a month until King Charles III's coronation, plans are at an advanced stage to mark his historic accession to the throne -- Britain's first in seven decades.. More than a century old, it was commissioned by Queen Mary for her 1911 coronation alongside King George V. Charles will wear the St Edward's Crown.
At the top of 52 steep, narrow steps at All Saints Church near London, expert bell ringers are showing the ropes to two new recruits ahead of King Charles III's coronation.. The novices are two of more than 1,000 people who responded to an appeal for new recruits by the UK's Central Council of Church Bell Ringers.
Clashes erupted inside the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem early Wednesday as Israeli police said they had entered to dislodge "agitators", a move denounced as an "unprecedented crime" by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.. Israeli police said they had entered the mosque to dislodge "agitators" who had barricaded themselves inside with fireworks, sticks and stones.
