Onion prices have soared in recent months, reaching as high as 800 pesos (nearly $15) a kilogram in Manila supermarkets, making them more expensive than chicken or pork.
NATO chief urges closer ties with Japan to defend democracy
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg sharply criticized China on Tuesday for “bullying its neighbors and threatening Taiwan” and stressed the need for Japan and other democracies to work together with the alliance to defend the international order.
Memphis police accused of ‘shielding’ white officer involved in Tyre Nichols beating
Officer pulled Nichols ‘violently’ from his car while hitting him on ground with taser
Cambodia’s Turn to Raise Eyebrows Over Infrastructure Projects
Up to $30 billion in financing is potentially on the table – most of it from China.
The gunpowder pact: Australia, France cast aside past for unity on Ukraine
Eighteen months ago, adding gunpowder to Australian-Franco relations might have scorched the earth across Paris. Now, both sides have shown they’ve moved on.
Making a point: Hong Kong journalists regroup abroad
Journalists find it difficult to report in Hong Kong after imposition of national security law and crackdown on media.
83 Killed In Suicide Bomb Attack At Mosque In Pakistan’s Peshawar
The attack happened Monday during afternoon worship in the provincial capital of Peshawar, close to areas along the Afghan border where militancy has been steadily rising.
Myanmar’s military planning poll, raising fears of more bloodshed
Two years after a coup snuffed out Myanmar’s short-lived democratic experiment, the country’s military is planning elections that analysts warn could spark further bloodshed as opposition to junta rule rages on.
Biden refusing to send F-16 Jets to Ukraine as Russia steps up attacks in ‘big revenge’
Ukrainian officials had been planning to press Washington to send F-16 Jets to Kyiv.
The Iranian boxer who defied death to stand with anti-regime protesters
The video was instantly viral: Cell phone footage from anti-government protests in Iran’s Kurdish city of Sanandaj showed a bare-chested man wielding a knife, encircled by about a dozen regime forces armed with guns.