ROME: Pope Francis on Wednesday ordered an end to all measures enabling the free use, or use at favourable financial conditions, of property owned by the Holy See.The decision was made following a meeting with the Prefect of the Secretariat for the Eco…

ROME: Italy is set to reject the EU’s proposed ban on the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2035 at Wednesday’s meeting of European ambassadors, the Ministry for the Environment and Energy Security said Tuesday night.”Tomorrow in Brussels, at the mee…

BEIJING: More than 60 media practitioners from more than 50 countries, including the Philippines, are joining the China Asia Pacific Press Center’s (CAPPC) exchange program for 2023 that began on Thursday.Zou Benshuo, director of the China Internationa…

MANILA: Personnel of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) have arrested a man for selling counterfeit Unilever products worth PHP2.1 million in Malabon City, a top police official said Thursday.CIDG chief, Brig. Gen. Romeo Caramat Jr.,…

MANILA: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. welcomed Thursday the planned establishment of two hyperscale data centers in Luzon, saying the plan would give a boost to his administration’s digital transformation bid.This, after Marcos, in a meeting with e…

MANILA: Office of Civil Defense (OCD) administrator Undersecretary Ariel Nepomuceno called the mission of the Philippine Inter-Agency Humanitarian Contingent (PIAHC) a “heroic act” for all the support they provided to the citizens of the earthquake-bat…