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The Philippines-United States Balikatan exercise begins today. The military forces started the first phase by conducting preliminary work on community infrastructure projects in Legaspi City, Albay. The exercise aims to train military personnel of both countries to provide relief and assistance in the event of natural disasters and other crises that endanger public health and safety.
A guided-missile destroyer from the United States, USS Howard, will visit the country today, for a routine port-of-call.
The United States President Barack Obama will visit the Philippines on April 28 and April 29.
A Chinese military leader says that China is dissatisfied with the remarks made by United States Defense Secretary during the ASEAN Defense Ministers meeting.
The United States said that North Korea’s recent actions, which includes firing artillery rounds in South Korean waters are “provocative” and “dangerous”.
Amnesty International places the United States in the fifth spot among the world’s top executioners in 2013, behind China, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
A senator in California was arrested for gun smuggling for his activities the United States and the Philippines. The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Democratic State Senator Leland Yee. He was also charged with corruption and conspiring to import and traffic firearms. Prosecutors criminally charged Yee, a child psychologist, in federal court in San Francisco on Wednesday (March 26) with two felony counts of conspiring to import and traffic in firearms and six corruption counts. […]
The Philippine panel in the United States said that the agreement on increased US military presence in AFP bases will not be signed during President Barack Obama’s visit in the Philippines because they are being very careful in drafting the provisions of the said agreement.
(Reuters) – When protest leaders in Ukraine helped oust a president widely seen as corrupt, they became heroes of the barricades. But as they take places in the country’s new government, some are facing uncomfortable questions about their own values and associations, not least alleged links to neo-fascist extremists. Russia’s president Vladimir Putin claims Ukraine has fallen into the hands of far-right fascist groups, and some Western experts have also raised concerns about the influence […]
The United States demanded Iran to respond on the allegations that Iran’s nuclear program has a possible military purpose.
A new round of winter weather walloped the Philadelphia region on Tuesday (February 18). Area residents awoke to a fresh blanket of snow early in the morning and local media images from South Philly showed highways covered in white ahead of the morning commute. Further east, similar scenes were reported from Delaware Countyprompting concern that the new layer of snow was covering icy spots left behind by earlier snow storms. The snow has forced schools and businesses in […]
(Reuters) – Shirley Temple Black, who lifted America’s spirits as a bright-eyed, dimpled child movie star during the Great Depression and later became a U.S. diplomat, died late on Monday evening at the age of 85, her family said in a statement. Temple Black, who lured millions to the movies in the 1930s, “peacefully passed away” at her Woodside, Calif., home from natural causes at 10:57 p.m. local time (0157 ET), surrounded by her family […]
