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Desiree Q. Sison | Apr 17, 2014 01:03 PM EDT
Families of the 287 people, mostly high school students, in the South Korea sea tragedy continue to wait anxiously on the fate of their loved ones as Navy divers and coast guards continue to search in the ship's wreckage despite harsh weather conditions. read more
Arthur Dominic Villasanta | Apr 17, 2014 12:17 PM EDT
Russian President Vladimir Putin will make his first official state visit to another country after engineering an invasion of the Ukrainian province of Crimea this February. read more
Arthur Dominic Villasanta | Apr 17, 2014 12:12 PM EDT
China intends to invest in massive projects in Crimea less than a month after the former Ukrainian province was annexed by the Russian Federation.China will abandon a planned $5 billion solar power plant in Nevada and invest the money in Crimea, instead. read more
Marcel Woo | Apr 17, 2014 06:22 AM EDT
Canadian authorities said they have arrested a 19-year-old computer science student who exploited the online security vulnerability known as Heartbleed, that resulted in the theft of 900 social insurance numbers stored in the Canada Revenue Agency's (CRA) website. read more
Desiree Q. Sison | Apr 16, 2014 11:23 AM EDT
At least four people were confirmed dead while around 292 passengers were still missing after a South Korean ferry, carrying 459 passengers and 20 crew members, capsized off the waters of the southern coast, the biggest sea tragedy to hit the country in more than 20 years. read more
Desiree Q. Sison | Apr 16, 2014 07:36 AM EDT
China and the United States have agreed to find more effective but peaceful measures to denuclearize North Korea following its recent declaration that it will carry out a "new form" of nuclear test "soon." read more
Marcel Woo | Apr 16, 2014 04:25 AM EDT
The South Korean coastguard is now racing against time to rescue all of the 477 people who were onboard the sunken ferry Sewol as darkness started to envelope South Korea's southwest coast on Wednesday. read more
Marcel Woo | Apr 15, 2014 11:29 AM EDT
China today reiterated its commitment to firmly support the Nigerian government as Chinese leaders condemned the bomb attack in the capital city of Abuja on Monday, which killed 71 people. read more
Marcel Woo | Apr 15, 2014 09:12 AM EDT
Hundreds of millions of stargazers in North and South America were wowed by a celestial sight where the moon took on an eerie blood-red color in what was considered as the first total lunar eclipse of the year. read more
Desiree Q. Sison | Apr 15, 2014 05:49 AM EDT
The much-talked about US-made Bluefin-21, a robotic mini-submarine designed to map an ocean's seabed and collect data, has been launched to scour the bottom of the Indian Ocean at a depth of 15,000 feet in a last-ditch effort to find the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 black boxes. read more
Desiree Q. Sison | Apr 14, 2014 08:41 PM EDT
"I am grateful to the committee for their recognition of the efforts of those involved in the last year's reporting, and join others around the world in congratulating Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Barton Gellman, Ewen MacAskill and all of the others at the Guardian and Washington Post on winning the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service," Snowden said in a statement Monday right after the Pulitzer winners were announced. read more
Due to the coronavirus, people around the world have canceled their travel plans. Governments and health officials have warned the public to avoid boarding cruise ships and long flights. read more
