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Australia will present a more ambitious UN emissions target "very soon" and is bidding to co-host a COP summit with Pacific island neighbours, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Thursday, signalling a ground shift in climate policy. During a first solo overseas visit since her centre-left government was sworn in, Wong admitted that on the climate, "Australia has neglected its responsibility" under past administrations. She told hosts in Fiji's capital Suva that there would be no more "disrespecting" Pacific nations or "ignoring" their calls to act on climate change. "We were elected on a platform of reducing emissions by 43 percent by 2030 and reaching net-zero by 2050," Wong said. — AFP

4 hours ago

Two people were slightly injured when an improvised explosive device went off inside a bus while its driver was maneuvering through a stretch of the busy GenSan Drive in Koronadal City at noontime Thursday. The IED was placed underneath a seat in the rear of a unit of the Yellow Bus Line, operating on routes connecting the central Mindanao cities of Koronadal, General Santos, Tacurong and Davao City in Region 11. In an initial statement, the South Cotabato Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office said a driver of a tricycle trailing behind sustained shrapnel wounds in different parts of his body. A bus passenger, a woman, was also slightly hurt in the blast. — The STAR/John Unson

6 hours ago

A 41-year-old municipal employee was shot dead by still unidentified gunman in Rosario town Wednesday afternoon, police said Police SSgt. Derwin Valencia, investigator of Rosario Police identified the victim as Mark Anthony Grit, resident of Barangay Quilib, Rosario, Batangas and assigned at Rosario Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office. According to report, Grit was just sitting on his motorcycle at the parking lot of Rosario Municipal Public Market in Brgy D when two motorcycle riding men arrived and repeatedly shot him around 5:10pm The victim died on the spot due to multiple gunshot wounds on his body. — The STAR/Arnell Ozaeta

7 hours ago

Northern Luzon Command chief Lt. Gen. Ernesto Torres Jr., said that troops taking on security patrols in Sitio Timmapaya, Namal, Asipulo chanced upon more or less 15 NPA rebels following Monday’s gunfight with more than 20 rebels at Sitio Likew, also in Namal. Lt. Gen. Torres claimed rebels were members of the Abra-Mt. Province-Ilocos Sur (WGF-AMPIS) guerilla front. After the clash, troopers seized two 5.56mm M16A1 rifles, another 5.56mm M653 rifle, a grenade rifle, two grenades,  six Anti-Personnel Mines, a 30-rounder magazine for M16 rifle with 9 rounds of amunition, two NPA flags, a communications equipment, personal belongings and medical paraphernalia. — The STAR/Artemio Dumlao

8 hours ago

President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says he picked former Rep. Anton Lagdameo (Davao de Oro) — a known close friend of his — to serve as Special Assistant to the President. For the post of solicitor general, Marcos says he has yet to finalize his pick. — Kristine Joy Patag 

9 hours ago

The number of confirmed cases of monkeypox worldwide has reached 219 outside of countries where it is endemic, according to an update released by the European Union's disease agency. More than a dozen countries where monkeypox is unusual, mostly in Europe, have reported at least one confirmed case, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said in an epidemiological note released Wednesday night. "This is the first time that chains of transmission are reported in Europe without known epidemiological links to West or Central Africa, where this disease is endemic," the note said. — AFP

11 hours ago

The United States warns South Pacific nations to be wary of "shadowy" agreements with China, which has put forth a package to expand cooperation dramatically. "We are concerned that these reported agreements may be negotiated in a rushed, non-transparent process," State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters. While saying that the Pacific nations would make their own sovereign choices, Price said that China "has a pattern of offering shadowy, vague deals with little transparency or regional consultation." — AFP

11 hours ago

On his first trip to a remote and flood-prone island where Bangladesh has been relocating Rohingya, the UN Refugee Agency chief agreed to boost support for the shift, despite concerns people were moved there against their will.  Speaking to reporters in Dhaka on Wednesday, High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi promised to "step up our presence" on the island. Bangladesh aims to eventually relocate around 100,000 Rohingya refugees to the previously uninhabited Bhashan Char to ease overcrowding in the sprawling network of camps near Cox's Bazar. Around 920,000 members of the stateless Muslim minority are currently packed into squalid border camps, reliant on aid after they fled violence and a 2017 military crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar. — AFP

11 hours ago

Ukraine's top diplomat Dmytro Kuleba on Wednesday accuses NATO of "doing literally nothing" in the face of Russia's invasion, while praising the EU for its "revolutionary" decisions to back Kyiv.  "NATO as an alliance, as an institution, is completely sidelined and doing literally nothing. I'm sorry to say it," Kuleba tells the World Economic Forum in Davos.  But he praises Brussels for its "revolutionary, groundbreaking decisions, which even they themselves did not expect to make". — AFP

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