11+ hour, 2+ min ago   (342+ words) At least six passengers were killed and 129 people are still missing. The Virgo Transport 8 was carrying more than 240 people when its captain issued a distress call, saying the ship was listing in rough seas with waves of up to three…...

12+ hour, 44+ min ago   (183+ words) The town of Maluso in Basilan has also been put under the commission’s control after pre-shaded ballots were found in 36 out of 68 precincts. Garcia said he immediately ordered the reprinting of ballots for the affected precincts, where voting would be…...

13+ hour, 38+ min ago   (717+ words) Biomass power, predominantly generated by burning wood, is growing globally as countries accelerate their transition to use cleaner energy. “The biomass industry has become a new driver of deforestation in Indonesia,” said Timer Manurung, director of Indonesia-based organization Auriga Nusantara,…...

10+ hour, 18+ min ago   (574+ words) About 300 CEOs and senior executives from some of the world’s biggest investment firms will descend on the Four Seasons in Yorkville, a tony Toronto enclave of high-end restaurants and designer boutiques, for Carney’s Canada Investment Summit this week. The investors…...

10+ hour, 33+ min ago   (1144+ words) This summer, a 28-year-old digital content marketer packed up his suitcases and duct-taped boxes and fled Russia, leaving behind his family and friends and not knowing when he'll be able to return. "It is very sad to leave Russia,” he…...

10+ hour, 19+ min ago   (918+ words) Texture is having a crunchy, gooey moment in the food and beverage industry. For many people, the way a menu item or packaged snack feels in the mouth has become as big a draw as flavor, although consumers don't always…...

17+ hour, 20+ min ago   (544+ words) The suspicions laid out in Justice Flávio Dino’s decision may complicate matters further for Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, only weeks before October’s national elections in which he will challenge President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Sen. Bolsonaro, the ex-leader's eldest son,…...

11+ hour, 5+ min ago   (723+ words) Ukraine has for months been targeting Russia’s oil and gas industry with long-range strikes, prompting fuel rationing across the country and causing Moscow to ban diesel exports in July, removing supplies from the already tight global market. But the global…...

17+ hour, 31+ min ago   (470+ words) The traditional monarch, who ascended the throne of Uganda’s Tooro Kingdom as an infant in 1995, died last month from cancer. He was 34. He was buried next to his ancestors after an emotional funeral service in an Anglican cathedral in the…...

15+ hour, 3+ min ago   (333+ words) Mohammad Eslami’s exclusion from the IAEA conference is another sign of rapidly deteriorating relations between Iran and the West. The United States and Iran have resumed fighting, on and off, after a fragile ceasefire collapsed in July. Austria sought a…...