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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has stoked a feud with boxer Manny Pacquiao by criticizing his “shallow” foreign policy knowledge, after the senator and eight-division champion said he found the leader’s stand on the South China Sea was “lacking.”Video Transcript[MUSIC PLAYING]

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A police officer guards a closed road at the city center after amenities and businesses were shut for the second time this weekend due to overcrowding over the last few days, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, in Mexico By Anthony Esposito MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico’s government does not envisage…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at an annual Memorial Day Service at Veterans Memorial Park, Delaware Memorial Bridge, New Castle, Delaware, U.S., May 30, 2021. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/File Photo By Andrea Shalal, Humeyra Pamuk and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s meeting with leaders of the G7 leading industrial economies…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Louis DeJoy is uninterested in the niceties of Washington. The wealthy longtime businessman with an outer borough New York accent prides himself as a problem solver ready to disrupt an unwieldy bureaucracy. And he’s facing potential legal troubles. In other words, the postmaster general may be the closest thing to former President Donald…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden gestures toward Senator Shelley Capito (R-WV) during an infrastructure meeting with Republican Senators at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 13, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden and Republicans entered the weekend sharply at odds over how to craft an infrastructure…

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — Jill Biden is getting a day at the beach for her 70th birthday.President Joe Biden and his wife went to their Delaware beach house to help the first lady celebrate her milestone birthday on Thursday. The first lady was already at the house in Rehoboth Beach when the president arrived…

Gunmen have attacked and wounded Uganda’s Transport Minister and former army commander, Gen Katumba Wamala, killing his daughter and driver.Witnesses say men on motorbikes fired several shots at their vehicle near their home in the capital, Kampala.Uganda’s president has said “we already have clues to those killers” calling them “pigs” and “terrorists”.Soldiers are guarding the…

4/4 © Reuters. An employee works on an assembly line of the Aurus manufacturing plant in the town of Yelabuga in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia May 31, 2021. REUTERS/Alexey Nasyrov 2/4 MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Monday has begun production of the Aurus Senat luxury sedan car promoted by President Vladimir Putin. Russia unveiled…

* U.S. CDC SAYS DELIVERED 366,316,945 DOSES OF COVID-19 VACCINE AS OF MAY 30 VERSUS 366,314,625 DOSES DELIVERED AS OF MAY 29

South Africa has extended its nightly curfew and limited the number of people at gatherings to slow the spread of COVID-19 as positive cases surge, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday.