International issues

This was a headline in the New York Times on Tuesday: “With Threats to Greenland, Trump Sets America on the Road to Conquest: After a century of defending other countries against foreign aggression, the United States is now positioned as an imperial…

The final of the Africa Cup of Nations, held this Sunday in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, pitted the home side against Senegal, popularly known as the Lions of Teranga. Both teams reached the decisive stage of the continent’s premier football…

By Christine S. Luyosen and Josefa P. Dampilag/Editor: Dr. Genevieve B. Kupang  Marking the third consecutive phase of community engagement, the Graduate School of Baguio Central University intensified its commitment to environmental stewardship at Quezon Hill Eco Zone. Following the…

This past Sunday, January 18, the “Good Governance” webinar, organized by the international news agency Pressenza, took place, featuring various representatives from civil society across different countries. In a spirit of camaraderie, attendees analyzed the challenges the world faces in…

The world is undergoing a seismic shift, transitioning from a unipolar order into an era of tense bipolar rivalry. In this new landscape, the ancient impulse to destroy one another is not diminished but systematized, as competing powers amass vast…

A conversation with three men who recently traveled to Palestine to witness the state of Palestinian Christian communities living in Israel-occupied West Bank. What they experienced was horrific and hopeful. Horrendous in the brutality of the young Israeli settler gangs…

The US might abandon its new interest in backing radical “security guarantees” for Ukraine due to worsening ties with Western Europe; increasingly Polish-led Central & Eastern Europe could replace Western Europe’s strategic importance for the US; and intra-EU rifts might…

As we despair about Gaza, Venezuela, and many other disasters caused by human beings, an even more sinister threat looms over us: The Golden Dome. In spite of its shiny name, the Golden Dome threatens both those it’s supposed to…

The largest island in the world, Greenland (that is not green at all but rather covered by white ice), has in recent months and even several years become one of the hottest geopolitical spots and disputes in world politics and…

17 January 2026, Quezon City.  Laboratory analyses detected lead above the legal limit of 90 parts per million (ppm) in three imported paints purchased by the EcoWaste Coalition from a local online seller, rendering them illegal for importation, distribution, and sale…