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PoliticsNov 1China denies ex-ambassador’s claim in columnTHE Chinese Embassy in Manila described as “utterly wrong” the claim that China avoids conflict in the South China Sea because of the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Philippines. The embassy objected to what retired ambassador Jaime Yambao wrote in his The Manila Times column titled “Concerning the loose tongue of an ambassador.” It said the column was “filled with serious historical falsehoods, blatant bias, and unprofessional judgment.” Yambao wrote that “if China has not attacked the Philippines, it is not for love of peace, it is the deterrent effect of the Mutual Defense Treaty between the two countries.” “China’s consistent commitment to peace, dialogue, and regional stability stems from its independent foreign policy and sincere respect for regional peace, not external military deterrence,” the embassy said in a statement. “China chooses restraint out of goodwill for its neighbors, not fear of any alliance,” it added. Yambao said that if the Chinese truly love peace, they would abide by the United Nations (UN) Charter of solving disputes by peaceful means. “They would have followed the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea on disputes settlement.” “They would have considered as settled the dispute it has with the Philippines by the conclusions of the arbitral tribunal of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague,” he said. The PCA in July 2016 invalidated China’s claim in the South China Sea, which encroached on the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The embassy stressed that the arbitral award “is legally invalid, politically biased, and lacks any binding force.” “China has never recognized this unlawful ruling, and no country can legitimately rely on it to make policy judgments or provoke maritime tensions,” it said. Yambao also mentioned calls from lawmakers and some sectors to declare Ambassador Jing Quan persona non grata for saying that “if we want to use force, we may easily win” — which was viewed as a “veiled threat against the Philippines. “It is quite likely that China would take the side of its ambassador and retaliate by declaring our innocent ambassador (Jaime FlorCruz) in Beijing persona non grata,” Yambao said. The embassy replied that “openly attacking another country’s political system in a public commentary demonstrates a severe lack of basic diplomatic courtesy and sovereign respect.” “Regrettably, the author Jaime Yambao, though a retired Philippine ambassador, shows none of the professionalism expected of a seasoned diplomat,” it said. “If a senior retired Philippine diplomat cannot objectively and accurately understand China’s consistent stance of promoting stable and peaceful China-Philippines relations, it reflects either poor cognitive judgment or regrettable diplomatic incompetence,” it said. “Such biased, confrontational, and factually erroneous remarks are truly unfortunate,” the embassy said. It also described as “entirely misleading and factually wrong” Yambao’s account of the Yultong Battle during the Korean War. “No official US or Chinese military archives support the exaggerated claim that 900 Filipino troops defeated 40,000 Chinese soldiers. In reality, Filipino forces retreated on US orders after the engagement, and Chinese troops secured full control of the battlefield,” it said.manilatimes · philippines

HealthNov 1Dr Richard Naylor Sleeps With 60,000 Bedbugs to Test Products Amid Peak InfestationsEntomologist Dr Richard Naylor volunteers to test bedbug control products after five years of exposure. Global infestations surge as resistance grows.headtopics · united states of america

WorldNov 1Eternal lifeTHE belief in immortality is not peculiar to Christianity. Egyptians mummified the dead because they believed a well-preserved body to be crucial to life after death. It was not annihilation that the ancient Hindus feared. It was rather the senseless cycle of birth and rebirth from which they sought liberation. Buddhists, for their part, sought to banish the dread of death by holding to the tenet of "no-self": There is no such thing as an enduring self, "no soul," some put it, and that the ultimate happiness was not the joy of life in a world to come but the release from all illusion and grasping after what never endures. Christianity is unique in that it takes death with utmost seriousness and rejects all illusions about it. And this is because central to the Christian’s theology of death is the saving death of Jesus Christ. The Son of God did not appear to die. He died. Death broke him, and when we profess in the Creed that “he descended into hell,” we are, in fact, saying that the cross cast him into the farthest reaches of mortality — the ultimate depth from which all hope of human retrieval is for nought! Jesus’ death is not some adventitious episode to an otherwise glorious story of God’s Son. It is at the very heart of who he was. The Cross is indeed the crux of redemption because Jesus’ death was so real that, to this day, many reject it as a tall tale. For the Christian, death is the sting of that human frailty, that vulnerability immortalized in the story of the Fall from Eden. There certainly is condemnation in death: “By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” And in that lies the redemptive character of Jesus’ death — for if the Son of God, as a consequence of that self-emptying by which we have become full, drank the cup of human mortality to its dregs and “descended into hell,” then death too was transformed by the love of the God who is Life, and from whose hand, no one can be snatched away! We will all know the pain and the bitterness of death. Even now, as we visit the tombs and graves where lie the remains of our loved ones, we are filled with the longing for their company that we know is past, and never to return. Thus, does the Christian acknowledge the definitiveness of death and the fact that when it does happen, all human bonds are sundered. All we have left are memories that, given the dreadfully corrosive force of time, fade as years pass. In fact, it occurred to me as I visited the memorial park today that, being a priest and having no children, when I die, my brother and sister will probably mourn me for a while — but soon, my grave will just be like the many I now see and lament — overgrowth with shrubbery and thickets, forgotten and even trampled upon by persons on their way to the graves of those they still remember! Unlike other concepts of immortality, it is not owing to anything innate in us that we look forward “to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.” There is nothing in human nature that makes the Resurrection a foregone conclusion. While scholastic philosophy has argued for a “subsistent rational soul,” what our faith promises us are resurrection and eternal life, and at the center of this promise, as its guarantee as well as its sign, is the Risen Lord. No, Jesus did not return from the grave to resume the earthly transactions left off with his crucifixion. What rather happened because of Easter was to make the grave the beginning of an experience of “what eye has not seen, nor has ear heard, nor has it occurred to anyone.” And that is why the stories of the encounters with the Risen Lord do not have any coherence because they are attempts at professing faith in that of which we have utterly no experience. But that does not mean that our faith in eternal life is vacuous, that Risen Life is in fact a cipher, a pathetic projection of our longing for immortality. Rather, what we have received is a promise, and what the Gospels leave us are hints, intimations of future glory that the liturgy of the Church celebrates. But only they who are willing to accept the reality and finality of the death of Jesus, God’s Son, and our death as inscribed into what we are, are open to the absolute surprise of the Resurrection that is our absolute hope! Fr. Rannie Aquino is dean of the Graduate School of Law at San Beda College-Mendiola. rannie_aquino@sanbeda.edu.ph rannie_aquino@csu.edu.phmanilatimes · philippines

WorldNov 1Sheep killed and injured in suspected dog attack near Penarth coastal footpathFarmer Jess Cundy warns dog owners after sheep were killed and injured in a suspected attack near the cliff-top footpath between Penarth and Sully.penarthtimes · united kingdom

WorldNov 1Search for gunman continues after man fatally shot in North PhiladelphiaThe 41-year-old was gunned down in the middle of the afternoon on the 2500 block of North 25th Street in North Philadelphia on August 13th, 2026.headtopics · united states of america

WorldNov 1Savannah Guthrie Urges Public to Help Find Missing Mother Nancy GuthrieSavannah Guthrie issues emotional plea for information regarding her mother Nancy Guthrie's abduction in Arizona, sharing family drawings and recent updates on the investigation.headtopics · united states of america

WorldNov 1Saturday's rating: how did Andy Kusnetzoff fare with the scandalous "PH"El jueves trascendió que en la grabación del programa de Telefe hubo un cruce muy fuerte entre la China Ansa y Santiago Maratea, que llegó a poner en riesgo su emisión al aire. Finalmente salió. ¿Le pudo ganar a Juana Viale con la "mesaza" de Mirtha? Los más vistos de cada canal.Clarín

ConflictNov 11/11 in Nieuwsuur: End of Olesjky ceasefire • All eyes on Michigan midtermsEinde staakt-het-vuren Olesjky Het staakt-het-vuren in de Oekraïense stad Olesjky loopt vanavond af. Sinds het begin van de Russische invasie in 2022 zaten inwoners van de stad als ratten in de val. In de laatste paar maanden raakte Olesjky helemaal afgesloten van de buitenwereld. Wat zorgde voor een humanitaire ramp voor de tweeduizend overgebleven inwoners. Dinsdag ging een meerdaags staakt-het-vuren in om inwoners te evacueren. Die zijn inmiddels via een omweg weer aangekomen in Oekraïne. Oost-Europadeskundige Bob Deen is te gast. Alle ogen op Michigan in aanloop naar tussentijdse verkiezinNOS Buitenland

WorldNov 1Heidi Klum's 2026 Halloween party costume: a giant bloody replica of her own hand“I looked at my hand and I thought, ‘Hey, I think I could fit my body in this somehow,’” Klum said of the inspiration for the costume, per the Associated Press.EuroNews [en]

BusinessNov 1XLP hits record high, posts best monthly performances since 1998 as investors seek safetyThe XLP fund has reached a record high and achieved its best monthly performance since 1998, as investors seek out safer assets. This market activity reflects current investor sentiment and risk-aversion strategies.Seeking Alpha Tech

WorldNov 1"Take Back the Night": more than 90 universities in the United States mobilize against sexual violence after the complaint at CornellLa organización Take Back the Night convocó a estudiantes de todo el país para este domingo 1 de noviembre. Reclaman medidas de prevención, investigaciones independientes y mayor protección para las víctimas de agresiones sexuales.Clarín

PoliticsNov 1In the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Washington's interest lies in peace with RwandaREPORTAGE - Les États-Unis soutiennent la RDC, dont le sous-sol est riche en métaux comme le cuivre et le cobalt, dans son interminable guerre indirecte avec son voisin rwandais. Lequel parraine la tentative de retour de l’ancien président Joseph Kabila.Le Figaro International

BusinessNov 1Kishan Reddy urges real estate sector to pass GST benefits to homebuyersKishan Reddy has urged the real estate sector to ensure that GST benefits are passed on to homebuyers. This aims to impact housing affordability and consumer costs.The Hindu

PoliticsNov 1For Talarico and Paxton, the Battle For the Senate Could Rest on Who is More TexanFrom cowboy boots to corridos, the candidates for U.S. Senate are competing to prove their Texas bona fides.NYT US

WorldNov 1Priest in Keralam gets 7 years in jail for raping woman under pretext of performing ritualRajesh, a resident of Venkulam in Edava, was found guilty of rape under Section 376 of the Indian Penal CodeThe Hindu

PoliticsNov 1Transcript: Rep. Mike Lawler on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Nov. 1, 2026The following is the transcript of the interview with Rep. Mike Lawler, Republican of New York, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Nov. 1, 2026.CBS News

PoliticsNov 1The industry that keeps America moving now waits to see how America votesA key industry in America is anticipating the outcome of upcoming elections to understand potential impacts on its operations. This highlights how political events can influence economic sectors.Seeking Alpha Tech

WorldNov 1In Tepoztlán, the dead get one more week to celebrateDiscover La Octava in Tepoztlán, where Day of the Dead traditions continue beyond November with family altars, marigolds and music. The post In Tepoztlán, the dead get one more week to celebrate appeared first on Mexico News DailyMexico News Daily

PoliticsNov 1Democrats lead Republicans by 7 points for U.S. Congress, according to NBC NewsA dos días de las elecciones, el partido azul lidera con siete puntos sobre sus rivales, según un sondeo que refleja el descontento popular.El 60 % de los ciudadanos desaprueba la gestión del mandatario, mientras la economía y el costo de vida preocupan al electorado.Clarín

PoliticsNov 1France and the UK require a new ententeThe Suez crisis offers valuable lessons on troubled relations since the birth of the European projectFinancial Times

PoliticsNov 1EU and Canada’s 6-month test of commitmentThe Montreal summit launched work on a deeper partnership. Now 27 EU governments and Ottawa have to agree what that will mean.Politico Europe

WorldNov 1A test of tradition: Should universities cut ties with fraternities?Why do colleges continue to recognize and accommodate organizations whose traditions and practices repeatedly generate concerns about student safety, accountability and exclusion?The Hill

PoliticsNov 1Why you can’t wear, bring political gear to a polling place in these statesStates have different guidance regarding electioneering at or near a polling place.The Hill

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