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COTABATO CITY – The Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace Process (OPAPP) and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao are mourning the death Tuesday of another member of the BARMM parliament.

WASHINGTON - The United States would hope to see a freeze in the North Korean nuclear program as the start of a process of denuclearization, the State Department said on Tuesday, ahead of fresh talks with Pyongyang supposed to take place this month.

China demanded Tuesday that the United States "immediately cancel" a potential sale of $2.2 billion in arms to self-ruled Taiwan, including battle tanks and anti-aircraft missiles, adding fuel to tensions between the two powers.

With the start of the 18th Congress less than two weeks away, Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III is expected to retain his current post hands down.

RIDGECREST, Calif. — Shaken residents are cleaning up from two of the biggest earthquakes to rattle California in decades as scientists warn that both should serve as a wake-up call to be ready when the long-dreaded "Big One" strikes.

The Taliban carried out a devastating suicide car bombing in central Afghanistan Sunday that killed 12 people and wounded over 150 others, said Afghan officials.

Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Sunday disclosed plans to recommend former Philippine Air Force commander retired Major General Rene Samonte as the next Senate Sergeant-at-arms.

The Court of Appeals (CA) has ruled that a “divorce by agreement” issued to a Filipino and his or her foreign spouse is valid in the Philippines provided such mode of obtaining a divorce is recognized in the country of the foreign spouse

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Friday refused to back down over its bid to put a contentious citizenship question on the 2020 US census, meaning a court case will move forward over whether officials were motivated by racial bias in seeking to add it.

Heeding the advice of his father, President Rodrigo Duterte, Davao City Rep. Paolo Duterte decided on Saturday to drop plans to run for Speaker of the House of Representatives.

A street severely affected by various excavations by utility companies over the years in Pasig City was already rehabilitated, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) said.

Opposition Senator Leila M. de Lima has joined a Senate colleague in moving for the exemption of government officials from the coverage of the Bank Secrecy Law.

On July 5, 2009, Abudushalamu was hiding with his father on the 10th floor of an office tower in Urumqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang region that is home to the Turkic Uighur ethnic minority. By a park, he spotted a bus on fire. Then he heard a crack as a motorcycle nearby exploded.