BOGOTA, Colombia -- Six children died and over a dozen were injured on Tuesday after their school bus rolled down a cliff in northeastern Colombia, a regional official said. "Unfortunately I have to confirm (the) school bus accident on the Laguna de Ortices-San Andres road, where 6 minors died and...
BOGOTA, Colombia – An Italian tourist died Friday after being attacked by a shark off the coast of Colombia's San Andres island in the Caribbean Sea, local media reported. The 56-year-old man, identified by Colombian press as Antonio Roseto Degli Abruzzi, was swimming near a cliff when he...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo M. Año condemned on Saturday, Feb. 12, the New People’s Army (NPA) for the encounter in Northern Samar that led to the death of two children. Año said the communist rebels opened fire at the troop of the Philippine...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Argentine police on Thursday seized vast quantities of cocaine likely laced with opioids and made several arrests after 22 people died and dozens ended up in hospital poisoned in Buenos Aires. Police raided a dwelling in search of the source of the adulterated cocaine....
Daesh leader Abu Ibrahim Al Hashami Al Qureshi (AFP) WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) - President Joe Biden said Thursday that a ''terrorist threat to the world'' was removed when the head of the Islamic State blew himself up, as US special forces swooped on his Syrian hideout in an ''incredibly...
A former policeman was shot dead by three unidentified gunmen in Tondo, Manila on Tuesday, Jan. 25. Manila Police District (MPD) director Brig. Gen. Leo M. Francisco identified the victim as Richard Manabat Ramos, 44, a resident of Manila. Ramos left the police force after three years of service,...
A GoFundMe campaign launched for the family of Filipino-Sri Lankan Suraj Mahadeva, who was shot to death in Palmer Square in Chicago last Saturday, Dec. 11, has already raised $30,052 in donations as of Thursday, Dec. 23. The GoFundMe project was initiated by his cousin, Anika Mahadeva, on Friday,...
Combined elements of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), police, military and intelligence groups arrested six drug pushers and seized P13.6 million worth of ‘shabu’ in a buy-bust operation in Parang Sulu on Friday, Sept. 24. In a statement, the PDEA Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) is now conducting an investigation into the incident where a teenager was ran over by a truck in a popular food hub in Tondo, Manila, Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año on Tuesday night, Sept. 21. Reports disclosed that the...
The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) denied Friday, Sept. 10, that the Oriental Mindoro Provincial Jail where two detainees were killed in a Sept. 7 shooting incident is under its jurisdiction. BJMP logo "Oriental Mindoro Provincial Jail is not under the jurisdiction and management of...
A three-year old boy died after his neighbor, who is reportedly suffering from a mental disorder, hacked his head inside their house in Dumalinao, Zamboanga del Sur. (FILE PHOTO / FLICKR) In a report from GMA’s Unang Balita on Monday, Aug. 30, the victim’s father went to their room to get money...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Twelve of the 13 US service members killed in Thursday's Kabul airport bombing were 9/11 babies, according to local media reports. Flowers and a US flag are placed on a plate on which the names of 9/11 victims were inscribed around the South Pool at the National...
