The Manila Police District (MPD) arrested a man who threatened to kill a tricycle driver with a jungle knife (bolo) in Baseco Compound, Port Area, Manila, on Saturday, Sept. 6. The suspect was identified as alias Dick, 48, and a resident of the area. According to the MPD, the police were conducting...
A 23-year-old man was arrested after threatening to stab Manila Police District (MPD) officers during clearing and routine patrol operations in Ermita, Manila, on Saturday, Sept. 6. The MPD identified the suspect as alias Anthony, a resident of San Andres Bukid. Based on the police report, officers...
BANGKOK — Anutin Charnvirakul, a veteran politician best known for successfully lobbying to decriminalize cannabis in Thailand, became the country 's prime minister after receiving a royal endorsement Sunday. Anutin, 58, succeeds Paetongtarn Shinawatra of the Pheu Thai Party, who was...
TOKYO — Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced Sunday that he will resign, following growing calls from within his party to take responsibility for a historic defeat in July’s parliamentary election. Ishiba, who took office in October, said he was stepping down as prime minister and...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV was set to declare a 15-year-old computer whiz, Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint on Sunday, giving the next generation of Catholics a relatable role model who used technology to spread the faith and earn the nickname "God 's influencer." An open-air...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea disrupted internet access in parts of Asia and the Middle East, experts said Sunday, though it wasn 't immediately clear what caused the incident. There has been concern about the cables being targeted in a Red Sea...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia hit Ukraine 's capital with drone and missiles Sunday in the largest aerial attack on the country since the war began, killing at least two people and leaving smoke rising from the roof of a key government building. Russia attacked Ukraine with 805 drones and...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan 's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has expressed his intention on Sunday to step down following growing calls from his party to take responsibility for its big loss in the July parliamentary election, Japanese television reported. Ishiba, who took office in October, has...
A man was shot dead following a fistfight along Katipunan Avenue in Barangay UP Campus, Quezon City. The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) said the incident happened around 9:20 a.m. on Friday, September 5, when the suspect and the victim got into an altercation near their alley. During the fight,...
Authorities are looking into faulty electrical wiring as the cause of the fire that hit a factory of a wood lumber supplier in San Mateo, Rizal early Saturday, Sept. 6. The San Mateo Municipal Police Station (San Mateo MPS) said that the incident was reported to them at around 3:45 a.m.,...
A 28-year-old man involved in a project modus scam in Batangas was arrested by members of the Pasay City Police Intelligence Section on Friday, August 5. Col. Joselito De Secto, chief of the Pasay City police, identified the suspect as Patrick, a resident of Hizon Street, Sta. Cruz, Manila. He was...
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congo 's authorities announced earlier this week a new Ebola outbreak, which has killed more than a dozen people in a southern province. Samples analyzed at the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Kinshasa, the Congolese capital, confirmed the presence of the...
