The Pasay City government said it collected a total of 23.2 tons, or 23,203 kilos, of garbage during a week-long cleanup drive in Manila Bay. Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano said personnel from the city government, together with the SM Smart City Infrastructure Development Corporation (SM SCIDC), the...
VATICAN CITY (AP) – When Pope Leo XIV surprised tens of thousands of young people at a recent Holy Year celebration with an impromptu popemobile romp around Saint Peter’s Square, it almost seemed as if some of the informal spontaneity that characterized Pope Francis’ 12-year papacy had...
Las Piñas City Mayor April Aguilar led the blessing ceremony of the newly acquired patrol boat and utility vehicle of the City Agriculture Office to further strengthen fisheries law enforcement, tagging of mariculture structures, and geotagging of coastal boundaries. Aguilar said the office will...
The Las Piñas Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO) has distributed a total of 100 handheld radios to the city’s 20 barangays to enable faster communication during emergencies. Las Piñas City Mayor April Aguilar led the turnover ceremony, during which each barangay received five...
Two housemaids and their female accomplice were arrested for attempting to steal items from their employer in Barangay Sta. Mesa, Manila, on Thursday, Aug. 14, the Manila Police District (MPD) said. The suspects were identified as alias Edna, 34, alias Flordeliza, 44, and alias Baby Girl, 34. Edna...
A drug suspect identified as alias Eminem was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Palangoy, Binangonan, Rizal on Friday, Aug. 15. According to the Rizal Police Provincial Office (Rizal PPO), the suspect was nabbed inside his home in Sitio Fatima after an undercover police officer...
While Mayor Vico Sotto expressed appreciation for the positive posts on social media about Pasig City’s supposed P3 billion “surplus,” he clarified that the claim is inaccurate and stressed that government savings should not be seen as an accomplishment. “The P3B ‘surplus’ posts are...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral. A chance discovery of a 25 million-year-old fossil on an Australian beach has allowed paleontologists to identify a rare, entirely new species that could...
CHOSITI, India (AP) — Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed at least 176 people and left scores others missing in India and Pakistan over the past 24 hours, officials said Friday, as rescuers brought to safety some 1,600 people from two mountainous districts in the neighboring...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned Pakistan that India will punish its neighbor if there are future attacks on India as he marked 78 years of independence from British colonial rule. Modi 's remarks Friday come three months after nuclear-armed rivals India and...
BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon 's militant Hezbollah group on Friday vowed not to disarm, saying last week 's decision by the national government to remove the Iran-backed group 's weapons by the end of the year serves Israel 's interests. Naim Kassem said the government...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump is meeting face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday for a high-stakes summit that could determine not only the trajectory of the war in Ukraine but also the fate of European security. The sit-down offers Trump a...
