Makati City Mayor Abby Binay on Wednesday, April 10, commended the Makati Police Department for seizing almost P3.5 million worth of drugs during the first quarter of 2024. “The city government of Makati lauds the city police force for their hard work and dedication to duty. I exhort them...
The Quezon City Police District on Monday, April 8, arrested two individuals reportedly behind the falsification of QCitizen IDs for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs). The joint operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (CIDU), and District Special Operations Unit (DSOU)...
Members of the Manila Police District (MPD) on Tuesday, April 9, arrested a delivery rider and two other persons for their alleged involvement in the killing of a woman whose body was found inside a box in Tondo, Manila. The MPD arrested three suspects in the killing of a woman whose body was...
The Quezon City local government on Tuesday, April 9, announced its procurement of vaccines and antibiotics against Pertussis or whooping cough. It purchased 3,500 vials of 6-in-1 vaccine worth P13 million, 1,012 bottles of Azithromycin, and 1,000 bottles of Clarithromycin. The vaccines...
FRANCONIA, N.H. — Thousands of visitors to northern New England communities in the path of the total solar eclipse were told to pack their patience for the trip. In some areas, they needed it for up to 12 hours after the event started, inching their way back home on packed interstates and...
Passengers of a bus that was swept away by floodwaters are rescued by boat, near Garissa, northern Kenya, Tuesday, April 9, 2024. Police said some of the passengers managed to escape just before the bus was submerged, while others climbed onto the roof. The incident happened just hours after...
BOISE, Idaho — An Air Canada Boeing 737 Max 8 landed safely in Idaho after experiencing an in-flight emergency Tuesday when pilots received a warning light in the flight deck, airline and airport officials said. The issue was determined to be a faulty cargo hold indicator, Air Canada...
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani authorities have deployed more than 100,000 police and paramilitary forces at mosques and marketplaces across the country ahead of the massive Eid al-Fitr holiday, officials said Tuesday. Eid al-Fitr, which means feast, will be celebrated in Pakistan on Wednesday,...
SEOUL, South Korea — South Koreans are voting Wednesday in a hotly contested parliamentary election that's largely seen as a referendum on conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol and a possible sign of a deepening domestic divide. Regardless of the results, Yoon will stay in power and his major...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee's GOP-controlled Senate advanced legislation on Tuesday allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions as critics raised concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court has banned capital punishment in such cases. Republicans approved the bill on a 24-5 vote. It must...
BROWNVILLE, N.Y. — A Long Island doctor who was headed to upstate New York to see the solar eclipse with her family fell out of a moving trailer on a highway and died, authorities said. Dr. Monika Woroniecka, 58, a pediatrician at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital who specialized in...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Fifty-one passengers were rescued after the bus they were traveling in was swept away by floodwaters on a river bridge in northern Kenya, authorities said Tuesday. The bus is still stuck in the river some 30 meters away from the bridge, although the waters are...
