Despite losing all their family belongings, including important documents and savings kept in their house in the fire that hit Malate, Manila last May 7 and which he helped put out, fire volunteer John Justin Gagarin, 19, said he has no regrets fulfilling the call of duty. John Justin Gagarin...
A celebration of art, culture, and history at the opening of the 12th Pulilan Mandala Art Festival on Monday, May 13, 2024, at SM Center Pulilan, with National Artist for Literature Virgilio S. Almario; DOT Region III Director Dr. Richard G. Daenos; Pulilan Mayor Maritz Ochoa-Montejo; Pulilan...
Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto on Monday, May 13, explained that the unusual surge in the number of individuals queuing up to be vaccinated with the anti-rabies vaccine in the city is caused by a number of fatal animal bite cases that became viral in recent days. Mayor Vico Sotto Sotto said he had...
The Mandaluyong City local government on Monday, May 13, distributed additional uniforms to its traffic enforcers that will help alleviate the discomfort brought about by intense heat. (Photo from Mandaluyong LGU) Mandaluyong City Mayor Ben Abalos, together with other city government officials, led...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops were locked in intense battles with Ukrainian soldiers around the embattled town of Vovchansk in northeast Ukraine on Monday, pushing ahead with a ground offensive that opened a new front and put more pressure on overstretched Ukrainian forces. Ukrainian...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Aid workers struggled Monday to distribute dwindling food and other supplies to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by what Israel says is a limited military operation in Rafah, as the two main crossings near the southern Gaza city remained closed. Smoke rises...
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump was intimately involved with all aspects of a scheme to stifle stories about sex that threatened to torpedo his 2016 campaign, his former lawyer said Monday in matter-of-fact testimony that went to the heart of the former president’s hush money trial . Assistant...
BALTIMORE (AP) — Crews set off a chain of carefully placed explosives Monday to break down the largest remaining span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, and with a boom and a splash, the mangled steel trusses came crashing down into the river below. Explosive charges are...
The Schools Division office (SDO) of Malabon City on Monday, May 13 announced the suspension of face-to-face classes due to hot weather. According to the announcement, asynchronous classes will be implemented on Tuesday, May 14, in all public schools in the city. This is due to...
EICHSFELD, Germany — When Erdina Laca goes grocery shopping in Eichsfeld these days, she pulls out a special payment card that’s for asylum-seekers only. She no longer pays in cash for her apples, eggs and fish — like most of the Germans standing in line with her at the register. Laca,...
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian troops are locked in intense battles with the advancing Russian army in two border areas, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, while the death toll from a Russian apartment building collapse blamed on Ukrainian shelling rose to 15. Zelenskyy said “fierce battles” are...
TBILISI, Georgia - Georgia's parliament green-lit a final vote on a proposed law that critics see as a threat to media freedom and the country’s aspirations to join the European Union on Monday, a day after police dispersed the latest protests against it. Demonstrators waving Georgian national...
