Manila police are investigating the death of an inmate inside the detention cell of Ermita Police Station (PS-5) on Tuesday night, February 27. The Manila Police District Homicide Section did not disclose the name of the inmate who was arrested on February 19 for violation of the Anti-Child...
E-bike, e-trike owners and drivers beware! The Metro Manila Council (MMC) passed a resolution on Wednesday, Feb. 28, prohibiting e-bikes and e-trikes from plying through major roads in the National Capital Region (NCR) following a series of incidents involving such vehicles. MMDA Acting...
The Quezon City government provided assistance to 130 families affected by a fire that occurred in Banawe St. cor. Cardiz St. Barangay Tatalon, on Tuesday, February 27. ( Quezon City government's Facebook page) The victims were evacuated to Diosdado Macapagal Elementary School where officials...
Members of the Manila Police District (MPD) said on Wednesday, Feb. 28, that they are hunting down two still unidentified suspects who shot dead a man in Quiapo, Manila on Saturday, Feb. 24. The MPD identified the victim as Naim Lala, 27, a resident of Quiapo, Manila. He was a native of...
CAVITE – A severed head with a gunshot wound was found near a creek in Barangay Cabilang Baybay, Carmona City, Monday night, Feb. 26. Carmona City Chief of Police Lt. Col. Jefferson Ison said the head was found by minors who went fishing at the creek. A severed head with a gunshot wound...
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora on Wednesday, February 28, denied allegations that some city government officials are involved in corrupt practices involving social aid programs following Senator JV Ejercito's privilege speech on Tuesday, February 27, where he presented videos of alleged...
JERUSALEM, Undefined - Hamas on Tuesday said a US airman who died after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington would "remain immortal" for his shocking anti-war protest. Footage of the self-immolation was widely shared online, and the militant group said it was "an...
CAVITE – Authorities confiscated P680,000 worth of suspected shabu and arrested three high-value individuals (HVIs) in a buy-bust operation in General Trias City on Tuesday, Feb. 27. Three high-value individuals nabbed in a buy-bust operation in General Trias City on Feb. 27 (Photo...
TOKYO, Japan - Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg met with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida while on a visit to Japan, with reports saying they discussed the risks of generative AI. This photo taken on February 27, 2024 shows Mark Zuckerberg, head of US tech giant Meta, waving as he enters the Japanese prime...
PARIS, France - Attempts to organise an Israel-Hamas ceasefire to allow the release of hostages held in Gaza dominated the first day of a state visit to France by Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani. Qatar has played a key mediation role since the Gaza war erupted in October and...
WASHINGTON, United States - The White House said Tuesday that the United States would not send troops to fight in Ukraine, after French President Emmanuel Macron refused to rule out the dispatch of Western forces. President Joe Biden "has been clear that the US will not send troops to fight in...
NEW YORK, United States - A US federal jury on Tuesday convicted two men of murdering the famed Run-DMC member Jam Master Jay, a case that had gone unsolved for more than two decades. (FILES) A mural paying tribute to late Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay is pictured in the Hollis neighborhood of the...