A security manager was arrested after allegedly robbing a company nurse of his gold necklace inside a casino in Pasay City on Jan. 26. Pasay City Police chief Col. Joselito De Sesto identified the suspect as Ver, 44, a resident of Quezon City. Police said the incident occurred at around 10:35 p.m....
Officials of the Manila city government on Tuesday, Jan. 27, broke ground for the soon-to-be-built Manila City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (MCDRRMO) Flood Monitoring Command Center aimed at strengthening flood preparedness through real-time data and coordinated response. Manila...
Police arrested a vendor accused of seriously wounding and robbing a Japanese national in Parañaque City on Monday, Jan. 26. The Southern Police District (SPD) identified the suspect as Ariel, 49, who was arrested at around 6:30 p.m. at Medina Subdivision, Barangay San Dionisio. The victim was...
A man was killed while another was left in critical condition after a drinking session between friends turned violent last Jan. 25, the San Mateo Rizal Municipal Police reported Monday, Jan. 26. Based on the police investigation, three men were initially engaged in a drinking session in Barangay...
A woman died after being hit by a car while crossing a pedestrian lane on her way home in Cainta, Rizal on Sunday evening, Jan. 25. The Cainta Municipal Police Station (Cainta MPS) said the incident occurred along Casimiro A. Ynares Sr. Boulevard, in front of Kingstore, in Barangay San Andres, at...
Manila City Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso on Monday, Jan. 26, expressed confidence in the city 's continuous economic growth following a 40 percent increase in new business permit processing and robust renewal activity observed by Manila 's Bureau of Permits. During a meeting...
Police arrested two men listed as most wanted persons in Muntinlupa on Jan. 26. The Southern Police District 's District Mobile Force Battalion arrested a man identified as alias Pilok, 30, at his residence in Barangay Buli, Muntinlupa. Pilok was convicted of violating Section 31 of...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A global crackdown on human traffickers and migrant smugglers coordinated by Interpol led to the arrest of more than 3,700 suspects and aided over 4,400 potential trafficking victims around the world, the law enforcement organization said Monday. Interpol said 14,000...
The U.S. workweek opened with yet more snow dumping on the Northeast under the tail end of a colossal winter storm that brought ice and power outages, impassable roads, canceled flights and frigid cold to much of the southern and eastern United States. At least 13 weather-related deaths have...
BEIRUT (AP) — Gas-rich Qatar on Monday announced investments in Lebanon worth hundreds of millions of dollars to improve the crisis-hit nation’s crumbling electricity sector and to continue support for the Lebanese armed forces and the return home of Syrian refugees. Qatar’s...
TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court on Monday held North Korea responsible for the human rights violations of four plaintiffs lured to the North by Pyongyang 's postwar false promise of living in “paradise on Earth,” ordering its government to pay them 22 million yen ($143,000) each, a...
The International Shrine of the Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage, otherwise known as the Antipolo Cathedral, celebrated its second anniversary as an international shrine with activities that gathered hundreds of devotees and parishioners from different parishes in the Diocese of Antipolo. A grand...
