DALLAS (AP) – More than 8,000 flights across the US set to take off over the weekend have been canceled as a major storm expected to wreak havoc across much of the country bears down, threatening to knock out power for days and snarl major roadways. Roughly 140 million people were under a winter...
The Manila Electric Company (Meralco) has extended its wire-clearing operations in two communities in Pasay City due to the overlapping of electricity and telecommunication lines in the area. Meralco, in coordination with the Pasay City government, extended the activity from January 24 to January...
The local government of Pasig City turned over P146,622,500 worth of learning books and reading kits to the Department of Education-Schools Division Office (DepEd-SDO) to show its support for education and students in the city. Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto said the city distributed around 500,000...
The Las Piñas City government has formally opened a newly repaired and rehabilitated health center as part of its continuing efforts to improve public health facilities across the city. Mayor April Aguilar, together with Vice Mayor Imelda Aguilar, led the inauguration of the Elias Aldana Health...
The Las Piñas City government has intensified its anti-flooding efforts through Operation Anti-Flood, with ongoing creek inspections and dredging activities aimed at reducing flood risks in vulnerable areas. Mayor April Aguilar joined personnel from the City Environment and Natural Resources...
Two senior citizens, a 70-year-old woman and a 69-year-old man, were killed in a fire that hit a residential area at the corner of D. Gomez Street and Sandico Street in Barangay Tejeros, Makati City, early Saturday morning, Jan. 24, Makati City Mayor Nancy Binay confirmed. According to the Bureau...
The Marikina City Police Station announced on Friday, Jan. 23, that a police officer seen in a viral video blocking a fire volunteer truck has been temporarily relieved from his post. The Land Transportation Office (LTO) also issued a show cause order to the registered owner and driver of a Toyota...
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump took center stage in his whirlwind visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, overshadowing the yearly gabfest among national leaders, executives and other elites in the Swiss Alpine snows. While some experts highlighted business...
PARIS (AP) — In a hypothetical nuclear war involving Russia, China and the United States, the island of Greenland would be in the middle of Armageddon. The strategic importance of the Arctic territory — under the flight paths that nuclear-armed missiles from China and Russia could take on...
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Leading global economic policymakers at the World Economic Forum in Davos urged countries and businesses to filter out the turmoil from a week of clashes with the Trump administration and focus on boosting growth and fighting inequality in a world where trade will...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the future of Ukraine 's eastern Donbas region will be a key focus as negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the United States meet in Abu Dhabi on Friday for talks to end Russia 's nearly four-year full-scale invasion. The three-way talks come...
LONDON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump provoked outrage and distress among many in the United Kingdom on Friday with his suggestion that troops from NATO countries — other than Americans — stayed away from the front line during the war in Afghanistan. In an interview with Fox News in...
