Former Makati City Mayor Abby Binay-Campos on Monday, July 7, belied claims that the city government is not capable of paying for the $160-million award the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) may give in favor of Philippine Infradev Holdings Inc., the Makati subway project 's...
Makati City Mayor Nancy Binay slammed on Sunday, July 6, what she called the city 's previous administration 's “midnight deal” with the contractor of the Makati subway project worth P8.96 billion, giving full ownership of the project to the city government just days before her term...
A drug suspect, tagged by the police as a high-value individual, was arrested by members of the Las Piñas City Police Station Drug Enforcement Unit (SDEU) during a buy-bust operation on July 5. Col. Sandro Tafalla, Las Piñas City police chief, identified the suspect as Tol, 25, of Bacoor, Cavite....
A man who suffered electric shock and burns after climbing a Meralco post in Muntinlupa last July 5 is being treated at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH). Muntinlupa Mayor Ruffy Biazon said the man, who has mental health issues, is confined at the PGH burn unit and was given antibiotics to...
ISTANBUL (AP) — A farmer was seriously injured when he was attacked by a lion that had escaped a zoo in southern Turkey on Sunday, local media reported. The lion was later shot dead. The male lion, named Zeus, escaped his cage at Land of Lions in Manavgat, a resort city on the Mediterranean...
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday heads to the papal summer residence for a six-week vacation, giving the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo back its most illustrious resident after Pope Francis stayed away during his 12-year pontificate. Leo bid farewell to Rome during his Sunday noon blessing,...
BANGKOK (AP) — China said Sunday that European medical device companies will be barred from selling to the Chinese government as a countermeasure for the European Union 's restrictions on the sale of similar products from China. European companies will be excluded if the budget for...
ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump and other Republicans have long criticized states that take weeks to count their ballots after Election Day. This year has seen a flurry of activity to address it. Part of Trump 's executive order on elections, signed in March but held up by lawsuits,...
DEIR al-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes killed at least 38 Palestinians in Gaza, hospital officials said on Sunday, as Israel 's military said it has struck over 100 targets in the embattled enclave in the past day. The strikes came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
BEIRUT (AP) – It 's as if the whole weight of Israel 's war in Gaza has fallen on Amr al-Hams. The three-year-old has shrapnel in his brain from an Israeli strike on his family 's tent. His pregnant mother was killed. His father is paralyzed by grief over the death of his longtime...
DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) – The Dalai Lama turned 90 on Sunday surrounded by thousands of followers, who thronged the Himalayan town of Dharamshala, where the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism has been living in exile since fleeing Chinese rule in Tibet in 1959. He sat before a packed audience...
Authorities confiscated over P1 million worth of suspected shabu and a firearm from three drivers during a buy-bust operation in Taytay, Rizal, early Sunday, July 6. The Police Regional Office 4A (PRO 4A) identified the suspects as “Bibidu,” 26, a taxi driver tagged as a high-value individual...
