TOKYO (AP) — Japan 's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has expressed his intention on Sunday to step down following growing calls from his party to take responsibility for its big loss in the July parliamentary election, Japanese television reported. Ishiba, who took office in October, has...
A man was shot dead following a fistfight along Katipunan Avenue in Barangay UP Campus, Quezon City. The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) said the incident happened around 9:20 a.m. on Friday, September 5, when the suspect and the victim got into an altercation near their alley. During the fight,...
Authorities are looking into faulty electrical wiring as the cause of the fire that hit a factory of a wood lumber supplier in San Mateo, Rizal early Saturday, Sept. 6. The San Mateo Municipal Police Station (San Mateo MPS) said that the incident was reported to them at around 3:45 a.m.,...
A 28-year-old man involved in a project modus scam in Batangas was arrested by members of the Pasay City Police Intelligence Section on Friday, August 5. Col. Joselito De Secto, chief of the Pasay City police, identified the suspect as Patrick, a resident of Hizon Street, Sta. Cruz, Manila. He was...
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congo 's authorities announced earlier this week a new Ebola outbreak, which has killed more than a dozen people in a southern province. Samples analyzed at the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Kinshasa, the Congolese capital, confirmed the presence of the...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Over 1,000 LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families participated in a Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome on Saturday, celebrating a new level of acceptance in the Catholic Church after long feeling shunned, and crediting Pope Francis with the change. Some wept as they walked through the...
LONDON (AP) — British police scuffled with protesters outside Parliament on Saturday as they arrested more than 400 demonstrators who gathered to defy a ban on the group Palestine Action, which has been deemed a terrorist organization by the government. Defend Our Juries, the campaign group...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli army issued evacuation orders and targeted high-rise buildings in Gaza City on Saturday, urging Palestinians to flee south ahead of an escalating offensive to seize the city of nearly 1 million. Aid groups warn that a large-scale evacuation would...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday amplified his promises to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to Chicago by posting a parody image from "Apocalypse Now" featuring a ball of flames as helicopters zoom over the nation 's third-largest city. " 'I love...
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — Ahmad Khan Safi had a good life in Afghanistan. The farmer raised livestock in the Dewagal Valley of Kunar Province, and people traveled from across the country to visit the area. Tourists marveled at its verdant landscape, winding paths, and formidable slopes. The...
WASHINGTON (AP) – After months of campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize, President Donald Trump sent a sharply different message on Friday when he signed an executive order aimed at rebranding the Department of Defense as the Department of War. Trump said the switch was intended to signal to the...
Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso announced that more than 2,000 residents of Baseco Compound have become PhilHealth members following the opening of the much-awaited President Corazon Aquino General Hospital (Baseco Hospital) on Friday, Sept. 5. Domagoso expressed his gratitude to...
