A 64-year-old senior citizen and his accomplice were arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay San Andres, Cainta, Rizal on August 2. The Rizal Police Provincial Office (Rizal PPO) identified the suspects as alias Babeng, 64, tagged as a high-value individual (HVI) for illegal drugs, and alias...
Marikina City Mayor Maan Teodoro urged Marikeños to strictly follow the curfew hours for minors being implemented in the city as part of the city government 's expanded efforts to ensure their welfare and safety. In her advisory, Teodoro said individuals 18 years old and below are strictly...
BOGOTA, Colombia — The bodies of all five miners trapped in a collapsed shaft in the world 's biggest underground copper mine for three days have been found and identified, an official said Sunday. Aquiles Cubillos, the lead prosecutor in Chile 's O 'Higgins region, said the body...
NINOSHIMA, Japan — When the first atomic bomb detonated 80 years ago on Aug. 6, thousands of the dead and dying were brought to the small, rural island of Ninoshima, just south of Hiroshima, by military boats with crews that had trained for suicide attack missions. Many of the victims had their...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) office in Taguig has processed more than 3,000 applications for voter registration in three days in connection with the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Elections. The Comelec has set the voter registration for the Dec. 1 Barangay and SK Elections from...
BOGOTA, Colombia — Police in Haiti have arrested a former senator who has been charged with conspiring against the state and financing criminal organizations. Nenel Cassy was arrested on Saturday while he was at a restaurant in Petionville, a wealthy district of the capital, Port-au Prince,...
BEIRUT — New outbreaks of violence overnight into Sunday rocked Syria at two distinct flashpoints, straining a fragile ceasefire and calling into question the ability of the transitional government to exert its authority across the whole country. In the north, government-affiliated fighters...
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies said they had uncovered a major graft scheme involving inflated military procurement contracts, just two days after Ukraine’s parliament voted to restore the agencies’ independence. In a joint statement published Saturday on social media,...
San Juan City Mayor and Metro Manila Council (MMC) president Francis Zamora on Sunday, Aug. 3, said that the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) are set to finalize a new drainage master plan to ease worsening floods in Metro...
San Juan City Mayor and re-elected Metro Manila Council (MMC) president Francis Zamora said that a total ban on street parking may face challenges, following the Department of the Interior and Local Government’s (DILG) proposal to prohibit parking on all public streets to help ease traffic...
The Quezon City government has warned residents over the increasing number of leptospirosis cases recorded in the city from July 24 to 31. According to the data from the Quezon City Epidemiology and Surveillance Division (QCESD), a total of 178 leptospirosis cases were recorded from January to...
A fire broke out in a residential area on Sagani street, Libis Baesa, Barangay 160 in Caloocan City on Saturday night, August 2. According to the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), the fire was raised to the first alarm at 10:49 p.m. and escalated to the second alarm at 11:06 p.m. The blaze was...
