Parañaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez assured his constituents of continuous services and job security during the administration’s transition, emphasizing that there will be “no vacuum in all services” that the city government provides. Olivarez made the announcement last Monday, July 14,...
The Taguig City University (TCU) recognized top graduates, leaders, athletes, and artists during the 19th Commencement Exercises Recognition and Awarding Ceremonies on July 15. During the ceremony held at the Taguig Convention Center, the university honored 370 students from different colleges for...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Prince Harry followed in his late mother 's footsteps on Wednesday by wearing a flak jacket and walking down a path in an active land mine field in Angola to raise awareness for a charity 's work clearing explosives from old warzones. The Duke of Sussex is...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian government officials and leaders in the Druze religious minority announced a renewed ceasefire Wednesday after days of clashes that have threatened to unravel the country 's postwar political transition and drawn military intervention by powerful neighbor...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The massive crowd that would gather once a year at a revered waterfall in central Haiti where the faithful would splash in its sacred waters and rub their bodies with aromatic leaves was not there on Wednesday. Powerful gangs in March attacked the town of Saut-d...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is poised to pass Donald Trump 's request to cancel about $9 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting spending, moving forward on one of the president 's top priorities despite concerns from several Republican senators. The legislation, which would go...
A U.S. Army veteran who was arrested during an immigration raid at a Southern California marijuana farm last week said Wednesday he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray before being dragged from his vehicle and pinned down by federal agents who arrested him. George Retes, 25, who works as a...
A man previously jailed for illegal possession of firearms in 2019 landed in prison anew after yielding P21.76 million worth of shabu in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Pinagbuhatan, Pasig City, on Wednesday, July 16. The suspect was identified as alias Nader, 25, a resident of Barangay...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia pounded four Ukrainian cities overnight into Wednesday, injuring at least 15 people in an attack that mostly targeted energy infrastructure, officials said. The latest bombardment in Russia’s escalating aerial campaign against civilian areas came ahead of a Sept. 2...
LONDON (AP) — A volcanic eruption in southwestern Iceland has once again forced the evacuation of local residents and the internationally known Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, the national broadcaster RUV reported. The eruption began around 4 a.m. Wednesday following an intense seismic swarm on the...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in India’s southern Karnataka state said Wednesday they found a Russian woman and her two young daughters living in isolation in a remote forest cave. The woman, identified as Nina Kutina, 40, and her daughters, aged six and four, were found by police during a routine...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The United States sent five immigrants it describes as “barbaric” criminals to the African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration 's largely secretive third-country deportation program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said...
