A fire broke out at a residential area in Santiago Street Barangay Paltok, Quezon City on Monday, Dec. 16. Fire in Quezon City on Monday, Dec. 16 ( BFP PIO) According to the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), the fire started around 11:50 a.m. and was raised to the 1st alarm at around 11:57 a.m. The...
A fireman suffered from smoke inhalation during a fire incident at a condominium unit in Barangay Ugong, Pasig City on Sunday night, Dec. 15. Firemen respond to the fire incident in Pasig City. (Photo from Marikina Fire Volunteers) The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) identified the fireman...
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A Filipino woman who was on death row in Indonesia — and was nearly executed by firing squad in 2015 — was moved late Sunday to a female prison in Indonesia’s capital, from where she will be flown back to her home country. Filipino death row inmate Mary Jane...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in the French territory of Mayotte from Cyclone Chido is “several hundred” and may run into the thousands, the island’s top government official told a local broadcaster Sunday. This undated photo provided by NGO Medecins du Monde on Sunday, Dec....
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel said Sunday it will close its embassy in Ireland as relations deteriorated over the war in Gaza , where Palestinian medical officials said new Israeli airstrikes killed over 46 people including several children. Palestinians mourn over the bodies of civil...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday thanked deep-pocketed Democratic donors who raised record sums in last month's election loss to President-elect Donald Trump and urged them not to lose hope and to remain politically engaged. Vice President Kamala...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean law enforcement authorities will request that impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol appear for questioning this week over his short-lived martial law decree as they expand a probe into whether his ill-conceived power grab amounted to rebellion. Participants...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana officials are preparing to execute the state's first death row inmate in 15 years, who was convicted a quarter-century ago of killing his brother and three other men. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana officials are preparing to execute the state's first death row inmate in...
DAMASCUS (AP) — At Damascus’ international airport, the new head of security — one of the rebels who marched across Syria to the capital — arrived with his team. The few maintenance workers who showed up for work huddled around Maj Hamza al-Ahmed, eager to learn what will happen next....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s opposition leader offered Sunday to work with the government to ease the political tumult as officials sought to reassure allies and markets, a day after the opposition-controlled parliament voted to impeach conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol over a...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A tornado near a mall in central California swept up cars, uprooted trees and sent several people to the hospital. In San Francisco, authorities issued the first-ever tornado warning. Water from the San Francisco Bay spills onto the Embarcadero in San Francisco on Saturday,...
The Caloocan City government was presented with the “Gawad Kalasag Seal of Excellence” after being chosen as the Best Highly-Urbanized City for Disaster Risk Reduction and Managements (DRRM) by the Office of the Civil Defense – National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (OCD-NDRRMC)....
