NEW YORK (AP) — Firefighters in New York were continuing to battle at least one brush fire in a wooded stretch of Long Island on Sunday as officials warned that high wind gusts would leave the region vulnerable to additional blazes. This image from video provided by Andrew Tallon shows smoke from...
Photo from FB page of Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano A total of 135 women secured jobs after being hired on the spot during the “Trabaho, Negosyo at Kabuhayan Para Kay Juana” job fair, held in celebration of Women’s Month on March 7. Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano said the job fair at Cuneta...
Photo from Pasay City POlice A man was arrested as authorities seized P170,000 worth of shabu hidden inside a cigarette box during a buy-bust operation in Pasay City on Friday, March 7. Pasay City Police Chief Col. Joselito De Sesto identified the suspect as alias “Lods,” who was apprehended at...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The leaders of both Canada and Mexico got on the phone with President Donald Trump this past week to seek solutions after he slapped tariffs on their countries, but China’s president appears unlikely to make a similar call soon. FILE - President Donald Trump, left, shakes...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Malaria season begins this month in a large part of Africa. No disease is deadlier on the continent, especially for children. But the Trump administration's decision to terminate 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts has local health officials warning of catastrophe in...
As recommended by school heads and the Pasig Schools Division Office (SDO), the local government will shorten school hours and shift to distance learning for public elementary and secondary schools (Kinder to Grade 12), including the Alternative Learning System (ALS), starting Monday, March 10, due...
ISTANBUL (AP) — Women took to the streets of cities across Europe, Africa, South America and elsewhere to mark International Women’s Day with demands for ending inequality and gender-based violence. Women chant slogans during a protest marking International Women's Day in Istanbul, Turkey,...
BEIRUT (AP) — The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, a war monitoring group said Saturday, making it one of the deadliest acts of violence since...
TORONTO (AP) — A dozen people were injured in a shooting at an eastern Toronto pub in what police called a reckless act of violence by three men who entered the bar and fired randomly without warning. Police attend the scene of a shooting at a pub in Toronto, Canada, Saturday, March 8, 2025....
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he rejects a U.S. push for talks between the two countries because they would be aimed at imposing restrictions on Iranian missile range and its influence in the region. In this photo released by an official website of the...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel said that it would send a delegation to Qatar on Monday “in an effort to advance the negotiations” around the ceasefire in Gaza , while Hamas reported “positive signals” in talks with Egyptian and Qatari mediators on starting negotiations on the...
ROME (AP) — As he recovers from pneumonia in the hospital, Pope Francis has increasingly handed off his day-to-day responsibilities to cardinals as questions swirl about the near and long-term future of his papacy. Pope Francis, right, hugs Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI prior to the start of a...
