BANGKOK (AP) — An airlift carrying more than 1,000 Chinese nationals who had worked at online scam centers in eastern Myanmar began Thursday, after the rescued workers were taken across the border to Thailand and put on chartered flights to China. Chinese nationals, believed to have worked at...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Donald Trump’s envoy to Ukraine and Russia said on Friday that he had held “extensive and positive discussions” with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the three-year war with Russia and praised the Ukrainian leader as an “embattled and...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed revenge Friday for what he described as a “cruel and malicious violation” of the ceasefire agreement after a body that Hamas released as part of the deal was found to not be that of an Israeli mother of two young boys, as the...
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis marked the one-week point Friday in his hospital stay, getting up and out of bed to eat breakfast as the 88-year-old pontiff continued fighting pneumonia and a complex respiratory infection, the Vatican said. The Vatican late Thursday reported a “slight improvement”...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Washington has allowed President Donald Trump’s mass firings of federal workers to move forward. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper decided Thursday he could not grant a motion from unions representing the workers to temporarily block the layoffs. He...
A poster shows Shiri Bibas, who was kidnapped to Gaza with her husband and two young sons on Oct. 7, 2023, in Jerusalem, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Hamas militants of violating the ceasefire deal by handing over the...
A fire broke out at a commercial building on Soler corner Florentino Torres, Sta. Cruz, Manila on Friday night, Feb. 21. Photo from Sampaloc Fire Volunteer Brigade Inc. Manpa The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) said the fire started at 7:38 p.m. and escalated to the second alarm at 7:59 p.m. BFP...
Mayor Imelda Aguilar and Vice Mayor April Aguilar with ACT-CIS Rep. Erwin Tulfo (Photo from Las Piñas PIO) ACT-CIS Partylist Representative Erwin Tulfo paid a courtesy visit to Las Piñas City Mayor Imelda Aguilar and Vice Mayor April Aguilar last Tuesday, Feb. 18 . The visit highlighted...
Senatorial candidate Willie Revillame on Friday, Feb. 21, said he does not consider himself a politician but a public servant, emphasizing that his goal is to genuinely help Filipinos in need. Senatorial candidate Willie Revillame (right) and GP Party-list nominee JP Padiernos (left) speak in Pasig...
The Quezon City government has officially launched the Tandang Sora Women’s Museum on Thursday night, Feb. 21. (Quezon City government facebook page) It is the first ever women’s museum in the country, paying tribute to the countless women who have shaped the nation through courage, resilience,...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) – The Israeli military said Friday it had positively identified the remains of two young hostages but another body released by Hamas under a ceasefire deal was not the boys' mother as the militant group had promised. BORDER police salute as a convoy carrying the remains...
To carry out necessary maintenance and upgrading works on various MERALCO distribution facilities, electric service will be temporarily interrupted on the following dates and places: MERALCO exerts all efforts to restore electric service as scheduled. However, there are instances when due to...
