CAVITE – The gun ban in Carmona officially started on Thursday, June 8, one month ahead of the scheduled cityhood plebiscite on July 8. The Cavite Police Provincial Office (PPO) said the plebiscite period and gun ban will last until July 15. Cavite PPO has already deployed personnel in established...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Donald Trump said Thursday he has been indicted over his handling of classified documents after leaving office, the US ex-president's most serious legal threat yet as a firestorm of criminal investigations imperil his bid for a second White House term. "The corrupt Biden...
SAN FRANCISCO, United States -- Instagram is the main platform used by pedophile networks to promote and sell content showing child sexual abuse, according to a report by Stanford University and the Wall Street Journal. "Large networks of accounts that appear to be operated by minors are openly...
Heavy smog covers the skylines of the boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan in New York on June 7, 2023. Ed JONES / AFP WASHINGTON, United States -- Smoke from Canadian wildfires shrouded US cities in a noxious haze again Thursday, delaying flights and disrupting outdoor events in what President Joe...
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 08: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a joint press conference with US President Joe Biden in the East Room at the White House on June 8, 2023 in Washington, DC. POOL / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP WASHINGTON, United States -- The United States and...
LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg -- EU nations on Thursday reached agreement on a long-stalled revision of the bloc's rules to share the hosting of asylum seekers and migrants more equitably. Sweden, which holds the bloc's rotating presidency, announced the breakthrough after a fraught day of negotiations...
Flowers for the victims are placed at a playground in the 'Jardins de l'Europe' in Annecy, in the French Alps, on June 8, 2023, following a mass stabbing in the park of the city. (OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE / AFP) ANNECY, France -- A Syrian refugee armed with a knife stabbed four preschool children and...
BONN, Germany -- The head of the upcoming COP28 climate summit, who also is the chief executive of the UAE's national oil company, acknowledged Thursday that a reduction in the use of fossil fuels is inescapable. "The phase down of fossil fuels is inevitable," Sultan al-Jaber said on the sidelines...
PARIS, France -- People who took a cheap diabetes drug after testing positive for Covid-19 had a 40 percent lower risk of getting long Covid, a US-based study said Friday. The finding was hailed as a potential "landmark" in the fight against the still little-understood condition, which the World...
By HANNAH NICOL Operatives of Caloocan City Police Station – Drug Enforcement Unit (CCPS-DEU) confiscated P3,060,000 worth of “shabu” from a 24-year-old man in a buy-bust operation in Barangay 188, Caloocan City, on Wednesday, June 7. Col. Ruben Lacuesta, CCPS chief, identified the suspect...
FAIZABAD, Afghanistan - At least 11 people were killed and 30 wounded by a blast Thursday at a funeral service for an Afghan acting provincial governor assassinated by a suicide bomber earlier this week, the ministry of interior said. "The Ministry of Interior of the IEA condemns this...
KHERSON, Ukraine - Ukraine said Thursday that at least one civilian was killed in Russian shelling of the Kherson city centre, as the region deals with massive flooding from the destruction of a dam in Russian-held territory. "Due to targeted strikes by the occupiers during evacuations in the...