(Photo from SPD) Two persons were arrested after they yielded P8,840,000 worth of shabu hidden in a freeze-dried durian pack during a police buy-bust operation in Barangay San Antonio, Makati City on Wednesday, Feb. 19. The Southern Police District (SPD) identified the suspects as "Wewel" and...
Some of Metro Manila mayors showed their support for Alyansa Para sa Bagong Pilipinas senatorial slate during the alliance's kickoff campaign rally in Pasay City on Tuesday, Feb. 18. President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. raises the arms of the 12 senatorial bets under the Alyansa Para sa Bagong...
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama is detaining in a hotel nearly 300 people from various countries deported under U.S. President Donald Trump, not allowing them to leave while waiting for international authorities to organize a return to their countries. FILE - Panama's Minister of Public Security Frank...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — They’re known as “frog men,” inmates who are forced to sleep on prison floors across the Dominican Republic, often next to overflowing toilets or holes in the ground that serve as one. FILE - Inmates stand inside a corridor during time they are...
MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — When Haben Gebregergish first immigrated to the German city of Magdeburg seven years ago, the Eritrean immigrant was walking to the supermarket with her child when an intoxicated woman approached her on the street. An election poster of the far-right anti-immigrant party...
FAR'A REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — By car and on foot, through muddy olive groves and snipers’ sight lines, tens of thousands of Palestinians in recent weeks have fled Israeli military operations across the northern West Bank — the largest displacement in the occupied territory since the...
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis slept well, got out of bed and ate breakfast Wednesday, the Vatican said, after tests confirmed the 88-year-old pontiff had developed pneumonia in both lungs in a further complication that raised concerns about his ability to fight off the infection. Candles with the...
Water concessionaire Manila Water announced the scheduled water service interruptions in Quezon City from Feb. 20 -21 and Feb. 26 - 27, due to ongoing network maintenance activities. Here is the list of the affected communities: Feb. 20 (10:00 p.m.) - Feb. 21 (4:00 a.m.) - Barangay Mariana -...
(Photo from Pasay City Police) Three drug suspects were arrested by the Pasay City Police Station Drug Enforcement Unit (SDEU) during a buy-bust operation conducted on Wednesday, Feb. 19. Pasay City Police chief Col. Samuel Pabonita identified the suspects as alias “Mon," alias Joseph," and alias...
Vice Mayor Menchie Abalos (3rd, left) crowned Bella Maria Fall (3rd, right) from Barangay Hagdan Bato Libis as Miss Mandaluyong 2025 during the coronation night held on Friday, February 7, 2025 at the Mandaluyong City College Gymnasium. Other winners of the annual beauty pageant are (from left)...
A hostage situation on Recto Avenue in Manila on Tuesday, Feb. 18, ended peacefully after police officers, who acted as negotiators, chipped in and gave the P20,000 salary that the hostage taker's employer allegedly refused to pay him. A man (in black T-shirt) took a woman hostage at an ID lace...
Mayor Abby Binay Makati City Mayor and senatorial aspirant Abby Binay on Tuesday, Feb. 18, is confident that her party, the administration's Alyansa Para sa Bagong Pilipinas, will perform strongly in Metro Manila in the midterm elections in May. Binay, in a press conference, said that the party...
