JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nine people have died and at least 10 others were wounded after a group of gunmen carried out a shooting at a South African pub during the early hours of Sunday, authorities said. The incident occurred just before 1 a.m. in the township of Bekkersdal which is located 46...
DAVAO CITY – A peace monitor has warned against linking the two Bondi Beach shooters to Islamic extremist groups in Mindanao. But the Climate Conflict Action (CCA) said extremists remain a threat amid the government campaign to eradicate them in Mindanao. The group formerly known as International...
President Marcos pushed back against reports branding the Philippines as a terrorism training hotspot, saying such claims ignore years of decisive action by security forces to dismantle extremist networks and protect the country’s hard-earned peace. Speaking at the 90th anniversary of the Armed...
DAVAO CITY – Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) Chairman Secretary Leo Magno has debunked sweeping claims labeling Mindanao anew as terrorism hotspot amid reports that the father-and-son duo behind the Bondi Beach shooting rampage in Sydney, Australia briefly stayed here last November. Magno...
DAVAO CITY – Authorities are investigating the movements of Sajid Akram, 50, and Naveed Akram, 24, the father-and-son Bondi Beach gunmen who visited this city prior to the recent shootings in Sydney, Australia. The Bureau of Immigration (BI) confirmed on Tuesday that they were in the Philippines,...
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – A security guard who allegedly shot and killed a fellow security guard and a construction worker during a drinking session in a mechanic school in Iba Airport, Barangay Lipay-Dingin-Panibuatan, Iba town, Zambales province on Sunday, Dec. 14, has surrendered. The suspect, of...
SYDNEY (AP) — Hundreds of mourners bearing bright bouquets and clutching each other in grief gathered at a funeral in Sydney on Thursday for a 10-year-old girl who was gunned down in an antisemitic massacre during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. Matilda, whose last name is being withheld...
DAVAO CITY – The police and military vehemently denied on Wednesday reports that the two Bondi Beach terrorists trained in Davao or Mindanao during their visit to the Philippines last month. Speaking at the Davao Peace and Security Press Corps briefing at The Royal Mandaya Hotel Davao here,...
President Marcos disputed claims labeling the Philippines as an "ISIS training hotspot," following reports that the suspects of the Bondi Beach mass shooting previously visited the country. "[T]he President strongly rejects the sweeping statement and the misleading characterization of the...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) provided military records on Wednesday, Dec. 17, showing that the current security conditions in the country make claims of terror training in the Philippines by two Indian nationals linked to the Bondi Beach mass shooting in Sydney, Australia "unlikely."...
Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Ma. Theresa Lazaro has gotten in touch with her Australian counterpart following a terror attack that killed 15 in Bondi Beach in Sydney. In a post on X, Lazaro said she spoke by phone with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong on Tuesday, Dec. 16, as...
Malacañang said the visit of the suspects of the Bondi Beach shooting to the Philippines last month does not pose any security threat and is not considered a serious concern. According to the National Security Council (NSC), there was no confirmed information indicating that their visit posed a...
