The Manila Department of Social Welfare (MDSW) said the 55 minors involved in the Sept. 21 riots across Manila have started their community service together with their parents on Friday, Oct. 17. Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso said the community service program aims to correct their...
A 35-year-old man was confirmed to have died after being hit by a stray bullet during the Sept. 21 riot in Recto, Manila, the Police District (MPD) confirmed on Monday, Sept. 29. MPD spokesperson Maj. Philipp Ines identified the fatality as Eric Saber, a construction worker from Tondo, Manila....
The Manila Police District (MPD) denied claims of maltreatment or torture of the individuals arrested during the Sept. 21 anti-corruption rallies, MPD Director Brig. Gen. Arnold Abad stressed. Abad assured that the individuals placed under police custody during the demonstration and riot,...
DEADLY PRISON BRAWL - Relatives of inmates of the Women's Center for Social Adaptation (CEFAS) prison gather outside the detention center after a fire following a brawl between inmates in Tamara, some 25 kilometers from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on June 20, 2023. Clashes between rival...
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia has deployed security forces to a town in the breakaway eastern region of Papua after 10 people were killed during a riot sparked by rumours of a child abduction, officials said Friday. Angry locals in Wamena town attacked police with stones and arrows Thursday,...
BRASILIA, Brazil -- A former minister under defeated Brazilian ex-president Jair Bolsonaro was arrested early Saturday, local media reported, in connection with last week's sacking of government buildings. Anderson Torres, Bolsonaro's last justice minister, was arrested when he arrived in the...
BRASILIA, Brazil -- Brazilian far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro will be included in an investigation into the origins of the January 8 sacking of government buildings in Brasilia, a Supreme Court judge announced Friday. In this file photo taken on October 28, 2022, Brazilian President and...
BRASILIA, Brazil -- Brazil intensified a mop-up operation Thursday after the shock weekend ransacking of government buildings in the capital, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the rioters likely had inside help. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a breakfast with...
Filipino-American Kene Brian Lazo, who brought a "walis tambo" or broom as he joined the siege at the US Capitol last Jan. 6, 2021, was given a 45-day jail sentence on Thursday, Aug. 18. Along with the 45-day jail term, the US District Court of Columbia also gave him a $500 restitution. On Jan. 6,...
WASHINGTON, United States -- The House committee probing the assault on the US Capitol laid out a searing, prime-time indictment on Thursday of Donald Trump's refusal to halt or condemn the violence and insisted he should be held accountable for a gross dereliction of presidential duty. A video of...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Donald Trump pressured his vice president to go along with an illegal plot to overturn the 2020 US election and whipped up a mob that put his deputy's life in danger when he refused, congressional investigators and former administration aides said Thursday. An image of...
WASHINGTON, United States -- A congressional panel investigating last year's mob assault on the US Capitol laid out its case Thursday that Donald Trump and his claims of a stolen election were at the heart of what amounted to an "attempted coup" to remain in power. In a prime-time presentation of...
