Whole villages were flattened and water sources spoiled by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 20 people, residents said on Wednesday as rescuers struggled to reach the hardest-hit areas in Papua New Guinea’s remote, mountainous highlands.

The Philippine National Police has dismissed 398 personnel from the service for various offenses ranging from absence without leave to drugs to murder.

Communist rebels claimed to have successfully mounted two offensives in as many days in Quezon province’s Bondoc Peninsula and said they were investigating and verifying reports that civilians had been wounded in one of the attacks.

Ford Motor Co is taking a different approach from rival General Motors Co in deploying self-driving vehicles, focusing initially on partnering with and operating vehicles for a variety of companies, from Domino’s Pizza to Lyft.

A Russian call for a five-hour truce on Tuesday failed to halt one of the most devastating campaigns of the Syrian war, where residents said government warplanes resumed striking the eastern Ghouta region after a brief lull.

South Korea summoned the Chinese ambassador on Tuesday to lodge a complaint over a Chinese military aircraft entering the South’s air defense territory, the second such incident this year, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

(UPDATE - 1:48 p.m.) Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno “will do the country a favor by resigning,” the chairman of the House of Representatives’ justice committee, which heard the impeachment complaint against her, said Wednesday, February 28.

U.S. intelligence had evidence that voter registration systems or websites in seven states -- Alaska, Arizona, California, Illinois, Texas, Florida and Wisconsin -- were compromised by Russian-backed operatives before the 2016 election but never told the states, NBC News reported on Tuesday.

Fire struck a community on Agno Street, Tatalon, Quezon City early Wednesday morning, February 28, razing 100 houses and displacing around 300 families.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser, Jared Kushner, has lost access to the most valued U.S. intelligence report, the President’s Daily Brief, as the White House imposes greater discipline on access to secrets, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

Republican leaders of the U.S. Congress said on Tuesday that they would not raise the minimum age for gun buyers, in a sign that one of President Donald Trump’s proposals likely will not get far on Capitol Hill after a deadly Florida school shooting.

Human rights lawyers are worried reports of “widening cracks” in the Supreme Court could further erode “the residual faith of the people in already unresponsive institutions whose roles are being wilted away, willingly or unwillingly, to de facto authoritarianism.”

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his late father Kim Jong Il used fraudulently obtained Brazilian passports to apply for visas to visit Western countries in the 1990s, five senior Western European security sources told Reuters.

The study’s findings have been underscored by the success of 'Black Panther' and Oscar best picture contender 'Get Out.'

The House of Representatives’ justice committee, which is hearing the impeachment complaint against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, held an almost four-hour executive session Tuesday night to scrutinize the magistrate’s psychological test, which she reportedly failed.