SAGIP Partylist Representative Rodante Marcoleta has demanded an apology from Sanofi Pasteur, not for injecting Filipino children with its dengue vaccine, but for issuing a "reckless" and "tactless" advisory that has caused alarm.

They may have been outnumbered but lawmakers who voted "no" to President Duterte's request to extend martial law in Mindanao for a year - for the entire 2018 - and suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus delivered a clear warning on the constitutional perils of taking that road.

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Dr. Scott Halstead, a leading figure in dengue research, first proposed that antibodies from an initial exposure to one of four types of the disease could increase the risk of a potentially lethal complication called severe dengue when a person was infected a second time, a process know as antibody-dependent enhancement or ADE. This phenomenon could make development of a dengue vaccine tricky.

Iligan City Representative Frederick Siao, whose district has become the temporary home of displaced Marawi City residents, voted to extend martial law in Mindanao for one year, saying the recovery and rehabilitation of Marawi would not be possible if people's safety is not assured.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday filed 295 counts of inciting to rebellion charges before the Taguig City Regional Trial Court against alleged Islamic State recruiter Karen Hamidon.

Congress voted to approve on Wednesday, December 13, President Rodrigo Duterte’s request to extend martial law and the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in Mindanao for another year, from January 1 to December 31, 2018.

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Philippine National Police chief Ronald dela Rosa will be appointed to head the Bureau of Corrections after his mandatory retirement on turning 56 on January 21 next year.

Human rights lawyers said extending martial law in Mindanao for another year “seems to be part of a grand design or intent to eventually place the entire country under virtual military rule and completely transform the nation into a police state.”

Democrat Doug Jones won a bitter fight for a U.S. Senate seat in deeply conservative Alabama on Tuesday, U.S. media projected, dealing a political blow to President Donald Trump in a race marked by accusations of sexual misconduct against Republican candidate Roy Moore.

A Palace executive called martial law a “flexible concept” that essentially warns people not to get in the way of government efforts to enforce public safety.

Taiwan will fail in its efforts to get foreign support for its cause, the Chinese government said on Wednesday after a senior Chinese diplomat threaten Taiwan would be attacked the instant any U.S. warship visits the self-ruled island.

Is the inclusion of the New People’s Army as a “factual basis” for President Rodrigo Duterte’s seeking the yearlong extension of martial law in Mindanao the prelude to extending its coverage to the whole country?

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offered on Tuesday to begin direct talks with North Korea without preconditions, backing away from a key U.S. demand that Pyongyang must first accept that any negotiations would have to be about giving up its nuclear arsenal.