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.

Suzie Hardy told Variety that Seacrest sexually harassed her for six years, starting in 2007, when she became his stylist at E! News.

National Food Authority (NFA) Administrator Jason Aquino faced grilling from senators led by Cynthia Villar over his announcement - blamed for confusing and unduly alarming people - that the NFA buffer stock was fast dwindling even while data showed rice distribution very high.

MANILA - In a meeting Tuesday, the Consultative Committee designated to review the 1987 Constitution decided to adopt a presidential form of federal government,...

Megaworld Corp. is investing an additional PHP54 billion in the 31-hectare Westside City township at the Entertainment City in Paranaque City over the next 10 years, as it supports the country’s growing tourism industry. It initially allocated PHP10 billion for the township in 2015, mostly for residential and hotel projects.