The president of the League of Municipalities in Negros Oriental has sought the help of the Philippine National Police and the Army over reported sightings of armed men believed to be New People’s Army fighters in four towns in the province’s north.

A Vatican investigator sent to Chile by Pope Francis to interview sex abuse victims met on Friday with Chilean Bishop Juan Barros about accusations that he covered-up sexual abuse of minors committed by a priest.

President Rodrigo Duterte’s “stupid and outrageous” offer of P50,000 bounties for the deaths of New People’s Army commanders “is an old discredited trick of the military, which has not worked at all to damage or destroy the revolutionary movement,” the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines said.

The Trump administration and key Asian allies are preparing to expand interceptions of ships suspected of violating sanctions on North Korea, a plan that could include deploying U.S. Coast Guard forces to stop and search vessels in Asia-Pacific waters, senior U.S. officials said.

Detained union organizer Marklen Maojo Maga was illegally arrested, driven around blindfolded and denied access to his relatives and counsel as he was interrogated for several hours Thursday, a day before police presented him to media as a supposed communist rebel and then subject to inquest, again without a lawyer, the Kilusang Mayo Uno said.

Twin car bombs killed 18 people in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Friday in an attack by the Islamist militant group al Shabaab, but security forces shot dead five assailants, officials said.

'Where do I look into the camera? I am definitely not running for president,' she said on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live.'

The fallout over this week’s shooting rampage at a Florida high school started to take its toll on National Rifle Association’s roster of corporate partners on Friday as a half dozen companies severed marketing ties with the gun advocacy organization.

A former senior official in Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Rick Gates, pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy against the United States and lying to investigators, and he is cooperating with a federal probe into Russia’s role in the election.

The Department of Foreign Affairs said Friday night that one of the principal suspects in the murder of overseas Filipino worker Joanna Demafelis in Kuwait is now in the custody of authorities in Lebanon.



Malacañang summoned U.S. Ambassador Sung Kim on Thursday over the reference to the Philippines in the U.S. intelligence community’s “Worldwide Threat Assessment.”

Public health think tank HealthJustice and anti-tobacco organization Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) have denounced a vapers' group's call for the Department of...

"I felt ill. I felt like there was a ball in my throat. I thought I was going to cry."

Reporters on Friday pressed for details on the brewing feud between Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio and House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, a day after...

There are some 500,000 informal settler families in Metro Manila, many of whom are threatened by eviction and demolition. Many have been relocated outside...