Iraqi authorities are holding 1,400 foreign wives and children of suspected Islamic State fighters in a camp after government forces expelled the jihadist group from one of its last remaining strongholds in Iraq, security and aid officials said.

Consumer complaints on the "vanishing prepaid cellphone load" and related issues have prompted Sen. Grace Poe to conduct a Senate inquiry.

Saying all he needed to unleash the full force of the State's uniformed forces was an "overt act to destroy government," President Rodrigo Duterte floated at the weekend the possibility of declaring martial law nationwide, citing this time supposed stepped-up campaigns by communist rebels.

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In a room packed with Malaysian civil servants, foreign ministry secretary general Ramlan Ibrahim raised his right hand as he read out an anti-corruption pledge.

Tomas Bagcal, the taxi driver whom teenager Carl Arnaiz allegedly robbed before he was killed by Caloocan police at dawn of Aug. 18, surfaced Sunday afternoon and said he turned over a suspect, whom he identified as Carl - "buhay [alive]" - to a police station in Caloocan.

Following the custody row over the family of a witness in the Kian delos Santos killing by Caloocan cops, questions remain over who posted bail for the detained father of a witness to get him to try and wrest custody of his children from a local church, and why the father was in CIDG custody when he was already out on bail.

Hurricane Irma was set to make landfall in Florida on Sunday with devastating winds and life-threatening storm surges, prompting one of the largest evacuations in US history, after a destructive march up Cuba’s northern coast.

The local theater scene continues to come alive with riveting performances from four must-see stage productions this month.

The death toll from the massive earthquake that struck Mexico on Thursday night has risen to at least 90 after emergency services in the southern state of Oaxaca said late on Saturday there had been 71 confirmed fatalities in the state alone.

"Categorically" declaring he does not own "even a single offshore account," Sen.Antonio Trillanes IV said Sunday he will issue a waiver of bank secrecy to allow the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) to check the supposed accounts spread in at least three countries that President Rodrigo Duterte claims he owns.

The Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) will provide a P1.5-billion finance facility for the initial implementation of the Department of Transportation’s (DOTr) Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP).

As a flood of unregulated cash swirls through the Chinese economy, Beijing has been taking aim at the trust companies whose unrestrained lending practices are worrying regulators. The trusts, at the heart of a vast shadow banking industry, are being pressured to step up compliance and background checks, and are being pushed towards greater transparency.

Filipinos grew less optimistic in the third quarter amid increasing concern on the unresolved conflict in Marawi City, alongside expectations of higher expenses, low incomes, and strong rains, the results of a recent central bank survey showed.