U.S. withholds $65 million in aid to Palestine after Trump threat

The United States on Tuesday said it would withhold about half the initial aid it planned to give a U.N. agency that serves the Palestinians, two weeks after President Donald Trump questioned the value of such funding.

Ex-U.S. Navy officers face negligent homicide charges over ship collisions

The commanding officers of two U.S. Navy destroyers involved in deadly collisions last year in the Pacific Ocean face courts-martial and military criminal charges including negligent homicide, the U.S. Navy said in a statement on Tuesday.

10 dead in Colombian army chopper crash

Ten people were killed when a Colombian army helicopter crashed near the town of Segovia, in northern Antioquia province, on Tuesday, the army said.

Trump is fit for duty, but should hit the gym – White House doctor

U.S. President Donald Trump passed a test for signs of dementia and is in overall excellent health, but needs to shed weight by cutting calories, fats and carbohydrates and starting a daily exercise routine, the White House physician said on Tuesday.

Ex-Trump aide Bannon refuses to answer questions after being subpoenaed in Russia meddling probe

(UPDATE - 12:29 p.m.) President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon declined on Tuesday to comply with a subpoena ordering him to answer questions from a U.S. House intelligence panel about his time at the White House as part of its investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the U.S. election.

Alec Baldwin defends director Woody Allen as Hollywood backs away

Baldwin said on Twitter that the renunciation of the director and his work was 'unfair and sad to me.'

Iranian oil tanker wreck leaves produces 109-sq km oil slicks in East China Sea

An Iranian oil tanker that sank in the East China Sea has left two oil slicks covering a combined 109 square kilometers (42 square miles), the Chinese government said late on Tuesday, as maritime police scour the area for damage.

5,146 foreigners barred from PH last year – BI

The Bureau of Immigration said it had barred 5,146 foreigners from entering the country last year, most because they were seen as likely to become public charges or had doubtful purposes.

Kim Kardashian announces birth of third child, this one by surrogate

'Kanye and I are happy to announce the arrival of our healthy, beautiful baby girl,' Kardashian said in a message on her app.

Pope meets, ‘cries with’ victims of child sexual abuse in Chile

Pope Francis on Tuesday met with a small group of victims of child sexual abuse by priests in Chile, the Vatican said, adding that he “listened, prayed and cried with them.”

After Hawaii, Japan’s NHK issue false missile launch alarm

Japanese public broadcaster NHK issued a false alarm on Tuesday saying North Korea appeared to have launched a missile and urging people to take shelter, but it managed to correct the error within minutes.

Rogue Venezuelan ex-cop, 6 others killed in shootout with security forces

Rogue Venezuelan helicopter pilot Oscar Perez was killed in a police operation on Monday along with six other anti-government militants, the interior minister said on Tuesday, spurring opposition complaints of human rights violations.

Rains all over; Albay suspends classes due to weather

It will be a mostly rainy Wednesday throughout the country due to three weather systems with Albay province, faced with an increasingly restive Mayon Volcano, suspending classes at all levels because of the weather.

Sison: Threatened closure of Rappler, House con-ass resolution part of ‘imposition of fascist dictatorship’

The founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines called the threatened closure of Rappler and the House of Representatives’ adoption of a resolution to constitute Congress into a constituent assembly “part of the chain of events to impose the fascist dictatorship of Duterte on the Filipino people.”
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DOF submits to House 2nd tax reform package seeking to lower corporate income tax

The reduction of corporate income tax and modernization of fiscal incentives to investors were the highlights of the second proposed package of the Comprehensive Tax Reform Program that the Department of Finance submitted to the House of Representatives this week.