U.S. immigration authorities have arrested and moved to deport 199 Iraqi immigrants, mostly from the Detroit area, in the last three weeks after Iraq agreed to accept deportees as part of a deal removing it from President Donald Trump's travel ban, officials said on Wednesday.

(UPDATE - 2:14 p.m.) An Australian journalist was wounded in he neck by a wayward bullet as he was covering the evacuation center in the Lanao del Sur Capitol in Marawi City Thursday morning.

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A young relative of the brothers who founded the Maute group battling government forces in Marawi was captured by authorities in Cagayan de Oro City Thursday morning.

A Korean has gone missing as he hiked from Mountain Province to neighboring Ifugato, the Police Regional Office-Cordillera said.

Roaming charges for using mobile phones when traveling within the European Union disappear on Thursday, capping a decade-long battle by Brussels to show increasingly skeptical Europeans it can make their lives better.

This year's edition of Region 8's longest running annual music festival happens June 15, 7PM at RTR Plaza in Tacloban.

The Department of Justice has filed rebellion charges against 11 persons, including a former mayor of Marawi City and the mother of the Maute brothers for their alleged involvement in the violence that has gripped the Lanao del Sur capital for more than three weeks now.

The singer-actor stars in Globe Live and 9Works Theatrical’s forthcoming production of the musical, 'Newsies.'

Gunmen were holding at least 20 people hostage in a restaurant in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Thursday, police said, after a suicide bomber rammed a car next door and militants stormed inside in an attack claimed by al Shabaab militants.

His remarks on how 'Moby Dick' influenced him bear a close similarity to the SparkNotes summaries of the classic novel.

The court reporter read back portions of Andrea Constand's testimony describing how Cosby sexually assaulted her.

(UPDATE 2 - 2:44 p.m.) Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II asked Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano Thursday to cancel the passport of retired policeman Arturo Lascañas, the self-confessed member of the so-called Davao Death Squad.

The 24-year-old has been charged with using social media to solicit explicit videos from two young female fans.

“There is some sort of resurgence of (the) drug trade” in the New Bilibid Prisons in Muntinlupa, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II has admitted.