Mountain Province Representative Maximo Dalog Sr. died early Saturday morning in a Metro Manila hospital. He was 70.

Mexico said on Friday that it will push for the Organization of American States at an upcoming meeting to call for an end to violence in Venezuela and for a peaceful resolution to a recent wave of protests that has left over 60 people dead.

apl.de.ap, Joanna Ampil, Tanya Manalang, Mark Bautista and Lani Misalucha also aired their sympathies.

Although security officials have written off terrorism for Friday’s deadly rampage at the Resorts World Hotel, Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez on Saturday dubbed the incident a “lone wolf” attack and called on authorities to “get their act together.”

(UPDATE - 10 a.m.) The United States is encouraged by China's efforts to restrain North Korea but Washington will not accept Beijing's militarization of islands in the South China Sea, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Saturday.

Senator Leila de Lima said Saturday her detention for what she maintains are “trumped-up” drug charges “has not dampened her spirit.”

Nipping at her heels in the poll are Angel Locsin, Rhian Ramos, Jennylyn Mercado, and Kim Domingo.

Protesters demanding the resignation of the Afghan government after this week's devastating truck bomb clashed with riot police in Kabul on Friday in a confrontation that resulted in at least four deaths.

'A sitting president of the United States and his [family[] are personally, I feel, trying to ruin my life - forever.'

The U.N. Security Council on Friday expanded targeted sanctions against North Korea after its repeated missile tests, adopting the first such resolution agreed by the United States and Pyongyang's only major ally China since President Donald Trump took office.

Enjoy the last weekend of summer with the metro's list of shopping fairs, food bazaars, and concerts.

The National Bureau of Investigation recaptured a Korean-American drug suspect who escaped from police custody in April.

Two children carrying explosives blew themselves up on Friday near a camp in northern Cameroon housing civilians displaced by Nigeria's Boko Haram militants, killing nine people and wounding 30, officials said.

(UPDATE - 2:09 p.m.) The government is facing not a “large scale” challenge by any armed group but “pockets of rebellion everywhere,” President Rodrigo Duterte said Friday even as he thumbed down an offer by communist rebels to help fight extremists.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has begun returning to Congress copies of a voluminous 2014 report describing the CIA's harsh detention and interrogation programs, officials said on Friday.