Senator Leila de Lima accused the Supreme Court majority that junked her bid to recall her arrest and dismiss the drug charges against her of playing “blind” to what she called her “political persecution.”

The head of the Philippines’ Drug Enforcement Agency warned on Friday of a reduced intensity in the country’s war on drugs after a removal of police from the campaign, which he hoped would only be temporary as his unit lacked manpower.

The women of pop music failed to land nominations in categories such as Artist of the Year, Video of the Year and Tour of the Year.

Firefighters gained ground on Thursday against wildfires that have killed at least 31 people in Northern California and left hundreds missing in the chaos of mass evacuations in the heart of the state’s wine country.

Deutsche Telekom tested Europe’s first ultra high speed 5G antennas in a real world setting, a milestone in the race to provide the fast response times needed for virtual reality and autonomous driving.

German luxury automaker BMW is looking to form a joint venture with Great Wall Motor in China, which could focus on electric vehicles.

Former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has been accused by the camp of Vice President Leni Robredo of trying to circumvent the rules to rig the election protest he filed.

Cambodia on Thursday deported 74 Chinese nationals wanted in China on suspicion of extorting money from people there over the internet and by telephone, Cambodian police said.

A small earthquake rattled the area near North Korea’s nuclear testing field but it did not appear to be manmade, South Korea’s weather agency said on Friday, the latest to be observed after the North conducted its sixth and biggest nuclear test in early September.

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A kidnapped U.S.-Canadian couple and their three children born in captivity have been freed in Pakistan, nearly five years after the couple was abducted in neighboring Afghanistan, Pakistani and U.S. officials said on Thursday.

(UPDATE 2 - 2:10 p.m.) After cutting across extreme northern Luzon, tropical storm “Odette” passed over the coast of Ilocos Sur province on its way out to sea past noon Friday October 13.

The investigation follows allegations by numerous women that Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted them over the past three decades.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday he hoped a shift to target big networks in his war on drugs would satisfy “bleeding hearts” and interfering Western states fixated on the high death toll in his brutal crackdown.

The United States announced on Thursday it was withdrawing from UNESCO, the UN’s cultural and educational agency, complaining about how it is run and about what Washington described as bias against Israel.