The military and police have been arbitrarily picking up evacuees from Marawi City and, in some cases, allegedly torturing them in efforts to weed out extremist gunmen who have been battling government forces for more than two months now, a human rights group said Tuesday.

HBO declined to comment on reports that unbroadcast episodes and scripts were among the data hacked.

The chairman of the House of Representatives’ committee on dangerous drugs castigated officials of the Bureau of Customs for the “glaring ineptitude” that allowed P6.4 billion worth of crystal meth or “shabu” to slip into the country.

Government economic managers briefed the House of Representatives on the proposed P3.767-trillion 2018 national budget to seek support for appropriations Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno intended for the “efficient and effective” delivery of “inclusive and lasting” services.

She hinted that she could be cooking up a horror film just like three of her four titles that are already in the iflix library.

(UPDATE - 1:27 p.m.) Thailand's former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra delivered a tearful closing statement to a Bangkok court on Tuesday, saying she did not act dishonestly in a multi-billion dollar rice subsidy scheme and that she was being politically persecuted.

Local government officials and workers no longer need to present an authority to travel to immigration officers when going abroad.

A defiant Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro mocked the sanctions Washington slapped on him Monday after Sunday's election of a new legislative superbody that prompted the White House to call him a dictator for "seizing absolute power."

Replacing incumbent elected barangay officials with appointed officers-in-charge, as Congress plans to do, will violate the Constitution and existing laws, Albay Representative Edcel Lagman said.

Anthony Scaramucci is having a bad week. He was fired as President Donald Trump's communications director -- and listed as dead in Harvard Law School's alumni directory.

U.S. President Donald Trump dictated a statement, later shown to be misleading, in which his son Donald Trump Jr. said a meeting he had with a Russian lawyer in June 2016 was not related to his father's presidential campaign, the Washington Post reported on Monday.

The thousands of lives lost in the government’s war on drugs and President Rodigo Duterte’s repeated vows to shield police from accountability justify the doubts about the Sunday raids that left Ozamiz Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog and 15 others dead, a human rights watchdog said.

'I am upset that a pretend exercise... from an actual scene in the film, has been written about as if it was a real scenario.'

North Korea's latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile has shown that Pyongyang now may be able to reach most of the continental United States, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday.

A lawyer maintained that it was “very suspicious” for police to have disabled the closed circuit television system at the home of Ozamiz City Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog, who was killed, along with 15 others, in what authorities insist were shootouts during simultaneous raids early Sunday morning.