Ten men who managed to escape from the Maute group Monday, just before what they expected to be their impending execution, said they saw child fighters among their captors.

Fifteen of the now 23-member Senate have signed a resolution finding “the issuance of Proclamation No. 216,” though which President Rodrigo Duterte placed the whole of Mindanao under martial law, “satisfactory, constitutional and in accordance with the law.”

Vice President Leni Robredo called on President Rodrigo Duterte to take back his threat to ignore the Supreme Court and Congress on his declaration of martial law over Mindanao, saying “we should all be bothered” by the statement.

On rumors linking him to Arci Muñoz: 'We spend a lot of time together. You never know.'

The president of Venezuela's opposition-run Congress on Monday accused Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs of "aiding and abetting the country's dictatorial regime" following a report that it had bought $2.8 billion in bonds from the cash-strapped country.

Agents of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group and the Bureau of Immigration arrested two suspected Koreans who had broken out of Camp Bagong Diwa in March, one of them the suspect in the murder of three compatriots.

Michael Bay, 52, was honored for a money-spinning movie career that has netted almost $6 billion.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test of a new ballistic missile controlled by a precision guidance system and ordered the development of more powerful strategic weapons, the North's official KCNA news agency reported on Tuesday.

A military solution will not address the key drivers of armed conflict, radicalization and violent extremism in the country.

Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Monday he expects clearing operations in Marawi City to be completed by June 1.

The United States has notified the other 163 members of the World Trade Organization that it is considering putting emergency "safeguard" tariffs on imported solar cells, according to a WTO filing published on Monday.

Muslim clerics on Monday appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to stop the air strikes in Marawi City and spare the lives of civilians and infrastructure.

The cancellation of the fifth round of formal talks between communist rebels and the government does not mean the scuttling of peace negotiations altogether, thus all bilateral agreements, including the Joint Agreement on Security and Immunity Guarantees, remain binding, the National Democratic Front of the Philippines said.

North Korea fired at least one short-range ballistic missile on Monday that landed in the sea off its east coast, the latest in a fast-paced series of missile tests defying world pressure and threats of more sanctions.

MARAWI CITY - Some 10 hostages here who have been lined up by their abductors from the Maute Group for execution managed to slip...