1 month ago@jairojourno visits an evacuation site in Agoncillo, Batangas. With TaalVolcano under Alert Level 3, magma pushing up toward the main crater could drive an "explosive eruption," warned state volcanologists on Friday morning, July 2.
1 month agoSmall(ish) phreatic eruption at Taal volcano today Philippines
A police trainee died while being treated at the Leyte Provincial Hospital in Palo, Leyte after he and four other trainees collapsed during a 21-kilometer "graduation run" Wednesday morning in Tacloban City
Deputy Speaker and Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez on Thursday urged President Rodrigo Duterte to recall the appointment of Major General Bartolome Bacarro as the new commander of the military's Southern Luzon Command
Five men who were suspected of stealing a vegetable truck were killed in a shootout with policemen on Marcos Highway in Tuba town, Benguet province, early Wednesday, police said
Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 - 19 km ESE of Socorro, Philippines
MalacaƱang says President Duterte had a phone conversation with Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa last Monday
Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 42 km SW of Colipapa, Philippines
Flag carrier Philippine Airlines to file chapter 11 bankruptcy due to severe losses in this pandemic - PAL Spokesperson, Cielo Villaluna
1 month agoUSA: US Navy photos showing Marines assigned to the 31st Meu conducting a night raid exercise on the flight deck of USS America (LHA 6) in the Philippine Sea
PNP chief Eleazar said the government and the police will not issue guns. On June 25, Duterte said he is "open" in arming civilians to fight criminality.
1 month agoFirefighters sift through the rubble following a second alarm fire that razed a wood storage and truck garage in Barangay Lawang Bato in Valenzuela City on Monday midnight. Fire investigators are still checking on the cause of the fire and the estimated damages
Earthquake of magnitude 5.4 - 8 km NE of Bacolod, Philippines
A fire breaks out at a gas station compound along Visayas Avenue on Saturday, June 26. via Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News
Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 - 44 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines
Duterte says new coalition of force multipliers can make a citizen's arrest; 'If you're qualified, get a gun and help us enforce the laws'
Potential sale of F-16 fighter jets, Sidewinder and Harpoon missiles to the Philippines, in deals with more than $2.5 billion, approved by @StateDept
1 month agoA Philippines army helicopter crashed during a night-flying exercise over the Pampanga province in the northwest of capital Manila, state-run media said
Hong Kong's most vocal pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, printed its last edition on Thursday after a stormy year in which its tycoon owner and other staff were arrested under a new national security law, and its assets were frozen
Senator Imee Marcos called on the Filipino legal community to "resist" any attempt by the International Criminal Court "to take over cases of alleged human rights abuses in the Duterte government's war on drugs
The Philippine Coast Guard began anti-terrorism and anti-piracy exercises in the waters off Zamboanga Peninsula and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao on Monday, June 21
President Rodrigo Duterte called the International Criminal Court "bullshit" and declared he wanted to "slap" its judges a week after the body's chief prosecutor recommended opening a formal investigation into his drug war
Elements of the Manila Police District shot and killed a man and arrested his accomplice on Sunday after reportedly robbing a truck driver in Tondo, Manila, police reported Monday
Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 32 km S of Pondaguitan, Philippines
Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 6 km SSE of Osias, Philippines
1 month agoVarious groups conduct an indignation protest against the killing of three Lumad Manobos in Surigao del Sur. They are denouncing this injustice done by the military. (Courtesy of Christian Gultia) @ABSCBNNews
1 month agoPresident Rodrigo Duterte has worn his war on drugs like a 'badge of honor.' @singhp_p of the @HRW highlights the importance of the @IntlCrimCourt request to open an investigation, and the immediate need to 'puncture a hole in the impunity.'
Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 9 km NNE of Santa Monica, Philippines
At least four people died while several others were wounded when dynamites stored in a house in Balud town in Masbate province exploded on Tuesday afternoon, a police report said
1 month agoPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte will "never cooperate" with an International Criminal Court probe into the country's deadly drug war, his spokesman says
