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CEBU CITY, Philippines — Former Mayor Michael “Mike” Rama has won the dismissal of all graft charges against him after the Sandiganbayan extended its earlier ruling clearing his five co-accused and rejected the prosecution’s attempt to revive the cases arising from the city’s emergency garbage contracts after Typhoon Odette. In a resolution promulgated on July

LUCENA CITY — Taal Volcano in Batangas produced a minor phreatomagmatic eruption on Thursday morning, July 16, marking the second such event recorded this month, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported. This type of eruption is triggered when water interacts with magma.  In its morning bulletin, Phivolcs said the eruption occurred at

TACLOBAN CITY – A 14-year-old Grade 9 student is being investigated after school personnel allegedly recovered a sachet containing suspected “shabu” (crystal meth) inside the campus of Javier National High School in Javier, Leyte, prompting police and social welfare authorities to intervene. The student, identified only by the alias “CMC” to protect his identity as

MANILA, Philippines —The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Thursday evening demanded that China Daily remove a video depicting Filipinos as monkeys, calling the content racist, dehumanizing and unacceptable. “The Philippines demands that the offensive material be taken down, calls for the immediate cessation of such irresponsible content, and urges China to uphold dignity, respect,

MANILA, Philippines — Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. on Thursday condemned a social media video posted by Chinese state-run media China Daily depicting Filipinos as monkeys, calling it racist propaganda that reflects how Beijing views the Filipino people. The video, which circulated on Facebook, mocked the 2016 arbitral award in the South China Sea. It

TEHRAN, Iran — The United States struck Iran and Tehran attacked US allies in the Gulf on Thursday as the foes battled over the vital Strait of Hormuz in the renewed Middle East war. The rekindled fighting came a month after the signing of a preliminary deal that aimed to end the conflict, which broke

It has been a decade since the five-member United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Arbitral Tribunal released on July 12, 2016 its decision in favor of the Philippines on most of its submissions on the West Philippine Sea (WPS) issue. UNCLOS, adopted in 1982 and in force since 1994, is the

MANILA, Philippines — The state weahter bureau said on Thursday that the low pressure area (LPA) monitored outside the Philippine area of responsibility would not directly affect the country in the next two to three days. On Thursday’s 5 p.m. weather forecast of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, weather specialist Loriedin de

MANILA, Philippines — Generally fair weather with localized rain showers are expected to prevail over major parts of the country from Friday until this weekend, the state weather bureau said. Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) weather specialist Obet Badrina said during the 5 a.m. weather advisory on Friday, July 17, that fair

MIAMI, United States — France and England will bid a gloomy farewell to the World Cup on Saturday when they face each other in the dreaded third-place play-off in Miami. Both teams head to Florida still raw from semi-final defeats that have left both footballing nations licking wounds, which, in the eyes of many, were