President Bongbong Marcos tells newly promoted generals of the Armed Forces of the Philippines that they should be able to defend the archipelago.
With out additional particulars, Marcos’ comment got here in gentle of incidents by which Chinese language vessels hit Philippine boats within the Ayungin Shoal.
The Sandiganbayan finds pork barrel rip-off mastermind Janet Lim Napoles responsible of graft, this time for one more case involving a former Ilocos Sur lawmaker, who was acquitted by the identical court docket.
This time, the decision pertains to a different case involving a former Ilocos Sur lawmaker whom the anti-graft court docket acquitted.
Israeli ambassador to the Philippines Ilan Fluss says the 2 lacking Filipinos in war-torn Israel have been “doubtless kidnapped.”
“It’s doubtless that two OFWs have been kidnapped. However I’m saying this: it’s doubtless,” Fluss stated in a web-based interview.
The Philippine Nationwide Police says it would go on full alert degree standing beginning Saturday, Oct. 28 for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections on October 30.
In keeping with PNP Chief Basic Benjamin Acorda Jr. on Friday, elevating the standing to full alert implies that 100% of the police pressure will probably be doing their assigned roles in securing a protected surroundings in the course of the electoral course of.
An pressing police manhunt entered its second day late Thursday for a person accused of gunning down 18 folks at a bowling alley and a bar within the US state of Maine.
Dozens of regulation enforcement brokers surrounded the household dwelling of 40-year-old suspect Robert Card, however by mid-evening brokers left the property in Bowdoin, close to Lewiston, to hunt for him elsewhere.