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MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled that a husband and wife's mutual desire to end their marriage did not, by itself, constitute collusion in petitions for declaration of nullity or annulment.
MANILA, Philippines — The International Criminal Court (ICC) has partially granted prosecutors access to materials seized from former president Rodrig Duterte upon his arrest but denied a request to examine all keys found among his belongings, according to a decision released on July 3, 2026.
Tehran: Iran has begun a series of elaborate events to mourn and bury its late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with banners across the capital, Tehran, urging people to rise up in support of the Islamic Republic after the devastating war that killed the 86-year-old cleric.
COTABATO CITY — The Second Division of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has canceled the certificate of candidacy (COC) of an aspirant under the United Bangsamoro Justice Party (UBJP), the political party of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), for the first Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao …
A 21-year-old US citizen studying at a Haredi yeshiva in Jerusalem has been charged with spying for Iran after allegedly carrying out a series of intelligence-gathering tasks in exchange for cryptocurrency payments, Israeli media reported.
Indictments were filed in the Haifa Magistrate's Court against two main suspects, a man and a woman, accused of running a human trafficking network in Haifa and Kiryat Shmona on Friday.
Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is cancelling his scheduled trip to New York next week for Chiefs of Police Summit, Haaretz reported, citing sources in the ministry.
A week-long state funeral for the Islamic Republic’s late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has begun in Iran, more than four months after he was killed in US-Israeli airstrikes. The ceremonies mark the end of nearly four decades of Khamenei’s leadership. Millions of mourners are expected to attend, and it cou…
The Egypt national team said a Dallas police officer pushed their director, Ibrahim Hassan, and player Trezeguet on Friday, as the two were attempting to take a photo with a World Cup fan.
Mexican authorities said on Friday that remains found at a site in the eastern state of Veracruz belonged to journalist Roxana Guzman, whose killing has again shone a harsh light on press freedom in Mexico, one of the world's deadliest countries for journalists.
Malacañang on Friday (Saturday in Manila) says that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. would not interfere in the plunder charges filed against Sen. Rodante Marcoleta by the Office of the Ombudsman, saying the executive branch respects the principle of separation of powers. Palace Press Officer Claire Castro said that g…
At first glance, the Trump administration’s deployment of more than 200 F.B.I. analysts to Georgia this week seems to be another stubborn assault on a fact that has refused to budge: Despite the president’s baseless claims, no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election has ever surfaced there.But critics contend that it…
With riot police posted and barricades springing up, the venue for Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei's funeral resembled a fortified camp Friday evening, but that did not deter crowds from gathering for a nearly 10-hour wait before it opened.
Panels that were part of an exhibit on slavery at the President’s House Site in Independence National Historical Park are reinstalled, Feb. 19, 2026, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Joe Lamberti, File)
Federal prosecutors are recommending a relatively light prison sentence for a man who pleaded guilty to securities fraud in the notorious $100 million New Jersey deli stock manipulation case — and some of their reasons for doing so are hidden.
View image in fullscreenKyiv, UkraineA woman holding a child cries next to a residential building damaged after a Russian air attack on Kyiv. At least 27 people were killed and dozens injured in what the city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, called the worst Russian attack on the capital during more than four years of air…
MANILA, Philippines —The Philippine National Police (PNP) urges parents to immediately call 911 or seek assistance to the nearest police station if they notice unusual changes in their children's behavior, saying early reporting could help prevent minors from being recruited or influenced by extremist groups.
LONDON (AP) — Two Romanian men were sentenced Friday to eight and 12 years in prison over the stabbing of a journalist from a Persian-language television station, an attack the judge said was carried out on behalf of the Iranian state.
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Friday said it will course the arrest of Sen. Rodante Marcoleta with the Senate leadership once the warrant for his arrest gets released.
A Turkish court jailed comedian Deniz Goktas pending trial on Friday for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and religious values, a court document seen by Reuters showed, days after prosecutors opened an investigation into remarks he made on stage.
Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James stands on the court in the closing minutes of Game 4 in a second-round NBA basketball playoffs series against the Oklahoma City Thunder, May 11, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
THE normal daily routine of Metro Manila was disrupted and forced to follow the rhythm of the Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) rally starting the morning of June 30, when thousands of INC members massed near the EDSA People Power Monument to protest the impending plunder and indirect bribery case against Sen. Rodante Marcole…
TEN years after its promulgation, the 2016 ruling of the arbitral tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) at The Hague on the China-Philippines conflict over the South China Sea draws focus of interest invariably on the legal angle. This matter is amply taken care of by the book “The South China Sea Arb…
The body of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lay in state in a vast hall in Tehran on Friday as clerics, officials, foreign dignitaries and other mourners paid their respects to Iran's late Supreme Leader, killed by US and Israeli bombs.
THE three-day Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) rally from June 30 to July 2, 2026, was certainly not a crowd-control story nor an EDSA traffic story, and certainly not merely a religious group defending one of its own. It was a political thunderclap. It was a public warning that many Filipinos now see the Marcos Jr. administ…
IS selective justice an injustice? Yes, and maybe no. Yes, it is an injustice to the general public. But maybe not to those who are out to take revenge.