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(1st UPDATE) Members of Parliament Ibrahim Pendat Ibay and Ishak Veloso Mastura keep their seats in the government of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
Source tells SCMP that city leader John Lee will reveal additional incentives to boost births and encourage school mergers in policy address
Source tells SCMP that city leader John Lee will reveal additional incentives to boost births and encourage school mergers in policy address
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COTABATO CITY — A powerful explosion rocked the Cotabato City Central Pilot Elementary School at 4:14 p.m. on Monday while the historic Bangsamoro parliamentary elections were underway, leaving one man slightly injured, police and a Philippine Red Cross worker said.
Syrians took to the streets for a second day on Monday to demonstrate against a shock government decision to raise fuel prices. Angry crowds started fires and blocked major roads in protest.
Michael Carrick's United have won one of their opening four Premier League matches this season
Russia’s Sunday morning drone strike on a Warsaw-bound train near the Ukraine-Poland border was intended to push Western countries to stop their backing for Kyiv, the EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Monday.
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A lawyer says 14 government employees must launch civil proceedings to recover their shares after a colleague allegedly kept the prize money
A lawyer says 14 government employees must launch civil proceedings to recover their shares after a colleague allegedly kept the prize money
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur — A police officer from the Caraga region who is part of the security force for the 2026 Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) parliamentary elections was wounded in a shooting incident at a school in Cotabato City on Monday morning.
Federal immigration officers confront protesters outside Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, Jan. 15, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Reform UK's Deputy Leader Richard Tice has said the government is trying to "retrospectively change the rules" on political donations, ahead of a debate on Monday in the House of Lords.
Leaders in Pando region denounce opaque deals over carbon credits as government and companies rush to monetise Amazon rainforest after 2024 ruling
Mainstream figures have been enabling anti-Muslim racism, creating the ideal conditions for the rise of hard-right political parties
Some of the everyday struggles animating voters have a climate link lurking in the background
The customary council says an April proclamation purporting to remove Tuanku Muhriz Munawir was invalid from the outset
The customary council says an April proclamation purporting to remove Tuanku Muhriz Munawir was invalid from the outset
In reflecting on then-transport minister Anthony Albanese’s gaffe in quoting a fictional character in a 2012 speech to the National Press Club – US president Andrew Shepherd, played by Michael Douglas in the movie The American President – Philip Cooney of Wentworth Falls wonders, “Which other fictional presidents an…
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The biggest problem with the "short-terming" of the US Treasury stock, which under Bessent's extension of Yellen's Activist Treasury Issuance playbook, which pushed the percentage of T-Bills as a percentage of total debt to 23% - the highest since 2010 excluding the emergency surge during the covid crisis which reli…
The European Commission will propose an EU KIDS Act on Thursday to set a a minimum age for accessing social media throughout the bloc.
MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur – Seventy nine members of electoral boards in Lanao del Sur backed out from their official duties on Monday, just before balloting for the first-ever parliamentary elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) kicked off.
The US Supreme Court is still weighing the administration’s request to overturn a separate order blocking the rule
Labour MPs and unions are pressuring the government to legislate for a stricter cap on political party donations
Long-awaited vote on crypto market structure legislation is set for the Senate on Tuesday, but it remains unclear whether the measure known as the Clarity Act has enough votes to pass as last-minute lobbying by banks and the cryptocurrency industry intensifies.
On 3 September, Houthi forces launched a heavy offensive against Yemen's internationally recognised government in the southern Hodeidah districts of Hays and Al-Khawkha, as well as the western Taiz districts of Jabal Habashi, Maqbana, Mowza’a, and Al-Wazeyaha.
The Department of Child Protection is under fire over its handling of reports of child neglect in Port Hedland. (ABC Pilbara: Mietta Adams)
Jerusalem wants to see a stable federalized Syria in which minorities are protected, rather than a destabilized Damascus that is unable to control its own borders, Prof. Efraim Inbar, president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, told The Jerusalem Post on Monday, a day after Turkish Foreign Minist…
\MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur — The Lanao del Sur Provincial Police Office (PPO) has denied reports of a shooting incident or the eruption of gunfire in Lumbaca-Unayan town during Monday’s parliamentary elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
Project will prepare volunteers across US to monitor polls, encourage early voting and respond to disinformation
Chinese researchers say a slowdown would protect established US incumbents while freezing latecomers out of the market
Chinese researchers say a slowdown would protect established US incumbents while freezing latecomers out of the market
Washington's next fiscal crisis looms right around the corner. Fixing it could be hard.
LONDON — OpenAI’s top European lobbyist is calling for the U.K. to introduce binding rules on AI developers in light of the technology’s rapidly advancing capabilities, and the risks that come with them.
An Israeli minister said on Sunday that he would seek to revoke the citizenship of the filmmakers behind a documentary exposing a “system of killing” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza during Israel’s genocide.
MANILA, Philippines — Gunshots were reported at San Vicente Academy in Cotabato City on Monday afternoon amid the first Bangsamoro parliamentary elections, according to election watchdog Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV).
Transport Minister Catherine King has accepted a lifetime membership to Qantas’ platinum frequent flyer rewards tier less than two years after MPs ceremonially handed over their membership to the airline’s VIP lounge following public backlash.
STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s high-stakes general election is heading for a tight finish in a contest to decide whether a new center-left prime minister takes over or the far right enters government for the first time.
A Turkish court ordered the detention of 16 people pending trial in the western province of Izmir as part of a government campaign that has included sweeping raids on LGBTQ+ associations, a prosecutor's office said on Monday.
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For over a decade, I’ve navigated the complexities of North Korean affairs, security, and foreign policy from both Seoul and Washington, D.C. As the National Desk Political Team Lead, I track the pulse of geopolitics, closely following developments from the Unification Ministry and the Foreign Ministry. My mornings …
The parliament isn’t set to meet until late September to elect a new speaker, and then prime minister
Armed forces affiliated with Yemen’s internationally recognised government have retaken positions from the Houthis and are advancing in the southwestern Taiz province as clashes intensify.
New Indonesian Finance Minister Suahasil Nazara speaks at an event in Jakarta earlier this month (Indonesian Finance Ministry website)
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US officials reportedly raided envoy’s London home and took him to American airbase without warning Met police
Yemen’s Houthis have captured the strategic Greater and Lesser Hanish islands in the southern Red Sea, tightening their grip around the Bab al-Mandeb shipping route, government and Houthi officials told the Associated Press.
