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MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine government is verifying the circumstances behind the reported arrest of over 100 Filipinos in China, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Thursday night. DFA spokesperson Analyn Ratonel said the agency is in close coordination with the Philippine Embassy in Beijing and consulates general across China to ascertain the exact

KINSHASA, Congo — Congo’s Ebola outbreak has spread to a sixth province after a death was recorded in the previously unaffected Bas-Uele province, the head of Africa’s CDC said Thursday. The man died in Buta, the capital of Bas-Uele, after traveling there from Isiro in Haut-Uele province, said Jean Kaseya, director general of Africa Centres

CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro — Combined damage to agriculture across Oriental Mindoro from tropical cyclones Luis and Maymay and the enhanced southwest monsoon has risen to P56 million (P56,003,224.24) as of Thursday (August 13), the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) said.  PDRRMO Head Vinscent Gahol said the heaviest losses were recorded in

CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro — Classes in all levels in the Oriental Mindoro town of Mamburao have bern suspended on Friday ( Aug. 14), due to the continuing threat of floods brought by persistent rains. Mamburao Mayor Glicerio Almero III said he observed flooding along routes commonly used by students, as well as in some

MANILA, Philippines — The House of Representatives should decide on the fate of the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) by September so that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) can make the necessary adjustments and prevent further wastage of government resources. Comelec Chair George Erwin Garcia conveyed this message when he appeared before the House

This is the Daily Gospel of August 14, 2026, which is the Friday of the Nineteenth week in Ordinary Time. READ MORE: Daily Gospel, August 13, 2026 Daily Gospel, August 12, 2026 Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 19, 3-12. Some Pharisees approached Jesus, and tested him, saying, “Is it lawful for a

MANILA – Courtroom proceedings should be guided by respect, decorum, and proper conduct, not by an expectation that opposing lawyers should be kind to one another, House of Representatives prosecutor and Akbayan party-list Rep. Chel Diokno said Thursday. Diokno made the statement after Vice President Sara Duterte’s lawyers appealed for kindness during the Senate impeachment

MANILA, Philippines — A coaccused of former party list Rep. Zaldy Co in a malversation case before the Sandiganbayan’s Sixth Division filed an urgent motion seeking hospital arrest on Thursday. Juliet Calvo, the former maintenance division chief of the Department of Public Works and Highways in Region IV-B, suffered a stroke on Aug. 5, her

MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson has pushed for a Senate investigation into the ongoing rehabilitation of Edsa after new potholes emerged in parts of the major thoroughfare following days of intermittent rains caused by the southwest monsoon and recent tropical cyclones. Lacson filed on Wednesday Senate Resolution No. 594 directing the committee on

MANILA, Philippines — The prosecution panel in Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial on Thursday urged the Senate impeachment court to scrutinize her public statements questioning the integrity of the proceedings, saying her claim that the law was being “bent” could itself fall under the sub judice rule. Prosecution spokesperson and Kabataan Rep. Renee Co