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KABUNTALAN, MAGUINDANAO DEL NORTE — Senior citizens were among the early voters who showed up at polling centers in Maguindanao del Norte on Monday, Sept. 14, as the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) held its first parliamentary elections. At Gayonga Central Elementary School in Northern Kabuntalan, Maguindanao del Norte, elderly voters began arriving

NEW YORK, United States — Alexander Zverev beat Ben Shelton 6-3, 7-6 (7/2), 5-7, 6-2 to win the US Open on Sunday, expunging the memory of a bitter Flushing Meadows defeat with his second Grand Slam title. The top-seeded German, who was within two points of the US Open crown in 2020 but fell in

MANILA, Philippines – Prosecutors are set to present bank, corporate, tax and property records as the Senate impeachment court resumes proceedings on Monday, seeking to determine whether Vice President Sara Z. Duterte’s declared wealth matches her actual financial transactions and business interests. The prosecution’s evidence for Article II of the impeachment complaint, which accuses Duterte of

MANILA, Philippines — The Senate impeachment court on Monday is set to open the presentation of exhibits for impeachment article II, or Vice President Sara Duterte’s alleged betrayal of public trust for amassing unexplained wealth disproportionate to her lawful income. Under article II, the House prosecution asserted that not only does Duterte have unexplained wealth,

MANILA, Philippines – The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) will focus on providing infrastructure and basic services to communities emerging from decades of armed conflict. NTF-Elcac Executive Director Danilo Pamonag said in a news release over the weekend that he would work with national government agencies, local government units, civil

COTABATO CITY, BARMM, Philippines — All eyes will be on the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) on Monday, as 2.39 million voters head to 1,186 voting centers to elect the region’s first regular parliament—a landmark vote meant to turn a hard-won peace agreement into democratic self-rule. The Sept. 14 elections will complete the

MARAWI CITY, LANAO DEL SUR, Philippines — Some 727,634 voters in Lanao del Sur are eligible to cast ballots across 1,764 clustered precincts as the province—the vote-richest territory in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM)—takes center stage at the polls mainly for the elaborate security cover provided by the military and police. Accounting

COTABATO CITY, BARMM, Philippines — Three people were killed, and at least 15 others were wounded in a shooting incident near a polling center in Barangay Bagua 2, Cotabato City, hours before the start of the historic Bangsamoro parliamentary elections on Monday, police said. Capt. Steffi Salanguit, spokesperson for the Police Regional Office Bangsamoro Autonomous

NANTERRE, France — She hit the high F, held it, then blew out a breath and turned to look back at the band — a quick, disbelieving glance toward her musical director. Some 30,000 people read it before they had finished screaming: Celine Dion did it. It was “All By Myself,” the song the Quebec

MARAWI CITY, Philippines — A bid by the communist New People’s Army (NPA) rebels to rebuild their collapsed strongholds in the Caraga region “crumbled” Saturday after Army troops killed an alleged high-ranking communist secretary and three operatives during daylong clashes in Agusan del Sur. Soldiers from the Army’s 4th Infantry Division (4ID) thwarted the expansion