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THE two Congresses under the Duterte administration may have decided not to probe the excesses of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs for fear of being labeled “protectors,” a neophyte administration lawmaker said yesterday.
GOVERNMENT troops recovered nine high-powered firearms from a group of armed men in Sultan sa Barongis town in Maguindanao del Sur last Sunday, the military reported.
GOVERNMENT is set to provide some P150,000 worth of cash assistance to Filipinos who would be repatriated from Lebanon amid fighting there, Migrant Workers Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac yesterday.
A MAGNITUDE 5.7 earthquake rocked Northern Samar yesterday morning, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).
WITH just over a month before the end of the voter registration period for the May 2025 national and local polls, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday said there is now an equal number of applicants and deactivated voters.
THE Supreme Court (SC) has found lawyer Nilo Divina guilty of simple misconduct under the Code of Professional Responsibility and Accountability (CPRA) for committing impropriety when he sponsored the trips to Balesin island resort in 2022 and to Bali, Indonesia in 2023 of officers of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP)-Central Luzon chapter and providing them cash and gift checks worth “several hundreds of thousands of pesos.”
The Armed Forces yesterday said the P50 billion allocation it would get next year for the military’s modernization program is a “positive step” towards enhancing the country’s defense capabilities.
RETIRED security guard Dioscoro Maputi worked 365 days a year for two years from June 2009 to June 2011 for the J.H. Cerilles State College (JHCSC) (formerly Western Mindanao State University).