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MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections will set a shorter window for the withdrawal and substitution of candidates in the 2025 elections, spotlighting the apparent abuse of the practice in recent years by parties that intentionally field placeholder candidates to make strategic last-minute substitutions.
JERUSALEM, undefined — Women and children make up at least 56% of the thousands killed in the Gaza war, the UN said Tuesday, amid controversy over the toll based on numbers from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.
MANILA, Philippines — After 13 years, two bus drivers involved in the accident that killed journalist and professor Lourdes “Chit” Estella-Simbulan were convicted by a Quezon City court.
COTABATO CITY — A man stabbed his 11-year-old son to death and wounded her adolescent daughter in a rampage in their home, located in the seaside Barangay Magsaysay in Parang, Maguindanao del Norte, at around Sunday midnight.
JERUSALEM, undefined — Israel's prime minister said on a podcast that almost half of those killed in the Gaza war are Hamas fighters, playing down a civilian toll that has sparked global outrage.
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) reported on Monday that no Filipino was injured during the severe flooding and mudslides in western Indonesia over the weekend.
MANILA, Philippines — A Quezon City court has sentenced two bus drivers to two years in prison over a road crash that claimed the life of veteran journalist Chit Estella in 2011 — a decision that ends over a decade of waiting for justice for her family and colleagues.
EXCLUSIVE: Production has wrapped in Singapore and the United States on Charlotte Hong’s debut feature Tropical Rain, Death Scented Kiss.