A candidate for the 2019 local elections in Maguindanao and her grandson were killed after an unidentified armed man fired shots at them at a public market in Kabacan, Cotabato on Sunday afternoon.

The Sandiganbayan has denied the motion of dismissed Valladolid, Negros Occidental vice mayor Tomel Yogore to contest the evidence of his graft charge.

Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary John Castriciones on Monday clarified that the country’s security personnel have no involvement on the killing of nine sugarcane farmers in Sagay, Negros Occidental, over the weekend.

Sugatan ang isang lalaki matapos mauwi sa pamamaril ang masaya sanang selebrasyon ng kaniyang kaarawan sa Intramuros, Manila.

United States (US) Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim on Monday said it is understandable that the reconstruction in war-torn Marawi City is taking «a bit longer» considering the extent of the damage.

With All Saints' Day just a week away, the management of Manila North Cemetery issued guidelines for visitors intending to visit their loved ones.

A US-bound caravan of thousands of mostly Honduran migrants who have been condemned as unwelcome by President Donald Trump, began moving into Mexico on Sunday, shadowed by hundreds of Mexican police en route to the border city of Tapachula.

Thirty families were affected when a residential fire broke out in Caloocan City's Dagat-dagatan district early Monday morning, Super Radyo dzBB reported.

The Palace on Sunday condemned the killing of nine members of the Negros Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW) in Sagay City, characterzing the bloodshed as «dastardly» and «extremely cruel.»

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin dismissed concerns that China's weakest economic growth since the global financial crisis could spill into other emerging markets and destabilize US financial markets.

Chile's Court of Appeal has ordered the office of Santiago's Archbishop to pay $450 million pesos ($650,000) to three men who alleged they were sexually abused for decades by Chilean priest Fernando Karadima, a local newspaper said on Sunday.

Customs Deputy Collector Ma. Lourdes Mangaoang's testimony at a Senate inquiry negated her earlier claims that there were methamphetamines or shabu hidden inside magnetic lifters found in Cavite, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) said on Sunday.

As Saudi Arabia faced intensifying international skepticism over its story about the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a senior government official laid out a new version of the death inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul that in key respects contradicts previous explanations.

Moscow on Sunday warned US President Donald Trump that his plan to ditch a Cold War-era nuclear weapons treaty with Russia was a dangerous step.

Israeli forces have arrested the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem for unspecified offenses he allegedly committed in the occupied West Bank, the Palestine Liberation Organization said Sunday.

Malacañang on Sunday stressed that President Rodrigo Duterte is not trying to bribe members of the New People's Army (NPA) when he promised them a house, a job, and education if they surrender.

A Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army terrorist (CNT) died in an encounter with the 65th Infantry Stalwart Battalion (65IB) at Barangay Lacolac in Baungon at 5:20 a.m. on Sunday, the military said.

Natimbog ang hindi bababa sa 16 na drug suspects sa magkakahiwalay na operasyong ikinasa ng mga awtoridad sa mga probinsya ng Rizal, Oriental Mindoro, at Cavite.  

Kuhang-kuha sa dash cam ng isang motorista ang panghahataw sa side mirror ng taxi sa Pasay City ang isang miyembro umano ng Philippine National Police-Highway Patrol Group (PNP-HPG).  

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines is set to file on Monday a proposal which would effectively increase the daily wages by P334.

Authorities have seized nearly P1 million worth of shabu from a drug suspect during a buy-bust operation at a mall in Alabang.  

Bayan Muna chairman and former Representative Neri Colmenares on Sunday held the Duterte administration and the military responsible for the murder of nine farmers in Sagay City, Negros Occidental on Saturday, supposedly over a land dispute.

Elected officials may only be able change political parties on the second year of their three-year term once the House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms' substitute bill seeking to prohibit turncoatism is enacted into law.

Three members of the bandit Abu Sayyaf group were arrested during military operations in Sulu last Thursday.  

Saudi Arabia faced a growing chorus of incredulity on Sunday over its belated explanation of how critic Jamal Khashoggi died inside its Istanbul consulate, as world powers demanded answers and the whereabouts of his body.  

Hundreds of thousands of supporters of the European Union marched through London on Saturday in the biggest demonstration so far to demand that the British government holds a public vote on the terms of Brexit.

The United States is considering a new operation to send warships through the Taiwan Strait, US officials tell Reuters, a mission aimed at ensuring free passage through the strategic waterway but which risks heightening tensions with China.

Qatar was hit by widespread flash flooding on Saturday as the desert state received almost a year's worth of rainfall in one day.

Turkish investigators are likely to find out what happened to the body of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi «before long», a senior Turkish official said on Saturday.

Dalawa ang patay habang isa pa ang sugatan matapos mahulog ang SUV sa isang tulay sa Angadanan, Isabela nitong Sabado.

Several countries including the United States and China agreed «in principle» on Saturday to multilateral guidelines to manage unexpected encounters between their military aircraft, joining 10 Southeast Asian nations already in the pact.

Southeast Asian nations seeking to combat the threat of militancy have agreed to share intelligence, Singapore's defense minister said Saturday, as he warned of a «real and present» danger to the region.

Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Saturday said penalties should be imposed not on all nuisance candidates, but only those who have repeatedly made a mockery of the elections.

A man who will run for councilor in the May 2019 midterm elections was shot dead in San Antonio, Nueva Ecija.

Malacañang on Saturday clarified it is not totally dismissing the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency's proposal that candidates in the 2019 midterm elections submit to mandatory drug testing.