A lawyer was arrested for alleged child abuse and human trafficking in Zamboanga City last week. A team composed of various ...

Two days before the start of the campaign period for local positions, motorcycle-riding gunmen shot dead an election officer ...

MORE than 213,000 minimum wage earners and domestic workers, or "kasambahay," in the Bicol Region and Zamboanga Peninsula ...

Rain with a high of 88 °F (31.1 °C) and a 60% chance of precipitation. Winds NNW at 7 to 8 mph (11.3 to 12.9 kph). Night - Cloudy with a 54% chance of precipitation. Winds from NNW to N at 6 to ...

Filipino legend Eduard Folayang is glad that MMA in the Philippines has regained its mark in the combat sports world after Denice Zamboanga and Joshua Pacio reigned as world champions from their ...

The arrest warrant against Duterte contains allegations about extrajudicial killings during his years as mayor of Davao City ... Human rights groups in the Philippines contend the number is ...

ILIGAN CITY, LANAO DEL NORTE, Philippines — Hundreds of supporters of former President Rodrigo Duterte gathered and staged an instant protest rally along Roxas and Quezon Avenues in this city at ...

During the same hearing, he also admitted under oath that he maintained a “death squad” of gangsters to kill other criminals while he was the mayor of the southern Philippines’ Davao City.

This covers the entirety of Duterte’s term as the mayor of Davao city and the first three years of his presidency. The judges who issued the warrant note that while the Philippines withdrew from ...

MANILA, March 11 (Reuters) - Former Philippines leader Rodrigo Duterte ... squad that operated when he was mayor of southern Davao City and later oversaw Philippine law enforcement when he became ...

A plane carrying the former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte ... and mayor of Davao city before that. Nevertheless, he questioned the basis for the warrant, asking: "What crime ...

but also during his tenure as mayor of the southern city of Davao from 2011. Mr Duterte withdrew the Philippines from the jurisdiction of the ICC in 2019, but its prosecutors argued they still had ...