Markets sank Monday and the dollar rallied after Fed boss Jerome Powell warned of more interest rate hikes to fight inflation and poured cold water on the prospects of a cut in the new year.
Two were wounded in an ambush in Pikit, North Cotabato on Friday afternoon, August 26, just four hours after gunmen killed four motorists with assault rifles in an attack in another barangay nearby.
Libya’s rival premiers on Sunday traded accusations over deadly clashes in Tripoli — the worst in the capital since a landmark 2020 ceasefire and which sparked fears of a major new conflict.
The death toll from monsoon flooding in Pakistan since June has reached 1,061, according to figures released Monday by the country’s National Disaster Management Authority.
The Bangsamoro government has placed under state of calamity at least three flood-stricken areas under its jurisdiction to expedite the emergency response and release of assistance to affected communities.
The police detained a villager from whose residence agents have found 24 suspected stolen motorcycles, two pistols, and crystal meths, popularly known as shabu, on Tuesday, August 23.
A senior official of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) and provincial leaders inaugurated on Wednesday, August 24, seven projects in Basilan, seen to boost productivity of farmers, among them hundreds of former Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) members.
A leader of an armed group, employed as a security officer in a state university, surrendered in Marawi City on Wednesday, August 24, a provincial police official said.
Pope Francis, who recently raised the possibility of retiring due to his declining health, will create 20 new cardinals on Saturday — many of whom could one day choose his successor.
Schools were ordered shut across the northern Philippines Tuesday — a day after many resumed in-person learning for the first time since Covid-19 hit — as torrential rain and strong winds pounded the main island of the archipelago.