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A fire broke out in a residential area along CV Francisco Street in Barangay UP Campus, Quezon City around 5 AM Friday, destroying three houses and injuring two residents who suffered burns to their legs and feet while scrambling to escape. Residents tried their best to fight the flames before
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The confusion surrounding how many people were actually aboard the ill-fated M/V Trisha Kerstin 3 when it sank off Basilan last January now has a clearer explanation — and it's infuriating. At the House Transportation Committee hearing, the ship owner's lawyer admitted that ticket scalping is
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The fallout from Kanlaon Volcano's moderately explosive eruption Thursday night is becoming clearer — and it's worse than initially thought. The Negros Occidental Operations Center has now documented ashfall and sulfuric smells across 11 towns, with some areas experiencing heavy ashfall that's covering everything in
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The Philippines, United States, and Japan just made history by extending their multilateral maritime drills all the way to the waters off Batanes — the closest Philippine province to Taiwan — for the very first time. Since the MMCA started in 2024, the exercises had never gone past Pangasinan. Until now. The
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Students in multiple towns across the Negros Island Region are getting an unexpected day off on Friday after Kanlaon Volcano's moderately explosive eruption Thursday night triggered class suspensions throughout the area. In Negros Occidental, classes have been suspended in Hinigaran, La Carlota City, Himamaylan City, La Castellana, Binalbagan,
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The Department of Education went to India and showed the world what Filipino AI can do. At the AI Impact Summit held at the Bharat Mandapam Convention Centre in New Delhi from February 16 to 21, DepEd presented its national framework for scaling artificial intelligence across the Philippines' public
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A U.S. Air Force transport aircraft carrying five American military personnel crashed into a concrete barrier while attempting to take off from a road in Laoac, Pangasinan — injuring everyone on board during what was supposed to be a routine contingency training exercise. The incident happened Tuesday afternoon on a
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Kanlaon Volcano on Negros Island erupted again Thursday night — exactly one week after its last explosive episode — sending a plume of ash 2,500 meters above the crater before drifting southwest toward nearby towns. PHIVOLCS reported the moderately explosive eruption began at 7:04 p.m. and lasted two minutes
Crime
One man's jealousy just destroyed an entire neighborhood. A massive four-alarm fire tore through Barangay 655 in Intramuros, Manila on Wednesday afternoon, February 25, destroying at least 300 houses, displacing around 600 families, and causing an estimated ₱1.5 million in damages. And it was all allegedly started
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It's over, and the PNP is calling it a win. Philippine National Police chief Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. declared that both the 40th EDSA People Power anniversary and the Trillion Peso March Part 3 concluded on February 25 without any major untoward incident. About 6,000 people
Politics
It's not just Duterte anymore. On Day 2 of the ICC confirmation of charges hearing in The Hague, prosecutors dropped a bombshell — an organizational chart showing who allegedly helped former President Rodrigo Duterte execute his nationwide anti-drug campaign. The prosecution named eight co-perpetrators: Ronald Dela Rosa, Vicente Danao,
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Most people run away from erupting volcanoes. Filipinos? They book hotel rooms. Mayon Volcano in Albay has been in a state of effusive eruption for eight weeks now, spewing fresh lava, fiery rock flows, and elevated sulfur dioxide emissions — and instead of scaring people off, it's turning the