The Sudanese army and Rapid Support Forces agreed Saturday to a seven-day ceasefire, Al Jazeera reported based on sources from the Saudi Arabian Foreign Ministry. Saudi-funded Al-Arabiya television reported that the agreement between the army and the …

Four fighters of the Central Negros 1 (CN1) Front of the Communist New People’s Army (NPA) were killed in an encounter with government troopers in Barangay Trinidad, Guihulngan City in Negros Oriental on Sunday. Lt. Col. William Pesase, the Philippine…

Third-seed Christian Mendoza of Antipolo City was crowned champion in the GMG Youth Challenge Rapid Chess tournament held at Rockwell Business Center, Mandaluyong City over the weekend. Mendoza scored 6.5 points in the 7-round Swiss System format comp…

A farmer in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental was shot and killed by suspected members of the New People’s Army (NPA) after he reportedly withdrew his support from the insurgency movement, a police official said on Sunday. The 47-year-old victim, Eduar…

The “House of the People” is in order and occasional moves to destabilize it will be nipped in the bud. Thus assured Speaker Martin Romualdez in a statement on Sunday amid talks of leadership squabbles the past week, saying there is no better proof of…

An intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) is affecting Mindanao and Palawan, including Kalayaan Islands, that will bring partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms. Metro Manila, the whole Visayas and Occidental Mindoro w…