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Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court told judges on Monday that former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte encouraged death squads to carry out extrajudicial killings using fear and financial rewards.

Sara Duterte, daughter of a former president who is facing charges of crimes against humanity at the Hague, pledged to offer her ‘life, strength and future’ in service of the Philippines

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte faced another round of impeachment complaints on Monday after surviving attempts to remove her last year, with rights groups and activists accusing her of betraying the public's tru...

A Filipino mayor escaped unharmed after an apparent rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) attack on his convoy in broad daylight Sunday in the southern province of Maguindanao del Sur, authorities said.

At least 18 people have died after a ferry carrying more than 350 passengers and crew members onboard sank in the waters off Philippines' southern coast.

An avalanche of garbage buried workers at a waste segregation facility in a central Philippine city, killing one person, injuring seven and leaving at least 27 others missing, police said Friday.

At least one person was killed and 34 others were missing after a landfill collapsed in the city of Cebu in the central Philippines late on Thursday afternoon, officials said.

A series of mild eruptions at the most active volcano in the Philippines has prompted the evacuation of nearly 3,000 villagers from a danger zone on its foothills, officials said Wednesday.

The two suspects in the killing of 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach spent nearly a month in a budget hotel in the southern Philippines, a security official and a hotel staff member said, as inv...

Thousands of demonstrators including from the Roman Catholic church clergy protested in the Philippines on Sunday, calling for the swift prosecution of top legislators and officials implicated in a corruption scandal tha...

From a skyscraper in downtown Manila, a sea of white spreads out below, covering the vast green lawns of Rizal Park and expanding down arterial roads and sidestreets. It is formed of more than half a million people, clad...

Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed at least 188 people in the Philippines and five in Vietnam, according to the latest figures from the two countries.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr declared a state of emergency on Thursday (Nov 6) after Typhoon Kalmaegi killed at least 140 people, with 127 missing in the central provinces.

The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi in the central Philippines climbed past 100 on Wednesday (Nov 5) as the devastating impact on Cebu province became clearer after the worst flooding in recent memory.

At least 26 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced as rains driven by Typhoon Kalmaegi flooded swathes of the central Philippines on Tuesday.

Thousands were evacuated in coastal provinces of the Philippines on Monday (Nov 3), ahead of a typhoon due to make landfall in a region hit by some of the country's deadliest storms.

A tropical storm lashed the northern and central Philippines over the weekend, killing seven people after forcing more than 22,000 people to evacuate from flood- and landslide-prone villages

A new offshore earthquake with a preliminary 6.9 magnitude hit the same southern Philippine region struck Friday morning by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake, Philippine seismologists said.

A typhoon blew into the northern Philippines on Friday, complicating the country’s disaster response to a deadly earthquake in a central province and two other recent storms.

Tropical Storm Matmo edged closer to the Philippines on Thursday and was expected to intensify into a typhoon that could threaten southern China this weekend, just about a week after the region was battered by Ragasa, on...