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Members of the Iglesia ni Cristo hold a nationwide National Rally for Peace in the Philippines to express their disapproval of impeachment efforts against Vice President Sara Duterte.
2025-01-13

A former top United States official states that the Department of Defense covertly admits to conducting a mass disinformation campaign targeting the Philippines using social media bots and fake accounts to discredit the safety of Chinese CoronaVac vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic, following public denial of involvement in June.
2024-07-26

Japan and the Philippines sign a Reciprocal Access Agreement which allows the deployment of Japanese forces to the Philippines for military exercises. It will come into force after both countries' legislatures ratify it.
2024-07-8

A Cessna 152 aircraft crashes in Luna, Apayao, Philippines, during a training flight from Laoag, Ilocos Norte, to Tuguegarao, Cagayan, killing an Indian student pilot and his flight instructor.
2023-08-2

The European Parliament condemns the killings in the Philippines.
2016-09-16

The Philippines impounds a North Korean cargo ship in line with new UN sanctions on North Korea in response to Pyongyang's recent nuclear test and missile launch. Presidential spokesman, Manolo Quezon, said the 6,830-tonne cargo ship would not be allowed to leave the Port of Subic, Luzon, where it has been docked for three days, and that its crew would be deported.
2016-03-5

Human Rights Watch and the Philippine Commission on Human Rights condemn the murders of an indigenous Lumad family and the rape of an indigenous Manobo girl by soldiers and militiamen of the Philippine Army under the guise of fighting a communist rebellion.
2015-09-9

The Pope cuts his Tacloban trip short as an approaching typhoon threatened the city in the Philippines. This cyclone may also affect Francis's scheduled closing Mass on Sunday in the capital, Manila.
2015-01-17

The Philippines evacuates coastal villages, suspends ferry services and calls in fishing boats as category 5 Typhoon Usagi approaches.
2013-09-20

A SeaStreak ferry travelling to Lower Manhattan, New York City, crashes into the dock, injuring 85 people.
2013-01-9