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Kingdom of Jesus Christ pastor Apollo Quiboloy, who is charged with sex trafficking, is arrested amid a standoff between the police and members of the church at the church's headquarters in Davao City, Philippines.
2024-09-8

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte signs into law a bill outlawing child marriage, with violators facing up to 12 months in prison. Some portions of the law will not go into effect for one year in order to allow Muslim and indigenous communities to prepare.
2022-01-6

The Philippines reports its first two imported cases of the Omicron variant in an overseas Filipino who travelled from Japan on December 1 and a Nigerian national who arrived in the country on November 30.
2021-12-15

The Philippines reports a record 423 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours due to reclassification of 373 cases previously listed as recoveries, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 43,044.
2021-10-30

The Philippines extends until January 31 its travel ban on more than 30 countries and territories where cases of SARS-CoV-2 variants have been reported.
2021-01-15

At least 25 people are killed and dozens are missing after a landslide unleashed by monsoon rains strikes Cebu, Philippines.
2018-09-20

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte unintentionally reveals that a US$1 million ransom was given to the Abu Sayyaf terror group in exchange for a Norwegian hostage.
2016-08-26

The death toll from Tropical Storm Koppu that battered the Philippines' main island this weekend climbed to at least 39. Koppu forced more than 100,000 villagers into emergency shelters and destroyed rice fields ready for harvest.
2015-10-21

The death toll passes 6,000, officially making it the deadliest recorded typhoon in the Philippines.
2013-12-13

Security is tightened in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, ahead of anti-China protests amid an ongoing Sino-Philippine territorial dispute in the South China Sea.
2012-05-11