Protesters take part in a rally to show their support for the Palestinian people in Quezon City on October 11. The death toll from five days of ferocious fighting between Hamas and Israel rose sharply overnight as Israel kept up its bombardment of Gaza, after recovering the dead from the last communities near the border […]
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A carver etches named on a tombstone for the recently departed at the Barangka Cemetery in Marikina City on Wednesday, in preparation for the coming All Saints Day.
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The government hoisted Alert Level 2 over Israel to halt new deployments as authorities began identifying exit routes for a possible repatriation or evacuation mission. The administration on Wednesday also said there is still no need to order the mandatory repatriation of Filipinos in Israel, even as the fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas terrorists […]
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The House of Representatives on Wednesday said it has no confidential and intelligence funds and that all its spending is aboveboard based on the report of the Commission on Audit. This was as former President Rodrigo Duterte challenged the House to be transparent in its spending a day after lawmakers slashed the P650 million CIF […]
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A clear majority of Filipinos believe confidential funds should be allocated only to government agencies that are directly involved in intelligence gathering, surveillance and in the development of defense capability of the Philippines. In a third quarter survey by The Issues and Advocacy Center (The CENTER), some 52 percent said only government agencies performing functions […]
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The whistleblower who accused the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board of having a “bribing system” yesterday recanted his claim that corruption went up as high as the Department of Transportation and Malacañang. Jeff Tumbado, who claimed to be a former head executive assistant of suspended LTFRB chief Teofilo Guadiz III, said his earlier claim […]
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One in three adult Filipinos believe they have a better quality of life now compared to a year ago, a Social Weather Stations survey showed. Some 22 percent said they experienced worsening conditions, while 45 percent reported no change from the previous year. This resulted in a net gainer score of 11 percent which is […]
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The Office of the President (OP) breezed through committee-level budget deliberations in the Senate on Wednesday, with no lawmaker asking the office represented by Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin questions on its 2024 spending plan. It took the Senate finance committee, headed by Senator Sonny Angara, only around 21 minutes to tackle the OP’s budget request […]
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The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) sent a breach notification to the National Privacy Commission (NPC) on Tuesday, two weeks after the NPC reported the data breach on the  Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) servers. The NPC said it cannot disclose any information yet on the PSA incident, as it will still need to verify the […]
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