The Philippine National Police called on the public to exercise care when posting about Marawi City on social media to ease the confusion about what is happening there and avoid worsening the situation.

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Dominic Nuesa's debut feature film depicts how the Scout Rangers track down Islamist extremists.

Moody's Investors Services downgraded China's long-term local and foreign currency issuer ratings on Wednesday, citing expectations that the financial strength of the world's second biggest economy would erode in the coming years.

Security forces in Metro Manila have been ordered to “intensify security efforts to thwart any attempts to sow terror” by Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista, who chairs the peace and order council of the National Capital Region.

Some 200 distressed overseas Filipino workers arrived in the country from Saudi Arabia on Wednesday morning after being granted amnesty by the Middle East kingdom.

All courts in Mindanao have been instructed to “remain open and all judges to remain in station, as far as their local circumstances may allow,” following President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of martial law over the southern island.

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Chinese telecoms giant Huawei plans a global expansion into computers, posing a fresh challenge to established PC players in a market.

British police on Tuesday identified the suicide bomber who killed 22 people, including children, in an attack on a crowded concert hall in Manchester, and said they were trying to establish whether he had acted alone or with help from others.

(UPDATED - 1:01 p.m.) Congress is prepared to act on President Rodrigo Duterte's martial law declaration in Mindanao, Majority Leader Rodolfo Farinas said as he issued a notice to all members of the House of Representatives to "stay put in Manila" for sessions until Friday.

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(UPDATE - 7:24 a.m.) “I’d be harsh,” President Rodrigo Duterte said as he warned that “martial law is martial law” and what he declared over Mindanao may not be too different from what the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos did after he placed the country under military rule in 1972.

North Korea is on a clear path to obtaining a nuclear-armed missile capable of striking the United States, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lieutenant General Vincent Stewart told a Senate hearing on Tuesday.

The British star who played James Bond in seven movies died of cancer on Tuesday.