US close to sealing $100B in arms deals for Saudi Arabia – White House...

The United States is close to completing a series of arms deals for Saudi Arabia totaling more than $100 billion, a senior White House official said on Friday, a week ahead of President Donald Trump's planned visit to Riyadh.

Japan sees 50% chance of El Nino emerging by autumn

Japan's weather bureau said on Friday it sees a 50 percent chance of the El Nino weather pattern emerging by the beginning of autumn, or sometime in September.

Baguio tourist road reduced to single lane after retaining wall at construction site collapses

A road leading to two major tourist sites in the country’s summer capital has been reduced to a single lane after a retaining wall at a construction site collapsed, taking part of the thoroughfare with it.

‘Birdshot’ merits Special Mention at Bangkok ASEAN Film Festival

'Birdshot' is a mystery thriller about a farm girl who wanders into the boundaries of a reservation forest.

Don’t enforce UN sanctions, North Korea urges world

UNITED NATIONS -- North Korea made a global appeal in a letter released on Friday for states to reconsider enforcing UN sanctions on the...

Melissa McCarthy motors through New York dressed as Sean Spicer

She was seen impersonating Spicer while shouting at cars to get out of the way as she cruised through traffic.

NDFP demands release of consultant, Aglipayan bishop nabbed in Ozamiz

(UPDATE - 12:26 p.m.) The National Democratic Front of the Philippines is demanding the immediate release of one of its peace consultants and a bishop of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente who were arrested in Ozamiz City this week.

SMOKE ALARM | Indonesians take tiny steps against Big Tobacco

A neighborhood in the Indonesian capital has informally declared itself a smoke-free zone as students plan further protests against what they see as an increased effort by cigarette companies to target the young.

A decade after joining war on drugs, Mexican army seeks return to barracks

After more than a decade on the streets of Mexico battling ruthless drug cartels, the nation's battered armed forces have thrown their weight behind a law that would force them to return to barracks and put the fight back in the hands of the police.

2 drug suspects die in Novaliches shootout, trike driver gunned down on Commonwealth

It was a bloody early Friday morning in Quezon City, with two drug suspects targeted in a buy-bust operation killed when they shot it out with police officers in Novaliches, and a tricycle driver gunned down in Barangay Commonwealth.

Trump warns Comey not to talk to media with threat of ‘tapes’

US President Donald Trump warned ousted FBI Director James Comey on Friday not to talk to the media, a highly unusual move that prompted fresh charges he is trying to silence the man who led an investigation into possible collusion between the president’s election campaign and Russia.

Gunmen kill Saudi child, Pakistani in Shi’ite district

Gunmen killed a Saudi child and a Pakistani man during an attack on workers at a building project in restive eastern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, the interior ministry said on Friday.

WATCH | British hospitals, Spanish firms among targets of global ‘ransomware’ attack

A huge cyber attack leveraging hacking tools widely believed to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency brought disruption to Britain's health system and infected dozens of other countries around the world.

New Zealand scientists re-focus on recently extinct species for resurrection

A New Zealand biologist believed the effort to "resurrect" extinct species through gene editing should focus on recently extinct ones instead of ancient ones like woolly mammoth.
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CITF | Victims of Makati ‘kotong’ cops come forth to build case

Victims of four "kotong cops" in Makati City – rogue police officers engaged in extortion and kidnap activities – are showing up at the...