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Qatar is among the countries that mediated between Israel and Hamas for the opening of a humanitarian corridor for Filipinos who had been wanting to leave Gaza amid the ongoing war. In a post on X, Foreign Affairs Secretary Manalo expressed his gratitude to the Arab state for its efforts …

WIDOW Agatha Ando has learned to laugh again in the decade after Super Typhoon “Yolanda” (“Haiyan”) smashed into the central Philippines, killing more than 6,000 people and leaving millions homeless. Fierce winds tore apart houses and toppled trees as tsunami-like waves whipped up by the storm obliterated mostly poor coastal …

Air strikes on the Gaza Strip killed a top Hamas weapons maker and several fighters, the Israeli military said Wednesday, as its air and ground offensive targeted the militants’ vast tunnel network beneath the besieged Palestinian enclave.  Those fleeing include children, the elderly and people with disabilities. Air strikes on …

The U.S. House voted late Tuesday to censure member Rashida Tlaib, Congress’s lone Palestinian-American lawmaker, for comments she made regarding Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, with 22 of her fellow Democrats voting to censure.  Tlaib rejected accusations of antisemitism during a speech Tuesday in the U.S. House. The U.S. …

Ivanka Trump testified Wednesday that she had no role in her father’s personal financial statements, echoing her adult brothers about documents central to the civil fraud trial that could reshape Donald Trump’s family business.  Donald Trump’s eldest daughter no longer a defendant in lawsuit. Ivanka Trump testified Wednesday that she …

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax exemption for home heating oil has renewed criticism of the entire scheme. How will the Liberals weather a political storm of their own making? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax exemption for home heating oil has renewed criticism of the entire scheme — a …

People fleeing Sudan’s West Darfur region to neighbouring Chad have reported a new surge in ethnically-driven killings, as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces took over the main army base in the state capital, El Geneina.  UN warns ‘world is scandalously silent’ as humanitarian crisis worsens. People fleeing Sudan’s West Darfur …

The similarities of the independent testimony of five women who all say they were sexually assaulted by Peter Nygard “defy coincidence,” which is why the one-time Canadian fashion mogul must be found guilty, the Crown argued on Tuesday. The closing submission by Crown attorney Ana Serban after nearly six weeks …

Malick Diouf (10) had a monster double-double of 19 points and 15 rebounds. (UAAP Media Bureau)  MANILA, Philippines — The UP Fighting Maroons punched the first ticket to the UAAP Season 86 Final Four after surviving a scare from the UE Red Warriors, 79-72, Wednesday afternoon at the Smart Araneta …

Canada’s largest pulp-and-paper company should lose its sustainability credentials because new information shows that it’s closely tied to an Indonesian conglomerate that has destroyed vast stretches of tropical rainforest, Greenpeace Canada says.  Complaint claims Paper Excellence ineligible for credential due to alleged ties with Indonesian conglomerate. Canada’s largest pulp-and-paper company …