PHILIPPINES BREAKING NEWS

Claim: US President Donald Trump will make a courtesy call on Vice President Sara Duterte when he visits the Philippines next month, and Duterte will be the president by then. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: On October 22, Facebook user Rey Cano Salarda published a post that carries the…

NEW YORK, USA – The US Federal Election Commission’s website was targeted by a hacker or hackers, according to an email seen by Reuters, disrupting the agency’s electronic filings system a week before the November 3 elections. The hack comes as so-called super PACs and dark money groups spend…

MANILA, Philippines – Associate Justice Jose Midas Marquez made a big promise when he faced the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) for his interview as a chief justice candidate. Marquez, who once served as head of the Supreme Court’s (SC) Office of the Court Administrator, said there will be no more…

WASHINGTON, USA – The US military has spent over $47 billion so far to prosecute the war in Iran , more than 25% higher than the Defense Department’s estimate in July, according to Pentagon data obtained by Reuters. The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment on its estimate,…

MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled that employers cannot force their employees to retire early without an agreement. In a decision penned by Associate Justice Ramon Paul Hernando, and was made public on Tuesday, October 27, the SC 1st Division said employees cannot be made to…

When a household opens a higher electricity bill, it is also confronting a currency problem. The peso’s slide creates a stark divide across the country: extra cash for families receiving dollars, but steeper costs for those earning pesos. Yet even that apparent windfall carries an invisible tax.…

DUBAI, UAE – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Tuesday, October 27, they had hit Saudi Arabia’s Ras Tanura oil refinery, the ⁠biggest in the kingdom, with a ballistic missile. Intensifying hostilities between Yemen and Saudi Arabia have further disrupted oil supplies and heightened the risk of a…

MANILA, Philippines – US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is likely to face questions about Washington’s commitment to the Indo-Pacific region when he meets Southeast Asian counterparts in the Philippines on Wednesday, October 28. As the Iran war strains US military readiness and tension rises with…

JERUSALEM, Israel – Israel’s wartime election appeared deadlocked on Tuesday, October 27, exit polls showed, a potential setback for veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if the projections hold, with neither side having a clear path to power but rival Gadi Eisenkot’s larger bloc potentially…

Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world: Philippine peso’s historic slide continues, hitting record low P64.17 per dollar The Philippine peso falls to a record low of P64.17 against the US dollar, despite aggressive interest rate hikes by the Bangko…