People sit on the roof of a submerged home at a village inundated by high tide, and flooding brought by monsoon rains and Typhoon Co-may, in Calumpit, Bulacan, Philippines, July 25, 2025.

The crew of one of the Gaza-bound vessels with their hands up as they are boarded by Israeli military. Reuters Thunberg was on the Alma in the flotilla when she was arrested at the port of Ashdod. The ...

The federal government is nearing a partial shutdown, with a range of effects on public services and the broader U.S. economy. Employee furloughs and potential layoffs would halt some government ...

MANILA, Philippines — Resigned lawmaker Zaldy Co and former House Speaker Martin Romualdez will be invited to the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee’s probe into anomalous flood-control projects, panel ...

This was what the lawyer of Pacifico “Curlee” and Cezarah “Sarah” Discaya said after the contractor couple attended the hearing of the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) in connection ...

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The revelation of a “ghost factory” of flood control projects in Bulacan’s First District Engineering Office by the Commission on Audit (COA)—initially worth P340-P360 million—confirms the existence ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) said it may look into banks after a congressional inquiry flagged large cash transactions linked to a flood control scandal, although the ...

Ako Bicol party-list Representative Zaldy Co on Monday resigned as a member of the House of Representatives amid allegations of massive corruption in connection with flood control projects and ...

(1st UPDATE) Beyond failed flood control projects, the cost of corruption is reflecting in a weaker peso, a falling stock market, and the threat of losing the Philippines’ hard-won investment grade ...

The Florida Panthers could potentially be without captain Aleksander Barkov for the entire 2025-26 season after he suffered a torn ACL. Barkov underwent surgery after suffering the injury in the early ...