Authorities rethink school safety after deadly attack
The government is rethinking school safety measures and looking to expand civil defence planning to cover gun violence, officials said, a day after a deadly attack at a high school shocked a nation where such incidents are rare.
Gaming app under fire
Authorities said they will temporarily block an online gaming app that one of two students blamed for a deadly school shooting has avidly used, to assess whether it played a role in fostering such violence.
Teens plotted shooting, say cops
Two teens who allegedly killed three fellow students in a rare Philippine school shooting planned the attack in advance, police said, revealing one had trained at a firing range.
Quake turns seabed into shore
Arsenio Butil Jr fell to his knees and began to pray when the deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake two weeks ago began shaking his home on the coast of the southern Philippines.
Marcos orders fatal shooting probe
PREsident Ferdinand Marcos Jr ordered an investigation into a school shooting in the city of Tacloban that killed three people and injured five others.
Detained workers return home after Marcos raises case with Putin
Russia has freed 24 Filipinos who were detained for months without charges in a Siberian city, after Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr raised concern for them in a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, Philippine officials said.
Sara Duterte ally removed as Senate head
The Philippine Senate removed an ally of former president Rodrigo Duterte as Senate president and elected a new leader just weeks before the expected start of Vice-President Sara Duterte's impeachment trial.
6.2-magnitude quake strikes off Mindanao
A magnitude-6.2 earthquake has struck off the country's south, the US Geological Survey said, a week after a deadly quake in the same region killed at least 65 people.
Deadly quake raises seabed
A powerful earthquake that killed at least 61 people in the Philippines this week raised the seabed by as much as two metres, exposing coral and harming marine life, the environment department said.
Rain, aftershocks hamper rescuers
Rescuers battling rain and aftershocks cleared roads and searched for the missing in the southern region as the death toll from a major quake rose to 55.
