The fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer in Atlanta has poured more fuel on the raging US debate over racism, prompting another round of street protests and the resignation of the southern city’s police chief.
Despite ranking high in pre-election senatorial surveys, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio would just be gunning for re-election as the southern city’s chief executive.
Philippine troops hunting communist guerrillas have mistakenly killed six policemen and wounded nine other officers who were also on jungle patrol, authorities said Tuesday.
The widow of a slain Islamist militant leader will be charged for allegedly using social media to recruit Islamic State sympathisers to join a five-month siege of a southern city, Philippine authorities said Friday.
The Philippine military said Sunday it had captured the command centre of Islamic State group supporters who have besieged a southern city for nearly four months.
President Duterte’s political party, the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) has reciprocated China’s gesture, donating P15 million to those displaced in the Marawi conflict, by extending financial assistance to landslide victims in Sichuan province.
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