Monthly Archives: May 2026

Gaza hospital says child among three killed in Israeli strike

GAZA City, Palestinian Territories – A pre-dawn Israeli airstrike killed three members of a Palestinian family, including a one-year-old child, in central Gaza on Sunday, a hospital said. Gaza remains gripped with daily violence despite a formal ceasefire in place since October, with both the Israeli military and Hamas accusing one another of violating the truce.

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Building collapse in Angeles City: Rescuers search for 20 missing

ANGELES CITY, Philippines — Rescuers were racing on Sunday to free two workers pinned under a building that collapsed in the northern Philippines, killing a Malaysian man and leaving 20 people missing. The search for survivors continued as night fell, with firemen shining small lights into the rubble for signs of life. Twenty-six people have

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NPA ‘totally defeated’ in Negros – NTF-Elcac exec

MANILA, Philippines – Recent defeats of New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Toboso and Cauayan, Negros Occidental have shown the “irreversible collapse of the remaining communist terrorist infrastructure” in the region, a ranking National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) official said. These losses, NTF-Elcac executive director Undersecretary Ernesto Torres Jr. said,

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Weeklong PDEA ops net P77.78-M illegal drugs, 85 suspects

MANILA, Philippines – Authorities confiscated P77.78 million worth of illegal drugs and arrested 85 suspects in nationwide operations conducted from May 14 to 21, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said. Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Isagani Nerez said the agency carried out 78 operations across the country during the period. READ: PDEA dismantles alleged drug

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