The United States marks 22 years since 9/11, from ground zero to Alaska

09/11/2023

NEW YORK — Americans are looking back on the horror and legacy of 9/11, gathering Monday at memorials, firehouses, city halls and elsewhere to observe the 22nd anniversary of the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil. Commemorations…

Petrol bombs thrown at Northern Irish police on eve of Biden visit

04/11/2023

LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland -A number of masked people attacked a police vehicle with petrol bombs and other objects at a parade opposing the Good Friday peace accord in Londonderry, police said on Monday, a day before U.S.…

Russia’s Putin launches invasion of Ukraine

Agence France Presse 02/24/2022

KYIV — Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an attack on Ukraine on Thursday with explosions heard across the country and its foreign minister warning a “full-scale invasion” was underway. Weeks of intense diplomacy and the imposition of…

CIU chief: 90% of arrested drug suspects claim transacting with Cebu City Jail PDLs

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 08/31/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Police Office Intelligence Unit said that about 90% of the 100 drug personalities they have arrested since January 2021 claimed to have transacted with Cebu City Jail detainees for their…

At least four killed in blast at Pakistan religious school

10/27/2020

Pakistan—At least four students were killed and dozens more wounded Tuesday, October 27, 2020, when a bomb exploded during a class at their religious school in northwestern Pakistan, officials said. More than 60 people had been taking…

21 people, 9 of them soldiers, hurt in Maguindanao, Cotabato blasts

Jeoffrey Maitem 12/22/2019

COTABATO CITY, Maguindanao, Philippines — Twenty-one people, nine of them soldiers, were wounded in a series of explosions that rocked Cotabato City and the neighboring Libungan town in Cotabato province on Sunday as people were busying themselves…

Jolo cathedral reopens 6 months after bombing

07/19/2019

ZAMBOANGA CITY—“It’s as if there is an experience of Easter where the body of Jesus has gone back to life.” This was how Bishop Martin Jumoad of the Archdiocese of Ozamis described the reopening of the Jolo…

Amid Jolo, Zambo attacks, faithful urged to remain firm in their faith, pray

Rosalie O. Abatayo 01/30/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — “Keep the faith and pray that the groups behind the attacks will ‘cease their evil deeds.’” Fe Barino, chairperson of the Archdiocese of Cebu’s Commission on the Laity, in a Facebook post, made…

PRO-7 on red alert after bombings in S. Kudarat

Nestle L. Semilla 09/03/2018

  The entire police force in Central Visayas has been placed under red alert status following the second bombing in Sultan Kudarat on Sunday which killed two persons. Chief Supt. Debold Sinas, the director of the Police…

5 Kenyan soldiers killed in bombing

AP 08/29/2018

NAIROBI, Kenya — A Kenyan military spokesman says five Kenyan soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb blew up the vehicle they were travelling in the country’s southeast. Col. Paul Njuguna also said 10 soldiers were wounded…

No threats in Cebu amid Basilan bombing, says PRO-7

Benjie B. Talisic 08/07/2018

  Supt. Reyman Tolentin, spokesperson of Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7), said the police have not monitored any imminent threat in the metropolis since the deadly bombing by suspected Islamic militants in Basilan province last…

PRO-7 to investigate suspected bomb maker

Nestle L. Semilla 06/09/2018

The Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) will dig deeper into the background of  the 33-year-old male who was severely injured after making an improvised explosive device (IED) in Sitio Datag, Barangay Buagsong on Friday afternoon…

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