TEHRAN, September 15 - Super Typhoon Mangkhut -- the biggest storm of the year -- smashed through the Philippines on Saturday, claiming its first victims as two women were killed when a rain-drench hillside collapsed on them and another drowned in Taiwan.
TEHRAN, September 14 - Philippine authorities were evacuating thousands of people from the path of the most powerful typhoon this year, closing schools, readying bulldozers for landslides and placing rescuers and troops on full alert in the country's north.
TEHRAN, August 19 - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte thinks political dynasties are bad. But the way the prevailing political winds are blowing, it looks like a dynasty of his own might be taking shape.
TEHRAN, July 31 - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday witnessed the destruction of over 60 smuggled luxury vehicles in Cagayan Province as part of his anti-corruption drive.
TEHRAN, July 31 - A bomb exploded in a van in the restive southern Philippines on Tuesday, killing 11 people at a military checkpoint in what militant group Daesh called a suicide attack for which it claimed responsibility.
TEHRAN, July 31 -Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday witnessed the destruction of over 60 smuggled luxury vehicles in Cagayan Province as part of his anti-corruption drive.
TEHRAN, July 03 - Philippine police officials said another mayor was shot and killed by an unidentified man in a road attack a day after a city mayor was gunned down in brazen back-to-back killings that prompted an opposition senator to call the country the "murder capital of Asia."
TEHRAN, June 13 -The Philippines' interior ministry said on Wednesday it plans to acquire pistols for community leaders willing to fight crime and drugs, prompting concern it could fuel even more violence in the country's notoriously bloody crackdown.
TEHRAN, June 03 - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has told a U.N human rights expert who said the country’s judicial independence was under threat to ‘go to hell’, warning against interference in domestic affairs.
TEHRAN, May 23 - The Philippine immigration bureau has turned down an Australian nun's appeal for the reversal of an order revoking her missionary visa after the president complained about her joining opposition rallies and ordered her to leave the country.
TEHRAN, May 16 - A minority bloc in the Philippine Senate on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to invalidate President Rodrigo Duterte's withdrawal from the International Criminal Court, saying his action without the chamber's consent was unconstitutional.
TEHRAN, May 6 - Asian nations should pursue an independent foreign policy to achieve their own development goals, without mimicking the West or seeking its blessing, the Filipino leader has suggested to members of the Asian Pacific community.
TEHRAN, May 1 - Thousands of workers and activists in the Philippines marched on Tuesday in a May Day rally to demonstrate against what they said was President Rodrigo Duterte’s failure to keep a campaign promise to get rid of short-term employment contracts.
TEHRAN, April 25 - Kuwait on Wednesday ordered the Philippines ambassador to leave within a week and recalled its own envoy for consultations after embassy staff tried to "rescue" Filipino domestic workers amid reports of abuse.
TEHRAN, April 22 - In this news photo, we are traveling to Maravi, Philippines, which the Army took it back after several months it was being held by Daesh terrorists.
TEHRAN, April 20 - The Philippines decried what it said was interference in its internal affairs by the European Parliament, which urged the Southeast Asian nation in a resolution to end "extrajudicial killings" and halt plans to bring back the death penalty.
TEHRAN, April 13 -The Philippines’ privacy watchdog said on Friday it has started investigating Facebook Inc (FB.O) over a data breach involving British firm Cambridge Analytica that affected more than a million Filipino users of social media.
TEHRAN, March 21 - A passenger bus careened off a winding, dirt road and fell into a ravine south of the Philippine capital, killing 19 people and injuring 17 others, police said Wednesday.