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.
Food airlift sought for landslide-struck towns
The mayor of a southern town that was devastated by a powerful earthquake pleaded for helicopters to transport food to stave off hunger in several landslide-isolated villages.
20,000 displaced by earthquake
Rescuers searched ruined buildings in the southern Philippines to ensure no one was still trapped, a day after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the country in half a century killed at least 37 people and displaced more than 20,000.
Ex-cop nabbed over 2016 killing
A fugitive former anti-narcotics officer was arrested over his conviction in the 2016 kidnapping and killing of a South Korean businessman who was strangled inside the national police headquarters in Manila, officials said.
Mindanao quake toll rises to 32
The death toll in a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao has risen to at least 32 with dozens of people injured, disaster officials said, as Manila stepped up search and rescue operations
Pro-Duterte boycott backfires
A group of lawmakers wrested back control of a bitterly divided Senate, electing an acting president amid a boycott by Vice-President Sara Duterte's supporters ahead of her impeachment trial.
