Gov’t forms task force as it verifies reports of Pinoys kidnapped during Hamas attack President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) to locate and account for all Filipinos in Israel, where attacks by the Palestinian group Hamas on Saturday triggered Israeli airstrikes over the Gaza …

Forty climate advocates set out on a 30-day walk from Rizal Park in Manila to Tacloban City, Leyte, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) on Sunday. “We don’t want another Yolanda to happen. This is why we are pushing to end fossil fuels, and more importantly, demanding …

U.S. President Joe Biden is simultaneously trashing Israel's war cabinet, but supporting the country's war effort. Some see this as a warning to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: make changes, or risk losing U.S. support. Trashing Israel's war cabinet, supporting Israel's war effort — Biden's two-in-one message A tension at …

Bob Rae, Canada's ambassador to the UN , says Canada needed to evolve its position to meet the demands of a humanitarian situation on the ground in Gaza that is increasingly dire. U.K., Germany, France have all now endorsed some form of call for ceasefire Canada's ambassador to the UN …

The UN Security Council has adopted a watered-down resolution calling for immediately speeding up aid deliveries to desperate civilians in Gaza, but without the original call for an "urgent suspension of hostilities" between Israel and Hamas. Original call for 'urgent suspension of hostilities' in Israel-Hamas war dropped UN Security Council …

As the slaughter continues in Gaza from Israel’s unrelenting attacks, there are fears along the northern border about how Hezbollah may retaliate against a presumed Israeli strike this week on Beirut. Neither side appears to want a full-blown war, but it could happen anyway In many ways, it feels as …

Hundreds more Palestinians were killed as Israel fought Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip's biggest cities on Thursday, and almost two million displaced Gazans struggled to find food and refuge. Civilians trying to stay out of harm's way increasingly packed near southern border with Egypt Hundreds more Palestinians were killed …

A network representing influential Canadian Muslim donors to the Liberal Party of Canada has left the ranks of the party's top donors, citing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's disinclination to call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict, CBC News has learned. 'With broken hearts, we must depart the Laurier Club,' …

The United States on Friday vetoed a United Nations Security Council demand for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza, diplomatically isolating Washington as it shields its ally. Gaza at 'high risk of the total collapse,' says UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres …

Israel ordered residents out of the centre of Gaza's main southern city, Khan Younis, on Saturday and pounded the length of the Hamas-run enclave the day after the United States wielded its UN Security Council veto to shield its ally from a demand for a ceasefire. Israel orders residents out …