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MANILA, Philippines — Humba is a Visayan staple dish of stewed pork cooked in soy sauce, vinegar and sugar. In taste and appearance, it is very similar to adobo, so much so that you can rightfully refer to it as the Visayan take on adobo. It derives its name from …

MANILA, Philippines — Show time! Guess who's back again? It's taken five years, but Filipino-American multiple Grammy winner Bruno Mars finally returned to the Philippines to perform some of his most beloved hits across the years. For his fourth-ever concert in the country, his last one being at the Mall …

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has approved the government's P5.768 trillion spending plan for 2024, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) announced Friday. Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman said the plan was approved during a recent Cabinet meeting and will be forwarded to Congress before the President delivers his second State …

(UPDATE) ALL five people aboard a submersible that went missing near the wreck of the Titanic died — likely in an instant — when their vessel suffered what the US Coast Guard said Thursday was a “catastrophic implosion” in the ocean depths. The somber announcement ended a multinational search-and-rescue operation …

U.S. intelligence agencies found no direct evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic stemmed from an incident at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, a report declassified on Friday said. 'Extensive work' on coronaviruses conducted at Chinese lab but no link to outbreak U.S. intelligence agencies found no direct evidence that the COVID-19 …

As a Wagner convoy travelled hundreds of kilometres toward Moscow, there was no strong show of support for the president on the street. By political or other means, a transition could be coming When Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a short address to the nation Monday night, his first remarks …

While a lot remains unclear about Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group mercenaries' abbreviated march on Moscow and the agreement that appeared to halt it, political observers believe the attempted rebellion has left Russian President Vladimir Putin more vulnerable. Yevgeny Prigozhin reportedly heading to Belarus — but not before igniting …

The Kremlin said on Friday that Western suggestions that Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin had been killed on its orders were an 'absolute lie' and declined to definitively confirm his death, citing the need to wait for test results. Government spokesperson Dmitry Peskov calls Western speculation an 'absolute lie' Did …

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu made his first public appearance since a mercenary uprising demanded his ouster, inspecting troops in Ukraine on Monday in a video released by his ministry. Russia releases video showing Sergei Shoigu in Ukraine 2 days after uprising demanded his ouster Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu …

Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led a brief armed rebellion against the Russian military earlier this year, was aboard a plane that crashed north of Moscow on Wednesday, killing all 10 people on board, according to Russia's civil aviation agency. Crash left 10 people dead; Prigozhin was leader of short-lived …