SAN ANTONIO, Zambales — After maintaining a downward trend in virus spread last month, this province began seeing its COVID-19 positivity rate shoot up again early this month.

MOSCOW — More than 2,500 dead seals have washed up on the coast of the Caspian Sea in Russia’s Dagestan region, the natural resources ministry said Monday.

MANILA, Philippines—While the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed that 30 percent of people believed their lives got better, it also revealed that at least 29 percent is being hit hardest by accelerating inflation.

MANILA, Philippines— Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III was puzzled why the P10 billion budget of the government’s anti-insurgency task force next year was restored when this was already reduced to P5 billion by both chambers of Congress.

MANILA, Philippines–Of the 256,927 terminated criminal cases handled by the Public Attorneys Office, a total of 222,184 were resolved in favor of the accused.

MANILA, Philippines — Some areas in Northern Luzon are expected to see rain on Tuesday, December 6, due to the shear line, as generally fair weather may possibly prevail over the rest of the country.

MANILA, Philippines — Karylle and Gian Magdangal are back on the musical theater stage, and they will lead the cast of Repertory Philippines’ staging of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Carousel” that marks not only the theater company’s return to live productions…

OLONGAPO CITY–At least 15 alleged drug dealers were arrested in a series of operations here in the past week, police said Monday, Dec. 5.

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. expects to develop stronger bilateral relationships with Mauritania and Mongolia.

It’s not often that a team can spot a problematic part of its game despite coming from a victory.

Yeng Guiao sounded like a coach trying to make sense of showing up for quarterfinal match that he feels Rain or Shine has little hopes of winning.

WASHINGTON—The perennial question of whether it’s “soccer” (as Americans call it) or “football” prompted Twitter wisecracks between President Joe Biden and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte this weekend, as the Netherlands sent the United States crashing out…

Marseille, France — Two newborn babies whose corpses were found in a woman’s freezer in southern France did not die of natural causes, prosecutors said Monday.

Kinshasa, DR Congo — Around 300 people died last week in an attack on villagers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo blamed on the M23 rebel group, government minister Julien Paluku said Monday.

Washington, United States — The conservative-majority US Supreme Court appeared poised Monday to rule in favor of a Christian graphic designer who refuses to make wedding websites for same-sex couples.

WASHINGTON — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc on Monday threatened to remove news from its platform if the United States Congress passes a proposal aimed at making it easier for news organizations to negotiate collectively with companies like Alphabet Inc’s…

WASHINGTON — The White House said Monday that the United States administration is continuing to work with Congress on ways to “reinforce deterrence” against any changes to the status of Taiwan.

U.S. markets ended Monday lower, as investors spooked by better-than-expected data from the services sector re-evaluated whether the Federal Reserve could hike interest rates for longer, while shares of Tesla slid on reports of a production cut in China.

Thessaloniki, Greece — Violent scuffles broke out in Greece’s second-largest city on Monday after a Roma teenager was shot by police and left in critical condition.

NEW YORK  -Oil prices fell over 3 percent on Monday, following U.S. stock markets lower, after U.S. service sector data raised worries that the Federal Reserve could continue its aggressive policy tightening path.

Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech SE fired back on Monday at a patent lawsuit filed by Moderna Inc in Boston federal court over their rival COVID-19 vaccines.