The death toll in a powerful earthquake that hit the central Philippines late Tuesday has risen to 72 with nearly 300 others injured.

An offshore earthquake of magnitude 6.9 has jolted a central Philippine province and collapsed the walls of houses and buildings, killing at least 31 people.

Vietnam has evacuated thousands from its central and northern provinces as Typhoon Bualoi approaches faster than expected.

Another tropical storm has barreled across Philippine islands, causing at least four deaths and evacuations of more than 430,000 people from landslide- and flood-prone villages long battered by typhoons.

Typhoon Ragasa, one of the strongest storms to hit Asia in years, has caused massive destruction in Taiwan and the Philippines before slamming ashore in southern China.

Two former Philippine government engineers have told a televised inquiry that most flood control projects, road and other infrastructures they helped oversee in recent years in a province near the capital were substandard or overpriced to compensate for huge kickbacks given to congressmen and senators.

The crimes against humanity charges against former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte allege his involvement in the killings of at least 76 people while he was president and earlier a southern mayor.

Southern Chinese cities have closed schools, businesses and airports as they brace for one of the strongest typhoons in years.

Thousands of people have been evacuated from northern Philippine villages and schools and offices were closed in the archipelago and neighboring Taiwan as one of the strongest typhoons this year threatens to cause flooding and landslides on its way to southeastern China.

Philippine police have arrested 49 people suspected of attacking officers in violent clashes near the president palace.

The Philippines is protesting a plan by China to establish a nature reserve at one of the most hotly disputed shoals in the South China Sea and demanding that Beijing withdraw it immediately.

China has approved the establishment of a national nature reserve at Scarborough Shoal, a disputed territory also claimed by the Philippines in the South China Sea.

A wealthy business couple has identified several Philippine congressmen and public works officials, alleging they forced them to pay huge kickbacks so they could secure lucrative flood-control projects from the government in explosive testimony during a nationally televised Senate investigation.

The Philippine defense chief has condemned China’s deployment of a swarm of armed coast guard forces, backed by a helicopter and a drone, closer to the Philippines' military outpost in a fiercely disputed atoll in the South China Sea.

Australia has launched its largest military exercises with Philippine forces, involving over 3,600 personnel in live-fire drills and a beach assault near the South China Sea.

The Philippine military has blamed China for a collision between two Chinese navy and coast guard ships in disputed waters.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says his country will inevitably be drawn “kicking and screaming” in any war over Taiwan due to its proximity and the presence of large numbers of Filipino workers on the self-ruled island, despite China’s strong protest over such remarks.

India and the Philippines have staged joint naval exercises in the disputed South China Sea for the first time, antagonizing China.

A tropical storm is blowing across the Philippines’ mountainous north, worsening more than a week of bad weather that has caused at least 25 deaths and prompted evacuations in villages affected by flooding and landslides.

China’s Education Ministry has issued a safety warning for Chinese students in the Philippines, following what it describes as a series of criminal incidents targeting Chinese nationals.

The U.S. Pacific Fleet commander says China has failed to intimidate rival claimant states into surrendering their sovereign interests in the South China Sea despite its intensifying “bullying tactics” and the United States and other allied countries are ready to further boost deterrence against Beijing’s aggression.

The Philippines' ambassador to the U.S. said President Donald Trump will host his Philippine counterpart in the White House to discuss how the longtime treaty allies can further deepen their security and economic engagements and bolster deterrence against aggression in Asian security flashpoints.

Fifteen police officers in the Philippines are in custody over their alleged role in the abductions and suspected killings of 34 cockfighting enthusiasts.

Barbora Krejcikova has come back to avoid becoming the second consecutive Wimbledon women's champion to lose in the first round a year later.

The director of national intelligence says artificial intelligence is speeding up the work of America's spy services.

Filipino forces and villagers have been struggling to live in Beijing's shadow in the disputed South China while fighting isolation on remote islands.

A Chinese ship has run aground in stormy weather in shallow waters off a Philippines-occupied island in the disputed South China Sea, prompting Filipino forces to go on alert.

French President Emmanuel Macron has warned the United States and a large audience of Indo-Pacific nations that they risk a dangerous double standard as they concentrate on a potential conflict with China if that shift comes at the cost of abandoning Ukraine.

The U.S. is not ruling out a reduction in forces deployed to South Korea as the Trump administration determines what presence it needs in the region to best counter China.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Thrusday asked all of his Cabinet secretaries to submit resignations in a “bold reset” of his administration following last week’s mid-term elections, which saw more opposition candidates win crucial Senate seats.

Manny Pacquiao is coming out of retirement.

Boxing great Manny Pacquiao is coming out of retirement to fight Mario Barrios for the WBC welterweight crown in July.

A World War II-era Philippine navy ship to be used as a target in a combat exercise by American and the Philippine forces accidentally sank hours before the mock assault, prompting the drill to be cancelled.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba says his country and the Philippines will start talks on two proposed defense pacts to further boost their security alliance and would continue to fight aggression in disputed Asian waters in an obvious rebuke of China.

The mock battle scenarios under the annual Balikatan military exercises between the United States and the Philippines over the weekend have not only simulated real-life war.

The Chinese military has conducted large-scale drills around Taiwan as it again warned the self-ruled island against seeking formal independence.

The United States, Japan and the Philippines have staged joint naval drills to boost crisis readiness off a disputed South China Sea shoal as a Chinese military ship kept watch from a distance.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Trump administration will work with allies to ramp up deterrence against threats across the world, including China’s aggression in the South China Sea.

The experience of growing up Filipino American in a diplomatic family led Carmina Montesa Aldana, a mother of twins, to co-found the Neurosurgery Outreach Foundation, or NOF, in Jacksonville. The organization focuses on providing crucial neurosurgical care to underserved communities.

The Philippine defense chief has called China’s expansive claims in the South China Sea as “the biggest fiction and lie” that no Southeast Asian country will accept.

A Philippine official says U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to visit the Philippines, the first stop in his first trip to Asia next week, for talks that will include increasing deterrence against aggression in the disputed South China Sea.

Jailed former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has appeared by videoconference before judges at the International Criminal Court.

Military service leaders are telling senators that passing a temporary budget that keeps defense spending largely flat will hurt readiness and efforts to modernize the force.

The International Criminal Court has taken custody of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on a warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity for anti-drugs crackdowns he oversaw while in office.

The International Criminal Court has had former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte arrested on a warrant containing charges of murder as a crime against humanity over deadly anti-drugs crackdowns he oversaw while in office.

An unannounced trip by former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to Hong Kong has set off speculations that he may be trying to evade a possible arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court over his bloody crackdown on drugs.

Eight people have been killed in a nighttime fire in the Philippines that gutted a three-story residential building in less than an hour.

France’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and accompanying warships are in the Philippines after holding combat drills with Filipino forces in the disputed South China Sea in a show of firepower that will likely antagonize China.

A Philippine village in the densely populated capital region has launched a battle against dengue by offering a token bounty to residents for captured mosquitos — dead or alive.

A Chinese navy helicopter has flown within 10 feet of a Philippine patrol plane in a disputed area of the the South China Sea, highlighting Beijing's use of force in asserting its claims to the strategic waterway.

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte has asked the Supreme Court to void her impeachment and block a Senate trial that could remove her from office.

A U.S. Marine from California has been identified by military officials as one of four people killed when a plane contracted by the U.S. military crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines.

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte says her lawyers are preparing for a legal battle in her upcoming impeachment trial but refused to say if resignation is an option.

U.S. Indo-Pacific Command says that one U.S. service member and three defense contractors were killed when a plane contracted by the U.S. military crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines.

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte has been impeached on a range of accusations that include plotting to assassinate the president and engaging in large-scale corruption.

A United States-based watchdog has launched an online database on more than 80 Roman Catholic priests who have been accused of sexually abusing minors in the Philippines and said the silence of Filipino bishops on the such assaults amounted to a cover-up.

The Philippine coast guard says Chinese coast guard ships and a Chinese navy helicopter harassed a group of Philippine fisheries vessels conducting a scientific survey in a hotly disputed area of the South China Sea, forcing them to cancel the operation.

The Philippines has launched a comic book to counter what the country says is China’s disinformation campaign to push its expansive territorial claims in the South China Sea.

President Joe Biden in his Wednesday farewell speech to the nation warned that American democracy was sliding into an “oligarchy” of tech billionaires.

At least 1.8 million mostly barefoot Catholic worshippers are marching in an annual procession in the Philippines that venerates a centuries-old black statue of Jesus.

A group of Afghan nationals have arrived in the Philippines to process special immigrant visas for their resettlement in the United States.

About 87,000 people are being evacuated in a central Philippine region after a volcano erupted with a huge plume of ash and superhot streams of gas and debris hurtling down its slopes.

A large volcano eruption in the Philippines sent a plume of ash and gases up to 1.8 miles high following a powerful blast that sent villagers fleeing to emergency shelters.

Thirteen women from the Philippines have been convicted on human trafficking-related charges for acting as surrogates in Cambodia for a ring selling babies to foreigners for cash.

An impeachment complaint has been filed against Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, who is facing a legal storm over a death threat she made against the president and her alleged role in extra-judicial killings of drug suspects, corruption and failure to stand up to Chinese aggression in the disputed South China Sea.

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte says she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has condemned China's dangerous actions against the Philippines and renewed a warning that the United States would defend its treaty ally if Filipino forces come under an armed attack in the disputed South China Sea.

Developing nations have a long list of changes their farmers need to make to adapt to a warming climate.

The United States and the Philippines have signed an agreement to secure the exchange of highly confidential military intelligence and technology in key weapons the U.S. would provide to Manila.

Typhoon Man-yi has left at least seven people dead in a landslide, destroyed houses and displaced large numbers of villagers before blowing away from the northern Philippines, worsening the crisis wreaked by multiple back-to-back storms.

A powerful typhoon has wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it barreled across the northern Philippines in the sixth major storm to pound the Southeast Asian country in less than a month.

Typhoon Usagi has swamped rural villages in floods, knocked down power and displaced thousands more people before blowing away from the northern Philippines, which has been pounded by five major storms in less than a month.

Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro says he doesn't expect U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s next administration will demand the Philippines pay more for military protection because both allies face the shared threat of China.

A new typhoon has made landfall in the northeastern Philippines, which has been battered by earlier storms.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has signed two laws reaffirming the extent of his country’s maritime territories and right to resources, including in the South China Sea, where the new laws clash with Beijing’s extensive territorial claims.

Typhoon Yinxing battered the northern Philippines with floods and landslides before blowing away from the country, leaving two airports damaged and aggravating a calamity caused by back-to-back storms that hit in recent weeks.

Christians in many countries around the world are celebrating All Saints’ Day, a somber and spiritual day in the church’s liturgical calendar that shares pagan roots with Halloween.

A powerful typhoon made landfall in Taiwan, killing two people and bringing high winds and floods to much of the island’s east coast and northern areas.

Residents of a northern Philippine town are picking up the pieces following one of the deadliest storms to hit the country this year.

The number of dead and missing in massive flooding and landslides in the Philippines has reached nearly 130 and the president says many areas remain isolated.

Tropical storm Trami has blown away from the northwestern Philippines, leaving at least 82 people dead mostly in extensive flooding and landslides.

Dundrill Guarin, originally from Cebu, and Erwin Almojera from Manila, formed a partnership and friendship through their wives long before founding SAHOG. Their goal is to redefine the Filipino culinary experience, moving beyond the traditional pancit and lumpia often found at gatherings.

Widespread flooding and landslides set off by a tropical storm in the northeastern Philippines left at least 24 people dead, swept away cars and prompted authorities to scramble for motorboats to rescue trapped villagers, some on roofs.

Torrential rain set off by an approaching storm has swamped eastern Philippine cities and towns in widespread floods that have killed at least nine people, trapped others on their roofs and sparked frantic appeals for help.

A US Army general says the deployment by the US military of a mid-range missile system in the northern Philippines was “incredibly important” and allowed American and Filipino forces to jointly train for the potential usage of such heavy weaponry in conditions in an Asian tropical archipelago.

Philippine police say a search is underway after four gunmen reportedly abducted an American national, who was shot in the leg as he tried to resist before being spirited away by speedboat.

Human rights activists called on Filipino voters to reject former President Rodrigo Duterte and detained televangelist Apollo Quiboloy in next year’s mid-term elections, citing the criminal allegations they’re facing.

A powerful typhoon is lashing the northernmost islands of the Philippines, where officials are warning of “potentially very destructive” damage to coastal villages.

Two Philippine officials say that American and Filipino security officials have agreed to keep a U.S. mid-range missile system in the northern Philippines indefinitely to boost deterrance despite China’s expressions of alarm.

China has test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean.

China should do more to battle the illegal online gambling and scam call centers run by Chinese criminal syndicates in Southeast Asian countries often using forced labor, a Philippine senator who led an investigation into the centers said Friday.

NASA says a small, harmless asteroid has burned up in Earth’s atmosphere.

A fierce storm is blowing out of the northern Philippines after leaving at least 14 people dead in landslides, floods and swollen waterways.

A U.S. admiral says American forces are ready with a “range of options” to deal with increasing acts of aggression in the disputed South China Sea after consultations with treaty ally the Philippines.

Indo-Pacific commander Adm. Samuel Paparo says the U.S. military is open to the possibility of escorting Philippine ships in the disputed South China Sea, depending on consultations under the allies’ 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty.

Chinese coast guard ship have fired water cannons, blocked and rammed a Philippine fisheries vessel in the disputed South China Sea, where hostilities between the Asian neighbors have flared alarmingly at sea and spread into the air in recent weeks.

Officials say a Philippine fisheries bureau plane has been threatened by flares fired from a Chinese island.

The Philippines has agreed to temporarily host a U.S. immigrant visa processing center for a limited number of Afghan nationals aspiring to resettle in America.

Chinese and Philippine coast guard ships have collided at sea, damaging at least two of the vessels, in an encounter near a new flashpoint in their increasingly alarming confrontations in the disputed South China Sea.

The Philippine military chief has condemned what he said was the provocative actions of two Chinese air force aircraft that executed a dangerous maneuver and dropped flares in the path of a Philippine air force plane on routine patrol in the South China Sea.