MANILA, Philippines — Five areas in the city of Manila that were gutted by fire last Sunday, including the depressed community of Isla Puting Bato, have been placed under a state of calamity.

A cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah brokered by the U.S. and France took effect in Lebanon early Wednesday, raising hopes of ending more than a year of cross-border strikes and a full-scale ...

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A massive fire tore through a coastal shanty town in the Philippine capital on Sunday, leaving at least 2,000 families homeless as flames billowed for nearly eight hours. Drone footage from the ...

A Russian plane carrying 95 people caught fire after landing at Antalya airport in Turkey on Sunday, but all passengers and crew were safely evacuated. The Sukhoi Superjet 100 type aircraft ...

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Nov. 25 (UPI) --A large fire swept through a shanty town near the port area of Manila in the Philippines on Sunday night, destroying about 1,000 homes and leaving more than 8,000 people homeless.

MANILA, Philippines — Around 2,000 families were left homeless after a six-hour fire destroyed about 1,000 shanties in Isla Puting Bato, Tondo, Manila yesterday morning. In a report, the Bureau ...

The fire destroyed more than 1,000 structures in eight hours in the city’s Tondo district before firefighters extinguished it Sunday, Manila’s disaster management office said. As of Monday ...