Philippines

At least four people were killed and dozens wounded in a bomb attack on a Catholic mass in the insurgency-plagued southern Philippines on Sunday, with President Ferdinand Marcos blaming "foreign terrorists."

The blast happened during a morning service at Mindanao State University's gymnasium in Marawi, the country's largest Muslim city.

Teenage siblings, who spent 50-days in Hamas' captivity in Gaza with the hope of reuniting with their mother, were shattered when they came to know the harsh reality that their mother has been murdered on October 7 attack in Israel.

Noam and Alma Or were released on Saturday.

Türkiye and Turkish Cypriot forces have carried out their 19th annual joint search and rescue exercise near the Saint Hilarion Castle on the Kyrenia mountain range.

NEW YORK - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic and the Philippines' FM Enrique Manalo met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York and signed a memorandum on understanding and political consultations between their foreign ministries.

NEW YORK - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic met with the FMs of Argentina, Saint Lucia, Saudi Arabia, Rwanda, Antigua and Barbuda, Kiribati, Botswana, the Philippines and Senegal on the sidelines of the general debate at the UN General Assembly session in New York.

MANILA - The Serbia men's national basketball team won the silver medal at the 2023 FIBA World Cup after an 83-77 (23-26, 24-21, 22-10, 14-20) defeat to Germany in the competition's final in Manila on Sunday.

Aleksa Avramovic led the scoring for Serbia with 21 points and Bogdan Bogdanovic added 17.

Western countries and Japan, united in a global political alliance whose task is to suppress Beijing's influence in the world, received a new member at a meeting in the Czech Republic.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic met with the Philippines' FM Enrique Manalo on the sidelines of the 43rd ASEAN summit in Jakarta on Tuesday.

Ten foreigners accused of involvement in a major money laundering operation in Singapore were again remanded to custody on Wednesday, with new charges slapped on eight, as the city-state widens the net in one of its highest-profile crime cases.

Eight U.S. Marines remained in a hospital in the Australian north coast city of Darwin on Monday after they were injured in a fiery crash of a tiltrotor aircraft that killed three of their colleagues on an island.