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Nayib Bukele manouevred to run for a second term in El Salvador, and voters fatigued and concerned about violent crime rewarded the president despite a measure that was considered by many to be unconstitutional.  Country’s violent crime rate has plummeted, with tens of thousands imprisoned. Nayib Bukele was exultant Sunday …

Volunteers in central Chile tried to remove charred metal, broken glass and other debris Monday from neighbourhoods devastated by wildfires over the past several days, as officials raised the death toll to 122. Hundreds of people remain missing.  At least 122 dead, at least 3,000 homes burned down in Valparaiso …

This file photo shows the Batasan Pambansa complex./Michael Varcas, file  MANILA, Philippines — The House of Representatives has been placed on heightened alert following threats received by lawmakers and House staff last week, including bomb threats, Secretary General Reginald Velasco said on Monday. Velasco told reporters that the House has started enforcing …

Photo from PBBM’s Official FB Page  There will be no room for mudslinging and demolition jobs under the “Bagong Pilipinas” campaign that the administration is advocating, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said in a YouTube post over the weekend. The President issued the statement a week after former President Rodrigo Duterte …

National Security Adviser Eduardo Año BARMM, regional leaders also call for PH ‘to protect gains’ National Security Adviser Eduardo Año joined the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and political leaders over the weekend in denouncing attempts to dismember the country, after former President Rodrigo Duterte hinted last week of …

Fishermen check the floating barriers installed by the Chinese Coast Guard (CCG) at the passage heading to Scarborough Shoal in the West Philippine Sea. (STAR / Michael Varcas)  MANILA, Philippines — Six Catholic bishops in dioceses near fisher communities have issued a rare appeal for the government to bring the …

Antony Blinken  Palestinian Territories – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will kick off another Mideast crisis tour on Monday in a bid to secure a new truce in the Israel-Hamas war, as southern Gaza saw no let-up in fighting. On his fifth trip to the region since Hamas’s October …

The second of back-to-back storms battered California on Sunday, flooding roadways and knocking out power to more than 845,000 people and prompting a rare warning for hurricane-force winds as the state braced for what could be days of heavy rains.  Nearly 846,000 customers without electricity statewide, according to poweroutage.us. The …

Parliament spent nearly $600,000 on luxury hotel rooms it didn’t use when nearly half of the delegates at a conference of European parliamentarians it hosted either didn’t show up or chose less expensive hotels.  Conservative whip calls it a ‘disastrous waste of money.’ Parliament spent nearly $600,000 on luxury hotel …

At least 64 people have died from forest fires raging in Chile — an increase of 13 in the past day, President Gabriel Boric said on Sunday, adding that the death toll is likely to increase further.  ‘We will have to work rigorously to find who is responsible,’ says regional …