President Rodrigo Duterte declared on Thursday that the killings related to his administration's drug war will continue, until the last drug lord and pusher is dead or behind bars.
Following the beheading of German national Juergen Kantner on Sunday by the Abu Sayyaf Group in Sulu, the Department of National Defense has vowed once again to go after the ASG with the "full force of the law.”
70-year old Ric Obenza ?said Secretary Gina Lopez ?"?needs to continue what she started because the closure of mining companies? ?should have happened a long time ago?."
The Philippine National Police has challenged the New York-based watchdog Human Rights Watch to pr?esent evidence, affidavits, and file the appropriate cases against erring policemen, if allegations ?of planting evidence were true.
A lay minister at the Immaculate Conception Parish in Mintal, Davao City marks churchgoers' foreheads ?on Wednesday ?with ashes from burned palm branches ?used from the the previous year's Palm Sunday mass. March 1 is the observance of the Catholics' Ash Wednesday, the first day of the Lenten Season.(Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)