The devastation in the southern Philippines left by Tropical Storm Washi has created "huge" humanitarian needs in the area, the United Nations said Wednesday, estimating that nearly a half-million people are in need of assistance.
The death toll in the Philippines from a tropical storm that struck the south of the country over the weekend has risen above 1,000, a government official said Wednesday.
President Benigno Aquino of the Philippines declared a state of national calamity on Tuesday after visiting areas in the south of the country that were devastated by a tropical storm over the weekend.
Journalist Maria Ressa discusses aid and rescue efforts in the Philippines following a deadly tropical storm.
Former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was formally charged with electoral sabotage Saturday, days after she was detained as she tried to leave the country.
Filipinos on Tuesday marked the first anniversary of what are considered the worst politically motivated killings in recent Philippine history.
CNN's Anna Coren talks with two survivors of the Manila bus siege.
The Philippine government will pursue administrative sanctions, rather than criminal charges, against officials involved in a botched hostage rescue that left eight tourists from Hong Kong dead, the country's president said.
An investigative committee looking into last month's bungled bus standoff in the Philippines has recommended criminal or administrative charges against former top police officials and three television networks, President Benigno Aquino told reporters Monday.
A report into the Manila hostage crisis is expected to recommend charges against several people. Anna Coren reports.
Philippine media are getting a hard look as authorities investigate the fatally bungled rescue of tourists in a bus standoff last month.
An isolated incident involving a lone gunman in Manila has turned into an international incident that is proving the first real test of newly elected President Benigno Aquino.
A new era is beginning in the Philippines -- or you could call it the continuation of a political dynasty.
Philippine President-elect Benigno Aquino III talks about high hopes and his family's political heritage.
Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared a state of emergency after security forces thwarted what they said was a plot to overthrow her.
In 1986, Corazon Aquino, a self-professed housewife and mother, became an international symbol for non-violent political resistance when she became the first woman president of the Philippines three years after her husband, a political opposition leader, was assassinated.
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