President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that Israel and the United States were opening talks on extending US military aid beyond 2017, on his first visit to the Jewish state since taking office.
The military took a swipe at militant groups, saying noisy protests are not helping survivors of Typhoon “Pablo” any.
Annaliza Leban gave birth to Charlie, the first of the triplets, in this town on Nov. 27. That same day she was rushed to a hospital in Mati City to deliver, this time by Caesarean section, Charmaine and Charlene.
The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Friday said it needed more than P1.3 billion in additional donations to support its efforts in Pablo-devastated areas because “humanitarian needs [there are] still staggeringly high more than two months” after the typhoon made landfall.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said it is ending the food relief phase of its assistance to areas ravaged by Typhoon “Pablo” as it prepares to roll out the next phase, rehabilitation.
The United States government has given $4 million in additional aid for survivors of Typhoon “Pablo,” according to a top official of an international relief agency.
Traditional donors such as big companies, businessmen and civic groups of the Army’s 4th Light Armor Battalion (LAB) based in Camp Nakar have shifted to helping the thousands of victims of Typhoon “Pablo” in Mindanao.
The group Doctors Without Borders has aided victims of war and disease in countries like Sudan, Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
THE United Coconut Planters Bank-Coconut Industry Investment Fund (UCPB-CIIF) Foundation Inc. marked its 25th year of providing assistance to local coconut farmers and their dependents.
Politicians and aid officials will gather in Japan’s quake- and tsunami-hit northeast Tuesday to discuss what lessons can be learned from disasters.
A Republican congresswoman Friday froze a request by the Obama administration for $450 million in cash for the Egyptian government, saying it needed new scrutiny amid rocky US ties with Cairo.
Activist priest Fr. Robert Reyes on Friday called on Congress to conduct a serious investigation on the operations of so-called ”non-government organizations” in the country following the fund scandal that involved the founder and president of Visayan Forum Foundation Inc., a group known for its campaign against human trafficking.
DESPITE some reservations, the City Council yesterday approved the P5 million donation to victims of last month’s massive floods in Luzon. Councilor Margot Osmeña, the council’s budget committee head, assured the council that there was still enough calamity funds to spend for the rest of the year. Osmeña reported to the council in yesterday morning’s [...]
