OSG: Pogo asset seizures, birth records purge next
The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) will play a key role in dealing with the Philippine offshore gaming operators’ (Pogos) exit from the country.
Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra on Wednesday told reporters that the OSG’s post-Pogo responsibilities would involve initiating proceedings to cancel fraudulent birth certificates issued to foreign nationals and to seize any properties they have acquired illegally in the country.
OCD: 3 dead, 2 missing due to rains triggered by ITCZ, shear line
Three persons died while two others reported missing following rains triggered by the shear line and the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), the Office of the Civil Defense (OCD) reported on Thursday.
OCD Undersecretary Ariel Nepomuceno said the two weather systems affected the Davao and Caraga regions in Mindanao, Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, Palawan) and Cagayan in late December 2024.
Terrorism suspected in New Orleans truck-ramming that killed 15
A US citizen with an Islamic State flag and “hellbent” on carnage steered a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year revelers in New Orleans on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens, officials said.
The FBI identified the attacker as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old US citizen from Texas and an Army veteran. He appeared to have been a real estate agent working in Houston and had served as an IT specialist in the military.