MANILA: At least 15 villagers were killed and several others injured when the truck they were riding in lost control and fell off a cliff Tuesday in a remote mountain village in the southern Philippines, police and the Red Cross said.

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s government, at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) extraordinary ministerial meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, (Sept. 15), said that Israel’s campaign promise on its west bank annexation plan was a violation of the international law.

PEKANBARU: The presidential aircraft carrying President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) landed smoothly at Sultan Syarif Kasim II Airport in Pekanbaru at 6.30 p.m. Monday as thick smoke enveloped the Riau provincial capital in the past few days.

MINDANAO: At least four Chinese companies have already expressed interest to build an P82.9-billion segment of the Mindanao railway project (MRP), government officials said.

MANILA: The House of Representatives is on track to approve the proposed P4.1-trillion national budget for 2020 this week.

PALANGKA RAYA: The thickening haze arising from land and forest fires disrupted the flight schedules of Tjilik Riwut Airport in Palangka Raya, the capital city of Central Kalimantan Province, on Sunday.

JAKARTA: Indonesia has arrested nearly 200 people over vast forest fires ripping across the archipelago, police said Monday, as toxic haze sends air quality levels plummeting and sparks flight cancellations.

MANILA: The Philippine National Police-Highway Patrol Group (PNP-HPG) is back on Edsa, with its armed teams seen to have a greater “intimidating factor” than unarmed traffic enforcers of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA).

MANILA: “This is serious. It will — not could — affect us deeply.” Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. (pic) made this pronouncement after Houthi rebels from Yemen attacked two major oil sites in Saudi Arabia.

MANILA: Vice President Leni Robredo (pic) called out presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo for his contradicting statements with President Rodrigo Duterte on whether the administration would “ignore” the South China Sea arbitral ruling.