Philippines

The storm is "a historically significant event," one scientist said.

The island has been closed to tourism since February because overdevelopment had resulted in severe pollution.

They were left floating on the wreckage for five days.

Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines, had hospital tests amid speculation that his health is in decline.

He said if it was stage III cancer, he would not seek treatment.

There are 261 joint exercises scheduled for this year, which will increase to 281 in 2019.

Human rights groups say at least 12,000 people have been killed since Duterte took office in 2016.

Packing hurricane-force winds over 124 miles per hour, the storm barreled past the northern Philippines, skirted south of Hong Kong and Macau, before making landfall in China.

As many as 100 people may have been buried alive in the northern Philippines.

Typhoon Mangkhut, which is locally known as Ompong, hit the Philippines on Saturday, before making its way towards southern China and Vietnam.

Around 5 million people are in the path of the super typhoon's 180-mile-per-hour winds.

The president said the coup was planned by rogue elements within the military, communist rebels and opposing political parties.

Mariano Blanco, 59, was killed as he slept in his office.

If arrested, Antonio Trillanes would be the second senator detained by presidential order.

The quake struck at around 10:40 p.m. local time near Occidental Mindoro.

The president claimed the beauty of local women was behind the high rate of rape in Davao City.

A Xiamen Air Boeing 737-800 crashed at Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport early on Friday morning.

The Philippine leader has previously called God "stupid" and a "son of a bitch," raising concerns in the mostly Catholic nation.

"It's not just the heels," Simon Cowell said.

"I want you to know that I am thinking of stepping down because I'm tired," Duterte said during a speech on Tuesday, citing weariness with "graft and corruption."

Some militants are still fighting while others are "hiding out in sympathetic communities and urban areas," according to a new U.N. report.

Naval ships and aircraft are conducting round-the-clock searches of the area.

"Your concern is human rights, mine is human lives," the president told a joint session of Congress.

The president will oversee the country's transition to a federal constitution in 2022 but will not be allowed to seek re-election.

The latest official to die in the Philippines this week was a Vice Mayor.

During a speech at a science and technology event, the president of the Philippines vowed to resign if proven that God is real.

Antonio Halili was killed by a single shot to the chest as he stood for the national anthem.

"It is a pleasure to see that the scope of competitions expand geographically and the list of participants grow," Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The leader of the Philippines doubled down on comments about the story of Adam and Eve, announcing, "Your God is not my God, because your God is stupid."

The president had already approved 33 different projects to upgrade and modernize military capacities.