Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said on Nov. 23 she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed, in a brazen public threat that she warned was not a joke.

A former general, Prabowo Subianto, has been sworn in as the new president of Indonesia, and will even lead the country’s largest cabinet since the 1960s.

Philippines' President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (C) talks to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin during a courtesy visit at the Malacanang Palace in Manila on July 30, 2024.

Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, made a historic visit to the Philippines, where he met with his counterpart Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for the first time in bilateral relations between the two nations, as reported by Unian.

The United States and the Philippines announced on Thursday an agreement to expand American military presence in the Southeast Asian country, where U.S. forces would be granted access to four more Philippine military camps, effectively giving them new ground to ramp up deterrence against China's increasingly aggressive actions toward Taiwan and in the disputed South China Sea.

More than half of the deaths were recorded in the southern Bangsamoro region, mostly due to rain-triggered landslides, the national emergency service said, Reuters reported.
According to reports, more than 60 people are missing, while 69 are injured.