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Chief prosecutors of the international court have a non-renewable term of nine years. Bensouda’s started in 2012 and is scheduled to end in June.

The graphic and Lacson's endorsement was made to look recent and timed for the 2022 national polls.

Voting unanimously, the Supreme Court (SC), sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), dismissed “the entire electoral protest” that former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. filed against Vice President Leni Robredo to wrestle the country’s second highest post.

​Apart from COVID-19 itself, there is a battle being waged against vaccine-related misinformation.

The COVID-19 pandemic is real, with over 109.5 million cases of the disease recorded in 192 countries as of Feb. 17.

No presidential decree has been issued, nor a congressional act approved, to make the name change.

Enforcement of the Child Safety in Motor Vehicles Act has been deferred to give car owners with children 12 years and younger time to install appropriate car seats specified in the new law.

The image is a year old.

The secrecy rule applies only to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

The water turned crimson after it mixed with dyes from a nearby batik factory.

The company’s head of corporate communications said Zobel de Ayala “did not say any of these things.”

RA 10868 provides a cash gift of P100,000 only for Filipinos who reach 100 years of age.

The average retail prices of pork have ballooned by nearly 100% since the first case of African Swine Fever (ASF) was confirmed in the country in August 2019.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) shared on Facebook (FB) a column published in The Manila Times that bore inaccurate claims about the late senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr.’s death and supposed ties to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).

In justifying the unilateral abrogation of the 1989 UP-DND Accord and the re-entry of police patrol forces in the University of the Philippines (UP) campuses to quell the alleged recruitment by communist rebels, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana mistakenly claimed that every barangay in Metro Manila has a police precinct.

This is not the first time the video of the August 2020 Bonoua protest was used in a wrong context.

The site that published the hoax masquerades as a legitimate site of the GMA news program 24 Oras.

This is a malicious spin on an actual statement made by Elago.

The Davao city mayor has made no such announcement.

In his social media accounts on Feb. 1, former senator Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes IV cited incorrect data on Israel’s coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program. His claim on the vaccination status of the member-states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) needs context.

Former broadcaster Jay Sonza, a Facebook (FB) user, and an FB page posted a manipulated photo of Manila Bay’s dolomite beach that has been debunked several times by fact-checkers.

In just two days, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. went from saying the passage of China’s new coast guard law — which allows it to fire on foreign vessels in China-claimed maritime areas — was “none of our business,” to calling it a “verbal threat of war” to those who will violate it.

The former chief executive did not get that grade, although he was the bar topnotcher that year with a score of 92.35%.

The claim of Executive Director Joel Egco of the Presidential Task Force on Media Security about the conviction of the accused in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre needs context.