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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDVbxvDuxy4 MANILA, Philippines --- Most parts of the country will have cloudy skies with a chance of rains on Saturday, the state weather bureau said. In its 4 a.m. live weather update, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said that the inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ) continues to affect Southern Mindanao. "Sa kasalukuyan, patuloy pa rin nakakaapekto ICTZ dito nga sa katimugang Mindanao na siya pa ring nagdadala ng mga pag-ulan sa malaking bahagi ng Mindanao," weather specialist Meno Mendoza said in the live weather update. (At present, the ITCZ continues to affect Southern Mindanao, ...

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MANILA, Philippines --- A magnitude 5.2 earthquake jolted a large swath of Mindanao in the early hours of Saturday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. The inland quake, which struck at 2:16 a.m. beneath Davao Region, centered 11 kilometers southeast of Kiblawan town in Davao del Sur. There were no immediate reports of damage or injury from the tremblor that was of tectonic origin and occurred at a 19-kilometer depth of focus. Phivolcs said that the quake was also felt in the following areas: Reported Intensity V - Bansalan and Magsaysay, Davao del Sur Instrumental Intensity IV - Kidapawan City; Tupi, South Cotabato; Malungon, Sara...

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President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of his longtime friend Roger Stone, who was convicted of crimes that included lying to Congress in part, prosecutors said, to protect the President. The announcement came just days before Stone was set to report to a federal prison. CNN's Kaitlan Collins has more.

Roughly five hours after an internal email went out to employees telling them to delete the popular video app TikTok from their phones, Amazon appeared to backtrack, calling the ban a mistake. "This morning's email to some of our employees was sent in error. There is no change to our policies right now with regard to TikTok," Amazon emailed reporters just before 5 p.m. Eastern time. Spokeswoman Jaci Anderson declined to answer questions about what happened. The initial internal email, which was disseminated widely online, told employees to delete TikTok, a video app increasingly popular with young people but also the focus of intensifying national-security and geopolitical conc...

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President Donald Trump, for the first time, confirmed the US conducted a covert cyberattack in 2018 against Russia's Internet Research Agency. The Internet Research Agency is a troll farm blamed by the US for helping to facilitate interference both in the 2016 presidential election and the 2018 midterms.

President Donald Trump commuted the prison sentence of his longtime friend Roger Stone, who was convicted of crimes that included lying to Congress in part, prosecutors said, to protect the President. CNN's Jeffrey Toobin and Preet Bharara weigh in on the decision.

HAVANA --- The COVID-19 pandemic is sweeping through the leadership of Latin America, with two more presidents and powerful officials testing positive this week for the new coronavirus, adding a destabilizing new element to the region's public health and economic crises. In Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro, 65, announced his illness Tuesday and is using it to publicly extol hydroxychloroquine, the unproven malaria drug that he's been promoting as a treatment for COVID-19, and now takes himself. Bolivian interim President Jeanine Aez, 53, made her own diagnosis public Thursday, throwing her already troubled political propects into further doubt. And in Venezuela, 57-year-old ...

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The Philadelphia Eagles announced on Friday that the team has "penalized" wide receiver DeSean Jackson for conduct detrimental to the team after Jackson shared a series of anti-Semitic Instagram posts.

Nations and companies around the world are being sucked into a running battle over the future of technology between the United States and China, forcing them to choose sides in a conflict that is fracturing global supply chains and pushing businesses out of lucrative markets.

Three Los Angeles police officers face charges for allegedly falsely identifying people as gang members or associates, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office.

The US Army is assembling a panel of four civilian consultants to review the "command climate and culture" at Fort Hood in Texas, in the wake of the killing of Spc. Vanessa Guillen, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy announced Friday.

He was South Korea's second-most powerful official and a potential presidential contender. Now, the death of Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon has left the country divided.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top expert on infection diseases in the US, says he hasn't briefed President Trump in months, and says his blunt messaging may be why he's not being allowed on US television recently.

LOS ANGELES --- With their marriage under social-media scrutiny, Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith reaffirmed their commitment to each other as Pinkett Smith admitted to having a relationship with musician August Alsina when she and Smith were separated. In a one-on-one conversation Friday on Pinkett Smith's series "Red Table Talk," she said she was reluctantly discussing Alsina's reported comments because of the public speculation they provoked. What started as a friendship and a family effort to help Alsina with his health about four years ago became a "different kind of entanglement" at a time when she and Smith thought their marriage was over, Pinkett Smith said. "An ent...

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President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the prison sentence of his friend and former political adviser, Roger Stone, days before Stone was set to report to a federal prison in Georgia, according to the White House.

SINGAPORE --- Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's long-governing party comfortably won Friday's general elections, which took place amid the coronavirus pandemic, but faced a setback as the opposition made minor gains. Lee said his People's Action Party secured 83 parliamentary seats, or 89% of the total, while its popular vote dipped to 61%. The Workers Party, the only opposition with a presence in parliament, increased its seats from six to 10. It marked a decline in the PAP's performance from 2015 polls where it took 93% of seats and nearly 70% of total vote. "It's not as strong a mandate as I hoped for but it's a good mandate," Lee told a news conference. "This was n...

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NEW YORK --- The legendary Live Aid concerts 35 years ago did a lot of good --- helping reduce African famine and putting a spotlight on the world's poorest nations. But it wasn't always good for one of its key organizers. Irish rock star Bob Geldof may have earned awards and cheers for pulling off 1985s transcontinental music event, though it took a toll on his personal life and career. Live Aid changed Geldof from frontman of the Boomtown Rats singing their hit "I Don't Like Mondays" to something more divine. "I became Saint Bob," Geldof told The Associated Press in an interview earlier this year. He said he wasn't happy about the glory that came with his charity work. "I ...

Keep on reading: 35 years after Live Aid, Bob Geldof assesses personal toll