Super-typhoon Nanmadol left at least 16 people dead after hitting the Philippines, and the toll is expected to rise as hopes of finding those missing fade, the civil defence chief said on Monday.

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Super-typhoon Nanmadol battered the northern tip of the Philippines on Saturday, bringing heavy rain and causing landslides that left at least four people dead or missing, civil defence officials said

The death toll in the Philippines from tropical storm Nock-ten climbed to 41 on Friday, as millions of people across the main island of Luzon mopped up after a week of heavy rain, officials said.

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Four earthquakes with magnitudes ranging from 5 to 6.2 on the Richter Scale hit Philippines early on Tuesday, Xinhua reported.

The tremblors hit Philippines' Negros Occidental province, with the late

Philippine President Benigno Aquino said on Tuesday the country needed help from long-time ally the United States in its increasingly tense dispute with China over rival claims in the South China sea.

Boats lay idle on the shores of a lake surrounding the Philippines' rumbling Taal volcano as village elder Violy Seda retold her dramatic escape from death a generation ago.

The 65-year-old woman was

Tropical storm Aere slammed into the eastern Philippine coast on Sunday, bringing heavy rains and landslides that have so far killed nine people and forced thousands to leave their homes.

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Taiwan said on Tuesday it had removed sanctions put in place against the Philippines during a diplomatic row sparked when Manila deported Taiwanese nationals to China.

Manila: An outspoken radio broadcaster in the Philippines was shot dead on Monday, police said, becoming the latest journalist to be murdered in one of the world's most dangerous countries for the me

An outspoken radio broadcaster in the Philippines was shot dead on Monday, the police said, becoming the latest journalist to be murdered in one of the world's most dangerous countries for the media.