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Chinese warship fires laser at BFAR aircraft off Palawan

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START OF ELECTION SEASON People registering as voters ahead of next year's midterm polls form a long queue at the Commission of Elections' (Comelec) satellite office at a mall in Manila on Monday, the last day of voter registration. Comelec also begins today its weeklong schedule for the filing of candidacies. —RICHARD A. REYES

Hi there. Chinese warship fires laser at BFAR aircraft off Palawan

Getting nearer and nearer: A Chinese Navy missile boat fired lasers three times at a Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources aircraft conducting maritime surveillance near Hasa-Hasa (Half Moon) Shoal, located just about 60 nautical miles off Palawan.

Amid the escalating tension and violence in Lebanon due to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, OFWs in the country want faster repatriation and on Sunday bemoaned what they said was the Marcos government's sluggish response.

Reviving the ROTC is a "blatant attempt to use our youth as pawns in geopolitical conflicts," said the Alliance of Concerned Teachers -- just one of the many groups opposed to the government's plan to bring back the mandatory student military service program.

Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal No. 4 is now raised over Batanes as Typhoon "Julian," with maximum sustained winds of 175 km per hour near the center and gustiness of up to 215 kph, was projected to reach supertyphoon category by late Monday.

Suga of K-pop boy band supergroup BTS has been fined 15 million won ($11,500) by a court for drunk driving while on an electric scooter. The songwriter-rapper had made an apology in August for what he said was his "careless and wrong behavior."

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