Phillipines

The quake came early in the morning as schools were reopening in the Philippines after a long break, with the tremors felt strongly in a dozen provinces.

The snake was described as roughly 1.2 meters long and tangled in the plumbing.

Gunshots were heard late on Wednesday inside the Senate building, and people inside scrambled for cover, after dela Rosa appealed on social media for supporters to mobilize.

Duterte was arrested last March, with prosecutors alleging he created, funded, and armed death squads to target and kill suspected ​narcotics peddlers and ​users.

Launching the exercises, Philippine armed forces chief Romeo Brawner said their purpose was to reaffirm the strength of their alliance and their responsibility to secure the region.

"The new routes will provide an optimal solution for business travelers," according to the company, "and will strengthen economic ties between Israel and Asia.”

The question is whether recent attacks are coordinated with any ISIS command, or whether ISIS is the go-to ideology for extremists, the way Al Qaeda once was for other groups.

Homemade IS flags were found in the suspects' car after Sunday’s attack, and police said on Tuesday the pair had visited the Philippines, where there are IS offshoots present.

The attack on Sunday was Australia's worst mass shooting in nearly 30 years, and is being investigated as an act of terrorism targeting the Jewish community.

In Aurora province on Luzon island, where the storm arrived, lights went out but phone lines remained working, a civil defense official, Cheng Quizon, told DZBB radio.