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This handout photograph and released on Saturday by Caladan Oceanic shows the main wreckage of the USS Johnston (DD-557), a US Navy Fletcher-class destroyer that sank during the Battle of Samar in World War II, resting on the ocean floor off Samar Island in the Philippines at a depth of nearly 6,500 meters, the deepest shipwreck ever recorded.-AFPnn

'Deepest wreck dive' reaches US WWII ship off Philippines
MANILA: Residents caught by police breaking quarantine health protocols sit in a police vehicle in Manila yesterday on day one of government's imposing stricter lockdown, as hospitals in the capital struggle to cope with a surge in coronavirus infections. - AFPn

Philippines locks down economic hub to fight virus surge
This undated handout photo taken by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and received from the Philippine Communications Operations Office (PCOO) yesterday shows Chinese Maritime vessels anchored at the Whitsun Reef, around 320 kilometers (175 nautical miles) west of Bataraza in Palawan in the South China Sea. - AFPn

Philippines accuses China of 'incursion' in disputed sea
MANILA: A city employee disinfects a street at an informal settlers area on Tuesday. - AFP n

Philippines to shut border to foreigners
In this photo taken on December 2, 2020, Donna Valdez, 15, -- whose name AFP has changed to protect her identity -- carries her child at a health centre in Manila. - The Catholic-majority country has one of the lowest ages of consent in the world, allowing adults to legally have sex with children as young as 12 if they agree. Congress now looks set to approve a bill to raise the age to 16. (Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP) / To go with AFP story Philippines-crime-teenagers-sex, FOCUS by Allison JACKSON

Victory for children: Philippines set to raise age of consent to 16
People push a half-submerged tricycle through a flooded street due to heavy rains caused by tropical depression Vicky in San Francisco town, Agusan del sur province on the southern island of Mindanao on December 18, 2020. (Photo by erwin mascarinas / AFP)

Two die, hundreds flee floods as storm batters Philippines
In this photo taken on Noveber 26, 2020, volunteers at a Catholic religious order Society of the Divine Word (SVD center pack free meals to be distributed to street dwellers in Manila. - Charities are struggling to meet the ever-growing demand for food as millions of families go hungry across the country where Covid-19 restrictions have crippled the economy and thrown many out of work. (Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY: Philippines Health virus homelessness food, FOCUS by Allison JACKSON

Record hunger in Philippines as coronavirus restrictions bite
Residents are carried on a forklift truck to dry land through flood waters brought by heavy rain from Typhoon Vamco after it made landfall in Thua Thien Hue province on November 15, 2020. (Photo by Huy THANH / AFP)

Vamco hits Vietnam as Philippines death toll rises to 67
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Vietnam braces as typhoon kills 53 in Philippines
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