A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher Abbas Stanikzai, a political deputy at the Foreign M
INQUIRER.net stock photo MANILA, Philippines — The Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 175 dismissed the case against former Philippine National Police (PNP) Deputy Chief for Operations Lt. Gen. Benjamin Santos Jr. in connection with an a