Baste Duterte serves as acting Davao mayor| The wRap

Today’s headlines: Baste & Rodrigo Duterte, Alice Guo, Alexandra Eala

Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:

The Commission on Elections says Davao City vice mayor Sebastian Duterte automatically becomes the city’s acting mayor in place of his father.

A Manila court rules that Alice Guo is ‘undoubtedly Chinese’ and erased her mayorship from the records, judging she was never qualified to begin with, in a quo warranto petition filed by the Office of the Solicitor General.

Justice Secretary Boying Remulla confirms he will apply for the position of Ombudsman, as current Ombudsman Samuel Martires is set to retire this month.

Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto says he will not run for any position in 2028, even as he called on his political rivals to pay billions in unpaid taxes to the national and local governments.

After ‘one of the toughest losses’ of her career, Alex Eala has little time to recover as she turns her focus on her Wimbledon main draw debut.-Rappler.com