Catholic priest Robert Reyes raises his hand as he prays over the police officers blocking protesters from marching during a protest calling for fair elections, a day after the midterm elections, in Manila, Philippines on May 13, 2025. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)





City workers dump election campaign posters at a sorting facility in Marikina City, Metro Manila, Philippines, 14 May 2025. Regions around the country began clean-up operations to dismantle and collect campaign materials that spread throughout communities leading up to the 12 May midterm elections, as the Commission on Elections (Comelec) continues its canvass of nationwide votes for some 18,000 national and local government positions. (Photo by Rolex dela Peña/EPA/EFE)





A boatman paddles along the trash-filled Manila Bay coastline, Philippines, 03 June 2025. World Environment Day is celebrated annually on 05 June, with this year's theme calling for collective action to tackle plastic pollution. (Photo by Francis R. Malasig/EPA)





A woman picks a water bottle from the washed-up garbage on the polluted Pasig River on World Environment Day in Manila, Philippines on June 4, 2025. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)





Children play on a tree swing while Filipino Muslims attend Eid al-Adha prayers outside Blue Mosque in Taguig City, Philippines, on June 6, 2025. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)





A man holds an umbrella reading “Convict Sara Now!” as people gather to protest following the Senate's decision on the impeachment trial of Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, outside the Senate of the Philippines in Pasay, Metro Manila on June 11, 2025. House of Representatives prosecutors said on June 11 that Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte's impeachment trial could not be stopped despite the Senate sending the case back to them hours after convening as a court. (Photo by Jam Sta Rosa/AFP Photo)





Workers push a trolley loaded with mannequins dressed in indigenous costumes during the 127th Independence Day celebration at Quirino Grandstand in Manila on June 12, 2025. (Photo by Ted Aljibe/AFP Photo)





Parents and guardians look from a bridge outside an elementary school during the opening of the new school year in Quezon city, Philippines on Monday, June 16, 2025. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





Parents and guardians look from outside the gates of an elementary school during the opening of the new school year in Quezon city, Philippines on Monday, June 16, 2025. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





Filipino fans wearing Superman costumes gesture during the “Superman Look Up Fan Meet” in Manila, Philippines, 19 June 2025. The “Superman” movie world tour kicks off in the Philippines. The movie is scheduled for an international release on 09 July 2025. (Photo by Francis R. Malasig/EPA)





A teacher guides kindergarten students during an earthquake drill at an elementary school in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, 19 June 2025. The Philippines conducted the second quarterly nationwide earthquake drill on 19 June, as authorities remind the public to actively participate in emergency exercises to improve responses in times of actual disasters. (Photo by Rolex dela Peña/EPA/EFE)





People watch as a skater performs during Go Skateboarding Day 2025 in Manila on June 21, 2025. (Photo by Jam Sta Rosa/AFP Photo)





Devotees of the small farming village of Bibiclat celebrate the Feast of Saint John the Baptist while covered in banana leaves and mud on June 24, 2025 in Aliaga, Philippines. Known as the “Taong Putik” (mud people), the ritual happens yearly in this small farming village as their own version of expressing their faith and celebrating the feast of Saint John the Baptist whom the survivors of the Japanese occupation in 1944 in their area prayed to for rain to save their fellow villagers. A marker near the church entrance of the village tells a story of a heavy torrential rain that happened that day that forced the Japanese military to call off the execution of 14 villagers. The Philippines is the only predominantly Catholic country in Southeast Asia after more than 300 years of Spanish rule. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)





A Filipino activist holds an anti-war poster during a protest near the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines, on June 27, 2025. (Photo by Noel Celis/Reuters)





Filipino children frolic on top of a damaged dike reinforced with sandbags in Navotas City, Metro Manila, Philippines, 30 June 2025. The Philippine government weather bureau is monitoring a Low Pressure Area (LPA) located in the eastern part of the country, which is already bringing heavy rains and has the potential to develop into a tropical storm as it nears the Philippine landmass. (Photo by Francis R. Malasig/EPA)





A child plays along Manila Bay on July 3, 2025. (Photo by Jam Sta Rosa/AFP Photo)





Men rest in hammocks underneath a tree in Manila, Philippines, Thursday, July 17, 2025. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





A rescue worker climbs a toppled billboard that damaged a parked truck in Quezon city, Philippines due to enhanced winds and rain as Tropical Storm Wipha, locally called Crising, exits the northern portion of country on Saturday, July 19, 2025. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





A man wades along waist-deep floods at a residential area after Tropical Storm Wipha caused intensified monsoon rains that bought flooding in Quezon city, Philippines, on Monday, July 21, 2025. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





Filipino residents eat food in floodwater in Las Pinas, Philippines, 22 July 2025. On 21 July, the Philippine weather bureau was monitoring two low-pressure areas that could develop into tropical cyclones, as Typhoon Wipha exited the country after leaving at least five people dead. (Photo by Francis R. Malasig/EPA)