INDEPENDENCE DAY. President Rodrigo Duterte, who was supposed to lead his first nationwide celebration of the 119th Independence Day as Chief Executive, was a no-show at the Rizal Park in Manila.

WAR. From the third-story window of a barren government office building where he now squats as a refugee, Nasir Abdul is watching his city being destroyed.

HOSTAGE. The woman who was rescued on Sunday afternoon, June 11, denied that she was held hostage after three men barged inside a two-storey house in Barangay Poblacion, Barili, Cebu.