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Albayalde says four ex-partylist solons with arrest warrants should surrender

July 28, 2018

Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Oscar Albayalde said it is “better” that four former partylist congressmen who have arrest warrants for murder to surrender. “Yes. Of course it’s better,” said Albayalde in a brief interview at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport

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Liberal International awards de Lima Prize for Freedom

July 28, 2018

Senator Leila de Lima on Saturday received the Prize for Freedom  award from Liberal International (LI), an international organization of liberal politicians. Accepting the award were De Lima’s eldest son, Israel, and other family members in a ceremony at Novotel Manila in Quezon City.

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Palawan authorities confiscate frozen pangolin meat, turtles

July 28, 2018

Palawan authorities Saturday morning confiscated  21 frozen pangolin meat, four kilos pangolin scales, 15 hawksbill turtles and one green turtle at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Sta Lourdes Monitoring Station, Puerto Princesa. Joint elements of DENR-CENRO (

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Alleged NPA rebel killed in firefight vs military in Quezon

July 28, 2018

An alleged member of New People’s Army (NPA) was killed in a 30-minute firefight with government troops in Quezon province on Friday afternoon. Capt. Patrick Jay Retumban, public affairs chief of the Army’s 2nd Infantry Division, said the troops were conducting

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23 inmates bolt Bacoor facility, nine recaptured

July 28, 2018

A total of 23 inmates escaped from a detention facility in Bacoor City in the province of Cavite on Friday afternoon but nine have been recaptured, a regional police spokesman said Saturday. Supt. Chitadel Gaoiran, public information office head of

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Suspect in death of Ombudsman prosecutor killed while trying to grab cop’s gun

July 28, 2018

The suspect in the death of an assistant special prosecutor of the Ombudsman Madonna Joy Ednaco Tanyag was killed while allegedly trying to grab the firearm of a police escort at the Quezon City Police District headquarters on Saturday. In

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Parojinog arrives from Taiwan, detained in Camp Crame

July 28, 2018

Ozamiz City Councilor Ricardo Parojinog, whose brother and 13 others died in a police operation nearly a year ago, arrived from Taiwan with Philippine police Friday night. Flight information at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 2 showed the

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Japan “heartily welcomes” enactment of Bangsamoro law

July 27, 2018

Japan”heartily welcomes” the enactment of the Organic Law for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao regarding the Mindanao peace process in the Philippines after President Rodrigo Duterte signed it on Thursday. This was the statement of Foreign Minister Taro

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