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(UPDATE) Ozamiz Mayor, wife and 13 others killed as police implement search warrant

July 30, 2017

Ozamiz City Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog Sr., who is in President Rodrigo Duterte’s list of personalities accused of involvement in illegal drugs, and 13 others were killed as police tried to enforce a search warrant in their home early Sunday morning.

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Gov’t forces confiscate more than dozen firearms in Cagayan de Oro

July 29, 2017

Government forces confiscated more than a dozen firearms during a law enforcement operation in Cagayan de Oro City last Thursday. Col. Adonis Ariel Orio, spokesman of the Army’s 4th Infantry Division, said a total of 16 firearms were seized during

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Pacquiao visits soldiers in Marawi City

July 29, 2017

Senator Emmanuel Pacquiao visited the government troops in Marawi City on Saturday morning. Captain Jo-ann Petinglay, spokesperson of the Western Mindanao Command, said Pacquiao was wearing an Army Special Forces, tiger suit battle dress uniform when he arrived in Camp

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Rebellion charges filed vs suspected recruits of Maute group at justice department

July 28, 2017

Rebellion charges have been filed against 59 suspected recruits of the Maute terrorist group with their alleged recruiter before the justice department late Fridayt. Escorted by police commandos, they were presented before prosecutors headed by Senior Assistant State Prosecutor Peter

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Only two barangays in Marawi not cleared  of terrorists: military spokesman

July 28, 2017

About two villages in war-torn Marawi City have remained unclear of the Islamic State-inspired Maute Terror Group, a military spokesman said on Friday. “The area of operation is confined to about two barangays, or to be exact, about two and

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US turns over Cessna ISR planes to Philippines, UAVs to be given this year

July 28, 2017

The newly-donated Cessna 208B Caravan Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft may also be used in Marawi City and Benham Rise, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said late Thursday. “They will be used anywhere in the Philippines because the range is

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Duterte wants Reds to be charged for violating Revised Penal Code; asks Congress to pass National Security Code

July 28, 2017

President Rodrigo Duterte has said the government would charge the communist rebels for violating the Revised Penal Code even as he would ask Congress to pass the “National Security Code.” In an interview Thursday night in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental

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No politics on plan to abolish PCGG

July 27, 2017

Malacanang said on Thursday that there is no politics on the plan to abolish the Presidential Commission on Good Government. In a press briefing, Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said the plan to abolish PCGG has been a move sometime back.

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