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Duterte asks Misuari to appeal to Abu Sayyaf not to behead foreign hostages

February 22, 2019

President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday said he will appeal to Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) leader Nur Misuari to talk to the Abu Sayyaf after the terrorist group threatened to behead three of their foreign hostages. “Well, that’s part of

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Tagle validates Duterte’s criticism vs Catholic church – Palace

February 22, 2019

Malacanang said on Friday that Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle has validated President Rodrigo Duterte’s running criticisms against the abuses committed by some clergymen of the Catholic church. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo hailed the presentation of

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Germany summons Philippines charge d’affaires over Locsin’s reported Hitler remark

February 22, 2019

Germany protested remarks by Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. to a German television network where he reportedly backed President Rodrigo Duterte’s previous statement about slaughtering three million drug addicts like what Nazi leader Adolf Hitler did to Jews during World War

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Sandiganbayan clears ex-postmaster general of graft

February 22, 2019

The First Division of the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court acquitted on Friday former Philippine Postal Corporation (PPC) General Diomedio Villanueva over an alleged P53 million graft case.    Villanueva’s case was filed in 2003, when he was head of PPC, which

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Late buying lifts PSE index

February 22, 2019

The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) index ended Friday higher, boosted by buying in the final hour of trading. The peso closed at P52.065 against the US dollar from Thursday’s P52.13. Volume at the foreign exchange portal of the Bankers Association

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Bangsamoro Transition Authority to formally takeover BARMM on Feb. 26

February 22, 2019

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)-led Bangsamoro Transition Authority will formally take over the leadership of the newly-established Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao next week. In an interview in Malacanang before the formal oath taking of the members of

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EDSA People Power I celebrations set Monday

February 22, 2019

The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) with the EDSA People Power Commission (EPPC), Spirit of EDSA Foundation (SOEF) and other national and local government agencies will lead the commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of the 1986 People Power

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Military to continue rescue of Abu Sayyaf hostages despite beheading threat

February 22, 2019

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said military operation to rescue the victims abducted by the Abu Sayyaf will continue amid reports that the terrorist group threatens to behead three foreign hostages. “We will just continue our on-going combat

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