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latest news & developmentsPhilippines ‘ready to resume talks with rebels’
The Philippines is ready to resume peace talks with the country’s largest Muslim rebel group, government’s chief peace negotiator said on Wednesday.
Rescuers search sea for Philippine ferry survivors
Rescuers scoured the rough seas around a capsized ferry in the central Philippines on Monday in a desperate search for more than 800 people.
Philippine rebels in Manila hotel arrested
Renegade Philippine soldiers who had holed up in a Manila hotel on Thursday calling for the overthrow of the government surrendered after elite forces battered down the door and…
Fierce firefight at rebel Philippine hotel
Fierce firefights broke out inside a five-star hotel in the Philippines capital on Thursday as government forces entered to arrest a group of military rebels, a reporter on the…
Manila gives rebel soldiers deadline to surrender
Philippine police gave around two dozen rebel soldiers until 7am GMT on Thursday to halt their attempted mutiny in a luxury hotel in Manila’s financial district. The soldiers,…
Philippines, Vietnam in path of typhoons
Officials stepped up the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from coastal villages in the eastern Philippines and Vietnam as separate typhoons neared their coasts on…
Former Philippines president Estrada walks free
Joseph Estrada, the jailed former leader of the Philippines, walked free on Friday as President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo faced criticism for pardoning the playboy movie star.…
Philippine mall bomb toll at nine
Philippine police confirmed on Saturday that military-grade explosives caused a powerful blast in an upscale Manila shopping mall and that they were reviewing security camera…
Blast kills eight, wounds many at Philippine mall
A bomb explosion in an upscale shopping mall in the Philippine capital, Manila, on Friday killed eight people and wounded more than 100, police and local officials said. Police…