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latest news & developmentsThousands flee as Philippines pursues militants
Thousands of people have fled their homes on the southern Philippine island of Jolo as troops pursue Muslim militants blamed for killing more than 20 soldiers, officials said on…
Philippine ferry bombing ‘was purely to sow terror’
At least 30 people, including several children, were wounded on Sunday in a ferry bomb blast in an area of the southern Philippines plagued by Muslim insurgents, officials said.…
Philippine man may have bitten off more than he could chew
A 41-year-old man with erectile dysfunction cut off his penis in a southern Philippine city, hospital staff said on Monday. Ernesto Almonte was rushed by his father to a hospital…
Terrorists in Phillipines ‘have foreign backing’
Philippine authorities are looking into the possible role of ”foreign terrorists” in a series of deadly bomb attacks in the country’s south, officials said on Monday.
Five dead in Philippine blasts
The Philippine military condemned two bomb attacks on Thursday that hit a row of shopping centres in the southern city of Zamboanga as a ”terrorist act”.