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Nearly 200 people indicted in Philippines massacre

AP - Wednesday, February 10

MANILA, Philippines - Philippine prosecutors filed charges Tuesday against the head of a powerful clan and 195 others in the biggest and deadliest murder case since the country's World War II war crimes trials. More »

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Violence, tight race mark Philippine poll campaign
AP - Tuesday, February 9
MANILA, Philippines - Campaign posters went up and jingles blared at election rallies Tuesday as the Philippines' richest politician and the son of its democracy icon began a tight race to succeed scandal-tainted President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Philippine police kill eight armed men
AFP - Monday, February 8
MANILA (AFP) - - Police shot dead eight armed men after they tried to burst through a checkpoint southeast of the Philippine capital on Monday, authorities said.
Philippine police say 7 suspects shot dead
AP - Monday, February 8
MANILA, Philippines - Philippine police say seven robbery suspects have been shot to death after they rammed a security checkpoint.
Arrests of 43 suspected Filipino rebels questioned
AP - Monday, February 8
MANILA, Philippines - A human rights group protested Sunday the arrests of dozens of suspected communist guerrillas accused of bomb-making near the Philippine capital, saying that those detained were in fact volunteer health workers.
43 held in raid on alleged Philippine communists
AFP - Sunday, February 7
MANILA (AFP) - - Forty-three people were arrested Saturday in a raid on a house in the northern Philippines that a military spokesman said had led to the biggest detention of suspected communist rebels in memory.
Philippines sees Myanmar vote 'farce' in September
AFP - Saturday, February 6
WASHINGTON (AFP) - - Myanmar is likely to hold elections around September but they are shaping up to be a "farce" with democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi unable to run, Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo said Friday.
3 Indians killed in Philippine road accident
AP - Saturday, February 6
MANILA, Philippines - Police say three Indians have been killed and four Filipinos injured when a pickup truck smashed into a bus in the northern Philippines.
Philippine military: Height doesn't matter
AP - Thursday, February 4
MANILA, Philippines - Vertically challenged Filipinos who want to enlist in the military can now stand tall.
Philippine massacre victims seek relief from ASEAN
AP - Thursday, February 4
MANILA, Philippines - Relatives of journalists killed in the Philippines' worst election massacre on Wednesday asked Southeast Asia's nascent human rights body to ensure that suspects _ including a powerful clan allied with the president _ did not escape justice.
Philippine massacre defendant: 'not guilty' to more charges
AFP - Thursday, February 4
MANILA (AFP) - - A politician accused of massacring dozens of people in the southern Philippines denied more murders Wednesday as prosecutors charged him with the deaths of 16 other people.
Philippine senator flees abroad to escape charges
AP - Wednesday, February 3
MANILA, Philippines - A Philippine opposition senator facing murder charges said he had fled the country to escape what he called political harassment by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's government.
Philippine offers 'enhanced autonomy' to Muslims
AFP - Tuesday, February 2
MANILA (AFP) - - The Philippines has offered southern Muslim separatists "enhanced autonomy" in the hope of sealing a peace accord to end 40 years of rebellion, the government's chief negotiator said Monday.
Philippines presidential race tightening: poll
AFP - Monday, February 1
MANILA (AFP) - - Philippine presidential candidate Benigno Aquino's once-vast lead in the opinion polls has shrunk to just a few points, according to a survey published Monday, a week before the start of campaigning.
SKorea businessman murdered in Philippines: police
AFP - Monday, February 1
MANILA (AFP) - - A South Korean businessman was shot dead by unknown gunmen as he left a hotel north of Manila, local police said Monday.
Philippines growth not enough under Arroyo: official
AFP - Monday, February 1
MANILA (AFP) - - Filipinos have mostly not benefited from the country's economic growth -- equal to about five percent annually -- during President Gloria Arroyo's seven-year term, a top official admitted Sunday.
2 town officials shot dead in southern Philippines
AFP - Sunday, January 31
COTABATO, Philippines (AFP) - - Two town councillors were shot dead in an ambush in the southern Philippines, police said on Sunday, adding the violence could be linked to May national elections.
Filipino journalist's killer handed life sentence
AP - Saturday, January 30
MANILA, Philippines - A media watchdog on Friday welcomed the life sentence handed down to a man convicted of killing a Philippine radio journalist, but called for the masterminds of the murder to be brought to justice.
2 Filipino maids home, pardoned of Saudi killing
AP - Saturday, January 30
MANILA, Philippines - Two Filipino maids arrived home Friday after they were pardoned by the king of Saudi Arabia for the killing of the employer of one of the women, the foreign ministry said.
Military plane crash kills 9 in the Philippines
AP - Friday, January 29
MANILA, Philippines - A decades-old military plane crashed Thursday into a residential area in the southern Philippines, killing a two-star air force general and eight other people.