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Gov’t charges 136 rebels for Surigao mining attacks
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Around 136 communist rebels were charged with robbery in band and arson for the attack at the mining site of Platinum Group Metal Corp. (PGMC) in Claver, Surigao del Norte in October 2011. Charged before the office of Surigao City Prosecutor Jesse Rey Silvosa were Jorge Madlos alias Oris, Spokesperson…
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NPA sets free cop detained for 36 days
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Communist rebels freed Tuesday (May 15) a policeman they held for more than a month in Zamboanga del Sur. After 36 days in captivity, New People’s Army (NPA) members released Police Officer 2 Faisal Juhaili in Barangay Kanipaan, Bayog, Zamboanga del Sur. The fifty-year old policeman was seized following the…
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Gov’t support to security forces essential, PNoy says
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President Benigno Aquino III has stressed the importance of government support to the country’s military and police forces to ensure efficient service to the people and in maintaining peace and security. In his speech during the premiere showing of the documentary on the PNP Special Action Force (SAF) entitled: “Tagaligtas”…
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Magnitude 4.7 hits Sarangani
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A magnitude 4.7 hit the province of Sarangani in Mindanao. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the tremor hit the area at around 10:45 local time with the epicenter at the Celebes Sea or 132 kilometers southwest of the Sarangani. The earthquake has a depth of 13.4 kilometers. There…
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19 minors rescued from prostitution
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The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has rescued 60 women, 19 of whom were minors and arrested 7 operators and managers of an entertainment club that fronts as prostitution den during a raid along Roxas Boulevard in Paranaque City the other week. In a report submitted to NBI Officer-In-Charge Atty.…
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CIDG officer gunned down in Bulacan
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Motorcycle-riding suspects killed a member of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) inside a subdivision in San Rafael, Bulacan Sunday evening (May 13). Two unidentified suspects on board a motorcycle shot dead Police Officer 3 Rafael Bartolome, 46, a resident of Plaridel, Bulacan, and a member of Bulacan CIDG,…
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Pagasa says rainy season is here
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The thunderstorms in Metro Manila on Tuesday (May 15) night were signs that the rainy season is nearing, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said. Pagasa forecasters said the rain was due to the habagat (southwest monsoon), which signals the start of the rainy season. Meanwhile, a trough…
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Pagasa says ITCZ still affecting Mindanao
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An Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is still affecting the Mindanao region, bringing mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms in the area. The rest of the country is expected to have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms occurring in afternoon or in the evening. There…
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