An Islamist militant accused of being behind the deadly 2002 Bali bombings is alive and hiding in the southern Philippines despite earlier reports of his death, a senior military official said Tuesday.

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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 wa…

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MIAMI: Inspired by a city still rebuilding from the 2005 devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Saints captured their first Super Bowl crown on Sunday (Monday in Manila) by rallying for a 31-17 triumph over Indianapolis.

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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.

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MANILA, Philippines – Three suspected robbers were killed in a shootout with police in Quezon City before dawn today.

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MANILA, Philippines – The controversy on who should name the next Chief Justice has the gods of Padre Faura warring.

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What would Southeast Asia in 2109 look like? What countries would make up the region? Who would be the major players? What countries might no longer be around? The Philippines as we know it might no longer exist a hundred years from now…

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Kidnappers in the southern Philippines have released unharmed a Yemeni man after holding him for 10 days, authorities said on Monday.

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Conrad Murray looks on as his attorney, Ed Chernoff speaks during his arraignment on charges of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (AP Photo/Mark Boster, Pool) LOS ANGELES (AP) &ndas…

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On the eve of the start of the campaign period  for national posts in the May 2010 polls, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday warned candidates that any violation of campaign rules would cost them disqualification from the balloting.

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Residents show their identification cards to a soldier at a checkpoint in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao in southern Philippines Dec.

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MANILA, Philippines – The race is on for presidential candidates beginning today, after months of unofficial free-for-all.

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Local stocks ended slightly lower on Tuesday, with the benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index declining by 0.32% to 2,846.60 points on foreign selling. While volatility in the market continues, CitisecOnline research head April Lee Tan said investors are now positioning on stocks that hold strong fundamental merits, and are trading at attractive levels. She cited for example property giant Megaworld Corp., whose share price is now "below book value" at P1.10. "This is very cheap for a company like Megaworld," Tan said.

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On July 30 Philippine president Gloria Arroyo will get her long-awaited desire for a photo-op with US president Barack Obama. For many Filipino-American Democrats who worked hard to get then Candidate Obama elected, news of the meeting is…

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The call centre and outsourcing industry in the Philippines grew by almost a fifth in 2009 to more than seven billion dollars, an industry official said Monday.

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The length of the ballot to be used for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) caused the delay in the printing of the official ballots for the forthcoming May 10 polls, the Commission on Ele…

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Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. over the weekend said the majority in the chamber had cost the people important legislative measures that now would have to wait for the next Congress to be acted on.

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Kidnappers holding a Yemeni national in southern Philippines demanded a 1 million U.S. dollars ransom for the release of their captive, local police said Monday.

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MANILA, Philippines – Administration stalwarts and candidates dismissed reports that Nacionalista Party standard-bearer Sen.

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BEIJING – Google has warned a copycat Chinese website to stop using a logo that resembles the US Internet giant’s or face possible legal action, state media reported Monday.

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