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UPI - Mon Nov 23, 8:35 am ET
By United Press International MANILA, Philippines, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- More than 20 people were kidnapped and killed in what officials said was violence related to next spring's elections in the Philippines
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UPI - Mon Nov 23, 7:43 am ET
MANILA, Philippines, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Gunmen took dozens of hostages Monday in the Philippine province of Maguindanao province, killing many them, officials said.
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KITV Honolulu - Mon Nov 23, 4:06 pm ET
Police in the Philippines say a Hawaii man killed a Filipino officials son in a case of road rage.
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The Daily Reveille - 1 hour 48 minutes ago
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Gunmen ambushed a caravan of political supporters and journalists on their way to file election papers Monday, killing at least 21 people in a massacre considered shocking even for a region notorious for violence between r...
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WJXT Jacksonville - Mon Nov 23, 7:36 am ET
MANILA, Philippines -- Philippine troops found 21 bodies in the country's restive south after dozens of gunmen on Monday hijacked a convoy of politicians and supporters filing their nominations for next year's elections, officials said.
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The Champaign News-Gazette - Mon Nov 23, 11:04 am ET
MANILA, Philippines (AP) – Dozens of gunmen hijacked a convoy carrying journalists, and family and supporters of a candidate for provincial governor, killing at least 21 of the travelers Monday in the southern Philippines' worst political violence in years. There was no claim of responsibility for the bloodshed in the predominantly Muslim region wracked by political tensions between rival clans.
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Honolulu Advertiser - Mon Nov 23, 11:19 am ET
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police searched for an American who escaped after allegedly killing a government official's son in a road-rage shooting — the second homicide case against him, officials said Monday.
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Park Hills Daily Journal - Mon Nov 23, 11:43 am ET
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A typhoon battered the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces still reeling from recent flooding, sending residents of one town clambering onto rooftops Saturday to escape rising waters. Seven people died and at least five were missing.
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KHNL News 8 Honolulu - Mon Nov 23, 2:03 pm ET
Police in the Philippines filed murder charges Sunday against 28-year-old Jason Ivler, a former student at...
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CNN - 38 minutes ago
The Philippines government has increased security in the southern region of Maguindanao after gunmen kidnapped and killed at least 22 people, according to military officials and the country's national news agency.
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 23, 6:14 am ET
Manila - Twenty-one people, including journalists and human rights lawyers, were killed Monday in the southern Philippines in what appeared to be political killings, the military said. At least 20 more were unaccoun...
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 23, 4:44 am ET
Manila - Twenty-one people, including journalists, were killed Monday in an outbreak of political violence in the southern Philippines, the military said. Lieutenant Colonel Romeo Brawner, a military spokesman, said troops recovered the bodies in Amp...
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 23, 3:29 am ET
Manila - About 30 people, including journalists, were seized Monday by armed supporters of a prominent political clan in the southern Philippines, the military said. The hostages included the wife, sister, brother and other relatives of Vice Mayor Ib...
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Bloomberg - Mon Nov 23, 8:29 pm ET
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Philippines President Gloria Arroyo ordered security forces to track down gunmen after 25 people were abducted and killed in the country’s worst political violence in years.
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EARTHtimes.org - 22 minutes ago
Manila - Hundreds of additional government security forces were dispatched Tuesday to a southern Philippine province where gunmen killed at least 24 people in a massacre linked to a political rivalry. Four people survived the election-related violenc...