Philippines military slam "Mafia" tag amid corruption scandal
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The Philippines military has angrily rejected a legislator's suggestions that its top brass was like a &quot;Mafia&quot; crime family amid a widening probe into a corruption scandal in the armed forces.
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More than 50 former top Philippine government officials, including a one-time head of the central bank, urged President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's cabinet to resign on Sunday over a multi-million dollar corruption scandal.
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MANILA : The Philippines will lose out on some 3,000 jobs in Iraq unless it lifts a ban on its nationals working there, a recruitment agency said amid protests by Filipinos desperate to work in the troubled country.
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Philippines leader Gloria Arroyo vows to hunt down a group which claimed a trio of deadly bomb attacks.
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55 members of the media in Philippines have been murdered since the reintroduction of press freedom following the ouster Marcos in 1986.
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Authorities have uncovered an al-Qaida-linked plot to assassinate the president of the Philippines, officials said Thursday.
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Bangladesh's army chief has attacked the country's corrupt elite who he accused of amassing huge wealth by stealing money meant for the poor, a report said.
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Riot police used water cannons Friday to disperse protesters demanding that the Philippines lift its ban on allowing its citizens to go to war-ravaged Iraq for jobs.
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Muslim rebels negotiating to end rebellion in the southern Philippines criticized the government on Sunday for naming a Roman Catholic priest to head its peace panel, saying the decision would downgrade the talks.
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MANILA -- Philippine marines clashed with nearly 200 Al Qaeda-linked rebels yesterday, and officials said six government troops were killed and 19 wounded in the biggest battle in a monthlong US-backed offensive.
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Federal prosecutors say a man accused of giving money and military gear to his terrorist brother is a "danger to the community." Not necessarily San Jose, where he lives, but the Philippines, where the extremists he's accused of helping operate.
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Thousands of protesters massed in the Philippine capital Friday with some hurling tomatoes at images of President Gloria Arroyo and her husband, demanding their ouster for alleged corruption.
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Security officials on Thursday reported uncovering plots to kill President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and bomb foreign embassies, just as opposition leaders were calling for more protests urging the unpopular Philippines leader to resign.
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President Arroyo's bid to change the Philippines constitution comes under fire
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The Philippine army says it is involved in clashes with Muslim separatists on the southern island of Mindanao.
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Hundreds of marines sailed Tuesday to reinforce troops in the southern Philippines following fighting with followers of a jailed Muslim leader that killed at least 17 soldiers and as many as 30 rebels, officials said.
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Police in the Philippines storm a Manila courtroom, killing a gunmen to end a day-long hostage drama, officials say.