Mass Graves Reported in Philippines
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MANILA, Aug. 31 -- Soldiers have found mass graves believed to hold the remains of up to 300 people who were allegedly killed by communist guerrillas in the 1980s during a purge of suspected spies in the Philippines' remote east, officials said Thursday.
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Officials could only apologize Monday when asked about the prospects of finding survivors in the towns and villages swamped by mudslides from devastating Typhoon Durian, which has killed an estimated 1,000 people in the Philippines.
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At least 108 people have been swept to their deaths and hundreds more are feared dead after rivers of mud and volcanic ash swamped villages in the eastern Philippines, officials said.
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REAL, Philippines  - Survivors fearful of epidemics were burying hundreds of people killed in storms this week as Typhoon Nanmadol barreled out to sea after cutting a swathe of destruction across the northern Philippines.
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More than 1,000 people have been killed or are missing after mudslides and flash floods devastated three coastal towns in the Philippines, a military spokesman said on Thursday.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Japanese and U.S. officials have found four mass graves that they believe hold the remains of 500 World War II soldiers, nearly 65 years after a bloody battle on the remote Alaskan island of Attu.
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At least nine people have died and  dozens more are injured, after a trio of bomb attacks in the Philippines.
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as warnings and rumours of plots failed to materialise among the large, peaceful crowd for the funeral. journey through the streets of Manila to his family&#39;s tomb on Wednesday.
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More than 1,000 people may have died in mudslides caused by a typhoon in the Philippines, officials warn.
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MANILA, Philippines  - The death toll from landslides and flash floods in the eastern Philippines jumped to at least 348 with 150 others missing Tuesday, most in a region still reeling from a deadly typhoon.
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Fifty-six men, women and children killed in a suspected rebel attack were buried Friday in mass graves &amp;#151; each wrapped in a white sari or sarong, red paper flowers in their open palms.
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The Philippine military appears to have been responsible for many of the hundreds of extra-judicial killings in the country, a U.N. investigator said on Wednesday.
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A Thai medic sprays disinfectant over the rotting corpses of those killed in Sunday&#39;s tidal waves at a Buddhist temple in Pang-Nga province, southern Thailand, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004.
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More than 200 people are feared dead as a result of flash floods and landslides triggered by a storm in the Philippines, officials say.
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Nearly a thousand people are dead or missing in flash floods and landslides that have devastated a large section of the northern Philippines, rescue officials said.
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REAL, Philippines : Philippine rescuers are digging through the rubble of a collapsed building for more survivors, as the number of dead and missing from two storms which lashed the country rose to nearly 1,600.
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Thousands of mourners poured onto the streets of the Philippines capital for the funeral of film star-turned-presidential contender Fernando Poe Jr.