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Freed Italian hostage leaves hospital in Philippines
A retired Italian priest held hostage for six months by suspected militants left a Philippine hospital Saturday a day after his ordeal ended, looking frail though officials said he was in good health. His face partly hidden by a red baseball cap, (...)

10 - 04 - 2016
Zamboanga Netters win title
Brown of Bong Bueta showed little mercy as it nailed Iloilo-Maroon team of Jun Aguilar with a 19-point margin to win the Sinag Pinoy Cup Team Tennis Challenge at the Al-Yamama Hotel Tennis Courts here recently. The members of the team erupted in (...)

18 - 05 - 2012
Three Troops Killed In Helicopter Crash In Southern Philippines
AlQa'dah 3, 1432, Oct 1, 2011, SPA Three troops were killed Saturday when their helicopter crashed in the southern Philippines, a regional military spokesman said. The UH-1H helicopter was preparing to land at an army camp in Patikul town on Jolo (...)

01 - 10 - 2011
Blast Hits Hostel in Southern Philippine Province
Awwal 05, 1432 / April 09, 2011, SPA -- The military said a powerful explosion destroyed a small lodging house in a southern Philippine province. Troops later found a separate bomb near another hotel. Basilan province army commander Col. Alex (...)

09 - 04 - 2011
Kidnapped trader freed in Mindanao
A man apparently released by kidnappers after two months in captivity was found dazed in the southern Philippines and identified through engravings on his cane that give details of his abduction, officials said Sunday. Vicente Barrios was abandoned (...)

23 - 08 - 2010
Provincial governor among dozens injured in Philippine airport blast
A powerful bombing killed a man and wounded about a dozen other people including a provincial governor Thursday at an airport in a southern Philippine city, a day ahead of a planned visit by the US ambassador. The blast went off at 6:15 P.M. (1015 (...)

06 - 08 - 2010
Two bomb explosions rock southern Philippine city
Two improvised bombs exploded Friday in a southern Philippine city, but no injuries were reported, dpa quoted a police report as saying. The two explosions occurred before dawn in downtown Zamboanga City, 870 kilometers south of Manila, according (...)

29 - 01 - 2010
Irish priest back to work three months after gunmen freed him
Freed Irish priest Michael Sinnott has returned to his missionary work in southern Philippines, three months after his abduction. The 80-year old Sinnott, who belongs to the Missionary Society of St. Columban, returned to Pagadian City in Zamboanga (...)

28 - 01 - 2010
Bomb explodes near Basilan mayor's home
An improvised explosive was detonated late Tuesday near the house of a city mayor in Basilan province in the southern Philippines, reports said. Reports said the bomb went off several meters from the house of Lamitan City Mayor Roderick Furigay.No (...)

21 - 01 - 2010
More than 40 killed in southern Philippines fighting
Twenty-three soldiers and more than 20 Muslim militants were killed in fierce fighting in a southern Philippine province, the military said Thursday, dpa reported. The clashes erupted Wednesday when government troops swooped down on a training (...)

13 - 08 - 2009
5 kidnapped workers rescued
Philippine troops have rescued five employees of a logging company who were kidnapped by suspected rebels in the country's south last week, the military said Sunday. The five employees, including a woman, were seized Wednesday by eight guerrillas (...)

20 - 07 - 2009
Gunmen kill 3 in road ambush in south Philippines
Gunmen attacked a truck carrying several coconut plantation workers in the southern Philippines on Monday, killing three and wounding seven, officials said. Investigators were trying to determine who were behind this attack in Lantawan township (...)

06 - 04 - 2009
Troops free seized child, kill abductor
Gunmen abducted the son of a bank employee in the southern Philippines Tuesday, but government forces rescued the 7-year-old and killed one of two kidnappers hours later, officials said. It was the latest in a wave of kidnappings for ransom, mostly (...)

18 - 02 - 2009
Philippine town mayor, 2 others killed
Suspected Moro militants killed a town mayor and two bodyguards Thursday in a roadside ambush in the southern Philippines, the military said. Mayor Karam Jakila was returning to his town of Al-Barka in Basilan region in a three-car convoy when (...)

31 - 01 - 2009
Gunmen seized fishing boat with 17 crew in southern Philippines
Gunmen on Thursday seized a fishing boat with 17 crew members in the sea off the southern Philippines, a navy official said, according to DPA. Rear Admiral Emilio Marayag said the fishing boat and its crew were seized by unidentified gunmen (...)

02 - 10 - 2008
US military chief pays surprise visit to southern Philippines
US military chief of staff Admiral Mike Mullen paid a surprise visit Sunday to a southern Philippine city where undetermined number of American troops were deployed, according to DPA. Mullen, chairman of the US armed forces chiefs of staff, arrived (...)

01 - 06 - 2008
Gunmen open fire in public market in southern Philippines, one dead
Unidentified gunmen opened fire inside a public market in a southern Philippine town, killing one man and injuring five people, dpa quoted police sources as saying Sunday. The shooting incident occurred on Saturday noon in the public market of (...)

16 - 03 - 2008
Two homemade bombs explode in southern Philippines, no injuries
Two homemade bombs exploded on Tuesday in a southern Philippine city, but no injuries or damages were reported, police said, according to dpa. Senior Superintendent Manuel Barcena said the bombs exploded almost simultaneously in a public market (...)

04 - 09 - 2007
4 killed in accidental dynamite blast in Philippines
Dynamite used for illegal fishing exploded in a house on restive Jolo island in the southern Philippines on Saturday, killing at least four people and wounding two others, officials said. The blast ripped through a house that was allegedly being (...)

21 - 07 - 2007
Three Muslim rebels killed in Philippines
Three suspected Muslim rebels were killed while three others were captured on Monday in separate operations by government troops on a southern Philippine island, the military said. Lieutenant Colonel Ariel Caculitan, a marine spokesman, said (...)

09 - 04 - 2007
Fresh fighting kills 3 soldiers, 5 Muslim Rebels on southern Philippine island
Fresh fighting erupted Saturday on a southern Philippine island where troops captured a Muslim rebel camp just days earlier, leaving at least three soldiers dead and one wounded, a military commander and media reports said. The soldiers (...)

10 - 02 - 2005
Vice mayor, security aide killed in southern Philippines
A town vice mayor and his security aide were killed in an attack by unidentified gunmen in the southern Philippines, the military said Monday. Adjili Abbas, vice mayor of Pata town on Jolo island, 1,000 kilometers south of Manila, was killed with (...)

14 - 01 - 2005
Ten people killed in freak bus accident in southern Philippines =
Ten people were killed Friday and 27 others injured when a passenger bus plunged into a ravine in the southern Philippines, police said. Superintendent Ramon Ochotorena said the bus was negotiating a curve on a hilly highway in Lakewood town in (...)

11 - 10 - 2004
-55- general\ Two dead in rebel attack on Philippine police
A police officer and a suspected communist militant were killed during a rebel attack on a police post in the southern Philippines, the military said Sunday. The attack occurred Saturday in a remote village in the Compostella valley, around 1,000 (...)

11 - 08 - 2004
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