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A student carrying two guns shot a fellow student dead before killing himself at a Zamboanga City high school, sending hundreds fleeing to safety.
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Two seats in the 80-member Bangsamoro Parliament are reserved for Indigenous Peoples. As tribal leaders prepare to choose their representatives, the stakes go beyond who gets the seats — it is about whose voices will shape laws affecting ancestral lands,…
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U.S. Wants Apollo Quiboloy Extradited. Philippines Receives Formal Extradition Request Over Sex Trafficking Case.
The United States has formally requested the extradition of Apollo Quiboloy, the founder of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, to face federal sex trafficking and related charges. Philippine authorities confirmed the request has been transmitted to the Department of Justice,…
