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Monday, March 17, 2003 (Philippines)
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(The Sun.Star website is updated every 1 a.m., Philippine time and as often as news alerts from the network come in. If you are having difficulty getting the updates, click on the refresh button of your browser. -- Editors)
| CEBU LOVES DAVAO. Cebu Mayor Tomas Osmeña, wife Margot and actor Philip Salvador show solidarity with the bomb-hit city of Davao by turning up for its 66th founding day celebration Sunday. Members of the Cebu delegation had "Cebu loves Davao" printed on their t-shirts. SUN.STAR DAVAO FOTO |
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GENERAL SANTOS -- Officials of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and communist New People's Army (NPA) admitted for the first time Thursday the existence of a tactical alliance between the two largest rebels groups in the country.
Al Hadj Murad, MILF vice chairman for military affairs, and National Democratic Front (NDF)-Mindanao spokesman Jorge Madlos revealed the two groups entered into an alliance in July 1999 but did not give other details about the arrangement.
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