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Saturday, October 04, 2003 (Philippines)

Arroyo to run in 2004

RELATIVES of Macmod Mending, director of the government irrigation agency, carries his remains out of a hospital in southern Cotabato City Friday. Mending and three other worshippers were killed and 11 others wounded when unidentified attackers threw a grenade in a packed mosque inside a government compound in nearby Midsayap town during Friday prayers. AFP PHOTO

MANILA - President Arroyo announced Saturday she would run for president in the May 2004 elections, reversing an earlier pledge not to seek a second term.

"I will run for president in the election of 2004," she told a crowd of 50,000 in her home province of Pampanga.
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Preacher killed in mosque bombing

DAVAO -- An Islamic preacher was among the four persons who died in a grenade explosion at a mosque inside the National Irrigation Authority (NIA) regional office compound in Midsayap, North Cotabato Friday noon.

Guingona follows Loren, bolts Lakas

MANILA -- Is an exodus from the ruling Lakas Christian-Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD) taking place?

Moneychanger robbed of P6.5M

ILOILO -- Broad daylight did not deter unidentified armed men from stopping a moneychanger's service vehicle and carting away at least P6.5 million Friday morning.

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Cebu
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Cagayan de Oro
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Davao
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General Santos
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Iloilo
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Manila
QC mayor Belmonte defends his top cop
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Pampanga
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Pangasinan
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Zamboanga
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