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Tuesday, December 27, 2005 (Philippines)
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| A poor woman with her child begs for alms along a street in suburban Manila on Christmas day. While most Filipinos celebrated Christmas day attending family gatherings, many homeless families continued to beg on the streets asking for spare change to buy them food. (AP photo) |
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MANILA -- Marxist guerrillas marked their communist party's founding anniversary Monday by warning of possible assaults on American troops in the Philippines and threatening to escalate attacks against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's government.
The Communist Party of the Philippines, in a statement on its 37th anniversary, criticized the US military for increasing intervention in the Philippines and urged militants to take steps to deter the US from "further plundering" the country.
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