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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 (Philippines)
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| Filipino inmates play a game inside their cell at a Manila jail. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo defended a decision to commute death sentences as religiously inspired, while an anti-crime activist warned that outraged victims' families may attempt to take revenge against inmates whose lives will be spared. (AP photo) |
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CEBU CITY -- A policeman was arrested Monday afternoon after four witnesses pointed him out as the gunman in the murder of Cebu City Bantay Dagat Commission project director Elpidio "Jojo" de la Victoria.
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Military won't release Mayuga Report
| MANILA -- The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Monday said it will not make public the controversial Mayuga Report that cleared four generals implicated in alleged fraud in the May 2004 presidential elections. |
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'No-death' policy to benefit Chiong 5
| CEBU CITY -- The five men sentenced to death by the Supreme Court (SC) in the 1997 Chiong rape and murder case will be covered by President Gloria Macapgal-Arroyo's policy statement commuting all final and executory death sentences to a life term. |
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Gov't troops foil Sayyaf bomb attacks
| ZAMBOANGA -- The military claimed to have foiled bomb attacks during the Lenten season after agents of the Regional Intelligence and Investigation Division of the Military Intelligence Group 9 raided a suspected Abu Sayyaf safe house Thursday in Rio Hondo, and seized some 300 bomb detonators. |
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