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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 (Philippines)
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| School children, all evacuees of Mayon volcano's continued restiveness, attend their classes under a tree at a public elementary school that doubles as an evacuation center at Malilipot in Albay Province on Tuesday. (AP photo) |
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MANILA -- The House pro-impeachment group on Tuesday suffered a twin setback when the House committee on justice junked two of its requests -- to allow the body to vote separately on each of the allegations and to allow a complainant to participate in the debates.
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Group got P6 million from lawmaker's fund
| CEBU CITY -- Sikap Yaman Foundation, which failed to liquidate the P6 million it received from Representative Clavel Martinez's discretionary funds through Bogo town, was the supplier of an allegedly irregular fertilizer transaction in Tuburan. |
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5 rebels killed in Surigao clash
| ZAMBOANGA CITY -- At least five communist insurgents were killed and a policeman was wounded in fierce fighting Tuesday in the town of San Agustin in Surigao del Sur province in the southern Philippines, military and police reports said. |
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Lanao death toll at 9, damages at P35 million
| ILIGAN CITY -- The death toll in the floods that hit at least two Lanao del Norte towns Sunday and the landslide that buried two passenger buses in Zamboanga del Sur on Monday rose to nine on Tuesday, authorities said. |
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