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Monday, January 07, 2008 (Philippines)
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| Men dressed as Three Kings throw candies to children as they pass by a street in Manila on Sunday, January 6. Christmas officially ends on the Feast of the Three Kings, also known as the Feast of the Epiphany. (AP Photo) |
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MANILA -- Government is leaving it to the court to decide whether Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) chairman and former Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Armm) chairman Nur Misuari will be released from detention.
His spiritual adviser and other co-accused in the failed mutiny in Sulu in 2001 have already been released.
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