| A Filipino boy helps his neighbors in looking for a toy that fell in a garbage-choked river planked by shanties in suburban Manila on Monday. Millions of Asians could face poverty, disease, and hunger as a result of rising temperatures and increased rainfall that are expected to hit hardest poor countries with overburdened health systems, the World Health Organization warned. (AP photo) |
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MANILA (Updated 12:49 p.m.) -- Nine junior military officers sentenced to jail terms ranging from 12 to 40 years Tuesday morning for taking part in the failed mutiny against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in 2003 may get executive clemency, a defense lawyer said.
The nine are part of a group of 31 junior officers accused of leading a daylong mutiny in which they took over an upscale hotel and mall complex and rigged it with explosives in Manila's financial district of Makati. They later surrendered peacefully.
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