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Landslides leave 27 dead or missing in Philippines

AP - 1 hour 12 minutes ago

MANILA, Philippines - Two landslides triggered by heavy rains buried more than 20 houses in a remote gold-mining village in the southern Philippines, leaving at least 11 people dead and 16 others missing, officials said Sunday. More »

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  • Landslide leaves 17 dead or missing in Philippines

    AP - Sunday, September 7

    MANILA, Philippines - A landslide set off by heavy rains buried several huts in a remote gold-mining village in the southern Philippines, leaving at least eight people dead and nine others missing, police said Sunday. More »

  • Philippines dissolves panel in talks with rebels

    AP - Thursday, September 4

    MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine government on Wednesday disbanded a panel of negotiators engaged in Malaysian-brokered peace talks with Muslim guerrillas, suspending a yearslong peace process following fresh fighting in the country's south. More »

  • Philippine provincial governor wounded in attack

    AP - Thursday, September 4

    MANILA, Philippines - Police say a Philippine provincial governor and his driver were wounded in an attack by unknown assailants using guns with silencers. More »

  • 13 Vietnamese poachers detained in Philippines

    AP - Tuesday, September 2

    MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine navy's spokesman says 13 Vietnamese fishermen caught poaching endangered turtles have been arrested off the western coast. More »

  • Bomb blast on Philippine bus kills 6

    AP - Tuesday, September 2

    MANILA, Philippines - A powerful bomb packed with steel nails exploded on a passenger bus at a public terminal in the southern Philippines on Monday, killing at least six people and wounding 26 others in a possible attack by an extortion gang, police said. More »

  • Bomb blast in Philippine bus terminal kills 4

    AP - Tuesday, September 2

    MANILA, Philippines - A powerful homemade bomb exploded at a bus terminal in the southern Philippines on Monday, killing at least four people and wounding 21 others, officials said. More »

  • Philippines arrests suspect in ferry bombing

    AP - Sunday, August 31

    MANILA, Philippines - Police have arrested one of the alleged masterminds of a ferry bombing that killed 116 people four years ago, a Philippine anti-terrorism official said Saturday. More »

  • Philippines arrest mastermind of ferry bombing

    AP - Saturday, August 30

    MANILA, Philippines - A Philippine anti-terrorism official says police have arrested one of the alleged masterminds of a ferry bombing that killed 116 people four years ago. More »

  • Police find Philippine thieves via rice trail

    AP - Saturday, August 30

    MANILA, Philippines - Police say four thieves have been arrested after unwittingly leaving a trail of rice stolen from a warehouse in the central Philippines. More »