Another clash mars Taguig polls
By Jaymee T. GamilAnother scuffle between supporters of rival political camps reportedly marred Election Day in Taguig City.
Another scuffle between supporters of rival political camps reportedly marred Election Day in Taguig City.
Three Marines were wounded during a firefight with communist rebels in Gingoog City Saturday morning, a military official said.
Opposition protesters clashed with Islamists near the headquarters of Egypt’s ruling Muslim Brotherhood in the capital on Friday, injuring more than 120 people, state news agency MENA reported.
Fighters of the Moro National Liberation Front have rescued three foreign hostages held by Abu Sayyaf bandits in Sulu province, a radio report said early Thursday.
President Aquino said Tuesday the government did not sanction the attack by armed men of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) against kidnappers believed to be members of the extremist Abu Sayyaf Group that left at least 26 dead.
Hundreds of protesting farmers stormed the offices of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) in Quezon City on Thursday, clashing with riot policemen who tried to stop them with fire extinguishers.
Two suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels were killed and their wounded leader captured in a clash on Wednesday with Army troops in Barangay (village)San Vicente, Iriga City, Camarines Sur, police said Thursday.
Three Abu Sayyaf terrorists were killed and four government troops wounded in an encounter in Basilan Tuesday morning, the military said.
Two suspected rebels were killed in an encounter with Army soldiers at a remote village of Camalig town in Albay on Saturday.
Two communist rebels were killed in a clash with government troops Thursday afternoon, the military said Friday.
Despite tensions between militants and police that left several persons injured, the Philippine National Police assessed President Aquino’s third State of the Nation Address Monday afternoon as “generally peaceful.”
The clash between police and militants shortly before President Benigno Aquino delivered his State of the Nation Address on Monday afternoon was a result of the “frustration of the protesters with the illegal imposition and curtailment of their rights by the police.”
A SOLDIER and two suspected communist rebels were killed in an encounter on Saturday in barangay Bucalan, Canlaon City, Negros Oriental.
