Jim Gomez

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, answers a question from a reporter during a meeting with Philippine Foreign Minister Albert del Rosario, in Jakarta, Monday, Oct. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Brian Snyder, Pool)

Philippine leader: Murder case won’t harm US ties

Jim Gomez · October 20, 2014 1:35 pm

In this Friday, Oct. 17, 2014 photo, Julita Cabillana, mother of Filipino transgender Jennifer Laude, grieves beside the casket of her son at a funeral parlor in Olongapo, Zambales province, northern Philippines. Laude's distraught mother Julita said she lost a child, who had given her money regularly for medicine for her ailments, including diabetes and hypertension. The killing of Jennifer Laude, a 26-year-old transgender whose former name was Jeffrey, has sparked public anger in the Philippines and revived a debate over the U.S. military presence in a country seen by Washington as a major ally in Southeast Asia. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Marine accused in Philippine killing tests US ties

Jim Gomez · October 20, 2014 1:06 am

Protesters, mostly supporters of LGBT (Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgenders), stand next to a scribbled message during a candlelight protest to demand justice in the killing of a Filipino transgender Jeffrey "Jennifer" Laude, with a U.S. Marine as a possible suspect Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014 in Manila, Philippines. Dozens of activists burned a mock U.S. flag as they protested at the U.S. Embassy in Manila on Tuesday, demanding that Washington hand over to the Philippines a U.S. Marine suspected in the killing of a transgender Filipino that the demonstrators labeled a hate crime. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Protesters demand Philippine custody of US Marine

Jim Gomez · October 14, 2014 1:44 pm

WHO: Ebola is modern era’s worst health emergency

Jim Gomez · October 13, 2014 11:29 am

Confetti rain on marching Filipino UN Peacekeepers as they are given a heroes welcome Wednesday, Oct.1, 2014 at Camp Aguinaldo at suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila, Philippines. In a separate ceremony at the Presidential Palace earlier, Philippine President Benigno Aquino III says his government will no longer deploy troops to security hotspots in the world where they can face unclear or impossible U.N. peacekeeping missions like in the Golan Heights, where Filipino forces came under attack by al-Qaida-linked insurgents. Aquino III said Wednesday hundreds of Filipino peacekeepers were tasked to guard a buffer zone separating Israel and Syria. But when the current Syrian conflict spilled over into the buffer zone and anti-government Islamic militants started attacking the Filipino peacekeepers, their mission became unclear.(AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Philippines won’t send troops to unclear mission

Jim Gomez · October 1, 2014 11:40 am

In this Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014 photo released by the Philippine National Red Cross Surigao Del Norte Chapter, survivors from the ferry M/V Maharlika II that sank after encountering steering problems, keep themselves warm with blankets as they arrive at the Lipata Port Terminal in Surigao city, central Philippines. Rescuers saved more than 100 people overnight and recovered at least three bodies from the ferry that sank in rough seas after encountering steering trouble in the central Philippines, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Philippine National Red Cross Surigao Del Norte Chapter)

110 rescued from ferry: ‘Death was in our minds’

Jim Gomez · September 14, 2014 9:17 am

About 100 rescued from sunken Philippine ferry

Jim Gomez · September 14, 2014 2:31 am

Filipino Muslims shout slogans during a rally near the Presidential Palace in support of the Bangsamoro Basic Law draft that was formally submitted by Philippine President Benigno Aquino III to both houses of Congress Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014 in Manila, Philippines. Aquino submitted the draft law to Congress that aims to execute a bold plan: End a four-decade rebellion by Muslims in the south by granting them an autonomous region that will have its own government and police force. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Philippines plans to give Muslims autonomous zone

Jim Gomez · September 10, 2014 11:22 am

Filipino force defied UN commander in Golan crisis

Jim Gomez · September 1, 2014 1:26 pm

In this photo released by the Armed Forces of the Philippines Public Affairs Office, Philippine Military Chief Gen. Gregorio Catapang, center, reacts after learning about the safe repositioning of Filipino peacekeepers in Golan Heights as they monitor the situation with Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario, second left, Philippine National Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin, third from left seated, at Camp Aguinaldo military headquarters in suburban Quezon city, Philippines on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. Catapang said more than 70 Filipino peacekeepers have escaped from two areas in the Golan Heights that came under attack by Syrian rebels. (AP Photo/Armed Forces of the Philippines Public Affairs Office)

All Filipino peacekeepers escape Golan standoff

Jim Gomez · August 31, 2014 4:01 am

No solution in sight on sea row after Myanmar meet

Jim Gomez · August 11, 2014 1:30 pm

FILE - In this Friday, June 20, 2014 file photo, a Philippine police officer escorts Abu Sayyaf extremist group leader Khair Mundos, right, after his arraignment at courts inside a police camp in Taguig City, south of Manila, Philippines. The captured Abu Sayyaf commander has told investigators that a top Southeast Asian terror suspect, who the military reported was killed in a U.S.-backed airstrike two years ago, is alive and being harbored by a hardline Muslim rebel group in the southern Philippines, a confidential police report said. (AP Photo/Mark Cristino)

Arrested Filipino militant: Terror suspect alive

Jim Gomez · August 6, 2014 5:32 am