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Protesters dance around the burning effigy of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III during a rally near the House of Representatives to coincide with his State of the Nation Address Monday, July 28, 2014 at suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines. Aquino is expected to tackle in his address, the controversial Disbursement Acceleration Program, the allocation of funds or savings by the Government to finance various programs or projects which is under the discretion of the President and was declared in part as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Philippine leader: Not even a bomb can stop reform

Jim Gomez · July 28, 2014 2:22 pm

Abu Sayyaf militants free anti-poverty workers

Jim Gomez · July 23, 2014 2:02 pm

FILE - In this July 14, 2014 file photo, Philippine President Benigno Aquino III walks to interact with his guests following his address to the nation in a live broadcast from the Presidential Palace in Manila, Philippines. The Philippine president, a known smoker, has signed a law that requires tobacco companies to put scary health warnings on cigarette packs in a country where tens of thousands of people die every year from tobacco-linked diseases. President Aquino's spokesman, Herminio Coloma Jr., said Sunday, July 20, 2014 that the Philippine leader signed the law "to effectively instill health consciousness through graphic health warnings on tobacco products." (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

Smoking Philippine leader OKs cigarette warnings

Jim Gomez · July 20, 2014 2:30 pm

Military: Germans abducted by Filipino extremists

Jim Gomez · July 18, 2014 3:47 am

Residents strengthen their homes built on stilts as they brace for incoming Typhoon Rammasun, locally called "Glenda" beside Manila's bay, Philippines on Tuesday, July 15, 2014. Haunted by the memories of Typhoon Haiyanâs deadly fury last year, tens of thousands of villagers fled from disaster-prone areas Tuesday as Typhoon Rammasun blew closer toward the northeastern Philippines, where it was expected to hit land at nightfall then barrel its way in the dark across densely-populated regions toward the capital, Manila. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Energy and Environment

Typhoon shifts slightly from Manila, leaves 1 dead

Jim Gomez · July 16, 2014 1:40 am

Philippine President Benigno Aquino III addresses the nation in a live broadcast from the Presidential Palace in Manila, Philippines Monday, July 14, 2014. The president defended the Government's position in the now controversial Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) or the alleged funding of programs by the government from its savings which was ruled as unconstitutional by the Philippine Supreme Court recently. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Philippine leader, high court clash on funds use

Jim Gomez · July 14, 2014 2:20 pm

Philippines nabs Taiwanese, Chinese linked to scam

Jim Gomez · July 10, 2014 9:10 am

Philippines on alert for terror attack

Jim Gomez · June 29, 2014 3:46 pm

FILE - In this Saturday, March 3, 2007 file photo, a convoy of armed U.S. humvees stop as goats pass by during the closing ceremonies of the annual military exercises called "Balikatan," or "shouldering the load together," at the coastal village of Bato-Bato in Indanan town, Jolo province, southern Philippines. After more than a decade of helping fight al-Qaida-linked militants, the United States is disbanding an anti-terror contingent of hundreds of elite American troops in the southern Philippines where armed groups such as Abu Sayyaf have largely been crippled, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

National Security

APNewsBreak: US ends Philippines anti-terror force

Jim Gomez · June 26, 2014 10:58 am

17 killed as Philippine troops battle militants

Jim Gomez · June 19, 2014 12:59 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2014 file photo taken by surveillance planes and released May 15 by the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs, a Chinese vessel, top center, is used to expand structures and land on the Johnson Reef, called Mabini by the Philippines and Chigua by China, at the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, Philippines. The Philippines wants an international tribunal to issue a decision as quickly as it can on a Manila complaint that questions the legality of China's massive territorial claims in the South China Sea because the disputes continue to escalate. Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said late Tuesday, June 17 that the Philippines would ask its lawyers to petition the Arbitral Tribunal in the Hague, the Netherlands, to issue an earlier ruling after China said it would not get involved in the case, which should shorten the arbitration proceedings. (AP Photo/Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs, File)

Philippines seeks quick ruling on suit with China

Jim Gomez · June 18, 2014 11:54 am

In this undated photo made available, Wednesday, June 11, 2014, by Philippine National Police in Manila, Philippines, Khair Mundos, left, a top commander of the Abu Sayyaf extremist group who is on the U.S. list of most-wanted terrorists and has once acknowledged receiving al-Qaida funds to finance local bombings, poses with his comrades while training at their camp on Mindanao island in southern Philippines. Philippine security officials said Mundos was arrested in a slum community near Manila's international airport but it was not immediately clear why he was in the capital. The military and police have been hunting him for his alleged involvement in bombings and kidnappings. (AP Photo/Philippine National Police)

National Security

Top Filipino terror suspect captured near airport

Jim Gomez · June 11, 2014 11:58 am