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A 79-year-old Irish Catholic priest abducted in the Philippines a month ago has been freed unharmed and neither country paid any of the kidnappers' $2 million ransom demand, Irish and Filipino authorities announced late Wednesday.

By Stuart Grudgings and Dolly Aglay Manila - The Philippine military was flying a captured leader of the Islamic Abu Sayyaf militants to Manila on Monday, giving President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo a badly needed boost in a pre-election drive to appear tough on crime.

A Philippine Senate committee has called for an investigation of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo after allegations she received kickbacks from a scrapped 329-million-dollar deal with a Chinese firm, a senator said Wednesday.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should press President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines to prosecute military members responsible for politically motivated killings, Human Rights Watch said today.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered the creation of joint PNP-AFP task force to capture those responsible for the beheading of kidnapped school principal in Jolo, Sulu.

Manila - Muslim militants beheaded a school principal on a remote southern island in the Philippines after holding him for ransom for three weeks, a marine general said on Monday.

Suspected al-Qaida-linked militants in the southern Philippines beheaded a schoolteacher after kidnapping him last month, officials said Monday.

Home >> Arroyo to promise Clinton of 'smooth tra... Philippinenews advanced Headlines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will reassure US State Secretary Hillary Clinton that the presidential elections in May 2010 will push through despite claims by some sectors of the Philippine society, Press Secretary Cerge Remonde has said.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Saturday ordered the Department of Foreign Affairs to look into the plight of 14 Filipino seafarers who had been kidnapped by pirates in waters off Tanzania in Africa.

The armed man who claimed he owns a house in Barangay San Nicolas I in Lubao, Pampanga, believed to be owned by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, is actually a member of the Presidential Security Group's advance security team, her lawyer said Friday.

Antonio 'Tony' Q Alabastro, a sub-editor with Borneo Bulletin, has been chosen to receive the 2009 Bagong Bayani Award, which honours Philippines' outstanding and exemplary Overseas Filipino Workers s, the Philippine Embassy announced yesterday.

The United States announced this week that it is giving $8.5 million in food aid to the Philippines to help it recover from back-to-back storms that killed more than 900 people.

Despite barely escaping a life sentence in prison after being convicted on corruption charges just two years ago, former Philippine president and recently pardoned Joseph Estrada announced plans last week to launch a new bid for the presidency.

NEGOTIATIONS TO free kidnapped Irish missionary Fr Michael Sinnott have been stepped up following the release of a video showing the priest alive and stable, though living in difficult conditions.

Suspected Muslim rebels on Sunday killed a civilian and wounded two others in an ambush ahead of the visit of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the volatile south.

Prayers are to be said today at masses in Ireland and the Philippines for the safe release of Irish priest Fr Michael Sinnott, who was taken hostage three weeks ago.

Typhoon Mirinae slammed into the eastern Philippines, bringing high winds and heavy rain as it headed for Manila Saturday, authorities said.

Captors of a 79-year old Irish missionary kidnapped in the southern Philippines have released a video in which the priest says his abductors are demanding $2 million to release him.

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What keeps Arroyo up at night By Al Labita MANILA - With only eight months left in Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's six-year term, talk is rife that she's likely to face charges in court once she steps down.