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One of three suspects involved in the failed abduction and death of a local candidate in Cotabato City was apprehended by policemen several hours after the incident, the city police chief said on Tuesday.

A health workers’ group has accused the military of torturing the 43 medical workers, including two doctors, who were arrested during a training seminar in Morong, Rizal last Saturday.

SYDNEY—Australian animal rights activists Tuesday welcomed a cruelty fine for British broadcaster ITV, after contestants killed and ate a rat on hit reality show “I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!”

Hundreds of people, most of them wearing orange, gathered here for the kick off rally of Senator Manuel Villar’s ticket.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Tuesday morning visited Real Elementary School in Barangay Real here to discuss the pre-school and early childhood care and development curriculum program.

Senator Ma. Ana Consuelo “Jamby” Madrigal has sought Divine intervention at the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo, Manila, before embarking on a three-month “non-trapo” campaign for the presidency.

Even before the Nov. 23 Maguindanao massacre in which 57 people were killed, the poll watchdog group Bantay Eleksyon said it has recorded 36 other political killings since January 2009.

(UPDATE) Liberal Party standard bearer Senator Benigno Aquino III and his running mate Manuel Roxas II began their campaign with a mass at the Immaculate Conception Church in Concepcion, Tarlac, at 9:30 am.

Evangelist turned presidential aspirant Eduardo “Brother Eddie” Villanueva’s camp protested the “political discrimination” under the Arroyo administration after his request to hold his campaign kick-off rally at the Rizal Park (also known as Luneta) was denied.

The Philippines will be conducting consultations with concerned local sectors before officially associating itself with the controversial Copenhagen Accord.