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COTABATO CITY — Some 400 tall trees were felled — damaging electric posts and a number of houses made of light materials — as extraordinarily strong winds pummeled parts of Basilan at about dusk Thursday.
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — A team leader of volunteer community watchmen and a member of a state paramilitary unit were killed in two ambush incidents on Friday in Basilan and in Maguindanao del Norte provinces, both in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines — A woman suffering from mental illness allegedly hacked dead her 12-year-old grandson in Lamitan, Basilan on Friday.
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — A barangay chairman and his two accomplices in the gun attack on Monday night in Lamitan City, Basilan that left two elders of a rival who contested his reelection bid dead surrendered to authorities Wednesday.
COTABATO CITY — A militiaman killed a barangay councilor or kagawad and hurt a barangay chairman in a rampage in a polling site in Luksumbang in Lamitan City in Basilan on Monday afternoon.
COTABATO CITY — Almost 30% of the proposed P98.46 billion budget of the Bangsamoro regional government is earmarked for education programs in its six provinces where illiteracy is so prevalent owing to decades of secessionist conflicts.
COTABATO CITY — Local sectors support the three bills filed last week at the Bangsamoro parliament aiming to set up a high school in every barangay, a technical skills facility and an institution for "special children" in all municipal centers in the autonomous region.
COTABATO CITY — The anti-terror task forces in Basilan and Sulu that neutralized more than 500 Abu Sayyaf terrorists in the past seven years had been deactivated, replaced with a lone but bigger peacekeeping contingent covering both provinces.