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With New Year’s Eve just two weeks away, there is renewed debate on what to do with the firecracker and pyrotechnics industry. Interior and Local Government Secretary Benhur Abalos has revived the proposal for a total ban on firecrackers, ostensibly to promote public safety during the holiday revelry.
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES — Heavy urban battles raged Monday in the bloodiest-ever war in Gaza, with more than 18,200 Palestinians and 104 Israeli soldiers reported dead amid a spiralling humanitarian crisis.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president blamed “foreign terrorists” for a bomb blast that killed four people Sunday, wounded dozens of other Catholic worshippers in the south and sparked a security alarm, including in the capital, Manila, where state forces were put on alert.
The Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation, and Unity (OPAPRU) assisted the Bangsamoro government in extending assistance to the victims and families of the December 3 Mindanao State University bombing in Marawi City that resulted in several casualties.
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — A farmer was killed while five others were seriously hurt in a grenade explosion in the secluded Barangay Pilar in the mountainous South Upi town in Maguindanao del Sur before dawn Friday.
MANILA, Philippines: Following weeks of «general decline» in unrest, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) on Friday downgraded the alert status of Mayon Volcano in Albay province to Level 2.
MANILA, Philippines: A suspect in the bombing of the Mindanao State University (SU) in Marawi City has been arrested, a spokesman for the Armed Forces of the Philippines told The Manila Times.
MANILA, Philippines: One person was killed and five others were wounded following an explosion in Maguindanao del Sur shortly after midnight on Friday, a report from the Police Regional Office in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) said.