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MANILA, Philippines — A senator on Monday filed a resolution to probe the recent smuggling of two Bugatti Chiron sports cars to grasp the extent to which smuggled luxury cars impact the country's revenue.
VATICAN, Holy See — Pope Francis has urged parties in the Ukraine war to "have the courage to negotiate", and do so "before things get worse", in an interview broadcast Saturday by Swiss television.
DAVAO – Ozeki Kakeru recovered from a quadruple bogey on No. 15 with a birdie on the 17th, saving a 69 and share of the lead with Kuresh Samanodi at the start of the Philippine Golf Tour Q-School at the South Pacific Golf and Leisure Estates here Tuesday.
CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga, Philippines — Four suspected communists surrendered to authorities in Central Luzon over the weekend.
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Almost a hundred more assault rifles and grenade launchers were surrendered voluntarily by residents of Basilan to the Philippine Army in separate turnover rites on Friday in support of a provincial firearms decommissioning and management program.
In American jurisprudence, a fugitive from justice forcibly or violently abducted in a foreign territory cannot invoke such irregularity to escape criminal prosecution in a United States court. The Ker-Frisbie doctrine upholds the jurisdiction of federal courts over criminal defendants kidnapped in countries that have extradition treaties with the US.
COTABATO CITY — An officer in the Bangsamoro regional police who helped secure the surrender of 417 local terrorists since 2016 on Thursday received a special award from the Metrobank Foundation, his second from the same institution in six years.
MANILA, Philippines — Five of six former Navotas policemen involved in the killing of Jemboy Baltazar were released from the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology facility in Taguig on Wednesday.